Beet-Infused Vodka Cocktail

Do you want to feel healthy while you’re sipping on your next cocktail? Try The Conductor cocktail!

Yield: 1 drink

Ingredients:

1½ ounces Art in the Age beet-infused vodka

1½ ounces purple carrot juice

1½ ounces pineapple juice

½ ounce lemon juice

Pickled purple carrot, for garnish

6-inch, thinly sliced cucumber strip, for garnish

Soaked basil seeds, for garnish

Directions:

In an ice-filled cocktail shaker, combine the beet-infused vodka with the juices. Roll the cocktail by pouring the contents back and forth between 2 shakers, then dump the contents into a juice glass. Garnish with the pickled purple carrot, rolled cucumber strip and a spoonful of soaked basil seeds rested on the cucumber garnish, then serve.

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For this drink, beet-infused vodka is combined with purple carrot, lemon and pineapple juices for a slightly sweet, intensely savory cocktail packing all your daily vitamins into liquid form. If you can’t track down DePompeis’s choice of pre-infused beet vodka, Art in the Age, you can easily make your own at home. Simply peel and coarsely grate a medium-sized red beet into a glass jar. Cover the grated beet with one cup of vodka and seal. Refrigerate for two days, shaking once halfway through, then strain. You’ll be left with one cup of beet vodka ready for action.

Next up: the garnish. Don’t expect to find candied bacon or a raw bar’s worth of shrimp around the rim of this glass. DePompeis’s version is finished with a pickled purple carrot, a long strip of cucumber and a spoonful of soaked basil seeds—making the cocktail healthier than any item you’ll find on a brunch menu.

“A Bloody Mary is all about the mouthfeel,” DePompeis says. Which is where the basil seeds come in. To prepare them, simply cover the seeds in water and let them soak for 30 minutes. This causes them to swell into little jellylike pockets, similar to chia pudding, and perfect for spooning on top

If you’re planning a menu, DePompeis recommends pairing the savory cocktail with a beet salad to keep it all in the family or hamachi to play off the delicate vegetal notes in the drink.

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