Cocktail Hour: Lychee Martini

I've been searching for a decent lychee martini recipe for a while. It's not that the ones I've found aren't very good, but it's more that they're have lychee liqueur in them, and that's not the easiest thing to find. And unless you're really a fan of them, you'll find yourself with a bottle of booze that you have no idea what to do with. And then you'll put it in one of those "what happens if I mix these spirits together?" cocktails. And the less said about those the better.

So this cocktail just has lychee juice in it instead, which works just fine and is much cheaper. Use the best quality vodka you can find and it'll taste yummy.

You'll need these things:

• 50ml Vodka
• 25ml lychee juice (you can use the juice from a can of lychees)
• 1 lychee for garnish
• Ice

Make it!

Shake everything with ice in a cocktail shaker. Then strain and pour into a martini glass. Pop a lychee on top of the drink to look pretty. The sit back, drink all your vodka and eat all of the lychees. The vodka should last as long as the can of lychees does. I think that's called fate.

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