Step 1

Put the lime, palm sugar and basil in your cocktail shaker. Muddle the limes with the end of a clean rolling pin, crushing the sugar and basil and getting the juice out of the limes.

Step 2

Add the sugar syrup, lychee juice and gin.

Step 3

Fill the cocktail shaker with ice and shake vigorously until a frost forms on the shaker. Have a taste and adjust to taste.

Step 4

Either strain into chilled martini glasses or serve in rocks glasses over plenty of crushed ice.