A fresh, zingy cocktail packed with fresh citrus juices and fragrant Thai basil, with a touch of raw honey and delicious gin.
This is what I would classify as a healthy cocktail – very low sugar (optional raw honey) and packed with fresh, nutritious citrus and natural flavour. There’s just the small matter of the booze.
A great match for this spicy Thai green curry.
Edible gold not optional.
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Thai basil and citrus cocktail
A fresh, zingy cocktail packed with fresh citrus juices and fragrant Thai basil, with a touch of raw honey and delicious gin.
Ingredients
Thai basil and citrus cocktail
- 1 lightly heaped tsp raw honey (optional)
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
- 40 ml gin or tequila
- 10 Thai basil leaves
- gold leaf
Instructions
for the cocktails
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Dissolve the honey in a couple of tablespoons of warm water. Zest a few scrapes of lemon and lime over 2 martini glasses.
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Juice and strain the lemon and lime and add the juices to a cocktail shaker. Add the honey water, alcohol and Thai basil leaves, then shake with ice until the shaker is frosted. Strain into the martini glasses and top with a few flakes of edible gold.