Lemongrass Infused Gin and Tonic Cocktail

How To Infuse The Flavor of Lemongrass Into Your Gin (Or, try it with Vodka, if that’s your preference)

Easy, peasy!  All you do is wash and trim 2-3 stalks of lemongrass.  If you’re not familiar with it, it’s very long and quite hard actually. 

You wash it off, then trim it to the bottom 3-4 inches.  Give the bottom a good smash with a kitchen mallet 🔨  (or use your imagination if you don’t have a kitchen mallet!)   This will open the ends and allow that delicious lemony, citrus goodness to leach into your gin 🍸.  Peel the skin from one lime 🍈. Be careful to use only the green, leaving out as much of the white pith as possible.  Pour 1 cup of good quality gin into a large glass jar.  Put the lemongrass you’ve banged 🔨 into the jar along with the lime peel and seal it tight with a lid.  Put it somewhere you’re likely to remember you put it, but out of the direct sunlight.  Let it sit for 24-48 hours before you’re first try.  It will keep for up to 1 month.

How To Make The Lemongrass Infused Gin and Tonic

Into a tall collins glass and squeeze add the juice of half the lime.  Add ice cubes to fill the glass and add 2 ounces of the Lemongrass Gin and 3 ounces of tonic water.

Garnish a lime wedge, wheel or a twist of lemon.  For fun, add a slice of candied ginger as well. 

Cheers and Sip, Sip Hooray!

Lemongrass Gin and Tonic

Ingredients

For lemongrass infused Gin

• 1 cup Gin
• 1 Lime peel (removed with a peeler – with as little white pith as possible)
• 2 medium lemongrass stalks trimmed and cut into 3-inch lengths

For the lemongrass gin and tonic cocktail

• 1/2 medium Lime
• ice cubes
• 2 ounces Lemongrass Gin
• 3 ounces chilled tonic water

Instructions

How To Infuse The Flavor of Lemongrass Into Your Gin (Or, try it with Vodka, if that’s your preference) 

• wash 2-3 stalks of lemongrass.  
• Trim it to the bottom 3-4 inches. 
• Smash with bottom of the lemongrass with a kitchen mallet to open the ends.
• Pour 1 cup of good quality gin into a large glass jar. 
• Put the lemongrass and the lime peel into the jar and seal it tight with a lid. 
• Put it the jar out of the direct sunlight to infuse for 24-48 hours. 
• (It will keep for up to 1 month)

The Lemongrass Infused Gin and Tonic Cocktail 

• Into a tall collins glass add the juice of half the lime. 
• Add ice cubes to fill the glass and add 2 ounces of the Lemongrass Gin, then add 3 ounces of tonic water.

Garnish

• lime wedge, wheel or twist of lemon.  Optional: candied ginger.
• Cheers and Sip, Sip Hooray!

• Karen Harris https://www.bittersaltysoursweet.com