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Cocktails #04: Lychee Martini, Diable Rouge
Cocktail: Lychee Martini
If you only ever drink one martini in your life, this should be it.
It's delicately perfumed, light, exquisite tasting, and slides down like a dream. I've converted two Martini-haters with this particular cocktail, and I haven't yet fed it to anyone who disliked it.
You can make this with canned or fresh lychees - either way tastes great (and really, is the only way I'll consume the canned ones). The syrup from the canned lychees does make for a slightly sweeter martini - not necessarily a bad thing.
Adapted from a recipe found in delicious magazine.
Ingredients for 2:
3 shots Vodka
1/2 shot White [Bianco] Vermouth
1/2 shot Lychee Syrup from can or other lychees
4 Lychees
Glass: Martini
Garnish: Lychee
Method:
Put one of the lychees in each glass.
Chill the glasses and garnish in fridge or freezer for a few minutes. [optional]
Put the lychees in the shaker and muddle (basically, bash them with pestle or similar until the fruit is broken up).
Put the rest of the ingredients in the shaker.
Top to 2/3 with fresh ice.
SHAKE.
Strain into chilled glasses.
Cocktail: Diable Rouge
This is what I'm drinking currently. Pleasant enough. Basically a Flirtini/French Martini (or a Hot Tub without the bubbles) using Crème de Cassis (blackcurrant liqueur) instead of Chambord (black raspberry liqueur), which I didn't notice until I was copying the recipe out. Supposed to be red, guessing from the name, but mine unsurprisingly enough (and disregarding the false colour value of the photo) is really more, well, pineapple coloured!
Ingredients:
2 shots Vodka
2 shots Pineapple juice
¼ shot Crème de Cassis
Glass: Martini
Garnish: Stick of berries
Method:
Put ingredients in shaker.
Top to 2/3 with fresh ice.
SHAKE.
Strain into chilled glass.
If you only ever drink one martini in your life, this should be it.
It's delicately perfumed, light, exquisite tasting, and slides down like a dream. I've converted two Martini-haters with this particular cocktail, and I haven't yet fed it to anyone who disliked it.
You can make this with canned or fresh lychees - either way tastes great (and really, is the only way I'll consume the canned ones). The syrup from the canned lychees does make for a slightly sweeter martini - not necessarily a bad thing.
Adapted from a recipe found in delicious magazine.
Ingredients for 2:
3 shots Vodka
1/2 shot White [Bianco] Vermouth
1/2 shot Lychee Syrup from can or other lychees
4 Lychees
Glass: Martini
Garnish: Lychee
Method:
Put one of the lychees in each glass.
Chill the glasses and garnish in fridge or freezer for a few minutes. [optional]
Put the lychees in the shaker and muddle (basically, bash them with pestle or similar until the fruit is broken up).
Put the rest of the ingredients in the shaker.
Top to 2/3 with fresh ice.
SHAKE.
Strain into chilled glasses.
Cocktail: Diable Rouge
Ingredients:
2 shots Vodka
2 shots Pineapple juice
¼ shot Crème de Cassis
Glass: Martini
Garnish: Stick of berries
Method:
Put ingredients in shaker.
Top to 2/3 with fresh ice.
SHAKE.
Strain into chilled glass.
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