Cocktail "Pino Colada"

It is difficult to imagine a modern bar thatwould not offer a cocktail like "Pino Colada." It is a delicious drink with pineapple and coconut content, which can be both alcoholic (in this case one of the ingredients is rum) and non-alcoholic. Let's consider in more detail how to cook it at home.

Cocktail "Pina Colada" (composition): three hundred grams of ice in pieces (cubes), juice from a quarter of lime, two hundred grams of pineapple juice, three tablespoons of coconut milk, three tablespoons of sugar syrup, forty grams of light and twenty grams of dark rum, a cocktail cherry and a piece of pineapple for decoration.

Glasses for this drink should be four hundred milliliters and have a curved shape, you also need a tube and a shaker.

First, 100 grams of ice are poured into the shaker andonly then add the rest of the ingredients, cover with a lid and begin to shake violently, not only to mix all the ingredients, but also to beat them up a little (coconut will give a white foam at the same time). Then the drink should be tasted and added to the taste of another rum, lime juice or sugar syrup, pour into glasses, pre-filled with ice pieces.

It must be said that coconut milk forCocktail preparation "Pino Colada" is sometimes replaced with coconut syrup, which can be purchased in almost any supermarket. Usually the syrup already contains sugar, so adding it to the drink does not make sense anymore. However, coconut syrup will require slightly more than coconut milk.

Sugar before adding to the cocktail is recommended to dilute with water, while it can be used any: white, brown or a mixture of both, everything depends on taste preferences.

Pineapple juice must be used fresh,just squeezed out. But if this is not possible, you can pick up the natural juice from the package or mix it with pineapple puree. In the latter case, the "Pino Colada" will get a little thicker and more fragrant.

Rum for cocktail is added to taste, and juicelime can not be used, although it gives a unique coniferous smell. In any case, everything depends on the juice of pineapple and the sweetness of the drink. Therefore, lime (in some cases, lemon) is often added at the very end, when the cocktail is tried for sweetness.

The decoration for a drink like "Pino Colada", whose composition we already know, is a slice of pineapple in the peel and a cocktail cherry. In many bars, whipped cream is put on top of the glass.

The most beautiful is a drink preparedin pineapple or coconut. So, from the last drain the juice, mix it with all the ingredients and pour it back. And in pineapple, pouring a drink is somewhat more difficult, since it is necessary to manually pick out the pulp.

"Pino Colada" is considered an official cocktailPuerto Rico and is very popular among the female population. About its origin to this day are disputes. Some claim that it originated in one of the restaurants of the country, others say that it came from the Caribbean islands. But, whatever it is, the great taste of "Pino Colada" is known practically throughout the world.