A riff on the Salty Dog , the Salty Sanguinello is a three ingredient cocktail and a refreshing sundowner with a garden-grown botanical.
Salty Sanguinello – Photo © Cocktails & Bars
The Salty Dog is a simple and refreshing drink. The three-ingredient cocktail consists of gin, freshly squeezed grapefruit juice and a salt rim. The Salty Sanguinello variation keeps the gin as the base spirit and substitutes blood orange (aka sanguinello) for grapefruit and rims the glass with nasturtium salt.
Blood oranges look like a regular orange with a reddish blush on the skin. The flesh is dark red in colour and they taste subtly sweet with a floral note and a hint of tartness.
Nasturtium salt is made by dehydrating nasturtium leaves which have a peppery note and grinding them in sea salt flakes. The result is a salt and pepper flavour that can be used to flavour food and drink. You can find the full recipe for nasturtium salt here.
The Salty Sanguinello is easy to mix and is ideal for sipping during those warm afternoons in the sun when blood oranges are in season. The ratio of spirit to juice can be varied depending on preference but we found the 60:90 ratio to deliver a good balance.
Salty Sanguinello
Original recipe created by Cocktails & Bars
Ingredients
- 60ml gin
- 90ml blood orange juice, freshly squeezed
Glassware: Collins glass
Garnish: nasturtium salt rim
Method
Sprinkle the nasturtium salt on a small plate. Moisten the rim of the glass and dip into the salt.
In a cocktail shaker, add the gin and blood orange juice over ice and shake until well chilled then double strain into the nasturtium salt rimmed glass filled with ice cubes.
