Cocktail · Türkiye
Rakı Sour
Shake a Turkish-inspired Rakı Sour with rakı, lemon, honey and egg white, with complete oz and ml measurements.
- Yield
- 1 cocktail
- Prep time
- 5 minutes
- Glassware
- Coupe glass
- Base
- Anise spirit
Ingredients
- 2 oz (60 ml) rakı
- 0.75 oz (22 ml) fresh lemon juice
- 0.5 oz (15 ml) honey syrup
- 1 egg white
Garnish
Lemon peel
How to make it
- 1Chill a coupe glass and measure each ingredient.
- 2Add rakı, lemon juice, honey syrup and egg white to a shaker and shake without ice for 15 seconds to aerate the egg white.
- 3Add ice and shake hard for another 12 seconds.
- 4Fine-strain into the coupe glass.
- 5Finish with lemon peel and serve immediately.
The story behind Rakı Sour
This house sour gives Türkiye’s traditional anise-flavored rakı a modern cocktail treatment. Lemon and honey soften the spirit while preserving the licorice aroma familiar from Turkish meyhane tables.
This is a Where It's Five house creation inspired by local ingredients and drinking traditions, not a historic national cocktail.