If You Carrot All
Makes: 1 cocktail
ingredients
GROUP A: CARROT JUICE
1/2 cup diced carrots
1 cup water
Sliver of ginger
GROUP B: GARNISH
Fresh fennel frond
1/8 tsp dried fennel seeds
1/8 tsp smoked Maldon sea salt
GROUP C: MEZCALRITA
1.5 oz mezcal
1 oz cointreau
2 oz carrot juice
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz 1:1 simple syrup
method
Carrot juice: Add all Group A ingredients to a blender vessel. Blend into a juice. Strain through a fine mesh sieve to discard any chunky bits. (There will be extra leftover after making one cocktail - either make another one, or better still, use it to make this panna cotta with a carrot syrup!).
Garnish & glassware prep: Toast the fennel seeds in a pan, till lightly browned. Add them along with the salt to a spice crusher or mortar and grind to a fine consistency. Rub some lime juice in a pattern of your choice on the cocktail glass and dust with the fennel salt. Chill the glass for 5 minutes in the freezer.
Mezcalrita: Add all Group C ingredients and handful of ice cubes to a cocktail shaker. Short shake and pour over ice into the prepped cocktail glass. Garnish with the fennel frond.
