This Nigella recipe is taken from her Channel 4 series Forever Summer, all about easy cooking and laid back recipes that keep you feeling like summer never ends.
This takes inspiration in part from a mojito, that bar classic of the late nineties - mint, sugar syrup, lime, rum and soda - and in part from a gimlet, that intense and trad mix of vodka and lime cordial. And frankly, this child outstrips either of its parents. When I gave it to a friend to taste after making it for the first time, I had to fight to get the glass back from her.
1.Toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan over a high heat until they look golden brown, and tip them into a bowl.
2.Spoon the sugar into a tumbler, squeeze over the lime juice and stir to dissolve.
3.Add the mint leaves and stab away at them in the tumbler with the end of a rolling pin; this is what's known in the business as 'muddling'. Add the vodka and ice, swill to mix and then top up with the dash of fizzy water.
© Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer - Chatto & Windus, 2002
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