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Watermelon Caesar

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  • Prep Time10 min
  • Total Time10 min
  • Makes1 servings
Chatelaine caesar in clear glass, in front of a pink, purple, and red background.

Produced by Sun Ngo. Photography by Christie Vuong. Food Styling by Ashley Denton. Prop Styling by Catherine Doherty.

This unconventional take on the Canadian classic was created for Chatelaine by Christine Sismondo. It uses fresh watermelon and a vegan Caesar mix instead of tomato clam cocktail. All the other products are sourced from Canadian companies with women at the helm.

Ingredients

  • Salty Paloma Heartbreaker cocktail rimmer

  • 1 cup seedless watermelon, chunks

  • 4 oz Singers Vegan Caesar mix

  • 2 oz Fernie Distillers No. 9 Mine vodka

  • 1 oz lime juice

  • 4 ice cubes

  • 3 dashes Bittered Sling Cascade Celery Aromatic bitters

  • 1 watermelon, slice, to garnish

Instructions

  • Rim a tulip glass with cocktail rim mixture. Blend watermelon chunks, Caesar mix, vodka, lime juice and ice in a blender until no chunks of ice remain, 45 seconds. Pour into prepared glass. Add bitters and garnish with watermelon slice.

Tip

If you’re a Caesar purist and want clam juice, Singers also makes non-vegan flavours: mildly spiced, spicy and smokin’. All are delicious!

Tip

British Columbia's Fernie Distillers is owned by Jillian Rutherford; Barbara Singer owns and operates Singers Caesar Mix in Ancaster, Ont.; Vancouver's Bittered Sling Bitters was founded by Lauren Mote; Salty Paloma is owned and operated by Toronto's Amanda Chen and Evelyn Chick.

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A National Magazine Award-winning writer, Christine Sismondo has been writing about spirits, cocktails, bars, and history for publications including Chatelaine, Sharp and the LCBO's Food & Drink for over twenty years. She’s also the Academy Chair for Canada East for World’s 50 Best Bars, author of America Walks into a Bar (2011), Prohibition, a six-part podcast series for Wondery’s American History Tellers and, most recently, Cocktails, A Still Life.

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