**Drink these and don’t drive**
Traffic jams, distracted driving, the cost of fuel – it’s enough to drive anyone to drink. And because of that, we have rounded up six great auto-themed cocktails.
**Just remember:** before you even think of reaching for the cocktail shaker, appoint a designated driver.
*By PALLAVI MAJUMDER*
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**BENTLEY COCKTAIL**
**Ingredients / Quantity**
• Cointreau 45ml
• Vodka 45ml
• Simple syrup 15ml
• Orange juice 45ml
• Soda 45ml
**Method:**
• Mix all ingredients except soda in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Top with soda and lemon slice garnish.
*”To me, drink responsibly means do not spill it. That is how the drink originated. I was doing catering for Bentley and a lady came to me and asked for vodka and this is what I created. She loved the combination and it’s become the signature cocktail of the evening.”*
— *Chef Vaibhav Bhargava, Corporate Chef, Molecule Air Bar and The Drunken Botanist*
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**MOTOR OIL COCKTAIL**
**Ingredients:**
• Bourbon
• Sugar cube
• Black walnut bitters
• Sesame oil
• Beaker
• Ice
• Stirrer
**Method:**
• Place sugar cube in beaker
• Add 3 dashes of bitters
• Dilute sugar with bitters
• Add 60ml bourbon
• Fill beaker 3/4th with ice
• And stir constantly to dilute
Serve chilled in a coupe glass, garnish with a few drops of sesame oil.
— *Chef Radhika Khandelwal, Executive Chef/Owner at Ivy & Bean and Fig & Maple*
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**PINEAPPLE JALAPENO MARGARITA**
**Ingredients:**
• Tequila 30 ml
• Triple Sec 30 ml
• Pineapple Juice 15 ml
• Lime Juice 15 ml
• Few Chunks of fresh cut Pineapples
• Few Jalapeno chunks
• Jalapeno Brine as a taste enhancer
• Black Pepper salt for the rim
**Method:**
Take a boston shaker. Pour all the liquid ingredients in one jar. Place fresh Pineapple & Jalapeno in another jar and muddle them. Top up with ice & hard shake it. Pour into the black pepper & salt-rimmed glass.
**Note:** Suitable glass for this recipe would be Old-fashioned glass.
**Chef Noah Barnes’ Quote:**
*”This drink is inspired by my favourite car ‘Lamborghini Gallardo’. It is one of Lamborghini’s most classic cars, it has the perfect blend of classic Lamborghini design style & twin-turbocharged engine for the extra zing”*
— *Chef Noah Barnes, Corporate executive Chef at Tabula Beach Cafe and Arriba-Mexican grill & Tequileria*
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**KNIGHT RIDER**
**Ingredients:**
• Martini rosso: 10 ml
• Black label: 45 ml
• Spice syrup: 5 ml
• Plum reduction: 30 ml
• Plum bitter: 4 drops
**Method:**
Mix all the ingredients together in a shaker in the directed proportions and serve chilled. The drink gives the feeling of driving in the Italian country side, because of it’s passion and power. This drink enhances the spices, yet keeps the eliteness of the alcohol in its taste.
— *Chef Akshay Bhardwaj, Executive Chef at Whisky Samba*
