Be kind to your waistline with Dirty Martini’s Skinny Cocktails
After the revelry and excesses of the festive season, the New Year is often a time of calorie counting resolutions that mean we must forsake the finer things in life to keep our figures. No longer! The dedicated mixologists at Dirty Martini have come up with a range of Skinny Cocktails that skimp on the calories but not on the flavour. Delicious and refreshing recipes like the Watermelon Martini and the Passion Fruit Mojito taste even better now that we know they are guilt free!
Skinny Passion Fruit Mojito
6 mint leaves– (0 kcal)
1 passion fruit – (17 kcal)
4 limes– (7 kcal)
10 ml agave syrup (8 kcal)
25ml Havana Especial Rum – (75 kcal)
Total – (107 kcal)
Muddle the fresh passion fruit in a chilled glass with the pieces of lime; add the agave syrup, mint leaves and Havana 3 Year Old Rum.
Top with crushed ice and churn to infuse the flavours.
Add more crushed ice then garnish with a mint sprig and passion fruit wheel.
Skinny Watermelon Martini
25ml Absolute Vodka – (75 kcal)
3 pieces of fresh watermelon – (38 kcal)
10ml agave sugar syrup – (8 kcal)
10ml fresh lemon juice (3 kcal)
Total – (124 kcal)
Muddle the fresh watermelon and add the vodka, sugar syrup and fresh lemon Juice.
Shake contents together and double strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with a watermelon slice, and enjoy.
Skinny Blackberry and Tarragon Martini
2 fresh blackberries (0kcal)
8 leaves of tarragon (2kcal)
25ml Plymouth Gin (75kcal)
25ml fresh apple juice (15kcal)
20ml honey water (18kcal)
Total – (110kcal)
Muddle the blackberries, add the tarragon leaves, Plymouth Gin, apple juice and honey water
Shake contents together and double strain into a chilled martini glass. Delicious!
Skinny Lemongrass, Lychee and Honey Collins
fresh lemon grass (0kcal)
5 mint leaves (0kcal)
25ml Plymouth Gin (75kcal)
5ml Lychee Liqueur (12kcal)
20ml honey water (18kcal)
soda water (0kcal)
Total – (105kcl)
Muddle the lemon grass in the base of a cocktail shaker, then add the mint leaves, Plymouth Gin, Lychee Liqueur and honey water.
Shake contents well and double strain over ice.
Top up with soda and garnish with a lemon grass tube and a sprig of fresh mint.
Skinny Passion Paloma
1 fresh passion fruit (10kcal)
25ml tequila (75kcal)
10ml sugar syrup (8kcal)
25ml grapefruit juice (20kcal)
soda water (0kcal)
Total – (113kcl)
Muddle the passion fruit; add the tequila, sugar syrup and grapefruit juice
Stir contents together then top with cubed ice and soda water.
Garnish with a passion fruit slice, and enjoy.
