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How To Make A Glass Of The Hurricane Cocktail

By Michael Bamidele

27 July 2021   |   9:48 am

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The Hurricane cocktail is a sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice, and passion fruit syrup. It is one of many popular drinks served in New Orleans. It is traditionally served in the tall, curvy eponymous "hurricane glass". Ingredients 50ml dark rum 50ml white rum 1 passion fruit 1 orange , juiced 1 lemon…

Hurricane Cocktail | Image: Pinterest

The Hurricane cocktail is a sweet alcoholic drink made with rum, lemon juice, and passion fruit syrup. It is one of many popular drinks served in New Orleans. It is traditionally served in the tall, curvy eponymous “hurricane glass”.

Ingredients

• 50ml dark rum
• 50ml white rum
• 1 passion fruit
• 1 orange , juiced
• 1 lemon , juiced
• 50ml sugar syrup
• 2 tsp grenadine

To garnish

• 4 cocktail cherries
• 2 orange slices

Hurricane Cocktail | Image: Liquor.com/Tim Nusog

Method
1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice then add the rums. Scoop the flesh and seeds from the passion fruit and add to the shaker along with the orange and lemon juices, sugar syrup and grenadine.

2. Shake well until the outside of the cocktail shaker feels icy cold. Fill two hurricane glasses with fresh ice then double strain the drink into the prepared glasses.

3. Garnish each one with an orange slice skewered onto a cocktail stick and a couple of cocktail cherries.