Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks where we make cocktails for everyone my name is David Edwards
and today we are going to make a cocktail with this the humble kiwi fruit let's get into it
it's great to have every single one of you back here today it is Margarita Monday now for those of
you that are new to the channel every other Monday i present to you a margarita that i found either
in a book online created myself or had a recipe sent to me from you the viewer and that last one
is really awesome because i get to try things that you drink and we get to spread that little bit
of knowledge and wealth of information what I'd like you to really do is put comments down below
about what you like what recipes you might want things that you should change or i should change
because that type of conversation is awesome for the community now the cocktail that we're making
today is a kiwi margarita now the kiwi aka the kiwi kiwifruit aka the Chinese Gooseberry comes to
you from china in the Yangtze river valley but it was introduced to New Zealand during world war ii
by the returning soldiers and it wasn't all that popular until the 60s when they changed the name
to the kiwi fruit and lo and behold it became popular everywhere it was the new super food
new super fruit but you can do a lot with that including make cocktails so let's get into this
so the first thing you need is your shaking glass and you're going to put that off to the
side like so because i grabbed it first you actually need to grab a whole kiwi for this
now depending on how ripe your kiwis are how hard they'll be this is actually pretty firm
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to chop the ends off and I'm going to peel it for you
and you're going to be bored for the next like 30 seconds and while i peel this off you the skin is
edible but you don't need to and the only reason i don't want to put it into my cocktail is because i
don't want any of the little hairs or fluffy furry bits that you would see on the brown firm now what
you'll do is you'll just cut this a couple of times because we are going to muddle this right
this is just more for ease of getting it in the glass at all take this throw it in here like so
perfect now i'm gonna get the get rid of this stuff because a clean and tidy workspace is
very very important whether you're at home or in the bar you don't need this anymore
at least not right yet the first thing that we're going to use after this is
your tequila of choice in this case I'm using Teremana tequila this is a reposado tequila
this is the brand from the rock himself Dwayne Johnson and we're going to use two ounces or 60
milliliters now you're going to wonder that i didn't muddle this yet i just want everything
to sort of be absorbed and soften the fruit just a little bit the next thing
that you'll use is an orange liqueur of your choice in this case I'm using Pierre Ferrand
dry orange curacao i like this one it is not as sweet now if you like a sweeter cocktail
absolutely change this up to a Triple Sec a Grand Marnier each of those different liqueurs will have
its own unique flavors that you'll add to your cocktail and will change its depth and complexity
we need one ounce or 30 milliliters
all right the next thing we need is Agave syrup we are going to use 100 natural agave
syrup and i just broke that Agave syrup and agave nectar you can use interchangeably
we need half an ounce or 15 mils all right we're almost there next you need some lime juice
these are the smallest limes known to mankind i don't know what i was getting
however we need one ounce of this and i have a sneaky suspicion we're gonna have to
squeeze the life out of two of these things so grab your juicer and away you go
all right look at that put your put one of your husks off to the side because you'll need that
the next thing you're going to do is grab your muddle now that everything's
had a chance to sort of settle and soak for a moment we're going to muddle this
all right look at that nice and done now what we're going to do is we're going to add some ice
and we're going to shake this for a good 10 to 15 seconds we're going to cool it down and
what we're going to do is continue to pulverize the uh the case and shake it hard with a smile
all right you want to shake it till you get a nice frosty surface
or surface i should say and with the strength of a thousand kiwis we'll knock that off
get this out of the way now the next thing we have to do is rim your glass of choice in this case i'm
using a rocks glass what we're going to do is take our lime husk and we are going to rub it
across half of the glass then after that we're just going to rim it with a little bit of salt
and i only rim half of a glass because the other person drinking it may not like salt and after all
some margaritas taste better without salt and some do total personal preference so grab some fresh
ice at that nice now what we're going to do is we're going to
fine strain this because i don't want the chunks or the kiwi seeds in here
look at that color it is simply stunning so what you're going to do take a piece of kiwi and we're
just gonna chop off the end and we're gonna give ourselves a nice little kiwi garnish look at that
beautiful simple tasty looking let's give it a try so i do immediately smell a little bit of
the tequila i smell hints of the orange and i smell a little bit of the kiwi let's move that
that is really good it has balanced very very well the kiwi the orange the reposado and the lime
all go together smashingly literally yeah I'm gonna try with a bit of salt
oh that's good too the salt does change the dynamic
of this drink it makes it a little bit more tart but it doesn't make it overly salty compared to
a lot of tequilas it doesn't really pull or what's that word
sometimes it brings life to a margarita in this case
it comes as a beautiful addition to it oh yeah
what i am going to do is i am going to put the ingredients in a method of how to make this
down in the description down below if you think i should use
a different type of tequila for example Anejo tequila or maybe a silver tequila
a different type of orange liqueur please leave a comment down below this is your first time
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