Name: Vodka Sidecar
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 45 ml Vodka; 22.5 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 5 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 7.5 ml Chilled water

Ingredients

1 ¹⁄₂ fl oz

Ketel One Vodka

³⁄₄ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₆ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

¹⁄₄ fl oz

Chilled water/mineral water

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.

RIM glass with salt (moisten outside edge with lemon juice and dip into salt).

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

No additional garnish. (The preprepared rim is garnish enough.)

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Vodka Sidecar contains 169 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
20.9% alc./vol. (41.8° proof)
21.3 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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Tuber Magnatum Premium Member 42w

Tried this tonight, but as I recently bought a bottle of Ferrand Dry Curacao used it in place of my Cointreau. As suggested by Werd Bmocsil below, I used a drop of 20% saline as I am not a fan of salted rims. Excellent cocktail, not too sour, not too sweet. I wonder though if I missed out a bit on the orange citrus using the Dry Curacao. This was a very "smooth" cocktail not aggressively sour. I think though I will try next time with out the saline to see if that gives this otherwise excellent cocktail just a bit more punch as well as using Cointreau to see if that ups the orange component.

Werd Bmocsil 1y

I think I would use saline solution instead of a salt rim next time. Otherwise, the recipe is a worthy use of any vodka that manages to finagle its way into the cabinet. :-/

Jim G 1y

Very close to a Lemon Drop. Regardless both recipes are a hit. I use Mandarin Napoleon orange liqueur.

John Hinojos Premium Member 2y

Love the different citrus tastes with each sip. The bitterness of the orange comes through with the clean taste of the vodka. This is perfect time to use your mid to upper range vodka in your drinks cabinet. We used Ultra 34 by Purity out of Sweden.

Dávid Ugróczi 3y

I just tried it with bison grass vodka (my favourite vodka for some time now). It is very much a citrus-forward drink, definitely has a 'clean' taste. I still prefer the brandy/cognac based Sidecar but it's an interesting twist for sour-lovers.