Dawa
The Dawa is a muddled vodka cocktail from Kenya. It is made with vodka and raw honey, served in a rocks glass over crushed ice.
Kenya’s national cocktail, from the Carnivore restaurant in Nairobi. Dawa means medicine in Swahili.
Ingredients
| Lime wedges | 4 wedges |
| Sugar | 2 teaspoons |
| Vodka | 60 ml (2 oz) |
| Raw honey | 1 teaspoon |
Method
- Muddle the lime wedges gently with the sugar, without crushing the bitterness out of the peel.
- Fill with crushed ice and pour over the vodka.
- Dip a stirring stick in honey and stir it through. The honey is the finish, not the sweetener, so go lightly.
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Ice
- Crushed
- Garnish
- Honey-coated stick