Basil Smash

This non-alcoholic Basil Smash cocktail is build from the blend Juniper Garden. Start your Italian dinner or apéro with this healthy and light hearted cocktail. Shake it!

Ingredients

• Bôtan Juniper Garden* → 40ml
• Sugar water [1:2]** → 30ml
• Lime juice → 25ml
• Basil → 5 to 10 leaves for shaking & 3 leaves for garnish
• Ice cubes → for shaking & serving

How to make it

1. Fill a cocktail shaker*** with ice.
2. Add all ingredients to the cocktail shaker.
3. Shake hard until cold.
4. Pour out through a strainer into a glass filled with ice
5. Garnish with Basil.

*For a low alcohol cocktail, use half Bôtan (25ml) with half gin (25ml).

**Make your own sugar water. Combine 1 cup of granulated sugar and 2 cups of filtered water in a pot. Bring to boiling and simmer until the sugar has dissolved. Allow cooking before storing in the refrigerator.

***If you don't have a cocktail shaker, use an empty jam jar.