You can make a good cocktail, sometimes a great one, but this one is perfect. I positively guarantee you perfection.
I like raspberries. I don’t like seeds. Raspberries in muffins or jam? Fine. Raspberries in a beverage? Uh, tough. Takes a little work. Just little.
I got this recipe from myrecipes.com via Cooking Light magazine and David Bonom. Way back in 2008, David figured out that an excellent raspberry daquiri is a two-step process. One round in the blender to liquify, then you strain out the seeds, and then a second round in the blender to finish it off.
The recipe below calls for a combination of lemon and lime juice. I went all lemon, simply using the juice of 1 lemon in the first step and the juice of 2 lemons in the second step.
Do I hate limes? No, I don’t but I prefer lemon juice. And here, I did not want the definitive tartness of limes to conflict with the raspberry flavor. And that raspberry flavor is there in every step. This is a wonderful drink, one I will be making over and over.
Addictive.
Perfect Frozen Raspberry Daiquiri
Yield: 4 cocktails
Ingredients:
1 six-ounce container of raspberries, washed and dried
¾ cup simple syrup
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
3 cups of crushed ice [I used just 2 cups of cubes, letting my Vitamix blender do the crushing]
½ cup white rum
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Preparation:
Combine first 3 ingredients in a blender, and process until smooth. Strain mixture through a sieve into a bowl, and discard solids. Combine raspberry mixture, 3 cups crushed ice, rum, and lime juice in blender, and process until smooth.
Source: myrecipes.com
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