Batida
| Type | Cocktail |
|---|---|
| Primary alcohol by volume | |
| Served | On the rocks; poured over ice |
| Standard drinkware |  |
| Commonly used ingredients | |
| Preparation | Mix and pour into chilled glass. Serve cold. |
Batida is any of various Brazilian cocktails made with the national alcoholic drink cachaça (Cocktails with cachaça#Batida (Shaken)). In Portuguese batida means shaken or milkshake. In Portuguese, batida means shaken or milkshake (In a different context, the word also means a crash, usually used when referring to a car crash). The beverages are made with cachaça, fruit juice (or coconut milk), and sugar. They are blended or shaken with ice. In Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, batidas are traditionally served with the Brazilian national dish, feijoada.
A variation is made adding sweet condensed milk or sour cream. The drink can be made with vodka instead of cachaça (which has limited availability outside of Brazil).
The most common fruits used in a batida are lemons, passion fruits and coconuts.
Traditional recipe
- 1 part of fruit juice (or coconut milk)
- 1 table spoon of sugar
- 2 parts of cachaça
Place all the components in a blender and blend very briefly, just to mixture all the components. Serve cold or in a tall glass with ice.
An optional recipe is made adding sweet condensed milk and/ or sour cream along with the fruit juice.
Like almost all of the cachaça made drinks, some people prefere to replace the cachaça with vodka.
The most popular batida flavours are passion fruit and coconut.
See also
- List of Brazilian dishes
- Cachaça
- Caipirinha
- Caju amigo
- Quentão
- Rabo-de-galo