Blood Orange Bourbon Sour Cocktail Recipe
Take your Bourbon Sour up a notch with the addition of Blood Orange Juice. Take full advantage of Blood Orange season with this lip smacking, tangy and colourful cocktail. The blood oranges give a deep, vibrant orange/red hue and delicious sour notes. If you can’t get your hands on any blood oranges for this, regular oranges will work just as well, just make sure to add in some lemon juice instead of orange juice in the final cocktail to help keep the drink on the sour side.
So how do I make this Blood Orange Bourbon Sour from scratch?
To start off, you need to make Blood Orange Syrup. This is simply made, combining fresh blood orange juice with sugar. The syrup is heated until all the sugar has dissolved and then cooled. You can make big batches of this and leave a bottle of it in the fridge for whenever you fancy!
Once you have the syrup cooled, simply shake with bourbon, Cointreau, more fresh blood orange juice, fresh egg white and pour into your preferred glass filled with ice.
To create a sugar rim for the glass, take a wedge of citrus (lemon, lime, orange) and press into the top of the glass rim the whole way around the edge. Dip the wet glass rim into caster sugar until fully coated.
What Bourbon or Whiskey should I use for this?
Use your favourite bourbon! Irish whiskey would also work really well in this. A few of my favourite picks are;
-Wild Turkey 101 American Bourbon
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Blood Orange Bourbon Sour Cocktail
Equipment
- 1 Small saucepan for blood orange syrup
- 1 Small sieve
- 1 short glass
- 1 Cocktail shaker or something to mix the drinks in
Ingredients
Blood Orange Syrup, makes enough for 10
- 200 ml blood orange juice
- 200 grams sugar
Blood Orange Bourbon Whiskey Sour
- 45 ml Bourbon 1 full jigger
- 30 ml Cointreau 1 small jigger
- 45 ml blood orange sugar syrup 1 full jigger
- 135 ml blood orange juice 3 full jiggers
- 10 ml fresh egg white 1/3 small jigger
- Ice
- 1 lime or lemon wedge for sugar rim
- granulated sugar
Instructions
Blood Orange Syrup
- To make the syrup, combine the blood orange juice and sugar in a small saucepan.
- Heat on medium for 3-4 minutes until all the sugar has dissolved. Allow to cool before using.
Cocktail
- Combine all ingredients in a shaker or jug along with ice and shake/mix vigorously for at least 20 seconds.
- Using a wedge of either lemon, lime or orange, coat the rim of each glass with juice and dip into caster sugar to make a sugar rim.
- Add ice to the glasses and strain the whiskey sour over. Serve immediately.
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