Welcome to Booze on the Rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make the Chi Chi.
Now, this is a tropical style cocktail.
It's perfect for any time of the year, especially summer.
And it was created originally by Don Beach.
But the cocktail version that you normally see today has only three ingredients.
The original was called a Macadamia Nut Chi Chi.
And the main differences are that had macadamia nut liqueur
and that liqueur became hard to find, which is why over time,
this cocktail changed.
It's still hard to find and sometimes quite expensive.
So I'm going to make the modified cheat sheet.
And when I say modified,
I've made a slight adjustment to balance it out a little bit more.
And I'll explain that.
Before we get too far into it and the original ingredients for Chichi
that you see now are normally pineapple juice,
vodka and cream of coconut.
However, I'm adding lime juice to help balance it
and give it a little bit of tartness to help catch some of that sweetness.
So grab yourself your shaking glass and your knife.
Oh, yeah.
And a lime while you're at it, give it a bit of a roll.
So what we'll do is we will cut this in half
and we'll squeeze out about half the lime directly in,
because that means you get about 15 miles or half an ounce.
So your
second ingredient will actually be cream of coconut.
And I'm using a homemade cream of coconut.
And what I'll do is I'll put a link to the video on how to actually make this
at the end of the video just for you know, it was opened earlier.
We need a total of one ounce
or 30 mils.
Now that you've obtained a perfect
two layered cocktail, what we're going to do
is add our third ingredient, which is pineapple juice.
I'm using a 100%
pure pressed pineapple juice, meaning there's no sugar, it's just juice.
And we need a total of five ounces.
So awesome.
Now, this is looking quite full, but next, we need our spirit.
And in this case, we're using straight vodka.
You could use a silver rum if you want.
Go with something that'll give you a little bit of funk.
Maybe something Jamaican, maybe even a little rare nephew, if you want.
Just if you really want to amp it up.
But we're going to give ourselves a full pour of two ounces
or 60 milliliters.
As you can tell, this is a large sized
drink and I say large size drink about eight and a half ounces.
And just to recap what we've put into this so far, we've added
pure fresh pineapple juice, five ounces or 150 mils.
We've added a half an ounce of lime juice, which works out to 15 mils, two
ounces of vodka or 60 mils and one ounce of cream of coconut, which is 30 melt.
So what we're going to do is add a little bit of crushed ice to this.
You don't need to add a lot at this stage,
but you'll understand in a moment what I'm going to do.
So give yourselves a glass.
Make sure you have a very good seal on this.
And what we're going to do is we're just going to shake this
hard for a good 5 seconds.
All right?
Now that you've beat the crap out of this a little bit, I'm being lazy.
So we're serving this in the exact same glass.
What we'll do, just grab a little bit more ice
and we'll just free pour this in.
Look at that.
Simple, gorgeous, easy to work with.
Grab yourself some fancy garnish that you want.
Whatever. Just sort of set your mood jamming in there.
In this case, I'm using a dehydrated lemon.
Now, what I'm going to do, grab some straw,
give it a try.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, this is good.
You get that pineapple juice, you get the sweetness of the coconut,
and you get a light hint of the lemon, which just kind of balances out.
If you like a tropical style cocktail, it's really easy to make.
Take a look right up here after the recipe card.