Gin Basil Pop

COOK TIME
20 mins

TOTAL TIME
20 mins

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Peel fresh ginger and chop finely. Halve limes and squeeze the juice. Finely puree the ginger and lime juice with a hand blender. Then pass through a fine sieve and collect the liquid in a bowl.

2. 2

   Clean, peel and coarsely dice the cucumbers, place them in a bowl and also finely puree them with a hand blender until a liquid mass is formed. Stir in the ginger-lime mixture.

3. 3

   Wash basil, shake dry, pluck off leaves and puree finely with a hand blender together with 3-4 tbsp. cucumber-ginger liquid. Stir basil into the cucumber mixture. Stir in gin.

4. 4

   Pour the gin-basil mixture into approx. 16 small moulds (each approx. 10 x 5 cm). Let the popsicles freeze for about 1 hour. Then press one wooden stick in half and place in the freezer for another 19 hours.

5. 5

   In the meantime, you can give gin to your life! The next day, dip the ice cream cups in a hot water bath for 5-10 seconds, drain them on a tea towel and carefully pull the ice cream out of the cups.

6. 6

   Prost, Freunde!