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Basil Mezcal Sour Cocktail Recipe

This refreshing vodka sour recipe uses fresh basil, lime juice, mezcal, blanco tequila, and egg white for an unexpected cocktail.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Basil Mezcal Sour Cocktail Recipe

Why it works: Basil and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 505 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Basil Mezcal Sour Cocktail Recipe

1 drink
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

145Calories
7 gProtein
5 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Celery Seed1 stalk (40g)6
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Leafnot in our table0
Vodkanot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Basil + limetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together505 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Basil + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Lime + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  4. Lime + vodkatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sugar + vodkatop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together327 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (basil, lime, sugar, vodka, egg):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Peppermintfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against basil, lime, sugar, vodka, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.