Classic Martini Recipes

Steps:

• Shake the olive brine extra cold with large ice in a cocktail shaker. In a chilled Nick and Nora glass, drop in a dash of vermouth and coat the inside of the glass to season it. Strain the olive brine into the glass. Fill with frozen gin of choice. Add 1 olive on a crystal pick and serve.

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• Pour ice, vodka and vermouth into a glass shaker. Shake and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with olives or lemon twist.

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• Stir ingredients over ice until exceedingly well chilled. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a lemon twist.

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• Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice; shake vigorously.
• Strain into a chilled glass.
• Garnish with olive.
• **Cajun Martini: substitute jalapeno-infused vodka or gin for regular gin; garnish with a pickled tomato or okra, or a tiny whole red or green chile.
• **Dirty Martini: add 1 to 2 teaspoons olive brine.
• **Fino Martini: substitute 2 teaspoons fino sherry for the vermouth.
• **Gibson: garnish with a cocktail onion.
• **Paisley Martini: reduce vermouth to 1 1/2 teaspoon; add 1 teaspoon Scotch; garnish with lemon twist.
• **Perfect Martini: use half sweet vermouth and half dry vermouth; garnish with orange slice.
• **Rumtini: substitute light rum for gin; garnish with lime twist.
• **Saketini: substitute sake for the vermouth; garnish with lemon twist or olive.
• **Scotini: substitute Scotch for the vermouth; garnish with lemon twist.
• **Sweet Martini: substitute sweet vermouth for the dry vermouth; garnish with orange slice.
• Tequini: substitute tequila for gin.

Steps:

• In mixing glass or cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine gin and vermouth. Stir well, about 30 seconds, then strain into martini glass. Garnish with olive or lemon twist and serve.

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• Stir the gin or vodka, dry vermouth and a little ice together or put them in a cocktail shaker to combine.
• Strain into a chilled martini glass. Serve with an olive on a cocktail stick or a twist of lemon peel.

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• Put a martini glass in the fridge to chill for 10 mins. Pour the gin and vermouth into a mixing glass or jug filled with ice cubes. Stir with a mixing spoon until the outside of the glass is very cold, then taste to check the dilution. If needed, continue to stir until the martini is diluted and chilled to your liking.
• Strain the martini into the chilled glass and serve.

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• In a shaker with ice, add Smirnoff No.21 Vodka and vermouth. Shake well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with lemon twist.