’m celebrating the weekend with this Fig Thyme Cocktail. I’ve been a busy little bee 🐝 lately and have so much going here at Ali in the Valley (announcements coming soon) as well as my kids going back to school and readjusting to our hectic schedules. In my household, everybody needs to be somewhere or do something and of course I’m the overseer/organizer of everything and everybody or shit don’t get done properly. You feel me? 🥺 How do we Mom’s get it all done? Oh, by drinking great cocktails afterwards to celebrate our small accomplishments, of course. 💃🏽 So here’s to this delicious but very well earned Fig Thyme Cocktail!
If you know me, then you know I am slightly obsessed with figs. I’ve definitely mentioned this before on the blog, but you don’t hear about them too often because fig season is pretty short. I’ve been pretty lucky to have had a fig tree at my old home and I just recently planted two figs trees in my edible cocktail garden here in Chatsworth. I’m super excited because my cocktail garden produced these figs as well as thyme growing in my cocktail garden and both are used in this yummy Fig Thyme Cocktail.
If you follow me then you know, I am constantly on the lookout for interesting, unusual cocktail ingredients. Especially those of the seasonal produce variety. I love browsing the farmer’s market or picking from my garden one or two items to use for an unusual cocktail. Well, it’s August, which means we’ve officially entered fig season here in California. My new trees didn’t produce a lot of figs but just enough to make this flavorful cocktail.
So, Right now it’s time for me to grab the ingredients and mix up one of the most deliciously complex, yet easy-to-make cocktails of the season. It’s Fig Thyme . . . I couldn’t resist!
This is the perfect cocktail to bridge the gap between summer and fall, when you still might want something refreshing, but not so summery. The fig and thyme combo actually pair amazingly together!
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Fig Thyme Cocktail
Ingredients
1 ½ oz pisco
¼ oz cointreau
½ oz thyme simple syrup
½ oz lime juice fig (quartered)prig of thyme and half fig (for garnish)
Sprig of thyme and half fig (for garnish)
1 cup of sugar
1 cup of water
5 sprigs of thyme
Directions
- Add sugar and water to a small saucepan and stir on medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Once dissolved, add thyme and let simmer for 10 minutes.
- Remove thyme and pour into a heat-safe glass jar. Let cool before using in your cocktail. This can be refrigerated for up to two weeks.
- Add the fig (quartered) and thyme simple syrup to the bottom of your mixing glass.
- Break up the pieces of fig by mudding lightly. If your fig is nice and ripe, you probably won’t even need a muddler. I used my barspoon!
- Once muddled, you´ll immediately notice the vibrant colors of the fig bleeding into your glass. Next, fill your mixing glass with ice, and add the remaining few ingredients.
- Snap your shaking tin on top of your mixing glass and seal it into place with a firm whack with the palm of your hand. Give it a good shake for a full 10 seconds. Make sure you smile, especially if you’re alone at home with your dog (like me)!
- Crack open your shaker and double strain through a fine-mesh strainer into a cocktail glass. Garnish with sprig of fresh thyme and a half of a fig.