Frank and Ava in Havana (a passion fruit cocktail)
Am a little addicted to my passion fruit jam and I love the sharpness of the flavours when cut with alcohol, so I came up with this little new number. I named it after Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner who spent time at the Hotel Nacional in Havana at the height of the glamorous 50’s (and were the topic of a notorious affair at the time):
- 25ml rum (I like 5 year old Ron Varadero)
- 15ml cashaca (Sagatiba or other)
- 15ml Cointreau
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 2 tsp. passion fruit jam
Shake all the above over ice in a cocktail shaker quite vigorously, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass (I prefer to let most of the seeds slip through and settled at the bottom of the glass) and garnish with a half passion fruit.
