Gatarou Cocktail Recipe

How to Make Gatarou Cocktail

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Gatarou Cocktail Recipe Ingredients

1/2 glass Green Chartreuse®
1/2 glass pastis liqueur
fresh cucumber
Sprite® soda

Recommended Glass to use for the Gatarou Cocktail Recipe



Margarita Glass


Gatarou Cocktail Drink Recipe Instructions

Muddle three slices of cucumber in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice, Chartreuse and Pernod. Shake. Without straining, pour into margarita glass. Top with Sprite (or you may substitute Mountain Dew). Garnish with a lemon twist, using the pithy, bitter part of the peel to rub around the rim of the glass just before serving.

Gatarou Cocktail Recipe Information

The recipe calls for a 9-oz margarita glass. Please adjust quantities to suit your glassware.

Gatarō hopes to be a new classic in summer cocktails. Refreshing and quite simple to make, it uses a palette of classic liqueurs to paint a picture of times past. This drink is named for a Japanese water demon called the Gatarō (aka Kappa), a mischievous--and often deadly--water spirit who carries children off to drown in the river, not unlike sirens and mermaids of Western lore. Legend holds that the demon has a small, bowl-shaped indentation on his head, and that anyone who steals some water from that bowl will have power over Gatarō. This boon is usually satisfied by the granting of a wish. The use of a margarita glass symbolises the head of Gatarō.

If, for some reason, you wish to fore-go the cucumber, the drink is then called a "Green Fae" and is served in a sugar-rimmed, footed highball or water glass. Absente herbal anisette may be used in place of the Pernod.

Gatarō was created in the summer of 2007 by Sc'Eric Horner for the Fuji & Jade Garden restaurant in State College, PA.

Please note that there are many ways and variations to make Gatarou Cocktail. The Gatarou Cocktail recipe above is the most common way to make this drink, you can always improvise with your own twist and enjoy. You can also find many other variations of this drink on our website, just use our search to see more. CrystalMixer.com is intended for responsible adults of legal drinking age in the United States of America (21 years old or older). It is purely intended for guidance. Please do NOT drink and drive. If you need transportation, use a designated driver or a taxi service. And please be careful when crossing the street after drinking. Remember to drink responsibly! Lastly, have fun!


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