Green Tea Saketini: a Green Tea Cocktail
This Green Tea Saketini is a Green Tea Cocktail inspired by a vodka martini with tea-infused sake in place of dry vermouth. It’s a sophisticated, tea-flavored cocktail completely unlike the Green Tea Shot made with whiskey and peach schnapps.
So read on for tips and tricks for making a tea cocktail. Or just grab your tea bags, hit that Jump to Recipe button, and let’s make a tea saketini!
Ingredients
- Green tea is a type of tea that has only been minimally oxidized during process. This results in a lighter, less bitter flavor with grassy, vegetal notes. You can use any type of green tea in this cocktail recipe.
- Sake is a traditional Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice. I prefer a Junmai sake, one made without additional alcohol, like SakeMoto, but you can use any well-flavored sake you like.
- Vodka is the base liquor in this saketini because of its neutral flavor. If you prefer gin, I would recommend a cucumber-infused gin like Hendrick’s.
Please see the recipe card below for complete information on ingredients and quantities.
Recipe tips and tricks
This green tea saketini recipe was first developed for my 52 weeks of cocktails challenge. The saketini is a mash-up of my favorite dry martini with vodka and my Lady Bridgerton cocktail, a gin cocktail infused with Earl Grey tea.
The amount of time to infuse tea in liquor depends on the type of tea I’m using and my desired flavor intensity. Generally, you should infuse green tea a shorter time than other teas, about one to three hours, to avoid extracting too much bitterness.
Want to learn more and up your cocktail making at home? Check out the formulas for how to make classic cocktails and variations and my list of essential bar tools. Or you can formalize your cocktail education like I did with a Level 1 Certification in Spirits from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust.
Tip from the wise quacker: The general teaching is that cocktails with citrus juices should be shaken, but cocktails with only alcohols should be stirred.
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Recipe
Green Tea Saketini: a Green Tea Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 ounce (30 milliliters) sake Junmai type works well
- 1 bag green tea
- 2 ounces vodka
- 1 cucumber slice for garnish
Instructions
- Add the tea bag to the sake in a clean glass jar or a cocktail shaker and infuse for one to three hours.1 ounce (30 milliliters) sake, 1 bag green tea
- Discard the tea bag and combine the vodka and green tea-infused sake in a cocktail shaker with ice. Stir until chilled, then strain into a coupe or martini glass and garnish with the cucumber.2 ounces vodka, 1 cucumber slice
Notes
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