Bacardi Cocktail
45 ml White rum, 20 ml Lime juice, 10 ml Grenadine, 1 Lime wedge
Piña Colada
Coconut, pineapple and rum, blended into a holiday.
Fruity
Medium
6 min
Photo: Pina Colada Top by Cocktailmarler · CC BY-SA 4.0 · All credits
Ingredients
- 50 ml Jigger The large side of a standard jigger, filled to the top: 50 ml, with 25 ml on the other side. White rum
- 30 ml Jigger One small side (25 ml) of a standard jigger, plus a teaspoon. Coconut cream
- 50 ml Jigger The large side of a standard jigger, filled to the top: 50 ml, with 25 ml on the other side. Pineapple juice
- 10 ml Spoons Two teaspoons. Lime juice - Keeps it from being too sweet
- 1 wedge Pineapple (optional)
Measured in Millilitres (UK). Sign in to read these in American measures. Print a kitchen card at this size.
What the jigger, the spoons and the jug hold, in millilitres and in fluid ounces, is on the measures reference.
Quick version
- Blend rum, coconut cream, pineapple and lime with crushed ice.
- Pour unstrained into a chilled glass.
Method
- Chill a hurricane glass.
- Blend the rum, coconut cream, pineapple juice, lime juice and a cup of crushed ice for 20 seconds.
- Pour unstrained into the chilled glass so the foam sits on top.
- Garnish with a wedge of pineapple.
Serve it
Piña Colada
Puerto Rico's national drink, and unfairly dismissed as a holiday cliché. Made with real coconut cream and fresh pineapple it is a proper cocktail - rich, cold and generous, and very hard to be grumpy while drinking one.
Getting it right
The lime is what stops it becoming a milkshake, so do not leave it out, and squeeze it in fresh. Blend the pineapple, coconut cream, rum and lime with a good handful of crushed ice until it is smooth rather than slushy - a few seconds too long and you have made a granita. If your pineapple is pale and disappointing, a spoonful of sugar quietly rescues it. Serve it in something tall and cold, with a wedge of pineapple and, if the mood takes you, a paper umbrella.
Tasting notes
Rich coconut and sweet pineapple, lifted by lime, with the rum humming underneath. Pudding and drink at the same time, which is the very best kind.
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