TEA INFUSED MARTINIS | Innovationtea

Infuse Martini with Chef Inspired tea for an all inspiring cocktail

CHEF INSPIRED TEA SUGGESTIONS

Ginger Peach Black Tea

Pomegranate Lavender Green Tea

Spiced Masala Chai Tea

Earl Grey Citrus Tea

Vanilla Rooibos Herbal Infusion

MARTINI TIME

Makes 4 cocktails

SUGAR RIM

1 tsp/5 ml Chef Inspired loose leaf tea leaves, chopped

1/2 cup/125 ml Coarse sugar

8 oz/250 ml Vodka

1 cup/250 ml Chef Inspired

Tea brewed, strained and chilled

Ice

BREW CHEF INSPIRED TEAS:

Use heaping -1 tsp/5 ml loose tea per 1 cup/250 ml boiling water

Method

Prepare the tea-sugar rim: mix together the sugar and 1 tsp/5ml ground tea.

Moisten the rim of a chilled martini glass with water, lemon

juice or simple syrup, then dip into the sugar and tea leaf mixture.

Add vodka and tea together in a cocktail shaker filled

with ice. Strain the cocktail into the prepared glass.

GARNISHES

Ginger Peach Black Tea - garnish martini with crystalized

lemon, ginger pieces or sliced peach

Pomegranate Lavender green tea - garnish with pomegranate seeds

Spiced Masala Chai Tea - add 2 tsp/10 ml finely crushed chocolate chips to the sugar and spiced masala

chai tea mixture

Earl Grey Citrus Tea - garnish martini with thin ribbons of orange zest

Maple Rooibos Herbal Infusion - moisten the rim with maple syrup, then dip into the sugar and

maple rooibos tea mixture