Why we love this Saturn cocktail
This tiki cocktail boasts a unique and complex flavor that balances sweet, sour, and herbaceous notes found in its ingredients.
Unlike most tiki drinks, this cocktail is made with gin instead of rum. So it’s naturally a favorite of mine.
The tropical elements in this cocktail, like passion fruit syrup and velvet falernum, give this drink its distinctive island vibe.
More tiki cocktails you’ll love: Chartreuse swizzle / painkiller cocktail / jungle bird cocktail / Polynesian pearl diver
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Ingredients & Substitutions
- Gin
- Lemon juice
- Passion fruit syrup – Passion fruit simple syrup is a sweet and tangy syrup made with passion fruit pureé and sugar, commonly used for tiki cocktails.
- Orgeat syrup – Orgeat syrup is rich simple syrup that’s made from almonds, sugar, and rose and orange blossom water. Follow this easy shortcut recipe for homemade orgeat syrup, or you can use store bought.
- Velvet falernum – Velvet Falernum is a sweet, spiced liqueur used in a variety of tiki and tropical cocktails.
Making changes to a recipe can result in recipe failure. Any substitutions listed below are simple changes that I believe will work in this recipe, but results are not guaranteed.
How to make a Saturn cocktail.
Crush some ice. This cocktail is usually served over crushed ice – or ever flash blended – so you’ll want to make sure you have crushed ice ready to go before mixing.
Shake your cocktail. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add cocktail ingredients. Cover and vigorously shake the drink until it’s nice and cold.
Serve over ice. Strain and serve your cocktail over crushed ice. Wrap a cocktail cherry with a lime peel to mimic Saturns rings and thread it onto a cocktail pick for garnish.
More gin cocktails you should try: Ramos gin fizz / Clover club cocktail / Floradora cocktail / Eastside cocktail
Saturn Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 ½ ounces gin
- ¾ ounce lemon juice
- ½ ounce passion fruit syrup
- ¼ ounce orgeat syrup
- ¼ ounce velvet falernum
Instructions
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Add ingredients to the cocktail shaker.
- Shake vigorously until contents are well chilled.
- Strain and serve over ice.
- Garnish with a lime wheel and serve.
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