Time: 12 minutes

Serves: 4

  • 1/2 cup sake
  • 2 English cucumbers,
  • 4 long thin slices of fresh ginger
  • 8 oz simple syrup (equal part sugar dissolved in water)
  • 1/4 cup lychee juice, plus lychees for garnish

CUCUMBER, LYCHEE SAKE

Recipe courtesy Tyler Florence

Make ginger simple sugar by combining ginger, and equal parts water and sugar in a small saucepan and simmering until sugar has dissolved.  Peel cucumbers and cut half of one into thin slices.  Puree the remaining one and half cucumbers in a blender.  In a shaker, combine sake, pureed cucumber, ginger simple syrup and lychee juice.  Strain and serve over ice garnished with fresh cucumber slices and a couple of lychees.

Edited: April 16th, 2010