Pickle Martini
This twist on the classic dirty martini uses pickles and pickle brine instead of olives.
Servings 1 cocktail
Calories 158kcal
Ingredients
- 2 ounces London dry gin or vodka
- 1 ounce dry vermouth
- ½ ounce pickle brine
- 2 cornichon pickles or 1-2 small pickle slices, for garnish
Instructions
- Chill cocktail glass in freezer for 5-10 minutes.
- Add ice cubes to a mixing glass.
- Add the gin, dry vermouth and olive brine.
- Stir together gently with a bar spoon until the mixture is chilled.
- Strain the drink into a martini glass. Garnish with a cornichon or pickle slices.
Notes
This recipe is more similar to a dirty martini, which usually use olive brine. We are just using pickle brine instead.
You can use gin or vodka here! Feel free to play with the ratio of gin/vodka to dry vermouth.
Play around with this recipe and use whatever kind of pickles you want: pickled peppers, pickled okra, pickled asparagus, pickled carrots, pickled radishes — you could even go crazy and use all these as garnishes! However, I wouldn't make this with bread & butter pickles or any kind of sweet pickles.
Nutrition
Serving: 3.5ounces | Calories: 158kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 0.03g | Sodium: 237mg | Potassium: 2mg | Fiber: 0.02g | Sugar: 0.02g | Vitamin A: 4IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Iron: 0.03mg
