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Ingredients
Donal Skehan's pink negroni spagliato
Serves: 8
Takes: 10 minutes + chilling
- Ice
- 8 x 25ml shots campari
- 8 x 25ml shots red vermouth
- 1 x 750ml bottle chilled sparkling rose/pink prosecco or nosecco (non-alcoholic)
- 4 slices of orange, halved
Fire & Ice Mocktail
Serves: 12
Time: 15 minutes + infusing time
- 250g caster sugar
- 175ml water
- 1 hand fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 6 limes, 4 quartered and then cut in half and the other two sliced to garnish
- 1 large bunch mint, leaves picked
- Ice
- 1 bottle tonic water or soda water
Method
Donal Skehan's pink negroni spagliato
- Fill 8 tumblers or short-stemmed glasses with a few ice cubes.
- Pour a shot of campari and a shot of vermouth into each glass.
- Top with the sparkling rose.
- Stir gently, add a half moon of orange and serve.
Fire & Ice Mocktail
- Put the sugar and water in a pan over a low heat and stir gently until the sugar dissolves.
- Add the ginger and bring to the boil then cover, reduce the heat and simmer gently for 15 minutes.
- Allow to cool and steep for about 1 hour (longer if you want a more fiery syrup).
- Strain and transfer to a bottle, before transferring to the fridge.
- Pour a couple of fingers of syrup into a cocktail shaker, add some sliced limes, and some mint leaves, leaving some for garnishing.
- Muddle together with a cocktail muddler (or the end of a rolling pin if you don't have one).
- Strain over ice and top with tonic or soda water and garnish with a lime slice and some mint
