Thai basil smash
Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 minsTotal time: 
Recipe photograph by Stuart West
Thai basil smash
While away a warm summer’s evening with this fragrant and zingy gin cocktail; Thai basil brings a lovely hint of aniseed flavour
Serves: 2
Prep time: 5 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
0Kcal
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Abigail Spooner
Abi is our Head of Food. She loves the precision and creativity of baking, turning fridge odds-and-ends into a weeknight pasta, and is always bookmarking new restaurants to try. She's happiest hosting friends around a table overflowing with food (and insisting everyone has seconds) or planning holidays around what to eat.
Ingredients
- 10g of Thai basil (leaves and stalks)
- ice
- 100ml gin
- 45ml lime juice (about 2 limes)
- 30ml sugar syrup
For garnish
- small sprig of Thai basil
- slice of lime
Step by step
- Gently bash the Thai basil into the base of a cocktail shaker with a muddler or the end of a wooden spoon, until fragrant and bruised.
- Fill the cocktail shaker with ice, then pour in the gin, lime juice and sugar syrup. Shake well for about 30 seconds, until the outside of the shaker is very cold. Fine strain into two ice-filled tumbler glasses and garnish each with a small sprig of Thai basil and a slice of lime.
