I used to meet a friend of mine for drinks EVERY Friday night at my favorite local restaurant (now I can call is my hangout I guess). He always had a vodka martini and I varied each week. Sometimes wine, sometimes a Cosmopolitan but recently I’ve loved their Lemon Drop Martini.
Never happy to HAVE to go out for a drink I love, I’ve devised a simple recipe for myself and girlfriends at home:
Lemon Drop Martini
Ingredients
- 2 parts Vodka
- 3/4 part Cointreau
- 1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 3/4 part simple syrup (mix equal parts sugar and water in saucepan, simmer til sugar is dissolved; cool completely)
- Lemon wedge
- Lemon sugar (mix 1/2 cup granulated sugar with the zest of 1 lemon)
Preparation
- Moisten the rim of each martini glass with a lemon wedge and thenturn the glass upside down and twist into the lemon sugar. In a shaker combine vodka, Cointreau, lemon juice, simple syrup and a handful of ice; shake for at least 1 minute. Pour the mixture through a strainer into a prepared martini glass and garnish with a lemon slice.
