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BASIL LIME SYRUP

BASIL LIME SYRUP


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Reference:

Gourmet, September 2002 The Last Touch

Prep:

Active time: 10 min Start to finish: 30 min

Servings:

Makes about 1 cup.

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Ingredients

3/4
cup sugar
Zest of 1 lime, removed in strips with a vegetable peeler
1/2
cup fresh lime juice
1/4
cup water
1
cup loosely packed fresh basil

Directions

1.
Bring sugar, zest, juice, and water to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and let syrup stand, uncovered, 15 minutes.
2.
Discard zest and transfer syrup to a blender. Add basil and blend 20 seconds. Pour through a fine sieve lined with a rinsed and squeezed paper towel into a bowl or glass measuring cup, then cool.
3.
Cooks\' notes:
4.
• Use syrup in fruit salads or to flavor drinks.
5.
• Syrup keeps, covered and chilled, 2 days.
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