Basil Herb in Cocktails

• Tasting notes:
  Sweet basil has a complex sweet, spicy aroma with notes of clove and anise. The flavour is warm peppery and clove like with underlying mint and anise tones.
• Other basil varieties:
  Purple basil, Bush basil, lettuce basil, and “Ruffles basils, Cinnamon basil, African blue basil, Thai basil, Holy basil, Licorice basil, Lemon basil, Lime basil
• Combines well with:
  lemons and limes, tomatoes, mint, cinnamon
  
  
• Cocktail Recipe: Bloody Gazpacho
  • 50ml Absolut Vodka
  • 4 Basil Leafs
  • 1/2 Inch of Cucumber
  • 100ml Fresh Tomato juice
  • Dash Balsamic vinegar
  • 6 Drops of Tabasco
  • 4 Dashes Worcestershire sauce
  • 1/2 shot Fresh lemon juice
  • 2 pinch Minced garlic
  • 2 pinch Ground pepper
  • 2 pinch Celery salt
  Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into ice-filled Collins glass, garnish with basil.

Source: Humberto Marques

More Basil Cocktails:

• Basil North
• Beatnik
• Dobel Spicy Chill
• Garden Jubilee
• Herb's Fennel Lemon Crunch
• Sabai Sabai
• Starry Lime
• Union Square