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Gin Salad Dry Martini

Difford’s Guide
Discerning Drinkers (46)
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Measurements in:
Serves:
1
Ingredients
2 1⁄2 fl oz Hayman's London Dry Gin
1⁄2 fl oz Strucchi Dry Vermouth
1 dash Orange Bitters by Angostura (optional)

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How to make

Glass

Photographed in an Urban Bar Verdot Small Martini Glass 12.5cl

Prepare

  1. Select and pre-chill a MARTINI GLASS.
  2. Prepare garnish of 3 skewered chilled green olives and 2 cocktail onions.

Method

  1. STIR all ingredients with ice.
  2. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

  1. Garnish with skewered olives and onions.

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Gin Salad Dry Martini contains 183 calories

Alcohol content:

  • 1.9 standard drinks
  • 29.37% alc./vol. (58.74° proof)
  • 26.6 grams of pure alcohol

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Values stated for alcohol and calorie content, and number of drinks an ingredient makes should be considered approximate.

History

See: History of the Martini and its evolution.

Review

A Gin Salad is made like a regular Dry Martini but with three olives and two cocktail onions as garnish. They should be pushed onto the stick in the following order: olive-onion-olive-onion-olive.

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Comments & Discussion

John Hinojos Premium Member
This time we added 1 to 2 drops of olive brine. Make a great cocktail outstanding.
The brine pulled out the herbal flavours of the gin, but did not make it a dirty martini. Also added a hint of other spices without being individually discernible.
Will be trying a drop of olive brine in other martinis.
score: 2
Toby James Premium Member
Just make every martini a salad martini, coward. I would but then I'd probably stop eating anything else and expire from some 18th century pirate disease. God I love pickles.
score: 11
G. M. Genovese Premium Member
One of my favorite comments on this site. Salute!
score: 4
John Hinojos Premium Member
Tried again, but substituted grapefruit bitters for the orange bitters. A bit dryer cocktail and a hint of freshness. Love this drink it is so versatile.
score: 2
Raul Garcia
You have to try it instead of with olives and onion, with what in Spain we call banderillas, which has an olive stuffed with pepper, an onion, a pickle and chilli. You can add a shot of the brine to the mix.
score: 8
John Hinojos Premium Member
Added one drop of olive bitters. Softened the overall falvour of the cocktail.
score: 1
John Hinojos Premium Member
Loved this. The dry martini with its hint of orange bitters. The colder the better. Garnish is an extra. I count this cocktail as a serving of vegetables.
score: 8
John CARR Premium Member
Of course!! 😂
score: 1
Doug Charnock Premium Member
Almost an acknowledgement that drinking a martini is partly an excuse to nosh on some great pickled veggies. Good pickled onion recipe:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018721-pickled-cocktail-onions
score: 2
Hunter Newsome
True. I say get creative with the garnish, much like a Bloody Mary. Personally I like adding some radish pieces onto the pick when I have them. The red-green-white looks nice. Will have to give those homemade cocktail onions a go too.
score: 2

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