tropical non alcoholic drinks
Tropical Non-Alcoholic Drinks
Tropical drinks blend the delicious taste of different fruit juices and concentrates, to create mouth-watering beverages. They are mostly used at celebrations and festivals to add to the fun. One can, however, just sip on them for their numerous health benefits as well.
Tropical non-alcoholic drinks are basically those that make no use of alcohol in the ingredients. These drinks are made using either fruit juices or concentrates. However, wherever possible, fresh juices should be used, as they are highly nutritional. Following are a few sample recipes that one can easily make at home, using just a few ingredients.
Fruit Cooler Recipe
Ingredients:
- Soda water, 1 ltr
- Apple juice concentrate, 1 can (frozen)
- Sliced strawberries, 1 cup
- Lemon, 1
- Apple, 1
- Sugar, 2 tbsp
- Ice
- In a bowl, mix the strawberries with sugar and place it the refrigerator overnight.
- Cut the lemon, reserve two slices, and juice the rest.
- Mix together the lemon juice, apple juice, soda water, and strawberries.
- In a tall glass, put ice cubes, lemon slices, and a slice of apple. Pour the drink in, and serve chilled.
- Pineapple juice, 3 cups
- Guava juice, 2 cups
- Pineapple, 1½ cup (chopped)
- Sugar, 1 cup
- Water, ¾ cup
- Lemon juice, 1½ tbsp
- Chopped ginger root, 2 tsp
- In a saucepan, heat ¼ cup water and add ginger root to it. Let it boil, when cooled, strain.
- Add the strained liquid to a mix of the lemon, guava, and pineapple juice.
- Boil the remaining water and add sugar to it. Boil and strain, reserve sugar syrup. Combine it with the other juices.
- Pour in a tall mocktail glass, and decorate with pineapple slices. Serve chilled.
- Grape juice, 2 oz
- Apple juice, 1 oz
- Grenadine syrup, 1 oz
- Vanilla syrup, 1 tbsp
- Lemon juice, 1 tbsp
- Coconut cream, 2 fl. oz
- Pineapple juice, 2 fl. oz
- Ice, 3 cups
- Cherries, as per requirement
- Slices of pineapple, orange, or lime
- In a juice blender, grind ice and gradually add the pineapple juice and the coconut cream.
- Pour in a tall glass, with ice and cherries. The ice should be thick enough to hold cherries on top, without sinking it in the glass.
- Garnish with slices of pineapple, orange or lime and serve.
- Condensed Milk, 14 oz (sweetened)
- Club soda, 8 cups
- Orange Concentrate, 6 oz (thawed)
- Pineapple Concentrate, 6 oz (thawed)
- In a large punch bowl, mix condensed milk and the concentrates well.
- Add the club soda and stir gently until well blended.
- Add ice cubes, and garnish with orange slices. Serve chilled in punch cups.
- Lemonade concentrate, 6 oz
- Orange juice concentrate, 6 oz
- Ginger ale, 2 qt (chilled)
- Apple juice, 1 qt (chilled)
- Lemon sherbet, 1 pint
- Ice, as per requirement