Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cooking Time : nil
Serving : 2 members
Description
By gone are the days when I used to droll at pictures of exotic fruits in magazines, the television and else where as most of the fruits are available in my home town now a days. Like wise kiwi was one fruit that made me ponder a lot from the taste to the colour of the fruit. A fruit that’s lovely green in colour with a splash of black seeds in an even more beautiful pattern. The first time I got to eat it with sheer excitement… didn’t last long though as the The after taste of eating a kiwi fruit really put me off leaving behind an acquired taste. From then till date, I use kiwis only for decoration purpose or to add more colour to a fruit spread. Going through sauté, fry n bakes web site, took note of the drinks category having the least recipes. Made up my mind to come up with a mock tail. Went strait to the refrigerator,opened and was gazing at things in it that would be of use to my idea of creating a mock tail. I found 3 kiwis in one corner. Took it out and started with a flow of what was going on in my mind. The finished product was a visual treat. Now it has to be a mouth full of treat as well. Had a sip… Tasted like 7 up with sugar crystals.oops… Dum me didn’t even mix the mock tail before tasting. Mixed and tasted it, tasted nice but I was worried about the after taste of a kiwi fruit that I hate. Some how the after taste of the kiwi fruit didn’t exist in the mock tail. To my surprise this mock tail was a stunner as it brought with it a melange of flavours and visually very impressive too. Exotic,yet simple and delicious. It only requires some quick assembling to be done that leads to up lift the summer time sprit in style.
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Kiwi | 3 peeled and chopped + 1 peeled and sliced to 1/2 inch thick pieces to decorate |
| Green food colour | a few drops ( optional ) |
| Sugar | 1/4 cup to decorate the glass + 3 tablespoons or to taste |
| Ice cubes | 1/2 cup crushed |
| Ice cold Sparkling water / 7 up / sprite | 2 glasses ( I used 7 up ) |
Method
- Place two tall clean glasses in the refrigerator.
- Grind chopped kiwi,sugar to taste and few drops of green food colour to a smooth paste.
- place the 1/4 cup sugar over a flat small plate. Do the same with another small plate of the same size but fill it with 1 1/2 cups of water.
- Remove the tall glass from the refrigerator. Dip the top mouth of the glass into the flat plate with water, wetting the rim all around.
- Remove the glass in a inverted way and press over the sugar plate, making sure the sugar forms a border on the rim of the glass. Do the same with the other tall glass as well.
- Care fully spoon in equal amounts of the puréed kiwi into the two tall glasses making sure the sugar border does not get disturbed.
- Add equal amounts of crushed ice care fully over the kiwi purée layer in the two glasses.
- pour sparkling water gently with the help of an inverted spoon into the two tall glass once again making sure not to disturb the sugar border and the kiwi purée.
- Garnish with a slice of kiwi on the side of the glass making a small cut in one corner to hold on to the glass and stand.
- Serve immediately with a straw or a mock tail mix. Mix before drinking and indulge.
