Vodka Martini
Nothing say welcome at a dinner party like an ice cold Vodka Martini!
Ingredients
- 20 ml dry Vermoth Niolly Pratt is the prefered Vermouth
- 100 ml vodka best quality vodka such as Stolichnya or Smirnoff's
- 2-4 green olives packed in salt water
- 2 pieces of lemon peel yellow part only from an unwaxed lemon
Instructions
- Chill the Martini glasses by placing them in the freezer or fill with crushed ice.
- Place the ice and the vermouth in a mixing glass. Stir the contents for 6 to 10 seconds, mixing well and discard the liquid through a cocktail strainer keeping the ice.
- Pour in the vodka of your choice and mix well again for another 6-8 seconds and strain into a chilled Martini glass using a cocktail strainer.
- Add the olive to the drink - or take a bit of lemon peel and lightly squeeze it over the glass to release the oils into the drink and add it to the drink.
Notes
The reason I say to toss out the Vermouth is I use it to only flavor the vodka. I don't really like too much of it in my drink. I once met someone who kept their vermouth in a small spray perfume bottle which was a fantastic solution. He simply gave the inside of the glass a short sprits and it was done. Great idea.
In a Vodka Martini I prefer a small strip of lemon rind I save the olives for Gin Martini's which by the way are pretty good too!
You can figure out how to make more of this by simply using 40 centiliters of Vodka for each drink, so 4 martinis would use 160 centiliters (which is 1.6 dl.) of Vodka but no more Vermouth. Its only there for the flavoring.
If you want your drinks a bit larger figure 60 cl. per drink.
If you make a second batch then use fresh ice, the 32 cl. of Vermouth as before toss and then add the next 160 cl. of Vodka to the ice.
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