I think I mentioned before I am totally into sours. And so the love affair continues. I’ve blogged about a Tequila Sour and an Apricot Lady Sour. This week: a Vodka Sour.
The bitters make this drink.
I received a bottle of Luksusowa gluten-free potato vodka in the mail recently, which promted me to give this clear spirit another go. Truthfully, I’d been a bit vodka’d out, what with all the flavoured vodka martinis that were hugely popular when I first started writing about cocktails in 2010. But the Luksusowa, though rather flavourless as most vodkas are, is smooth. And it mixes gloriously with the other ingedients in this drink.
This Vodka Sour is all smooth lemony goodness. It would be nice with just the first three ingredients, but the bitters give it an edge and the egg white makes a smooth vodka even smoother.
Vodka Sour
2 oz Luksusowa vodka
1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup*
3 dashes Angostura bitters
1/2 fresh egg white
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
*Make simple syrup by combining equal parts sugar and water and heating in a saucepan until the sugar is dissolved. Cool and refrigerate.
— Recipe adapted from Cocktails Made Easy by Simon Difford
