Gin Basil Smash 🍹

The green wonder from Hamburg

The Gin Basil Smash is a cocktail of basil, lemon juice, gin and sugar syrup. Simple ingredients, simple preparation, simple idea: good gin, fresh vegetables, a little sugar. Tasty, ready, punches. What makes this drink so exciting - at least for theorists, barflys and cocktail artists - is its age: it was only invented in 2008. At a time when some already thought that all "simple" cocktails had existed for at least 50 years. - More info

Recipe

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• Preparation: 5 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy
• Servings: 4

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Ingredients:

• 🍃 4 bunches of fresh basil
• 🍋 4 lemons
• 🧂 8 cl sugar syrup
• 🍾 24 cl Gin
• 🧊 ice cubes

Preparation

1. Wash basil, pluck a few leaves for garnish. Wash the lemon, cut in half and squeeze.
2. Place basil and stems in a shaker with 2 cl lemon juice and sugar syrum and press with a pestle. Fill up with gin and ice cubes and shake well.
3. Divide fresh ice cubes among 4 tumblers. Strain cocktail into them and garnish with basil leaves.

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