Here’s Salted Melon Sake cocktail recipe, our second selection after Yamazaki Mizuwari from Tokyo Bar: 65 Recipes for Japanese-Style Cocktails & Izakaya Snacks, published by Ryland Peters & Small (Photography by Alex Luck © Ryland Peters & Small).
Salted Melon Sake Recipe by Leigh Clarke
Salt is a wonderful flavor enhancer and used sparingly it can really help to elevate sweetness in drinks. Here, it acts as a boost for the saline undertones in the honeydew melon and adds an extra dimension to this frozen drink.
Ingredients:
1/4 honeydew melon, peeled and chopped, seeds removed
70 ml/2 1⁄3 fl oz. sake
15 ml/1⁄2 fl oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
Pinch of smoked or regular salt
20 ml/2⁄3 fl oz. Melon Cordial*
Melon fan, to garnish
Directions:
Add all the drink ingredients to a blender with 6 cubes of ice. Blend until smooth and pour into a wine glass. Garnish with a melon fan.
*Melon Cordial:
500 g/1 lb. 2 oz. melon (such as galia melon or watermelon), skin kept on, 50% caster/granulated sugar by weight, 2% citric acid by weight
Remove the seeds from the melon flesh and pass through a juicer. Strain the juice and then weigh it, then measure out 50% of that weight in sugar and 2% in citric acid. Add to the juice and stir in until dissolved. Bottle and store the cordial in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Sweet and Salty for Tokyo Thursdays #335
( Excerpted from Tokyo Bar: 65 Recipes for Japanese-Style Cocktails & Izakaya Snacks, published by Ryland Peters & Small, March 2025 (Photography by Alex Luck © Ryland Peters & Small)
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