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Cheeky Monkey cocktail recipe

Cheeky Monkey

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Prep: 1 minMaking: 1 minTotal: 2 mins
Serving: 1 cocktail

Ingredients

  • Vodka 30ml / 1oz
  • Yellow Chartreuse Liqueur 30ml / 1oz
  • Orange Juice 45ml / 1.5oz
  • 1 dash of Orange Bitters
  • 1 slide of orange to garnish

Recipe

  • Add Ice, Vodka, Yellow Chartreuse Liqueur, Orange Juice, and Orange Bitters to a cocktail shaker.
  • Shake well.
  • Strain into a Cocktail Glass.
  • Garnish with a slice of orange

Yellow Chartreuse Liqueur

Chartreuse is a French herbal liqueur that’s made in two varieties:

  1. Yellow
  2. Green

These differ in taste an alcohol levels.

In one form or another, Chartreuse has been around since the 1600s, being perfected by monks in 1737 and was intended to be used for medicinal purposes.

Yellow Chartreuse is made from cinnamon, mace, lemon balm, dried hyssop flower tops, peppermint, thyme, costmary, arnica flowers, genepi, angelica roots, cardamom seeds and socctrine aloes.

For Yellow Chartreuse Liqueur, we recommend:

Orange Bitters

Orange Bitters is an alcohol cocktail ingredients aimed at providing drinks with a bitter orange flavour.

Orange Bitters are made using peels of Seville oranges, cardamon, caraway seed, coriander, anise, and burnt sugar in a alcohol base.

For Orange Bitters, we recommend:

Orange Juice

Orange Juice is an essential ingredient for most bars and fridges all around the world. Why? As this delicious list of cocktails with Orange Juice will show you, it mixes well with virtually any form of alcohol.

Cocktails with Orange Juice and Vodka? Absolutely.

Cocktails with Orange Juice and Tequila? Naturally.

Cocktails with Orange Juice and Rum? Sure, why not?

And the list doesn’t end there.

For Orange Juice, we recommend:

 

Vodka

We compared 12 different brands of Vodka and determined that Smirnoff was the overall best option. Given the current climate with Russia, that may seem like a questionable choice, but Smirnoff isn’t made in Russia, it’s made all over the world.

It actually has a history of Russian persecution and the creators were forced to flee Russia.

 

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