Lifestyle
Keep your cool this Summer with dw eleven – 13
Summer in South Africa is synonymous with spending time outdoors with your loved ones, eating succulent summer fruits, spending time in the water whether it be in your backyard pool or by the sea and simply enjoying the beautiful weather. Fine dining restaurant, dw eleven – 13 is pleased to share their in-house recipes for the perfect non-alcoholic Summer drink – a refreshing booze-free beverage to help you cool off on those scorcher hot days.
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Sage Pineapple
50ml Fresh Pineapple juice,
4 sage leaves,
20ml symmetry spice tonic (kapokbos, coriander and cloves)Method
- Toast sage leaves with a blow torch
- In your shaker add the spice tonic and 3 of your toasted sage leaves. Muddle the leaves to extract oils and flavour from the leaves
- Add fresh pineapple juice
- Add ice to the shaker and close. Then shake vigorously to mix well for at least 30sec
- Immediately pour into your serving glass and place your last toasted sage leaf on top of the white foam as garnish
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Tuscan Fresco
40ml Cranberry juice
30ml soda water
1ml wild peach essence
3 sprigs of rosemaryMethod
- Add 2 sprigs of rosemary into your shaker and muddle.
- Pour in cranberry juice
- Add ice and shake vigorously to mix well
- Pour straight into your martini glass
- Top up with soda water
- Add your 1ml of wild peach essence
- Place your remaining rosemary sprig on top as garnish
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Vine Garden
15ml Seed Lip distilled non-alcoholic spirit “Garden Route” (peas, hay, rosemary, thyme, spearmint, hops)
65ml litchi juice
5ml lemongrass syrup
8 basil leaves
1 sprig of basil for garnishMethod
- In your shaker, add your seedlip and basil leaves
- Muddle together to extract flavour from the basil
- Add your litchi juice and lemongrass syrup
- Add ice and shake vigorously
- Pour into your serving glass
- Add ice
- And then place basil sprig as garnish
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Iced Vanilla Espresso
30ml single shot espresso
3ml vanilla essence
25ml cream
1tsp honey
2g dark chocolate shavingsMethod
- To your hot single shot of espresso, add honey and stir well.
- In your shaker add ice then pour your espresso over the ice
- Add cream and vanilla essence then shake vigorously
- Pour into your serving glass
- Sprinkle chocolate shavings on top as garnish.
The non-acholic drinks mentioned above are currently on the menu at dw eleven – 13 and are individually paired with a dish from the current tasting menu.
