Pomegranate has to be my favourite fruit – its taste, its versatility, its looks and cultural significance; everything about pomegranate lures and delights me. Perhaps this has something to do with my mom craving pomegranate juice and drinking litres of it when she was in the last stages of her pregnancy, perhaps it’s connected to my love of Persian and Caucasian food, but give me anything containing pomegranates in any shape and form, and I will be ecstatic. This is why I instantly felt in love with the sound of Sumayya Usmani’s cocktail for our recent collaboration on a Pakistani edition of KinoVino – a pomegranate martini with Himalayan pink salt! Yes please!
Makes one
(but obviously one is not enough so make sure to have at least 3)
50gr of vodka (we used Smirnoff)
25gr of concentrated pomegranate cordial
1 tbsp of pomegranate molasses
2 tbsp of pomegranate seeds
4 leaves of mint (plus 1 for decor)
a splash soda water
ice
a twist of Himalayan pink salt
In a cocktail glass mush together the pomegranate cordial with pomegranate molasses and seeds, as well as mint leaves.
Top with vodka, add a splash of soda water, some ice cubes. Give it a good stir.
Add a twist of the salt and decorate with a few pomegranate seeds and a leaf of mint before serving!
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