12 Three-Ingredient Cocktails You Can Make Tonight
You don’t need a dozen bottles or a bartending course to make a proper cocktail. Some of the most famous drinks in the world are just three ingredients — a spirit, something sour or sweet, and one more thing to tie it together. Here are twelve three-ingredient cocktails you can make tonight, most in under a minute. (Measures in ml; tweak to taste.)
Twelve three-ingredient classics
- Margarita — 60ml tequila, 30ml lime juice, 30ml triple sec. Shake, strain over ice.
- Daiquiri — 60ml white rum, 30ml lime juice, 15ml sugar syrup. Shake hard, strain.
- Negroni — 30ml gin, 30ml Campari, 30ml sweet vermouth. Stir over ice, orange twist.
- Gimlet — 60ml gin, 20ml lime juice, 20ml sugar syrup. Shake, strain.
- Whiskey Sour — 60ml bourbon, 30ml lemon juice, 20ml sugar syrup. Shake (egg white optional).
- Cosmopolitan — 45ml vodka, 15ml lime juice, 30ml cranberry, with a splash of triple sec.
- Paloma — 50ml tequila, grapefruit soda to top, a squeeze of lime. Build over ice.
- Screwdriver — 50ml vodka, orange juice to top, a wedge of orange. Build over ice.
- Kamikaze — 30ml vodka, 30ml triple sec, 30ml lime juice. Shake, strain.
- Sidecar — 50ml brandy, 20ml triple sec, 20ml lemon juice. Shake into a sugar-rimmed glass.
- Bee’s Knees — 60ml gin, 20ml lemon juice, 20ml honey syrup. Shake, strain.
- Cuba Libre — 50ml rum, cola to top, a good squeeze of lime. Build over ice.
See the pattern? Spirit, citrus, sweet — balance those three and you can improvise your own. Whatever you pour, please enjoy responsibly.
Hundreds more, minus the guesswork
Once three ingredients feel easy, The Cocktail Shaker is where you go next — a free Android app with hundreds of recipes, each with exact measures, clear steps and notes on glassware and garnish, plus a new cocktail to discover every day, quizzes to sharpen your bartending, and a home-bar log to rate what you make.
More on the app: the The Cocktail Shaker page.
Three ingredients, one great drink. Go pour one.
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