Cucumber Thyme Bash
(from highlands’s recipe box)
Summer Martini
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 0 minutes
Serves 1 people
Categories: Drinks
Ingredients
- English cucumber (approx. 4" piece)
- 6 sprigs of (lemon)thyme
- 1/2 cup Hendricks gin
- 1 cup white cranberry juice
- juice of 1/2 lime
- Sprig of thyme/slice of lime for decoration
- (simple syrup may be added for sweeter taste)
Directions
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Peel cucumber and cut into thumbnail-size pieces
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Press cucumber through garlic mincer into a beaker
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Add chopped thyme leaves, gin, cranberry juice and lime juice (simple syrup if desired)
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Mix with hand-held blender, transfer to shaker, add ice and shake until martini is well chilled.
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Serve in chilled martini glasses, decorate with thyme sprig and/or lime slice