Hi guys Jamie Oliver here, the gang from PG Tips have set me and my team a challenge,
to see if we can use some of their brand new tea flavours in some classic dishes Here is
Becky Sheeran our lovely tea expert on Drinks Tube, to show you how to do a twist on an
absolute classic cocktail, using Earl Grey - delicious! Now if you love tea just as much
as I do, this is the cocktail for you. I'm going to show you how to make a fantastic
Earl Grey Martini. It's got an amazing combination of flavours, you've got the fantastic tea,
the botanicals in the gin, some lemon, some honey, they all work together so well. So
let's get started. So first of all my favourite part, making the tea. Now we need to make
sure this is really strong, we're going to be using a small amount of tea. So get two
tea bags, pop them in a glass and we're going to cover that with water just off the boil.
Around about 100ml, and this is going to make it really nice and strong, you need to leave
that for 4-6 minutes to really infuse. Take the tea bags out and then leave it to cool.
So there it is all ready and I've chilled the tea down by putting some ice water around
it. I've not put the ice in it otherwise that's going to dilute it. And talking about chilling
we need to get this martini class chilled. So I'm going to fill it up with some ice.
Ok so now we can get on with making the cocktail, so I'm going to be using a shaker but if you
don't have a shaker at home you can use a jam jar. Basically anything with a sealable
lid, so it's not going to go anywhere. So first of all we're going to add 30ml of the
chilled Earl Grey tea, now this smells fantastic. This is going to be amazing in this cocktail.
Next you're going to need 15ml of freshly squeezed lemon juice. Give the lemon a bit
of a roll to release all the juices. Always do this with your citrus fruits. You're going
to cut this in half. You're going to cut this in half. Then squeeze all the lemon juice
out, it smells amazing. This tangy lemon is really going to compliment the bergamot in
the Earl Grey Tea so 15ml and pour that in. And don't worry if there are any bits in it
because we're going to be straining the cocktail anyway.To balance out the acidity of the lemon
and the slight bitterness from the tea, we're going to sweeten things up a bit with some
honey, now I'm only going to use one teaspoon of this, we don't want it to be too sweet,
and also we don't want overpower the flavour with honey. And then you can add 50 millilitres
of gin now the botanicals in the gin such as juniper are gonna compliment the tea really
really well this is going to be great top tip add the gin last it's the most expensive
thing so if you make a mistake with the rest its not such a big issue so that's all the
ingredients in I'm just gonna give it a little bit of a stir to mix in all of that honey
make sure it's all nice and mixed together and then we're gonna fill it up with ice and
then you're gonna get your Boston tin put it on the top at a slight angle and give it
a whack to make sure it's on nice and tight we're shaking this to give it a little bit
of a dilution and to chill it if you wanna know how to shake properly click here for
the 1 minute tip so there you go you can tell it's done I've got a really nice chill around
the tin and then give it a bit whack to open and now it's time to get rid of the ice from
the glass and we're gonna double strain this cocktail so get your hawthorn strainer and
your fine strainer put the hawthorn over the cocktail and pour that in this fine strainer
is gonna get rid of any little bits of ice that we don't want I'm gonna garnish that
with a lemon twist if you wanna know how to make this then click here for another 1 minute
tip pop that in and they you have it the earl grey martini I'm gonna try it I am so excited
this is my first ever tea cocktail that makes me very very happy the lemony citrus it just compliments
the bergamot so well which is also in the citrus fruits it just smells so fresh this
is amazing so there you have it guys try this at home, if you're a huge tea fan like me
this is the cocktail for you if you want to see another martini recipe then check out
Danielle's James Bond vesper martini shaken not stirred just click here and of course
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