Chili Passion Martini

• Recipe by Cocktails 2006

The Bar at The Setai • Miami Beach
To make fresh ginger juice for this drink, you can grate a piece of peeled ginger into a fine strainer and press the liquid into a bowl. Bottled ginger juice is sold at many health food stores and online at gingerpeople.com.

Ingredients

1. Ice
2. 2 ounces light rum
3. 1 ounce each of passion fruit nectar, cranberry juice and fresh orange juice
4. 1/2 ounce Simple Syrup
5. 1/4 teaspoon bottled ginger juice
6. Seeds from 1 fresh red chile, plus a sliver of the chile for garnish

Directions

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add all of the remaining ingredients except the chile sliver. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with the chile sliver.