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Ginger Kiss Cocktail

This spicy gin-based cocktail stars fresh ginger root and hot chile pepper!

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and gin work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and 44 recipes mention both. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

The recipe

1 cocktail
Prep5 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the very thin habanero sliver and the 2 ginger slices in a cocktail shaker and gently muddle them for about 20 seconds to release their oils without pulverizing the ginger.

  2. Add the gin, lime juice and simple syrup to the shaker.

  3. Fill the shaker with the ice cubes, seal it and shake hard for about 15 seconds until the outside is very cold.

  4. Strain the drink into a chilled rocks or coupe glass, discarding the ice from the shaker.

  5. Garnish the rim or surface of the drink with the thin ginger slice and serve right away.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Pepper + gintop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Pepper + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Ginger + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,621 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,799 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Gin + syruptop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, ginger, gin, syrup):

  1. Limethe original
  2. Lemonabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, ginger, gin, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).