Name: Salty Lychee Martini
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Gin; 30 ml Sherry - Manzanilla; 15 ml Rose petal liqueur; 15 ml Lychee juice drink; 3 Saline solution 4:1

Serve in a

Martini glass

Garnish:

Fresh lychee or tined lychee

How to make:

STIR all ingredients with ice and strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Gin
1 fl oz	Manzanilla sherry
1/2 fl oz	Lanique Spirit of Rose liqueur
1/2 fl oz	Lychee juice drink
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)
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Recipe contains the following allergens:

Manzanilla sherry – Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

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Review:

Pale pink in colour and subtle in flavour with gin and the delicately salty tang of manzanilla sherry and drying rich rose and lychee.

History:

I created this drink in 2002 after trying Dick Bradsell's Lychee & Rose Petal Martini.

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Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
21.63% alc./vol. (43.26° proof)
19.5 grams of pure alcohol

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