Labor Day is Monday, September 4, marking the unofficial end of summer. Sneak in those last summery sips and bites onto your menu with our collection of Labor Day recipes!
Labor Day Food Recipes
Spicy and Sweet Grilled Steak Lettuce Wraps
Ingredients:
For the steak:
1.5 # flank steak
¼ c. soy sauce
¼ c. Worcestershire sauce
3 T. honey
2 T. sesame oil
For the Spicy and Sweet Sauce:
3 T. Hoisin
2 T. rice wine vinegar
2 T. soy sauce
1 T. sesame oil
1 tsp. Sriracha
For the Lettuce Wraps:
1 head butter lettuce
3-4 red chiles, chopped
6 radishes, thinly sliced
1 bunch scallions, sliced
1 cucumber, thinly sliced
Fresh herbs (cilantro, mint, basil)
Directions:
Make the steak marinade: combine soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, honey, and sesame oil in a shallow dish. Add steak to marinade, cover and let sit 1 hour, turning halfway through. While the steak is marinating, prepare the sweet and spicy dipping sauce: combine all sauce ingredients and whisk together in a small bowl. Prepare the lettuce wrap elements: gently pull apart the butter lettuce head into individual leaves and place on a platter. Arrange sliced cucumber, radishes, herbs, scallions and chiles on a serving plate. Grill the steak, 5-6 minutes per side, until desired temperature. Pull off the grill and let rest for 5 minutes, then slice into ¼-inch thick slices. To serve, present the platter of steak, the lettuce wraps, sauce, and vegetables/herbs. Pair it with chilled Sandeman Founder's Reserve on the rocks, with an orange twist.
Dragon Fruit Wing Sauce
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Sriracha hot sauce
1/2 cup Monin Dragon Fruit Syrup
1 Tbsp. fresh lime juice
1 tsp. soy sauce
1/2 tsp. fresh minced garlic
Directions:
In a mixing bowl, whisk together all ingredients until combined. Place into a container, cover tightly and refrigerate until use.
Hot Honey Buffalo Sauce
Ingredients:
1 cup hot sauce
1/4 cup Monin Hot Honey Syrup
1/4 lb. (1 stick) unsalted butter
Salt, to taste
Directions:
Combine the hot sauce and syrup in a small sauce pot and bring up to a simmer. Remove from heat and add the stick of butter to the hot sauce mixture, whisking constantly until the butter is completely melted and well incorporated. Season to taste with salt and serve as desired.
Labor Day Cocktail Recipes
Skrewblueberry
Ingredients:
1 ¼ oz. Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey
½ oz. coconut water
1 oz. blueberry reál
½ oz. lemon juice
Top with soda
Directions:
Mix all ingredients. Garnish with skewered blueberries.
Sipsmith Berry Spritz Recipe
Ingredients:
2 parts Sipsmith London Dry Gin
1 Tablespoon Blackberry Jam or ½ part Syrup
2 Lemon Wedges
3 parts Soda Water (Fever Tree recommended)
1 part Sparkling Wine
Directions:
Squeeze and drop lemon wedges into cocktail shaker with ice. Add gin and jam and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice. Top with soda and sparkling wine. Garnish with a lemon wheel and blackberries.
Cool Runnings
Ingredients:
1 oz Milagrito Enmascarado 54
1⁄2 oz El Tesoro Tequila
1⁄2 oz Italicus
3⁄4 oz Homemade Hibiscus Cordial
3⁄4 oz Fresh Lime juice
Directions:
Shake all ingredients and strain into a Collins glass. Top off with ginger kombucha & makrut leaf garnish.
If You Meet Sartana
Ingredients:
6 dash spicy tincture (High Proof Alcohol rested with thai chili and serrano chili)
1 tsp lychee nectar
.25 calpico concentrate
.5 lime
.5 grapefruit
.5 pineapple
.5 mezcal
1.5 tequila blanco
Directions:
Shake all ingredients and pour into a coupe glass. Garnish with lychee fruit dusted with gochu haru on a garnish pick (a Korean red pepper dust similar to spicy paprika).
Gran Centenario Tangerine Chile Gran Paloma
Ingredients:
2 oz Gran Centenario® Añejo Tequila
2 oz Fresh Tangerine Juice
1 oz Fresh Lime Juice
1 oz Chile de Árbol Agave Syrup
Seltzer Water
Garnish: Salt Rim
Directions:
Rim double rocks glass with salt. Add ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake and strain into glass over fresh ice. Top with seltzer water and garnish with a tangerine slice.
Apple Lemonade
Ingredients:
12 oz Proper No. Twelve Irish Apple
32 oz lemonade
Mix in pitcher for group serve
Directions:
Fill a pitcher with ice. Add Proper No. Twelve Irish Apple and lemonade. Stir.
Filthy Cherry Pimm’s
Ingredients:
750ml Pimm’s No.1 (25.4 oz)
8 oz Filthy Margarita Mix
2 oz Filthy Black Cherry Syrup
12 oz Ginger ale
12 Cucumber slices
12 Lemon slices
12 Orange slices
Garnish with Filthy Black Cherry
Directions:
Fill a pitcher with ice and add all ingredients, first the fruit then the liquids. Stir then pour over a wine glass with ice. Garnish with slices of cucumber and lemon, and a Filthy Black Cherry.
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