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Sidecar

Difficulty Beginner
Time
Prep Time: 5 min Cook Time: 5 min Rest Time: 6 min Total Time: 16 mins
Estimated Cost 3
Best Season Summer
Description

Sidecar cocktail is the most famous and most worthy cognac-based cocktail. This cocktail belongs to the group of sours.

Harry Regan classifies this cocktail as a New Orleans Sours.

Sidecar Cocktail is a classic subtle combination of French cognac, Cointreau orange liqueur and freshly squeezed lemon juice, shaken with plenty of ice, in a sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.

Instructions
  1. Cocktail recipe Sidecar:
    Make a sugar rim on a cocktail glass
    Pour 20 ml of lemon juice, 15 ml of still water and 5 ml of sugar syrup into a shaker
    Add 30 ml triple sec liqueur and 45 ml cognac
    Fill shaker with ice cubes and shake
    Pour through a strainer into a chilled cocktail glass