Photo: Niklas Rhose
Ingredients
- 10–12 mint leaves
- 2 oz gin
- ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
- ¾ oz simple syrup
Directions
1
Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker , fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
2
Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
3
Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
4
Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
5
Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.
Recipe sourced from
wikibooks