Dirty Pickle Martini
Concocting a martini with cocktail olive brine as an ingredient will give the drink a cloudy look. This cloudy look associated with the brine of the olives gives these martini recipes this specific name. When you are concocting a dirty pickle martini you will be replacing the olive brine found in most dirty martini recipes with the pickle juice. Thus if you have tried your hand at mixing a dirty martini recipe you will that that carrying out this task is easy.
Here are a few variations of the dirty martini recipes that double up as dirty pickle martini recipes when the olive brine is replaced with a pickle juice of your type.
Before you start off concocting your signature martini recipes you will have to make the pickle syrup. The pickle syrup is the main ingredient after the vermouth and the gin and it is this add on that gives the flavor and taste to the martini.
The pickle syrup recipe for the dirty pickle martini calls for the following ingredients:- 2 parts of distilled vinegar
- 2 parts gin (or vodka)
- 3 parts water
- 1/2 part sugar
- 2 tb spoons kosher salt
- a cinnamon stick
- 2 tb spoons cardamom
- 2 tb spoons black peppercorn
- 3 star anise
- 3 garlic cloves
Take a vessel and fill it with the said amount of water. Add the first five ingredients to the water and bring to a boil. Heat until the sugar dissolves. Now add the veggies/fruits of your choice like beets, cucumbers, cherries, pineapples, mangoes and jalapenos to the mixture and fill in a clean jar. Add the spices and store the jar for a period of a week or so before you make use of the syrup. You can combine your produce options with the liquid base or you can go in for separate jars to hold all of the syrup concoctions you have come up with. After you have removed it from storage you will need to refrigerate.
A simple dirty pickle martini calls for the following ingredients:- One part gin
- One teaspoon vermouth
- Pickled syrup of produce of your choice
- Mint gherkin for garnish
Take the ingredients in a martini shaker filled with ice and shake together. Add the pickled syrup depending on the taste. Shake again. Strain the mixture into a martini glass garnished with a mint gherkin and serve.
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