Chartreuse Smash

Name: Chartreuse Smash
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes ONE DRINK
Ingredients: 10 mint leaves; 1 oz. lemon juice, from about 1/2 lemon; 2 tsp. turbinado sugar; 2 oz. green Chartreuse; 1 sprig of mint, for garnish

Serves
makes ONE DRINK

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Developed by Adam Rothstein, beverage director for New York's Bobo restaurant, this sweet (but not too sweet) cocktail is a terrific vehicle for Chartreuse; when we tested it, it converted even the most adamant opponents to the herbal, bright-green liqueur.

Ingredients

10 mint leaves
1 oz. lemon juice, from about 1/2 lemon
2 tsp. turbinado sugar
2 oz. green Chartreuse
1 sprig of mint, for garnish

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Instructions

Step 1

Place mint, lemon and sugar in a cocktail shaker and muddle. Add chartreuse and fill with ice. Shake thoroughly, and strain into a glass filled with crushed ice. Garnish with mint sprig.