Dirty Pickle Martini
Ingredients
- 2 oz vodka
- 1/2 oz dill or sweet pickle brine
- 1 slice of pickle (garnish)
- 1 green olive (garnish)
Quick Instructions
Quick Instructions
Combine vodka and pickle brine in a shaker with ice. Shake real good. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with pickle and olive.
Long Winded Instructions
Picture it. Sicily, 1925. You have plenty of vodka, but you’re clean out of vermouth. What do you do? What do you do?! But wait... what’s this? You’ve got a jar of pickles soaking in delicious pickle brine. You see where we’re going here?
By the way, is it pickle brine or pickle juice that comes in the jar of pickles from the store? It’s brine, right?
Anyways, you’re out of vermouth because Aunt Sophia cleaned you out last weekend. Why she loves that vermouth straight from the bottle you’ll never know. But, that seems beside the point now. You’ve got a martini to drink! Your eye wonders back over to that jar of pickles.
Yes. Do it. Use the pickle juice (brine?) instead of vermouth!
But wait... there are 2 pickle jars. One sweet and one dill. Guess what? They’re both AWESOME vermouth substitutes. Who’d have thunk?
Combine your vodka of choice and pickle brine (juice?) of choice in your shaker with plenty of ice. This is important. A warm martini is terrible. You want it nice and cold. Shake it with vigor!!! Shake it longer than you think you probably should.
Strain into your best martini glass. No, not that one. Grab that one in the back. Huh? Yeah, I know that’s the expensive one. That’s the one you want. What? This IS a special occasion. Why? Because you’re making a martini with pickle juice... and it’s dirty!