In the novel The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 in New York and repeatedly brought to the screens, the Mint Julep cocktail is drunk a lot: "Stop the whiskey, Tom, I'll make you a Mint Julep," says Daisy to her husband . Mint eye!
Ingredients
- 6 cl Catskill Most Righteous Bourbon whiskey
- 1 tbsp sugar
- mint leaves
- ice
To prepare Mint Julep Cocktail, collect 6-7 mint leaves, sugar and 1 tablespoon of water in a tall glass to dissolve it; stir, then add the whiskey and fill with crumbled ice. Stir again with a long spoon and decorate with mint leaves.
Serve with Rockefeller oysters
To prepare them do this: brown in a pan with a knob of butter 1 small onion and a sprig of chopped parsley. Add 125 g of spinach, cook for about ten minutes on the flame at minimum, stirring gently. Season with a splash of aniseed liqueur, 1/2 lemon juice, salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of grated pecorino romano. Continue cooking so that the liquid part evaporates. Open the oysters, remove a valve and fill the mollusk with the prepared mixture. Place the oysters on a lined paper tray and bake at 200 ° C for about 20 minutes.
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