Elevate your summer feasting with these delicious food and drink recipes!
With bottlegreen’s tempting range of cordials and pressés, you can add a dash of the extraordinary to so many of your culinary creations
The best drinks start with the finest ingredients, and nobody knows that better than bottlegreen. Of course, the deliciousness of bottlegreen’s cordials and sparkling pressés isn’t limited to your glass. They can be used to reinvent your food, too. From succulent lamb kebabs to crowd-pleasing cocktails perfect for this time of year, keep reading to discover how bottlegreen can totally transform your feasting this summer and beyond.
From the aromatic Ginger & Lemongrass Cordial, which offers an exotic blend of fragrant lemongrass and piquant ginger, to the fabulously fruity Pomegranate & Elderflower Cordial, you can always count on bottlegreen to add a dash of the extraordinary to your cocktails and mocktails, as well as your cooking.
Of course, the proof is in the tasting. So, why not give these delectable food and drink recipes a try and see for yourself?
Lamb kebabs with pomegranate & elderflower
Ingredients
Method
1. Place the lamb in a bowl and pour over the bottlegreen Pomegranate & Elderflower Cordial, olive oil and garlic. If using wooden skewers, soak them in boiling water for 30 mins before heating to prevent burning.
2. Add the onion rings to a small bowl. Bring the vinegar and sugar, plus 25ml water and a pinch of salt, to a simmer in a small saucepan, then pour over the onion and leave to pickle. In a separate bowl, combine the yogurt, feta and chopped mint.
3. Thread the lamb cubes onto 4 wooden or metal skewers and set a griddle pan over a high heat. Put the kebabs on the griddle and cook for 6-8 mins, turning to char each side, until the meat is cooked to your liking. Transfer to a plate and set aside to rest. Heat the flatbreads in the same pan for 2 mins and drain the pickled onions.
4. Spoon some of the minty yogurt and feta sauce onto the flatbread then top with the lamb cubes, some pickled onions and a handful of coriander leaves and reserved mint. Finish with an extra drizzle of bottlegreen Pomegranate & Elderflower Cordial.
Iced elderflower and chamomile tea
Ingredients
Method
1. Soak the chamomile teabags in 300ml boiling water for 3 mins, then remove the bags and chill the chamomile tea in the fridge for 10 mins.
2. Cut the orange and grapefruit in half. Juice one half of each and cut the other halves into slices. Fill two highball glasses or tall tumblers with ice and add the sliced fruit. Top with the cooled chamomile tea and bottlegreen Elderflower Cordial. Stir before serving.
Lime, mint & ginger cooler
Ingredients
Method
1. Fill a tumbler or wine glass with a few cubes of ice, then squeeze the lime into the glass before dropping in the wedges.
2. Top with the bottlegreen Lime & Mint Cordial and the cranberry juice. Finish with the ginger ale and stir before serving.
Salmon, papaya & quinoa salad
Ingredients
Method
1. Heat the grill to high and line a baking tray with baking parchment. Drizzle the salmon fillets with 2 tbsp of the bottlegreen Ginger & Lemongrass Cordial. Season well and set aside to marinade while you prepare the salad.
2. To make the salad dressing, combine the remaining cordial with the olive oil and vinegar in a bowl with the garlic and sumac. Add the quinoa, rocket and capers and toss to combine. Drizzle a little olive oil over the baking tray then carefully transfer over the salmon fillets. Grill for 6-8 mins, until the salmon is cooked through.
3. To serve, divide the quinoa salad between four plates and top with the salmon and sliced papaya.
Pomegranate & elderflower fizz
Ingredients
Method
1. Divide the pomegranate seeds between two chilled champagne flutes or saucers. Add the gin and bottlegreen Pomegranate & Elderflower Cordial. Top with the chilled prosecco and serve immediately.
Caribeño
Ingredients
Method
1. Add a few cubes of ice to a cocktail shaker, then add the rum, coconut water and bottlegreen Lime and Mint Cordial. Shake till the shaker frosts then pour into a martini glass.
Made with love
More than 30 years have passed since husband and wife, Kit and Shireen, began experimenting with the elderflowers they found growing on the doorstep of their Cotswolds home. Harnessing their background in winemaking and driven by a desire to concoct a soft drink that was totally out of the ordinary, they used a unique cold filtration process to create what we now know today as bottlegreen Hand-Picked Elderflower Cordial. With its light, delicate taste of hand-picked elderflowers, this refreshing drink perfectly captures the essence of warm summer days and relaxing evenings.
Now enjoyed across the world, much of bottlegreen’s heritage and provenance remains the same. The mill is still based in the heart of the Cotswolds, where spring water is drawn from its very own spring and carefully blended with blossoms of the highest quality for a beautifully crafted taste.
Sustainable
When it comes to enjoying bottlegreen, the taste is just the start. Your leftover bottlegreen bottles can be used to create all kinds of wonderful things in your garden and around the home.
Botanical brilliance
A botanical tablescape is always a winner and so simple to create. Take a stroll through your garden and pick some pretty herbs, flowers and other foliage. They can be tucked into napkins or added to leftover bottlegreen bottles to create a beautiful centrepiece. Simply fill them with water and add the flowers to give your bottles, which are already 100% recyclable, a whole new lease of life.
Let there be light
Keep the good times going long after the sun goes down with outdoor lighting. Be it a cosy firepit, some twinkling festoon lights or hassle-free portable lights, there are plenty of great options available. Candlelight is perfect for moving from afternoon to evening, and bottlegreen bottles make the perfect holders. Simply pop a dinner candle into the top of a bottle for a chic, rustic aesthetic.
Fabulous flower beds
To create a quirky and sustainable border, try digging the heads of your leftover bottles into the soil around your flower beds. You can also use them to give your plants a steady stream of water. To do this, simply fill a bottle with water and poke a hole in the lid. Screw it back on, then bury the neck of the bottle a few inches below the ground near your plants.