Yuzu Ginger Wellness Shot
This yuzu ginger wellness shot combines bottled yuzu juice with steeped fresh ginger and a spoonful of honey for three fragrant, floral-tart 1.5-ounce shots, ready in 10 minutes. Yuzu is a Japanese citrus prized for its perfume, and a shot shows it off better than almost any other format. For more yuzu in the kitchen, try our Japanese-style yuzu kosho.
Quick answer: Bottled yuzu juice steeped with grated ginger and cold water, lightly sweetened with honey. It makes three fragrant, floral-tart 1.5-ounce shots in 10 minutes. Yuzu juice is usually sold in small bottles at Asian grocery stores, and a little goes a long way.
Instructions
Peel and finely grate the ginger. If you are using whole yuzu instead of bottled juice, squeeze it and strain out the seeds, which are plentiful.
Stir the grated ginger into the cold water and let it steep for 5 minutes.
Strain the ginger water through a fine-mesh strainer into a jar, pressing the ginger to extract every drop.
Whisk in the honey until dissolved, then stir in the yuzu juice. Taste and add a little more honey if it is too tart.
Pour into three small glasses and drink right away, or chill for an hour first.
Questions people actually ask
It is tart like a lemon, with a floral, almost grapefruit-and-mandarin aroma that is hard to describe until you smell it. The scent is the point, which is why a shot is a nice way to taste it plainly.
Asian grocery stores and well-stocked supermarkets sell small bottles of bottled yuzu juice, and online shops carry it too. Fresh yuzu fruit is a seasonal specialty item. See our citrus season guide for when it appears.
You can, but you lose the fragrance. For something closer to yuzu, use 3 parts lemon juice to 1 part fresh grapefruit juice, though grapefruit carries a medication warning, so skip that if you take regular medication.
Either works. Cold keeps the fragrance bright, while warming the honey and ginger water first and adding the yuzu at the end gives you a cozy warm shot similar to a Japanese-style yuzu tea.
Up to 2 days in a sealed jar in the fridge. Yuzu aroma fades quickly, so it tastes best on the day you make it.
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