Cucumber Martini
Give your gin martini a spring update - this Cucumber Martini with St Germain liqueur is refreshing and sophisticated.
Ingredients
Cucumber Juice
- ½ cucumber grated
Cucumber Martini
- 120 ml gin Hendricks Gin preferably, 1/2 cup
- 80 ml cucumber juice 1/3 cup
- 1 ½ tbsp St Germain or see notes
- 1 ½ tbsp lime juice
- 2 tsp sugar syrup
- cucumber slices, for garnish
Instructions
- Grate the cucumber using a box grater or in a food processor. Use your hands or a muslin cloth to extract the juice then strain into a clean jar and keep in the fridge for up to 2 days. You will get rougly a half a cup of juice from 1 medium cucumber.
- Place two martini glasses in the freezer to chill.
- Put the gin, cucumber juice, St Germain, lime juice, and sugar syrup in a cocktail shaker half filled with ice.
- Shake hard for 30 seconds and divide between the two chilled glasses.
- Use a vegetable peeler to peel long thin slices from a cucumber and the pleat them onto a cocktail stick to garnish.
Notes
- If you haven't got any St Germain you could replace with some eldreflower cordial.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 2 Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 210
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 210kcal | 11% |
| Carbohydrates | 12g | 4% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 6mg | 0% |
| Potassium | 102mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 11g | 22% |
| Vitamin A | 54IU | 1% |
| Vitamin C | 6mg | 7% |
| Calcium | 11mg | 1% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.