Name: Cucumber Martini
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 2 inch Cucumber (fresh); 30 ml Bison grass vodka; 30 ml Vodka; 15 ml Bianco/blanc/blanco vermouth; 5 ml Sugar syrup (2:1); 3 drop Saline solution 4:1

Cucumber Martini
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Serve in a Martini glass

Ingredients:
2 inch	Cucumber (fresh) chopped
1 oz	Bison grass vodka
1 oz	Ketel One Vodka
¹⁄₂ oz	Strucchi Bianco Vermouth
¹⁄₆ oz	Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup)
3 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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Garnish: Float thin cucumber slice

How to make:

(Ideally, cut skin from cucumber log before chopping). MUDDLE cucumber in base of shaker, add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Bianco/blanc/blanco vermouth - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Cucumber has never tasted so good, helped by being vodka-laced and infused with notes of bison grass. The touch of sugar in this cocktail helps amplify flavours rather than sweetening the cocktail.

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History:

There are many different Cucumber Martini recipes; this is mine - much improved in July 2023 thanks to a comment by Marco, a fellow Discerning Drinker (below).

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Justine Fehley

9th August 2024 at 00:16

Nice cucumber flavor. Would probably omit simple syrup if I made it again.

John Hinojos

6th July 2024 at 00:30

Very enjoyable and very, very refreshing. Perfect on a summer afternoon with a baguette and a sharp Cheddar cheese.
Wanting the cocktail a little dry, we left out the sugar syrup. Perfect.

Cathe clark

27th January 2024 at 06:52

We used coriander simple syrup because we had forgotten to make simple syrup. It was gorgeous

Marco .

21st May 2023 at 16:06

What about substituting the sirup with dry vermouth and adding a pinch of salt to change the profile from sweet to savory? Could it work?

Simon Difford

11th July 2023 at 19:01

Many thanks, Marco. I ended up with Bianco vermouth and retaining a barspoon of sugar as a opens the palate. The original worked well when created in the 1990s but now way too sweet!