Cholo Fresco

Name: Cholo Fresco
Yield: Makes 1 drink
Ingredients: 10 mint leaves (plus 1 mint sprig for garnish); 2 teaspoons sugar; ½ ounce fresh lime juice; Ice; 2 ounces pisco; ½ ounce melon liqueur; 1 ounce Fresh Cucumber Juice; 1 cucumber blossom (for garnish; optional)

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Hans Hilburg • El Pisquerito; Cuzco, PeruAt this pisco-themed bar, Hilburg uses local slang to name his cocktails. Cholo fresco means "somebody who is fresh in every sense," he says. "Light, saucy, naughty, audacious . . . And what's fresher than cucumber, melon, mint and lime?"

By Hans Hilburg

March 2010

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Yield:

Makes 1 drink

Ingredients

10 mint leaves (plus 1 mint sprig for garnish)
2 teaspoons sugar
½ ounce fresh lime juice
Ice
2 ounces pisco
½ ounce melon liqueur
1 ounce Fresh Cucumber Juice
1 cucumber blossom (for garnish; optional)

Directions

Step 1

In a pint glass, muddle the mint leaves with the sugar and lime juice. Strain into an ice-filled cocktail shaker. Add the pisco, liqueur and cucumber juice; shake well. Strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with the cucumber blossom and mint sprig.

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