It is difficult to imagine a New Year's table without wine and champagne, juice and lemonade. However, you can add variety and make alcoholic or non-alcoholic cocktails. Pig, the symbol of 2019, will like this original approach to the festive menu.
2019 will pass under the sign of the Pig. This animal loves to eat deliciously, because the table on New Year's Eve should be rich, with an abundance of interesting and unusual dishes. We also need to pay attention to drinks. The pig will definitely appreciate it if there are homemade cocktails on the table.
Alcoholic cocktails for the New Year 2019
It is impossible to imagine a New Year's table without champagne. You can celebrate 2019 both with a classic drink and by choosing sweet champagne. Light alcohol will be relevant for New Year's Eve: berry or fruit wines, vermouth. You can also put homemade liqueurs on the table, especially if they are not too strong. It is better to refuse vodka and other "strong" alcoholic drinks during the celebration of 2019. The pig - a symbol of the next year - will not appreciate excessive drinking.
You can diversify your drinks with self-made cocktails. The most successful options this time will be pineapple cocktail and daiquiri.
How to make a pineapple cocktail for the New Year
The base of this cocktail is prepared in advance so that the mixture can stand in the refrigerator for at least 6-8 hours.
You will need:
- cognac (125 ml) and champagne to taste;
- a can of canned pineapples in rings or slices;
- sugar (5 tablespoons).
Cooking process:
- Pour pineapple juice into a suitable bowl, add sugar to it; if pineapples are in the form of rings, then they must be cut into small pieces; add pineapples to juice and sugar, mix everything slightly;
- add cognac to the resulting mixture; put the cocktail in the refrigerator and let it brew;
- on New Year's Eve, pour a pineapple cocktail into glasses and add a little champagne, based on your taste preferences.
New Year's Eve Daiquiri Recipe
Ingredients:
- sugar syrup (2 teaspoons); you can buy it ready-made with the addition of cane sugar or make it yourself at home;
- white rum of any brand (3 large spoons);
- lemon or lime.
How to cook:
- cut citrus in half;
- mix rum with syrup, squeeze lemon (lime) juice into the mixture;
- shake and stir everything well.
It is better to put daiquiri glasses in the refrigerator for a while to cool the glass.
Non-alcoholic New Year cocktails
The New Year's table is famous not only for alcohol. For the meeting of 2019, juices should be present among soft drinks, especially if they are natural, freshly squeezed. Fruit drinks, fruit drinks, including homemade ones, are also suitable. Children's champagne and various sweet lemonades will complete the picture of the festive table.
Among the warming drinks, preference can be given to cocoa and berry, spicy teas. The future hostess of 2019 will also love the aromatic hot coffee with the addition of caramel, chocolate sauce, cinnamon and vanilla. For even more variety, you can make simple non-alcoholic cocktails.
Orange homemade fruit drink
For cooking you will need:
- large oranges in the amount of 3 pieces;
- vanilla sugar (30 grams);
- regular sugar (100 grams);
- water.
How to cook:
- wash oranges and peel well; squeeze out the juice;
- transfer the orange peels to a suitable container, add water and place on the stove; boil; add regular sugar and vanilla sugar and wait until they dissolve;
- pour the squeezed juice into the resulting syrup from the peel;
- Bring the fruit drink to a boil, then pour through a strainer into a suitable dish and cool before use.
For the brightness of the taste, you can add a little cinnamon or cloves to the resulting fruit drink.
Homemade non-alcoholic champagne
The main ingredients of the cocktail:
- apple juice (purchased or freshly squeezed, 2 liters);
- fresh large lemons (6 pieces);
- fresh red apples (2 pieces);
- sugar (100 grams);
- sparkling clean water;
- fresh mint (several branches).
How to cook:
- squeeze juice from existing lemons;
- add sugar to lemon juice, put the mixture on the stove and wait until it warms up a little;
- remove the heated mixture from the stove and pour into a suitable container; add soda and apple juice;
- peel the apples, cut into small pieces and add to the cooling drink;
- when the cocktail is completely cold, add chopped mint.
