Southside cocktail with peppermint

Name: Southside cocktail with peppermint
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 120 g sugar; some ice cubes; ½ bunch peppermint; a little peppermint; 4 tbsp lemon juice; 1 ¼ dl gin

Total: 30 min. | Active: 30 min.

vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free

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Jazzing up a traditional cocktail is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a twist on a classic. A Southside is usually made with gin, lemon juice and syrup. Adding a hint of peppermint to the syrup gives the cocktail a wonderfully fresh flavour. Alternatively, you can also use lime juice instead of lemon juice and so give the cocktail an additional flavour.

Recipe by:
LAUREN - Food Photography Academy

Ingredients

for 2 glasses

Peppermint syrup
1 ⅕ dl	water
120 g	sugar
½ bunch	peppermint, torn into pieces

Cocktail
1 ¼ dl	gin
4 tbsp	lemon juice
some	ice cubes
a little	peppermint, leaves torn off

How it's done

Peppermint syrup

Bring the water, sugar and mint to the boil in a pan. While still boiling hot, pour the syrup into a clean, warm bottle and fill to just below the rim, seal immediately, leave to cool.

Cocktail

Pour the gin, lemon juice and 3 tbsp of the peppermint syrup into a shaker, top up with ice cubes. Seal the shaker and shake well for approx. 30 secs. Pour the cocktail through a sieve into two glasses. Decorate the glasses with mint leaves.

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