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AB's Martini
ACTIVE TIME: 5 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes
Yield: 1 drink
My perfect martini is made with gin and dry vermouth, and no offense to Mr. Bond, but I prefer mine stirred, not shaken. Looking to mix things up? Substitute a black olive for the green olive and you've got a Buckeye. Use a cocktail onion and you have a Gibson. Add a shot of Scotch and you have a Smoky Martini, and a few drops of the brine from the olive jar would give you a Dirty Martini. I occasionally like to sneak in a few flakes of smoked sea salt for a kind of Dirty Smoky Martini... but that's just me. This recipe first appeared in Season 9 of Good Eats.
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- 1 cup crushed ice, plus extra for chilling glass
- 1/2 fluid ounce dry vermouth
- 2 1/2 fluid ounces gin
- 1 green olive
Specialized Hardware
Boston-style cocktail shaker
ACTIVE TIME: 5 minutes
TOTAL TIME: 5 minutes
Yield: 1 drink
Procedure
- Place some crushed ice into a wide-rimmed glass, and set aside.
- Place 1 cup of crushed ice into a Boston-style cocktail shaker. Pour in the vermouth and swirl it around, making as much contact as possible with the ice. Using a strainer, pour the vermouth out. Add the gin and stir well to combine.
- Remove the ice from your serving glass and add the olive. Using the strainer, pour the gin into the serving glass.
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