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South Side Cocktail

South Side Cocktail — a beverage recipe, 4 ingredients.

Serves 1 · Beverage

contains alcohol

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Ingredients

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  • 10–12 mint leaves
  • 2 oz gin
  • ¾ oz fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • ¾ oz simple syrup

Steps

  1. Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well.
  2. Open shaker and add mint, leaving 1 mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish.
  3. Close cocktail shaker and roll the mint from one end of the shaker to the other to gently express the mint oils but to not bruise the mint.
  4. Use a hawthorn strainer and a fine mesh strainer to filter the contents into a chilled cocktail coupe.
  5. Garnish with the spare mint leaf you left aside.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0