Hey Drinks Tubers, welcome back, welcome to my jungle corner, this is the last drink that
we're gonna be making on day 3 of Cocktail Request Week and it has been inspired by Fabienne
who sent in a tweet about her jungle party this Sunday, so she asked us to come up with
a recipe so that is what we've done. It is called Welcome To The Jungle. So, we're going
to start with a little bit of fresh lime juice, we'll give our lime a little bit of a roll,
squeeze up some of the juices, make it easier to press. We want to squeeze in exactly half,
so generally around 20ml, if you're measuring it out about 20ml. To balance this we're going
to add just a little bit of caster sugar, a tiny little teaspoon and of course we need
to stir that up, just dissolve that caster sugar just a little bit, it'll make the texture
of the drink just so much nicer if we do this. Now, it wouldn't be a jungle cocktail if we
didn't have some jungle inspired ingredients. So I thought back to The Jungle Book and all
of the fruits that they mentioned in that. So we've got some papaya, some mango and a
little bit of coconuts. So let's start with the coconut water, we're gonna be adding 50ml
of this so it's nice and creamy. This was freshly hacked earlier on from one of these two coconuts
but you can use coconut water, like some stuff that you can buy in supermarkets will work
just as well, I just find that this has got a little bit more texture to it. So we're
gonna be using 150ml of mango juice. Looking good! So if you haven't guessed this is going
to be a big drink. And we're gonna be using 50ml of papaya juice. So we've got these wonderful,
creamy, rich, fruity, tropical, jungle flavours in there and what we want to do is we want
to find a spirit that's gonna carry all that flavour, it's not gonna overtake it, it's
not gonna overpower it, it's not gonna change it too much but it's still gonna add a nice little
bit of texture. So we're gonna be using 50ml of a lovely French wheat vodka, lots of texture
but it's not going to change the dynamics of our drink too much. What we need is a bit
of zest, a bit of length, so we're gonna add just a little bit of thyme to the top of this
drink here, which will give this drink a nice fresh, long finish. And it will kind of give
us this jungly flavour. Then all we need to do it shake it up. We've got some ice already
in here, some super super cold ice. Now, it's been a long week and, uh... well because we
love company we've invited our mate Russell who runs a bar around the corner, also has
the world's greatest shake. Ladies and gentlemen, check this out. Russell, please.
Thanks for that! Wasn't that amazing? Excellent. If you've got a better shake than that, let's see it
on YouTube, send us the link down below. Right, we just need to strain this into our glass,
we've chosen one of these, this is called a hurricane glass, super tropical, we're gonna
use crushed ice, this is a bit of a mixture really of crushed and cracked ice that we
did earlier, pack it full. Look at that, what an amazing colour. We've come up with one
of my cliched but wonderful Tiki garnishes with a pineapple leaf, a little umbrella,
blown out by the wind of course, orange slice, a little bit of a cherry. There we go. We're
gonna put in a little bit of thyme of course, across the top, just reminiscent of just that
final bit of fragrance. A little bit of mango across the top up here and finally the zest
of an orange and a little bit of nutmeg as well. Here we go... just a little bit of nutmeg...
There it is Fabienne your Welcome to the Jungle, an amazing fruity, fruity drink with loads
of energy, really kind of creamy as well as being fresh, lovely lingering thyme, absolutely
wonderful. All you need is all of these wonderful juices, a little bit of vodka, if you need
a Russell he's available by the hour, I hope you have a wonderful party on Sunday, if you
make this drink it should be amazing. So, don't forget everybody else, you can try this
drink, but send us your inspirations, send us your photos, send us your ingredients, send us things,
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get to learn to make cool stuff like this. Mmm. Now I'm going to go kick back now.