Vodka À La ClÉmentine Recipes

CLEMENTINE COSMO

Steps:

• Chill 4 martini glasses by filling each with ice and cold water. Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously. Empty the martini glasses of ice water and strain the mixture between the 4 glasses. Float a slice of clementine in each glass and serve immediately.

CLEMENTINE COSMOS

Steps:

• Cut the clementines into quarters and squeeze their juice into a saucepan. Add the sugar, water and clementine flesh and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat and simmer the mixture for 5 minutes. Pour into a strainer set over a measuring cup, pressing on the solids to remove as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids, cool the liquid to room temperature and pour into a pitcher. Add the cranberry juice, lime juice and vodka and stir well. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Put 6 or 8 martini glasses in the freezer.
• To serve, pour the mixture into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake until very cold. Pour into the chilled martini glasses and garnish each with a clementine slice. Drink up and enjoy!

CLEMENTINE MARTINI

Steps:

• Put some Martini glasses (or champagne flutes) into the freezer. Mix the clementine juice, vodka and Cointreau in a jug, then chill for 1 hr (or up to 1 day). Thinly slice the 2 clementines to use as a garnish.
• To serve, put a clementine slice into each frosty glass. Fill almost halfway with the chilled jug mixture, then open the bottle of fizz and top up the glasses.

CLEMENTINE VODKA

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, bring to a boil the clementine juice, the sugar and the lemon juice. Mix until sugar is dissolved. Pour in a glass container of 6 cups. Let the mixture cool.
• Add vodka and the slices of clementines and lemon. Add airtight lid to glass container and set aside for two weeks at room temperature.
• After two weeks, strain out the clementines and lemon.
• Keep the vodka in the fridge. Do not freeze.
• Serve cold as is or with some fruit juice and ice.

SKINNY CLEMENTINE MARTINI

Steps:

• In cocktail shaker filled with ice, add gin, liqueur and juices. Cover; shake until well mixed.
• Strain into martini glass; top off with club soda.
• Garnish as desired.