Everything you love about a refreshing gin and tonic can also be added to your favourite recipes. The fresh, piney flavours of juniper cut through any dish to add spark. Not to mention any other botanicals your fave tipple is infused with (maybe ants?).
Start with these recipes, but don't hesitate to use gin in any recipe that calls for wine or other spirits. After all, a splash or two of gin helps most things along, don't you think?
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Gin is used to flambé caramelised king prawns before dousing them in melted prawn butter. The bitter notes of the gin perfectly complement the other buttery, briny bold flavours.
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Curing turnips and swede in a salt and spice mixture creates a few small miracles. It extracts the water, which changes both the texture and the flavour, and it creates an extraordinary canvas of sour, sweet, acidity and spice.
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Fish is cured in alcohol across many cultures, with versions of gravlax and ceviche being two of them. This recipe gives trout the gin-soaked treatment and the result is the easiest dinner party entrée you'll probably ever make.
Gin pairs so beautifully with oysters that after tasting this dish you'll be loathed to enjoy them any other way. There simply couldn't be a more wonderful way to pass an evening than sharing this with friends.
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It's not just oysters that revel in the gin treatment - any shellfish tastes divine in gin. This Spanish lobster hotpot showcases how the juniper notes of gin float above other flavours to add intriguing interest to the dish.
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Surprise your mates with a g&t in popcorn form. It tastes remarkably like the cocktail favourite, only with added caramel and crunch.
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What goes perfectly with gin? Lemon and lime, of course. And cake! Mix it all together and you have a certain kind of sublime.
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Raisins are often soaked in rum for a fruitcake, but the Dutch know that gin works just as well. The result is a lighter-tasting fruitcake with plenty of punch.
If there ever was a cake that epitomised the flavours of England this would be it! The combination of elderflower, strawberries and gin not only makes this chic sponge cake uniquely special but also incredibly lust-worthy.
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