Best Tickled Pink Gimlet Recipes

POMEGRANATE GIMLETS

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Provided by Food Network

Time 10m

Yield 6 to 8 cocktails

Number Of Ingredients 6

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups gin, such as Tanqueray
1 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (6 to 8 limes)
1 cup pomegranate juice, such as Pom Wonderful
1/2 cup simple syrup (see Cook's Note)
Pomegranate seeds, for garnish
6 to 8 thin, whole, round slices of lime, for garnish

Steps:

At least 1 hour before serving, freeze 6 to 8 martini glasses.
Combine the gin, lime juice, pomegranate juice, and simple syrup in a large pitcher. Fill a cocktail shaker half full of ice, pour in the gimlet mixture until the shaker is 3/4 full and shake for 15 seconds. Pour into the frozen glasses and garnish each glass with a teaspoon of pomegranate seeds and a slice of lime.

TICKLED PUNCH

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Provided by Trisha Yearwood

Categories beverage

Time 20m

Yield 8 to 10 servings

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1 packet powdered fruit punch mix, such as Kool-Aid Hawaiian Fruit Punch
2 bottles white wine
Lemon-lime soda, for serving

Steps:

Combine the sugar, 1 cup water and the packet of fruit punch mix in a medium saucepot and bring to a boil, stirring until the sugar and powdered drink mix dissolve. Remove from the heat and cool.
Add the white wine to a large pitcher and stir in the fruit punch simple syrup. Refrigerate until ready to serve and top with lemon-lime soda.

GRAPEFRUIT GIMLET

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Provided by Food Network

Number Of Ingredients 3

Ingredients

2 ounces grapefruit-infused vodka
1 ounce lime juice
3/4 ounce agave nectar

Steps:

Pour all ingredients into a mixer. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with grapefruit peel.

GREEN GIMLET

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Tart greens-based juice stands in for lime juice in this twist on a gimlet. Because nothing says "healthy" "ish" like adding alcohol and sugar syrup to green juice.

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories beverage

Time 30m

Yield 1 drink

Number Of Ingredients 10

Ingredients

3 ounces Super Green Juice, recipe follows
2 ounces gin
1/2 ounce Simple Syrup, recipe follows
Cucumber slice, for garnish
1 to 2 large, juicy lemons, peel and pith removed
1 medium Granny Smith apple, peeled and cored
2 romaine leaves
1/2 large cucumber
1 cup loosely packed hearty greens, such as spinach or kale
1 cup granulated sugar

Steps:

Combine the Super Green Juice, gin and Simple Syrup in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for 8 to 10 seconds. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a cucumber slice.
Juice, in this order, the lemons, apple, romaine, cucumber and greens, following your juicer's specific settings for each. Serve the juice immediately over ice, if desired.
Bring the sugar and 1 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan. When the sugar is completely dissolved, remove the saucepan from the heat and cool the syrup to room temperature. Refrigerate, covered, for up to 1 month.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 201 calorie, Fat 0 grams, SaturatedFat 0 grams, Cholesterol 0 milligrams, Sodium 11 milligrams, Carbohydrate 19 grams, Fiber 3 grams, Protein 1 grams, Sugar 14 grams

BASIL GIMLET

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Provided by Food Network

Categories beverage

Time 5m

Yield 1 serving

Number Of Ingredients 4

Ingredients

7 organic basil leaves
1/2 ounce simple syrup
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
1 1/2 ounces gin, such as 209 Gin

Steps:

Place 6 of the basil leaves in the palm of your hand and clap. Place the leaves in the base of a cocktail shaker and add the simple syrup and lime juice. Pummel the basil leaves with a muddler to release the oils. Add the gin to the shaker along with ice. Put the top on the cocktail shaker and shake. Using a strainer, pour the mixture into a glass.
Place the remaining basil leaf in your hand and clap. Garnish the cocktail with the basil leaf and serve.