Bitter Melon and Gin
- Level: Easy
- Total: 30 min
- Active: 30 min
- Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients
1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar
1 cup diced bitter melon, seeds reserved
Kosher salt
1 Granny Smith apple, thinly sliced
1/3 lemon, zested
5 blackberries
5 blueberries
2 cherries, pitted
4 ounces gin, chilled
2 fresh mint sprigs, for garnish
Directions
- Heat up the rice wine vinegar, 1/4 cup water, the sugar and diced bitter melon in a saucepan. Cook until the sugar dissolves and the flavors combine. Then remove from the heat and cool.
- Add a pinch of salt to the bitter melon seeds and toast in a pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine the apples, lemon zest, berries, cherries and toasted seeds.
- Divide the fruit between two cocktail glasses. Add the gin to both glasses, a couple tablespoons of bitter melon simple syrup and garnish with a sprig of mint.
- Eat the salad and enjoy your gin at the same time.
