Flavoring drinks is now a trend in the cooking industry. Chefs keep discovering new tricks in spicing up the taste of drinks, such as juices, soda, Liquor, beverages, or water. And we love it!
The flavor is an essential determinant in deciding if we like a drink or not. Sometimes you may enjoy a particular type of juice, for instance, but then often taking it fades its excellent taste.
Adding extra flavors becomes the best alternative in refreshing its taste. Well, a change is always good to break the monotony.
So how do we add the flavors to the drinks? There are several methods used, but today we focus on injection as one of the common ways.
Injection involves using a kitchen injector, a syringe-like tool to infuse flavors into drinks. If you know how the doctor’s syringe looks, then you are close to understanding the appearance of a kitchen injector.
The process is considered a fast method. With a kitchen injector, it is easy to measure ingredients accurately since it is well-calibrated. These reasons validate it to be your preference when in the kitchen.
There are a variety of flavors that improve the taste of drinks—talk of ginger extracts, fruit extracts of berries or oranges, vanilla cream, amaretto, honey, coffee extracts, lime emulsions amongst others. You are not limited to one or two; the world is yours to explore to find what suits your taste buds.
In this article, Cutlery Advisor shows you different injector recipes for the most popular drinks that make use of some of these flavors and touches on all the ingredients and procedures of preparation step by step. Therefore, you do not have to worry about where to get sources of such related information. We are here for you.
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The Ivy Gimlet
1 oz. (30 ml) fresh lime juice
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) simple syrup
2 oz. (60 ml) vodka
Mint leaves
Ice cubes
PROCEDURE:
Inject the lime juice, the simple syrup, and your favorite vodka, respectively, to the cocktail shaker.
Add a handful of mint leaves.
Give the ingredients a light press using a muddler.
Add two ice cubes and shake for 8-10 seconds.
Strain the mixture into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a mint leaf.
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Tijuana Rocket
INGREDIENTS:
1 jalapeño wheel
1 cube red bell pepper
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) fresh lime juice
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) pomegranate molasses
2 oz. (60 ml) reposado tequila
Ice cubes
PROCEDURE:
Add the jalapeño wheel and the cube red bell pepper into the shaker tin.
Inject the lime juice, the pomegranate molasses, and the reposado tequila into the shaker.
Muddle the ingredients in the shaker.
Add some ice cubes.
Shake and strain into a coupe glass.
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Modern Cosmopolitan Cocktail
INGREDIENTS:
Ice cubes
1 oz. (30 ml) freshly squeezed lime juice
1 oz. (30 ml) cranberry juice
1 oz. (30 ml) Cointreau
2 oz. (60 ml) Absolut Citron
A lemon twist
PROCEDURE:
Place ice cubes in a cocktail shaker.
Inject the lime juice, cranberry juice, Cointreau, and Absolut Citron, respectively, into the shaker.
Shake for 15-20 seconds.
Strain the mix into a martini glass
Garnish with a lemon twist
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Fresh Berry Bramble
INGREDIENTS:
4 fresh blackberries
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) fresh lemon juice
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) simple syrup
2 oz. (60 ml) dry gin
Crushed ice
A lemon wheel
PROCEDURE:
Place three blackberries in a glass and press them lightly with a muddler. Set the glass aside.
Inject the lime juice, simple syrup, and gin into the shaker one by one.
Add little crushed ice and shake the mixture.
Strain into the glass.
Top with crushed ice.
Garnish with a blackberry and lemon wheel
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Ajax punch
INGREDIENTS:
1 handful cubed watermelon pieces
1 handful of cucumber pieces
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) lime juice
0.25 oz. (7.5 ml) simple syrup
1.5 oz. (45ml) white rum
Three ice cubes
Dry sparkling wine
Basil leaves
PROCEDURE:
Place the watermelon and cucumber pieces into a tall glass.
Inject the lime juice and the simple syrup into the glass.
Muddle the mixture lightly.
Add the white rum and three ice cubes.
Top with the dry sparkling wine.
Stir gently to combine all the ingredients.
Garnish with a basil and watermelon spear.
Floradora
INGREDIENTS:
5 raspberries
0.5 oz. (15ml) simple syrup
0.75 oz. (22.5 ml) fresh lime juice
2 oz. (60ml) gin
Crushed ice
Ginger ale
PROCEDURE:
Place four raspberries, the simple syrup, lime juice, gin into a cocktail shaker
Muddle the raspberries at the bottom of the shaker.
Add a little crushed ice
Give the mixture a light whip shake.
Strain into an old-fashioned glass and fill with crushed ice.
Top with ginger ale.
Garnish with a lime wheel – raspberry flag
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Mojito
INGREDIENTS:
10 fresh mint Leaves
4 Lime Wedges
0.5 oz. (15ml) Simple Syrup
2 oz. (60ml) White Rum
1 Sugar Cube
Crushed ice
PROCEDURE:
Place four mint leaves and the lime wedges into the cocktail shaker
Inject the simple syrup and the gin into the shaker.
Add one sugar cube.
Muddle to crush the mint and lime to release mint oils and lime juice
Add some crushed ice and shake the mixture.
Then pour into a highball glass.
Top with crushed ice.
Stick a small bouquet of mint leaves to garnish.
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Whiskey smash
INGREDIENTS:
8 Mint Leaves
4 Lemon Wedges
2 oz. (60ml) Bourbon
0.75 oz. (22.5ml) Simple Syrup
Crushed ice
PROCEDURE:
Put the mint leaves and the lemon wedges in the cocktail shaker.
Inject the simple syrup and the bourbon into the shaker.
Muddle the ingredients with a light press.
Add a little crushed ice and shake well.
Damp into a glass.
Top with crushed ice.
Garnish with mint sprigs.
NOTE:
All those recipes are for one serving.
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