Channel your inner mixologist with infused vodka and homemade sour mix, then shake them together for a sweet-tart sipper you can call your own.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cups chopped fresh pineapple: 1 piece
- (750-ml) bottle vodka: 1 piece
- basil leaves: 0.5 cup (for garnish, fresh)
- sugar: 1 cup
- water: 1 cup
- freshly-squeezed lime juice (about limes): 1 cup
- freshly-squeezed lemon juice (about 6 lemons): 1 cup
- ice as needed:
- club soda as needed: (optional)
- pineapple weges and fronds: (for garnish, fresh)
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Stages of cooking
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For pineapple-basil vodka, put pineapple in a 1-quart jar. Top with vodka, cover, and let stand until vodka is infused with pineapple flavor, 1 to 3 days. Add basil, cover, and infuse for 1 to 2 hours; strain. Meanwhile for the DIY sour mix, combine sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; let cool. Add lime juice and lemon juice. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour and up to 1 week.
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In a pitcher, stir together pineapple-basil vodka and DIY sour mix. Serve in rocks glasses over ice. Top with club soda (if using); garnish with pineapple wedges, fronds, and additional basil. Cook's Note: Consider this the only vodka sour recipe you’ll ever need. For a single cocktail, shake together 1 ½ ounce pineapple-basil vodka and 1 ½ ounce DIY sour mix in a shaker, then strain and serve over ice. More Infused Flavors: For bumbleberry vodka, put 1 1/2 cups mixed blackberries, raspberries, and lightly smashed blueberries in a 1-quart jar. Top with 1 (750-ml bottle) vodka; let stand, covered, 1 to 3 days to infuse. Add half of a split vanilla bean and let stand, covered, 1 to 2 hours; strain.For cucumber-mint vodka, put 1 1/2 cups chopped fresh English cucumber in a 1-quart jar. Top with 1 (750-ml bottle) vodka; let stand, covered, 1 to 3 days to infuse. Add 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves and let stand, covered, 1 to 2 hours; strain.For peach-thyme vodka, put 1 1/2 cups chopped fresh peaches in a 1-quart jar. Top with 1 (750-ml bottle) vodka; let stand, covered, 1 to 3 days to infuse. Add 2 to 4 sprigs fresh thyme and let stand, covered, 1 to 2 hours; strain., put 11/2 cups chopped fresh peaches in a 1-qt. jar. Top with 1 (750-ml bottle) vodka; let stand, covered, 1 to 3 days to infuse. Add 2 to 4 sprigs fresh thyme and let stand, covered, 1 to 2 hours; strain.
