Name: Wasabi Martini
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 60 ml Vodka; 1 pea Wasabi paste; 22.5 ml Lemon juice; 15 ml Sugar syrup (2:1)

Wasabi Martini
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 pea	Wasabi paste
³⁄₄ oz	Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
¹⁄₂ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)

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Garnish: Float yaki nori seaweed strips

How to make:

Squeeze a pea-sized quantity of wasabi paste onto a barspoon and STIR with vodka until wasabi dissolves. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Wasabi paste - Mustard

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

This "Martini" would be more accurately named a Wasabi Vodka Sour, but besides the now-dated name, this child of the early noughties is balanced with attractive spicy heat and a zesty finish.

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History:

Created in 2004 by Philippe Guidi at Morton's, London, England.
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Paul Holdsworth

8th January 2022 at 18:14

Approached this with some trepidation, but it's great! The wasabi is the main event, spicy and almost salty, but nicely balanced by the lemon juice. Used a budget wasabi paste (which is largely horseradish, inevitably), so I'll have to get some good stuff for the next try - and seaweed for that garnish!

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