Friday Night Cocktail: Minty

Jamie Oliver has a very simple recipe that involves making a mint sugar by pounding mint and sugar together in a pestle and mortar, which captures the lovely vibrancy of the mint both in colour and flavour. Jamie uses his on something called Pukka Pineapple, I'm using it to create a super minty variation of a mojito eliminating the need for the usual mint shrubbery in your glass.

YOU WILL NEED

(enough for Merv too)

• 4 shots Angostura 1919 Rum
• 2 shots freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 egg white
• 4 sprigs mint, stems removed and discarded
• 4 heaped teaspoons golden caster sugar

AND TO MAKE

Reserve two mint tips for garnish, then add the remaining mint leaves and sugar to your pestle and mortar. Bash-up your mint Jamie-style, until the leaves are ground up and you're left with a vibrant green fragrant sugar.

Add the mint sugar and the remaining ingredients to your cocktail shaker and dry shake to emulsify the egg white. Add plenty of ice and shake again until foamy,

TO SERVE

Pour into two coupe glasses and garnish each with a mint tip.

Merv says it tastes like minty sherbet. Jamie would say it tastes pukka, I'm sure...

Love Myrtle xxx