6 Easy Drinks That Pair Well With A Roast Turkey Dinner
Thanksgiving is the absolute festival where epic dinner parties are thrown, dinner tables are set with grandeur and a feast is arranged which is remembered for the rest of the year.
Though turkey is the star of this show, the festive dinner is incomplete without the right drinks. Thanksgiving opens up the opportunity to host really solid cocktail options.
What Kind of Drinks Go Well On Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving can be the next occasion for you to host really good drinks options. Since the weather gets colder around this time of the year, warm drinks make their way into parties. A glass of hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee, espresso martini cocktail, etc. are great drinks to go well with and after your Thanksgiving dinner.
Serving drinks that you can batch ahead of time, which means putting together drinks that you can make a pitcher of before people arrive, are the best suited.
This way you will not leave your guests waiting for a drink or neglect your cooking to whip one up for them.
Easy Drinks That Go Well With A Roast Turkey Dinner
It is that time of the year when you can either create a fruity cocktail from summer, or decide to incorporate warm spices and fall flavours.
Peanut Butter Cider (Alcoholic)
Ingredients:
45 ml Peanut Butter Whiskey
120 ml Hot Apple Cider
Instructions
Combine both the ingredients and garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Nirvana Super - Melon-Cello Spritz
Ingredients:
120ml Carrot Juice
1-inch Piece of Ginger (finely grated or juiced)
120ml Orange Juice
350ml Melon Cello Seltzer
2 Tablespoons Agave Syrup
Melon ball or thin orange slice (optional)
Sprig of mint or basil (optional)
Instructions
Combine carrot juice, orange juice and freshly grated or juiced ginger.
Add agave syrup and shake mixture well until ingredients are combined.
Divide the mixture between two glasses.
Fill each glass with the melon cello seltzer.
Place a melon ball or thin slice of orange halved onto the rim of the glass.
Rub a sprig of mint of basil between fingers to release aromatics, place inside the drink.
Stir gently before sipping.
Ten to One - Thanksgiving Rum Punch
Ingredients:
1 Bottle of White Rum
500ml Fresh Apple Juice
250ml Cinnamon Syrup
120ml Lemon Juice
120ml Water
10 dashes of Bitters
Coupe or Punch Glass
Garnish
Thinly Sliced Apples and Freshly Grated Cinnamon
Instructions
Add all ingredients to a punch bowl or a pitcher.
Add a large block of ice.
Garnish with apple slices and grated cinnamon.
Pumpkin Paradise
Ingredients:
45 ml Peanut Butter Whiskey
15 Rum
15ml Orange Juice
15ml Pineapple Juice
15ml Pumpkin Cream of Coconut Mix
3 Pineapple Top Leaves
Pumpkin Spice
Instructions
Shake all the ingredients together in a shaker with ice and pour into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with three pineapple leaves and powdered pumpkin spice.
Pumpkin Cream of Coconut Mix
Ingredients
430ml can Pumpkin Puree
420ml can Cream of Coconut
2 dashes Vanilla Extract
1 tsp. Cinnamon
¾ tsp. Nutmeg
3 tbsp. Sugar
Instructions
Mix all ingredients together.
Let them blend properly.
Serve adding the holiday touch.
1800 Apricot Sour
Ingredients
15ml Tequila
20ml Apricot Nectar
15ml Vanilla Syrup
15ml Lemon Juice
30ml Egg White or Aquafaba
Basil Leaf
Garnish
Basil Leaf
Instructions
In a mixing tin, combine tequila, apricot nectar, vanilla syrup, lemon juice.
Add ice and shake vigorously.
Discard ice and dry shake.
Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with a basil leaf.
