Blood Orange French 75
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- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 1x
- Category: Cocktail
- Method: Shaken
- Cuisine: French
Celebrate with a sparkling, pink French 75 made with blood oranges, gin and Champagne.
Scale
Ingredients
Per cocktail
- 1 1/2 ounces gin
- 1 small blood orange (about the size of a lemon), juiced
- 1/2 small lemon, juiced
- Agave nectar or simple syrup (optional), to taste
- 3 ounces Champagne or sparkling wine
- Ice
Instructions
- Fill a Champagne flute or comparably sized glass less than halfway with crushed ice (optional).
- Fill a small cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the gin and the blood orange and lemon juice. Shake well. Taste and add agave nectar or simple syrup if necessary, to taste.
- Strain the gin mixture into the glass. Top with Champagne. Garnish with a blood orange twist (you’ll see in the pictures that I played around with garnishes but the twist is more traditional).
Notes
Adapted from Imbibe Magazine’s French 75 Recipe.
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Recipe from Cookie and Kate: https://cookieandkate.com/blood-orange-french-75/
