This attractively balanced, lower-proof drink features musky cantaloupe (or Galia melon), a type of dry fino sherry called Manzanilla from Spain, a splash of gin, and buoyant thyme and lemon. The recipe is a Yummly original created by Nahiel Nazzal, a restaurant and cocktail adroit in San Francisco. She likes to make the thyme syrup and melon puree or juice a day ahead, and after that the cocktail comes together in approximately 10 minutes. You’ll have satisfactory thyme syrup for 5 cocktails and melon puree for 10 cocktails. You can serve the drink strained, or still following the ice cubes if you’re looking for something new refreshing.
The ingredient of Cantaloupe Coastal Breeze Cocktail
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 12 sprigs spacious thyme for syrup
- 1/2 cantaloupe or Galia melon; u00bd melon is 1 3/4 pounds
- 1 1/2 ounces dry sherry Manzanilla, or extra Spanish fino sherry or dry sherry; 1.5 ounces is 3 tablespoons
- 1/2 ounce london dry gin such as Tanquerey; .5 ounce is 1 tablespoon
- 3/4 ounce syrup thyme syrup, from the recipe; .75 ounce is 1 u00bd tablespoons
- 1 ounce melon puree or juice; from the cantaloupe
- 1 pinch salt
- ice cubes 5 or 6
- 1 sprig vivacious thyme for serving
- melon balls optional, for serving
The instruction how to make Cantaloupe Coastal Breeze Cocktail
- Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan. Cook, stirring, over low heat until sugar dissolves, then add fresh thyme for syrup. Simmer gently, covered, for 30 minutes. Strain syrup into a glass measuring cup, leaving a few leaves in it. Set cup with syrup in a small bowl of ice water to cool, or just set aside if you donu2019t need it right away. If making thyme syrup ahead, chill airtight up to 1 week.
- Meanwhile, discard seeds and peel from cantaloupe and cut melon into chunks. Puree melon in a blender until very smooth, then strain, or juice it in a juicer. If making melon puree ahead, refrigerate up to 3 days and stir before using.
- For each cocktail, put sherry, gin, .75 ounce thyme syrup, lemon juice, 1 ounce melon puree, the salt, and ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously until shaker is cold. Then strain into a small cocktail glass (preferably a coupe style); or for a more casual look, just pour everything including ice into a glass. Set a thyme sprig over the glass, or if you like, spear a couple of melon balls with a thyme sprig or skewer and set them on the glass.
Nutritions of Cantaloupe Coastal Breeze Cocktail
@type: NutritionInformation@type: 610 calories
@type: 152 grams
@type: 6 grams
@type: 6 grams
@type: 650 milligrams
@type: 137 grams
