Watermelon Cosmopolitans

4 drinks

DRINKS

Ina Garten Go-To Dinners (p. 26)

Ingredients

Watermelon - 6 lbs

Limes - 2

Mint - .1 oz

Vodka - 6 oz

Triple sec - 3 oz

Prep

Watermelon - deseed and dice

Limes - juice both to yield 2 oz

Mint - wash a few leaves for garnishing

Instructions

Place four martini glasses in the freezer to chill for at least 30 minutes. Place a food mill with the largest disk over a bowl. Add the watermelon and pass it through the mill; you should end up with about 2 cups of watermelon juice. Alternatively, if you thoroughly remove the seeds from the watermelon, you can puree it in a food processor or blender and run it through a sieve.

Pour the watermelon juice into a pitcher, add the vodka, triple sec and lime juice. Fill a cocktail shaker half full with ice, pour in the cocktail mixture, and shake for a full 30 seconds. Pour into the chilled martini glasses and garnish each glass with a mint leaf, serve ice cold.