One of my all time favourite low calorie cocktail is the Curacao Lemonade, inspired by the blue colour of the Blue Curaçao liqueur and culture.
With its delightful Dutch colonial architecture, thriving art and culinary scenes and excellent history museums, go-go Curaçao feels like a little piece of Europe at the edge of the Caribbean.
Somehow the colour blue always reminds us of a tropical island in the sun. The essence of this liqueur is the Curaçao or Lahara fruit. Capturing the soul of this fabulous fruit makes a distinctive and unique liqueur. Famous for the Blue Lagoon cocktail and making drinks look, well, blue.
Curaçao is an orange-flavoured liqueur. It’s flavoured with the peels of the laraha citrus fruit that is grown on the island of Curaçao (which is where the liqueur gets its name). Furthermore, the laraha are descendants of the Valencia oranges that were brought to Curaçao in the 1500s by Spanish explorers. But neither the soil or climate were suited to grow oranges, and the original Valencia oranges evolved into the laraha.
Curaçao liqueur is actually colourless. Artificial colour is added to it frequently, however, most commonly blue. Blue Curaçao can make some very striking cocktails. For instance, the most famous are Blue Lagoon and Blue Hawaiian.
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Curaçao Lemonade
Equipment
- Shaker
Ingredients
- 50 ml Blue Curaçao liqueur
- 200 ml Slimline lemonade
- ½ Fresh squeezed lemon
- 4-5 Fresh blueberries
- 1-2 Fresh strawberries
- 1 Fresh rosemary
Instructions
- Put a cocktail or a water glass in the fridge to chill for 10-15 mins.
- In a cocktail shaker, combine the Curaçao, the lemonade and the lemon juice. Add ice.
- Shake well and pour into the glass.
- Garnish with blueberries, strawberries, lemon and rosemary.
- Enjoy!