Cuisine: Goa
Category: Beverage
Serves: 2
Difficulty: Easy
🌿 Vegetarian
Cashew feni — distilled from fermented cashew apple juice — the most distinctive spirit of Goa with GI protection.
Ingredients
- Cashew feni is a GI-protected spirit produced only in Goa through a traditional three-stage distillation process:
- For a feni-based cocktail:
- 60ml cashew feni (available at Goa government liquor shops and select wine stores)
- 90ml fresh lime juice or kokum juice
- 30ml sugar syrup
- Ice
- Sodawater to top
Method
- Feni cocktail: fill a glass with ice. Pour cashew feni, fresh lime juice and sugar syrup over ice.
- Stir well. Top with sodawater. Garnish with a lime wedge.
- Traditional serving: pour 30 to 45ml of cashew feni neat at room temperature.
- Drink slowly with salty cashew nuts as accompaniment.