Watermelon & Basil Cocktail

Serve in a Martini glass...
1	slice	Fresh watermelon (chopped)
7	fresh	Basil leaves
2	fl oz	Rutte Dry Gin
½	fl oz	Sugar syrup (2 sugar to 1 water)

Display recipe in:

How to make:

Cut watermelon into 16 segments, chop the flesh from one segment into cubes and MUDDLE in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Garnish:

Watermelon wedge

Comment:

Refreshing watermelon with interesting herbal hints from the basil and gin.

Buy ingredients

Previous Cocktail

Waltzing Matilda
Cut passion fruit in half and scoop out flesh into shaker. Add next three ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. TOP with ginger ale.

Next Cocktail

Webster Martini
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Cocktail shakers & how to shake a cocktail

Shaking not only mixes a drink, it also chills, dilutes and aerates it. Along with stirring shaking is the most common technique employed to mix cocktails.

How to strain a cocktail

When straining a shaken drink, a Hawthorn strainer tends to be used, but when straining a stirred drink it is traditional to use a Julep strainer. Both designs of strainer allow...

Tequila Cocktails - the best tequila based cocktails

With its earthy herbaceous flavours, tequila makes for a both versatile and interesting cocktail base spirit. Traditionally mixed with orange (think triple

Wimbledon cocktails

When Wimbledon kicks off the British summer has officially begun. Cue hordes of tennis fans making their annual pilgrimage to sit on Aorangi Terrace in