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*photography by Andrea Hubbell; recipe adapted from this recipe on 100 Layer Cake
Irish-Tini
Serves 1
Irish-Tini
Categories
Ingredients
- 2 oz Hendricks Gin
- 1 oz lime juice
- 2 mini cucumbers - preferable English with skin on - sliced
- 1/2 oz green chartreuse
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- large handful mint leaves
- green sanding sugar
Instructions
- Take a martini glass and dip the rim into a plate of water, then into a plate of the sanding sugar.
- In a food processor, puree lime juice, mint and cucumber.
- Add to a shaker with the rest of the ingredients and ice. Shake and strain into glasses.
- For the garnish, take one whole mini cucumber and using a mandolin slicer, thinly slice it into ribbons. Thread onto a cocktail pick.
Éirtini (pronounced “air-tini”) would be a better name for it, as Éire is the Irish word for Ireland. It’s a much better play on the word “Martini” than “Irish-tini”.
Very cute! 🙂