TOP 9 recipes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for the New Year 2020. Useful tips. Video recipes.
We have already talked about what to cook for the New Year 2020, how to make salads and hot appetizers, discussed serving and decorating the New Year's table. But what a festive table, and especially a New Year's one, will do without drinks. In this article, we'll talk about alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for the New Year 2020 for children and adults. Recently, drinks, like the rest of the treats, have been served, taking into account the peculiarities of the symbol of the next year according to the Eastern calendar. Our future mascot is the Rat. The rodent drinks a lot of water, and without it it quickly dies. Therefore, the 2020 patron should not be thirsty. There can be a variety of drinks on the table: water, juices, soft drinks, fruit drinks, kvass, infusions, non-alcoholic cocktails … - absolutely everything fits. There are also no restrictions on alcoholic beverages. And the greater delight is collected by drinks prepared at home.
Drinks for the New Year 2020 - useful tips
- The most essential and natural drink of any animal is water. Therefore, it must be on the table.
- Appropriate, and most importantly, fruit drinks and juices will be useful, which can be made from natural fruits and vegetables, or diluted homemade preparations prepared in summer, for example, jam.
- Natural and fresh products are welcome as in hot meals and snacks. Try them in drinks.
- Bright colors will become a decoration of the festive table. Therefore, use berries, fruits, and prepared juices from them in drinks. Raspberries, strawberries, cherries, sea buckthorn, sweet cherries, cranberries, rose hips, currants, pomegranates, watermelon, grapes, apples, citrus fruits, apricots, mango, peach, nectarine, persimmon, papaya, pumpkin, melon are suitable.
- No less important is the original and bright presentation of drinks. Beautiful dishes, long tubes, serpentine, etc. will attract attention, especially for children.
- At the same time, remember that it is difficult to imagine a New Year's feast without champagne. This is a mandatory attribute of the New Year. Serve chilled to 6-8 degrees in tall glasses. To keep the champagne cool, place the bottles in an ice bucket.
TOP 9 delicious recipes for New Year's drinks
Surprise your guests on New Year's Eve and prepare original drinks. After all, it is New Year's drinks that are often a more important element of the feast than original and tasty dishes. And it doesn't matter if these are alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks. Even the most ordinary homemade compote on New Year's Eve will be welcomed. Therefore, study the recipes for drinks for the New Year and choose for yourself interesting recipes for alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks that will take their rightful place at the New Year's feast.
Orange cocktail
- Caloric content per 100 g - 269 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Powdered sugar - 1 tsp
- Champagne - 200 ml
- Egg yolk - 1 pc.
- Ice cubes to taste
- Orange - 0.5 pcs.
- Orange liqueur - 10 ml
Making an orange cocktail:
- Combine the egg yolk with powdered sugar and beat with a mixer at high speed until a homogeneous thick lemon-colored foam.
- Wash the orange, dry and squeeze out the juice.
- Combine whipped yolks with orange juice, liqueur and whisk well.
- Strain the drink through fine filtration and pour in the champagne.
- Pour the drink into glasses, add ice cubes and serve.
Note: a drink with cedar liqueur infused with nuts or a homemade liqueur made from any fruits and berries will have a very pleasant taste.
Non-alcoholic champagne
Ingredients:
- Water - 1 l
- Honey - 150 g
- Sugar - 150 g
- Bay leaf - 2 pcs.
- Ground spices (cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg) - 5 g
- Raisins - 5 pcs.
Preparing non-alcoholic champagne:
- Boil water, add spices with sugar and cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Add honey and stir to dissolve completely.
- Bottle the drink, add the raisins, and seal the container tightly.
- Put the drink in the refrigerator to infuse for 2-3 weeks.
Note: if you want to make champagne alcoholic, add your favorite alcoholic drink after infusion.
Homemade cognac
Ingredients:
- Vodka - 1 l
- Rosehip - 35 berries
- Black pepper - 6-7 peas
- Sugar - 3 tablespoons
- Oak bark - 2 tablespoons
- St. John's wort - 6 leaves
- Black tea leaves - 1-2 tablespoons
Making homemade cognac:
- Combine all ingredients and mix.
- Close the container with a lid and leave to infuse in a cool place for 45 days.
- After this time, strain and bottle.
Note: homemade cognac can be infused even longer, because the longer it is aged, the nobler and tastier it will turn out. The age of cognac is determined by its shade. A young drink of light straw color, followed by colors - straw yellow, amber, gold, and the most seasoned and oldest - fiery red.
