Aromatic Africa
By Elyse Glickman
South Africa(Spiritsman)11/10/11/—Flavorful and Fragrant Cocktails from South Africa
Amarula Mint Star
Kapama Lodge
2 oz Amarula Cream
1 oz White Rum (LLM recommends Tommy Bahama)
3 sprigs of fresh mint
pinch fresh lemon zest
crushed ice
Lemon peel twist (optional)
Muddle mint leaves gently with the back of a spoon. Place in cocktail shaker and add remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously for 30 seconds and garnish with a mint sprig and lemon twist.
Decadence at Dusk
5 oz Amarula
2 T crushed brownie or Oreo cookies
2 t hazelnut liqueur
2 t orange liqueur
1 oz Oude Meester Ginger Liqueur
Pinch of cinnamon
Chocolate shavings to garnish
Fresh ginger to garnish
Ice cubes
Crushed ice
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker or blender. Close, shake or blend for 30 seconds, pour over ice cubes into a highball or milkshake glass and add crushed ice as a top layer. Garnish with wedge of cookie or with chocolate shavings and fresh ginger.
Amarula Golden Glow
2 oz Amarula
½ oz Oude Meester Ginger Liqueur
1 oz peach schnapps
2 Tvanilla ice cream
Peach slices to garnish
Ice cubes
Pour all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker or blender. Seal the container, shake or blend thoroughly and pour into a tumbler pre-filled with ice cubes. Garnish with sliced peach.
Amarula Fiery Dusk
3 oz Amarula
1 generous scoop vanilla ice cream
1 t freshly chopped chili
1 whole fresh chili or a vanilla pod to garnish
Ice
Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker or blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a martini glass pre-filled with ice cubes. Garnish with a whole fresh chilli or a vanilla pod.
African Mocha
1¾ oz melted chocolate
¾ oz Amarula
1¾ oz espresso
Froth milk and Amarula together, and prepare the drink as you would a mocha.
Cape Town Concoctions
Sweet Melon Sour
Southern Sun Hotels
1½ oz Bacardi White Rum
1 oz melon liqueur
1 oz sweet and sour (Finest Call used here)
1 T cane sugar
ice
Aperol float
two dashes Fee Brothers Bitters.
Combine rum, melon liqueur and sweet & sour in a shaker and pour into a daiqeuri glass filled with ice. Float the Aperol and bitters on the top of the drink.
Pure Serenity
Timon van Vreden, The Steenberg Hotel, Cape Town (Constantia), South Africa
¼ oz Apple Sours Liqueur (ie De Kuyper Apple Pucker)
¼ oz Bacardi Light Rum
¼ oz Butlers Peppermint liqueur
¼ oz Gordons Gin
3 oz Sprite or 7-Up
Ice
Mint Spring
Add spirits into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Pour lemonade into a highball glass filled with ice. Strain spirits mix slowly on the side of the glass, as it will float to create a greenish layer on top. Garnish with a sprig of mint.
Col Cacchio Woo Woo
Col’ Cacchio Café, Cape Town
2 oz Smirnoff Triple Distilled Vodka
1 oz Peach Schnapps (LLM Likes De Kuyper)
½ oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz Monin Strawberry syrup or fresh strawberry puree
1 oz cranberry juice
Fresh Basil garnish
The Bayside Breeze
The Bayside Café, Camps Bay (Cape Town)
2 oz Wyborowa Polish Vodka
1 oz watermelon liqueur
2 oz fresh strawberry puree
2 oz ginger ale
two mint sprigs
A Taste Of Africa
Sweet & Savory Amarula Chicken
Serves 12
12 chicken drumsticks
Seasoned Flour
¼ c snipped garlic chives
¼ c marmalade or apricot jam
¼ c lemon juice
1 oz Amarula Liqueur
2 t Seasoned Sea Salt
12 bay leaves and toothpicks
Prepare the drumsticks by cutting the skin loose around the bone and pushing in down with a scraping movement, using a small sharp knife. Cover exposed bone with foil. Dust meat lightly with seasoned flour. Mix the chives, marmalade, lemon, Amarula and salt together. Coat the drumsticks in this mixture and arrange in an ovenproof dish Bake at 200° for 45 minutes until crispy. Remove the foil. May be served warm or at room temperature. Wrap a bay leaf around each exposed bone-tip. Secure the leaf with a toothpick.
Michael Hepworth
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