Cocktail Of The Week: Cafe Kowloon’s Shiso Daiquiri – Recipe | The Good Mixer

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A daiquiri is simply a cocktail that shows conscionable really acold you tin get pinch only 3 ingredients: rum, sweetener and lime. Our type includes caller shiso leaves for herbal notes you don’t expect, but perfectly want pinch rum (and if you usage reddish shiso, nan vibrant pinkish colour it imparts conscionable makes everything cooler). If you person clip – moreover conscionable half an hr – it’s worthy chucking a fewer shiso leaves into nan rum up of time, past giving it a bully shingle and leaving it to steep. The syrup tin beryllium made pinch achromatic sugar, but soft ray brownish sweetener will punctual nan rum of home, and adhd a warmer, richer decorativeness that useful good pinch nan lemongrass.

Shiso daiquiri

Serves 4

For nan lemongrass syrup
200g ray brownish sugar, aliases achromatic sugar
2-3 lemongrass stalks, chopped

For nan drink
8-12 reddish shiso leaves, positive 4 leaves other to garnish
200ml achromatic rum – we usage DropWorks’s Clear Drop
100ml caller lime juice
60ml lemongrass syrup (see supra and method)

First make nan syrup. Put nan sweetener and lemongrass successful a pan, adhd 200ml h2o and bring slow to a boil, stirring to dissolve nan sweetener (for a stronger flavour, time off nan chopped lemongrass successful nan sweetener for a fewer hours earlier adding nan water). Take disconnected nan heat, time off to cool, past strain into a cleanable jar aliases bottle, seal and shop successful nan fridge for up to a month.

To build nan drink, lightly muddle (ie, bash) nan shiso leaves successful a shaker, adhd nan rum, lime juice, syrup and a bully fistful of ice, past shingle difficult for 10–15 seconds. Strain into 4 chilled daiquiri aliases nick & nora glasses, garnish each pinch a shiso leafage and serve.