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Spiced sidecar
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + Infusing
- Easy
- Serves 1
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 50ml spiced cognac or cognac, (see below)
- 25ml Cointreau
- 25ml lemon juice, plus a lemon wedge for the glass
SPICED COGNAC
- 4 cardamom pods, bruised
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 star anise
- 2 small slices ginger
- 200ml cognac
Method
- STEP 1
To make the spiced cognac, put all of the spices and the ginger in the cognac and leave to infuse for 30-45 minutes, tasting after 30 minutes. Leave for longer if you’d like an extra spicy flavour. This will make enough for four drinks, but if you’d like to infuse a whole bottle (around 70cl), then triple the quantities.
- STEP 2
To make the sidecar, put the caster sugar on a saucer and rub a lemon wedge round the rim of a small coupe glass. Dip the glass rim into the sugar, like you would a margarita glass with salt. Put the rest of the cocktail ingredients in a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake well before straining into the frosted coupe glass.
