Recipes: Sodium alginate

An intense gin and lime cocktail, lightly sweetened with a syrup that suspends small, liquid-centred cucumber pearls.

A variation on a Mojito with ginger beer, lime and fresh mint, finished with watermelon caviar made with Special Ingredients sodium alginate.

A variation on a gin Martini with orange and liquid-centred chocolate pearls, served in a glass rimmed with sugar, orange zest and Special Ingredients Crackle Crystals.

Make pear pearls with the Special Ingredients spherification bottle to finish dishes and drinks.

A modern cuisine composition of salmon bites, sponge, yoghurt spheres and squid ink sauce, made with Special Ingredients products.

Make liquid-centred gin and tonic spheres using reverse spherification.