Orange coffee liqueur
Ingredients:
- Vodka - 1 l
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 40 tsp
- Coffee - 40 beans
Preparation of orange coffee liqueur:
- Wash the orange, dry it and make several cuts of different depths.
- Place coffee beans inside the holes.
- Cover the orange with sugar and cover with vodka.
- Close the container with a lid and leave to infuse for a month.
Mandarin lemonade
Ingredients:
- Lemon - 5-6 pcs.
- Water - 250 ml
- Sugar - 200 g
- Mint - 7 sprigs
- Mandarins - 700 g peeled fruits
- Sparkling water - 1 l
- Cinnamon - 1 stick (optional)
- Ice - for serving (optional)
Cooking tangerine lemonade:
- Wash, dry and squeeze lemons and tangerines to make 250 ml of each drink.
- Combine squeezed juices, water, cinnamon sugar.
- Stir and bring to a boil.
- After dissolving the sugar, turn off the heat and add the mint sprigs. Rub the mint leaves with your palms beforehand so that they begin to give off their aroma better.
- Chill the syrup completely, strain through fine filtration and add ice.
- If necessary, you can dilute the drink with water to taste.
Hot chocolate
Ingredients:
- Milk - 400 ml
- Dark chocolate - 100 g
Making hot chocolate:
- In a saucepan, bring the milk to a boil.
- Break a bar of chocolate into pieces and transfer to milk.
- Whisk the milk until the chocolate is completely melted.
- Then pour the hot chocolate into the cups right away! It will pour in a thick stream, and the heady chocolate aroma will fill the entire room.
Note: you can use milk chocolate, but with it the drink will turn out to be not so rich, although tasty. You can also change the proportions of the products.
Iced coffee
Ingredients:
- Water - 150 ml
- Ground coffee - 1, 5 tablespoons
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- Ginger root - 1/4 tsp
- Creamy ice cream - 70 g
- Chocolate ice cream in chocolate glaze - 70 g
Making coffee glazed:
- Peel the ginger root and grate on a fine grater.
- Pour sugar into a Turk, add water and send to the fire.
- After boiling, add ground coffee and ginger.
- Immediately remove the coffee from the heat and leave to infuse for 5 minutes so that all the cake settles.
- Cut the ice cream into chunks to fit in serving glasses.
- Pour the slightly cooled coffee into a glass, leaving the cake in the Turk, and immediately add the ice cream.
Note: adding ginger to the recipe is optional. You can exclude it if you wish.
Non-alcoholic mulled wine from compote
Ingredients:
- Dried fruits - 250 g
- Water - 1 l
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons
- Fresh or frozen berries - 250 g
- Fresh fruit - to taste
- Badian - optional
- Cinnamon - 1 stick
- Carnation - 1-3 inflorescences
- Cardamom - 1 box
- Pink pepper - to taste
- Ginger root - 1 cm
Cooking non-alcoholic mulled wine from compote:
- Wash dried fruits and berries, cover with water and put the compote to cook.
- Add the spiced sugar to the water immediately.
- After boiling, simmer the drink for 15 minutes with a gentle boil.
- Wash fresh fruit and cut into slices.
- Peel and grate the ginger on a medium grater.
- Send fruit with ginger to the compote and cook for 5 minutes over low heat, covered.
Fruit sangria
Ingredients:
- Dry rose wine - 300 ml
- Mineral water - 200 ml
- Mandarins - 2 pcs.
- Plums - 5 pcs.
- Apples - 2 pcs.
- Pears - 1 pc.
- Cinnamon - 3-4 sticks
- Badian - 2 stars
- Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons
- Cognac - 100 ml
- Mint - 0.5 bunch (8 g)
Cooking fruit sangria:
- Rinse apples and pears, cut into pieces, remove the seed box and cut into slices.
- Peel the tangerines, remove the white fibers, divide into wedges and press lightly with a boiled potato press to let the juice flow.
- Wash the plums and remove the seeds.
- Put all the fruits in a container, add ice, cinnamon and star anise.
- Combine wine separately with cognac, mineral water and sugar.
- Pour the resulting liquid over the fruits and send them in the refrigerator for half an hour so that they give the drink its taste and aroma.
Note: you can adjust the strength of the drink to your liking by adding more or less mineral water or, on the contrary, pour in a little more brandy.
