Cucumber ginger gin sour
Ingredients
Cucumber-ginger juice
4 Lebanese cucumbers,
roughly chopped
30mL water
½ inch ginger
The mix
1.5 shots (45mL) gin
1 shot (30mL) sugar syrup*
1 shot (30mL) lime juice
2 shots cucumber-ginger juice
½ shot (15mL) aquafaba
Recipe
To make the cucumber-ginger juice, put all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Set the mix over a fine mesh sieve and allow to drain. You can rock the sieve about to speed up the process but don’t press the pulp through with a spoon.
To make the cocktail, put all the ingredients for the mix in a cocktail shaker with 6-8 cubes of ice. Shake vigorously until the shaker is almost too cold to hold. Strain into an old-fashioned champagne glass to serve. Garnish with a ribbon of cucumber, folded on a skewer.
*Make sugar syrup by mixing 1:1 caster sugar to water, brought to the boil, cooled.