Liven up cocktail hour with this easy tropical passionfruit and lime gin martini recipe.
At the beginning of the month, my 6-year old son came home with an art project from his first grade class. On one side of a paper plate, he had glued yellow and brown curly pieces of construction paper, with a smiling lion's face drawn in the middle. A fuzzy cotton ball lamb stared out shyly (or perhaps that would be "sheep"ishly) from the other side of the plate. He handed the two-headed project to me and announced, "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Did you know that, Mum?"
At the time, March was certainly roaring like a lion, snow drifting in day after day. I was feeling relatively bitter towards Punxsatawney Phil by that point (that is the last time I trust a groundhog), and was eager to believe my son's pronouncement. If we could put our heads down and power through another week or two of snow, we would be rewarded with spring flowers, blue skies and the warmth of the sun. Well, the flowers made an appearance, but today their delicate petals were pummeled by the wind and covered in cold, white flakes.
At that point, I had two choices. I could either sink further into my pit of bitterness or I could pretend that I had an influence on the changing of the seasons. For my sanity, I went with the latter approach. Out came the cocktail shaker and in went ingredients that make me think of warm weather. Passionfruit and lime juices were vigorously shaken with gin (the choice of any self-respecting Englishman living in a tropical climate) to make a slightly sweet, refreshing martini. The only thing that was missing was the paper umbrella. Out like a lamb, indeed.
The recipe:
Pour passionfruit juice, gin and lime juice into a cocktail shaker filled partway with ice.
Shake well and strain into two martini glasses.
Garnish each glass with a slice of lime. Serve.
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Passionfruit & Lime Gin Martini Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 ounces passionfruit juice
- 2 ounces gin
- 1 ounce fresh lime juice
- ice
Instructions
- Pour passionfruit juice, gin and lime juice into a cocktail shaker filled partway with ice.
- Shake well and strain into two martini glasses.
- Garnish each glass with a slice of lime. Serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Patrick
If the cocktail is coming out too sour, add some simple syrup or powdered sugar to taste.
Patrick
Nice drink! Why should rum have all the fun? TBH just Goya passion fruit cocktail + Beefeater is damned good. You could shake up the passion fruit juice with the gin and fresh lime juice in shaker, strain it over ice in a Collins glass, and top with soda, too...maybe stick a sprig of mint or basil in it just to wake people up har har
Melinda
I made your cocktail tonight, and it may have been that my limes were too sour in the first place, but the cocktail was much too sour. Moreover, there was so much lime that it overwhelmed the passionfruit juice and gin.
I would cut the lime juice recommendation in half, or alternatively add a bit of grenadine or simple syrup to compensate. Everyone likes a punch, but the lime in mine was a wallop. But, thank you for the idea, I love passionfruit juice.
daniela
I love passion fruit juice, actually anything passion fruit, and alcohol plus passion fruit equals perfection. My husband is going to be out of town this weekend and I'm having a girl's night on Saturday, this will be one of the cocktails to make! Simple and delicious 🙂