Canonical preparation

Mint Sekanjabin (Sweet-Sour)

Name: Mint Sekanjabin (Sweet-Sour)
Ingredients: 1 cup Sugar; 1 cup Water; 0.5 cup White Wine Vinegar; 1 cup Fresh Mint Leaves

A Persian-style sweet-sour mint preparation — a 1:1 simple base brightened with vinegar and steeped mint. Dilutes into water or soda for an instant cooler; a sweet-sour modifier in builds.

Servings

Yield~16 oz

MethodBuilt

Ingredients

Sugar1 cup
Water1 cup
White Wine Vinegar0.5 cup
Fresh Mint Leaves1 cup

Directions

Warm the sugar with the water just until dissolved (an easy 1:1 simple base), then take off the heat and cool. Off the heat, stir in the vinegar and steep the mint 30 minutes; strain. Heat touches the sugar-water only — never the vinegar or the mint.

Notes

Rebalanced from the old 2 cups sugar : 1.5 cups liquid (a slurry that wouldn't dissolve). Now a 1:1 sugar:water base that dissolves cleanly, with vinegar and mint added cold. This is the SYRUP-LEANING version (sweet-forward, ~1 : 0.5 sugar:vinegar). FORK: for a true mint SHRUB, push the vinegar to ~1 cup (1:1) and retag preparation_type accordingly. Default left syrup-leaning since sekanjabin is traditionally sweet-dominant.

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