Ingredients to make the best cocktails at home

Making the perfect cocktail is a delicate process. You need to have deep knowledge of the ingredients that blend well together and some artistic skills to achieve that beautiful presentation.

Most people don’t exactly know how to make five star cocktails and that can leave you in a dilemma when you want to enjoy a refreshing drink with your buddies but have no idea about cocktail mixing.

The truth is, you can actually make some of the best cocktails at home with simple ingredients and the trick is to mimic that burst of flavor they have. Here are five homemade recipes you can try, and feel free to customize them to your liking:

Whenever strawberries are involved, you can already expect to have something delicious. For this at-home cocktail you will need fresh strawberries, lemon slices, sparkling water, ice cubes and strawberry syrup or any syrup of your choice.

First, slice the strawberries into halves and put them in your glass. You will then slice the lemon slices into quarters and add them to the strawberries then crush everything together into a puree.

When done, add a bit of the strawberry syrup, a few pints of your favorite liquor followed by a few ice cubes and finish with sparkling water.

This quick cocktail only needs a few ingredients which are, oranges, limes and lemons. You will need to squeeze half a cup of orange juice, half a cup of lemon juice and a third of a cup of lime juice.

Prepare your cocktail glass by filling it with ice cubes. Then pour in the orange juice, then the lemon juice and finish with the lime juice.

You can sweeten it with some sugar or syrup if you need to and garnish with an orange slice to give it that cocktail esthetic. Feel free to add your favorite booze.

If you have a few grapes lying in the fridge and you’re looking for something interesting to do with them, you can use them to make this great homemade grape cocktail.

You will obviously need some grapes, lime juice, sprite to balance that sweet and sour flavor in your cocktail and vodka.

With this cocktail, you can experiment with different types of grapes like the red and white grapes that are easily available.

Just grab a few grapes and add them to your cocktail glass, then crush them to bring out the flavors. Add the vodka, ice cubes, some lime juice and sprite.

Passion has that sour flavor that makes it the perfect ingredient for a homemade mocktail.

Set aside some ripe passion fruits, coconut water, lime juice and some sugar to sweeten if you like.

Start by pouring the passion fruit pulp into your glass, then add coconut water, some lime juice and a bit of sugar to sweeten. Stir well, add your ice and if you want a bit of fizz, soda water is the secret.

This watermelon mojito recipe only needs watermelon cubes without the seeds, lime slices that have been cut into quarters, ice and soda water or sprite.

Pour a few watermelon cubes and a few lime pieces into a glass. Add in half a table spoon of sugar and crush everything into a puree. In your cocktail glass, add your ice cubes first and some more lime slices for added flavor. Next, pour in the puree and finally complete the cocktail by adding sprite or soda water.

For that extra kick a white rum will do.