Triple C (Celery Cucumber Cilantro) Collins

By SippitySup

It's almost like a salad in a glass!

Ingredients

• Celery salt as needed for rimming the glass
• 1 pinch kosher salt
• 1-inch fresh English cucumber, roughly chopped, about 1/4 cup
• 1 small light colored interior celery stalk with leaves, roughly chopped, about 1/4 cup
• 1/4 cup loosely packed cilantro
• 3 pony shots / 90 ml / 3 fl oz Cucumber infused vodka (see page ??)
• 1 pony shot / 30 ml / 1 fl oz lemon juice
• 3 or 4 dashes fees celery bitters
• 2 ounces club soda, or as needed
• 1 light colored interior celery stalk with leaves, as garnish (optional)
• 1 spear English cucumber, as garnish (optional)
• 1 lemon wedge, as garnish (optional)

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 5mins
Cooking time 5mins

Preparation

Step 1

Use the lemon wedge to lightly moisten the rim of a 10 to 14 ounce Collins glass. Pour some of the celery salt into a small saucer, spreading it out in a thin but consistent layer. Dip the rim into the celery salt, cookie cutter style, twisting it back and forth the get a nice evenly coated rim. Set aside.

In a sturdy, thick-bottomed pint glass, use a wooden bar muddler to crush salt, cucumber, celery and cilantro until a fragrant, pulpy mush is achieved. Add the vodka, lemon juice and bitters to the mixture; swirl to combine.

Place 6 or 8 medium ice cubes to a cocktail shaker. Pour the muddled vodka mixture with all its pulp over the ice cubes then cap the shaker with the glass. Shake vigorously, about 10 seconds.

Using a Hawthorn bar strainer strain the mixture from the shaker back into the mixing glass, then restrain by pouring the mixture through a wire-mesh strainer into the prepared glass. Top with club soda. Garnish with celery stalk, cucumber spear and/or a lemon wedge.