What up y'all it is DJ BBQ with Richard Hunt for Drinks Tube and Cocktail Request W eek
and Spoonful of Sugar sent a photo, it's a beautiful photo it's down below. Watermelon
on the beach.
Richard Hunt do you accept said challenge for a cocktail inspired by this photo.
- Totally. For a start I love Watermelon it's absolutely fantastic and I've just come back
from a beach holiday myself, so I'm totally in that vain and I just wanna be taken back.
I miss it so much. - I'm sorry.
- I know
- Sorry to remind you, way to go Spoonful of Sugar
- So we've gone with Rum. For me it's the most iconic beach spirits, so we're gonna
be using a really light, fresh Peurto Rican Rum with some lime. Obviously the Watermelon
as in the photograph and also this stuff which is Guanabana juice or sour sop if you're from
Australia.
It's a lovely really tasty fruit, it's a bit creamy a bit sort of citrusy, zesty like pineapple
but a bit like coconut.
- And you're gonna get a Guanabana Banger on this bad boy.
- Exactly the Guanabana Banger is the name of the drink, also we were looking at the
picture. Couldn't work out whether it was the Caribbean or Mexico or maybe we're completely
wrong.
- I think it was the Algarve.
- You reckon it was the Algarve.
-Yeah I can tell by the straw hut, you know umbrella.
- I've seen them in Mexico to you know.
- Yeah well, you know. No one knows it's so provocative.
- Well either way, we've gone with something that is typically Mexican as an extra ingredient
and that is Tamarind. A Tamarind sort of puree which is kind of sweet with a little bit of
salt and Tamarind and some chilli in it as well. So if you can't find anything like that
grab some Tamarind, a little bit of chilli, little bit of sugar and a pinch of salt and
that should do the job.
it's gonna bring a lot to this. It's gonna make this drink have a lot of length and flavour.
- What do we do bro?
- So we're gonna start with some lime juice. 100 ml's of lime juice which is two of these,
do you wanna do this?
- Two of these. Okay, yeah let me help i'll do something.
- This is a drink for four people
- Okay next.
- So 100 ml's of lime juice, we're then gonna add caster sugar, we're gonna add three of
these. three tablespoons of caster sugar.
- Alright, wow. One, two, three. Next.
- Watermelon. 350 g we ended up going with.That's 350 g's
- Three fifty
- You can tell that is gonna be one super fresh drink. And then we said 300 ml's of
Guanabana juice. you can buy this in a lot of super markets especially round the UK.
but if you don't have it do 50/50 coconut water and pineapple juice. That should do
the trick.
- Guanabana
- Guanabana! How much?
- Two of them.
- Tamarind, Tamarind sauce?
- It's like a chutney basically that's kind of what it is.It's quite salty.
- You can really taste the chutney in this.
- Do you wanna stick your finger in that.
- Oh wow! that is good dude.
- I can see that on a BBQ
- Totally!
- Totally
- Woo
- Well good, and it's quite hot as well isn't it?
- It's got a kick. Okay how much Rum dude?
- Don't forget the Rum, we're gonna put 150 ml's of that in.
- So is that three of these?
- That's one of these.
- One of these, wow. You know how to party dude. One of these.
- Now we need to add some ice to our blender.
Sexy
Let's do this
Can I do the honours?
- Please do dude. I'm surprised I did as much as I have.
- Get rid of all the ice, so it becomes really flakey in there.
- Flakey
- That's the scientific term?
- Yes, very scientific. Like you know those slushy machines. That's what you want it to
be like.
- We done?
- I think so.
- Whoops, jeez what was that?
Is that me? Sorry.
Sorry
- We need to put it in something. Obviously a Watermelon would be a good choice but we
went with this, what do you reckon?
- A conch
If you haven't got anything like this
- Whose got a conch?
- Pour the liquid in the conch. You're better at pouring than I.
- So the drink is nearly finished, the Guanabana banger. It's pretty much done we just need
to garnish it to make it look -
- Say that ten time fast
- Guanabana Banger, Guanabana Banger, Guanabana Banger, Banger, Guana B B
- I wanna know if you guys can do it.
- So we're gonna take some chunky slices of the Watermelon like that.
- Look at that cutting technique.
- Here we go. i'm just gonna do something like that. Just spin it round make it look
all fancy.
There we go.
- I got a better umbrella. What can I do with my umbrella dude? Just in case
- Then we can literally let that sit in there like this.
- You ready. Let's snack back on this awesomeness that you created dude.
Wow! You know I've had a lot of your drinks recently, today and that's the best one so far.
-Yeah?
- Yes, Guanabana Banger courtesy of Richard Hunt & Spoonful of Sugar who requested a tasty
dish inspired by Watermelon on the beach. This is our first blended drink we've done
today so that was kinda of a nice little thing to do.
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