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Two glasses with a cocktail and slices of watermelon behind it

Watermelon Gin Cocktail

A sweet-and-spicy summer cocktail with fresh watermelon and London Dry gin, finished off with Thai basil and a sugary rim.
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Ingredients

  • pink sugar for rim
  • flaked salt for rim
  • 1 lime wedge for rim
  • 2 cups 2-inch cubed fresh watermelon
  • ½ cup loosely packed whole Thai basil leaves
  • 1½ oz London dry-style gin see note
  • ½ oz mellow amaro see note
  • 1 tsp chili-infused honey I use Hive Gourmet’s Hive on Fire
  • juice of ½ lime
  • 2 oz rosewater

Instructions
 

  • Mix the sugar and salt in a shallow dish and set aside. Wet the rim of a rocks glass with the lime and dip it into the sugar-salt mix.
  • Muddle the watermelon with the Thai basil in a cocktail shaker. Add the gin, amaro, honey, lime juice and rosewater, add ice and shake for 30 seconds. Add fresh ice to a rocks glass and strain the cocktail into the glass.