If you have some egg whites leftover from your Christmas cooking don’t throw them away, just add them to your favorite cocktail. Egg-white cocktails are really fun to make and they give a creamy silky texture to your drink without adding any kind of eggy flavor.
Many of the cocktail recipes pair egg whites with citrus and berries for flavor and soda-based drinks to enhance the drinking experience. The trick to creating the foam is to dry shake to emulsify the egg white and aerate the proteins. Here are a few egg-white cocktails for you to try.
Gin Sour
All you need for this gin sour is gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, egg whites, and some rosemary. Shake it up and you will have yourself a delicious smooth gin cocktail.
Clover Club Cocktail
This is a classic cocktail that mixes gin with some sweet raspberry syrup, making it a must-have at cocktail hour. Ingredients are simple, gin, lemon juice, raspberry syrup, egg white, and sugar. You can add some fresh raspberries on top for a fun garnish.
Chicago Fizz
Rum is also a great pairing with egg whites and this Chicago fizz cocktail also includes wine in its ingredients. Shake up some rum, port, lemon juice, egg whites, and sugar for a really tasty smooth cocktail. Add some club soda to the glass to enhance the smoothness.
