Two gin cocktails you should drink with your breakfast

Because there's a gin cocktail for every occasion...
Liz Connor27 January 2016

It's National Breakfast Week in the UK, but that doesn't mean your celebrations should centre wholly around eggs, bacon and sausages.

The gin gurus at Portobello Road firmly believe there is a gin cocktail for every occasion, so master blender Jake Burger has concocted two delectable recipes for those looking to toast a long-awaited pay day with an early morning tipple.

Here are two boozy drinks recipes to pair with the most important meal of the day.

Gin Mimosa

Jake recommends pre-preparing the juice and sugar syrup the night before and says: “This is a modern take on the classic Buck’s Fizz that takes no time at all to prepare.”

Ingredients (Serves 1)

10mls Portobello Road Gin

5mls Sugar Syrup

Orange or clementine segments  

Top with a sparkling wine like Cava or Prosecco 

Method

  • Run a good few clementines through a juicer and strain out the bits. If you haven’t got an electric juicer squeeze by hand.
  • Make a speedy sugar syrup by dissolving two parts sugar into one part boiling water
  • Pour the gin into a Champagne flute.
  • Then fill the glass two parts chilled sparkling wine to one part chilled and strained clementine juice.
  • Stir gently immediately before serving.

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Amaretti and Pecan Shake

Jake says: “Invite you’re mates over and knock their socks off with this opulent Amaretti and Pecan shake…just don’t be fooled by its non-alcoholic taste because it certainly packs a punch!”

Ingredients

37.5mls Portobello Road Gin

18.75mls Amaretto

3 Amaretti Biscuits

8 Pecan Nuts

2 Scoops Vanilla Ice Cream

Small scoop crushed ice

Aerosol cream (if you have it)

Cherry for garnish (if you have it)

Method

  • Combine all of the ingredients and blend up in a drinks/food blender (making use of that blender you got for Christmas).
  • Serve it in a milkshake glass.
  • Garnish with a squirt of aerosol cream, an amaretti biscuit and a cherry

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