Cucumber Martini

Give your gin martini a spring update - this Cucumber Martini with St Germain liqueur is refreshing and sophisticated.

📝 Ingredients

• 1/2 cucumber (grated)
• 120 ml (1/2 cup) gin (Hendricks Gin preferably)
• 80 ml (1/3 cup) cucumber juice
• 1 1/2 tbsp St Germain (or see notes)
• 1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
• 2 tsp sugar syrup
• cucumber slices to garnish

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Grate 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.
2. 2Place two martini glasses in the freezer to chill.
3. 3Put the gin, cucumber juice, St Germain, lime juice, and sugar syrup in a cocktail shaker half filled with ice.
4. 4Shake hard for 30 seconds and divide between the two chilled glasses.
5. 5Use a vegetable peeler to peel long thin slices from a cucumber and the pleat them onto a cocktail stick to garnish.