Is your home cocktail bar all set with the essentials? You know, vodka, gin, bourbon, lemon juice, olive oil… What? That’s what I said when I was approached by the folks from OliveOils from Spain. They provided me with a beautiful, long-necked bottle of olive oil and a few cocktail recipes with which to make some cocktails using Olive Oils from Spain.
And… drop, one perfect, golden disk of olive oil in my martini, made with Spanish Olive Oil.
The following recipes are what they provided. I made the Olive Oil Martini first, which was just vodka and olive oil. While it worked and was tasty, I am a gin girl so I made a classic martini with 3.5 ounces gin and .5 ounces vermouth. Normally, I would have a few olives as a delicious garnish so instead of that, I went for the 1/2 ounce olive oil. The flavor of this wonderful olive oil is definitely different than the typical green olive with pimento stuffing we’re used to. But there’s still that olive flavor aesthetic that the cocktail olives and olive oil have in common. So it wasn’t too bizarre.
I made the martini in the usual way, in a shaker, with ice and poured it into a martini glass. I added the olive oil and it immediately formed a single circle of olive oil. On the second martini I made (for my husband – shees), I did something different. I mixed the olive oil in with the gin and vermouth IN the shaker and poured it out. The flavor was exactly the same but it was much more of a pretty show, eliciting ooo’s and ahhh’s from us both. I think this is the way I’ll make an Olive Oil Martini in the future. It was fun!
After including the olive oil, with the alcohol in the shaker, this is how it looked once I poured it into the glass. Pretty!
Ooo, larger circles are forming!
Not only was the flavor good but I actually enjoyed the sensation of the olive oil in my cocktail. It was simultaneously the slight zing of the alcohol but them immediately smoothed by the olive oil.
Experiment on your own, adding a little olive oil to your favorite drink, or try one of the recipes below. Comment below to let us know how it goes!
The McGavin:
1 oz gin
1oz green chartreuse
.5 oz Spanish Extra Virgin OliveOil
.5 oz fresh Meyer Lemon juice ( regular lemon juice or even lime juice will work)
.25 oz simple syrup
1 big sprig of basil, for mixing and garnish
1 egg white
Mix the gin, chartreuse and lemon juice in the shaker. Add the remaining ingredients, a small sprig of basil and 3-5 cubes of ice. Shake until the ice is nearly gone, about two minutes. Strain and serve up, garnished with a sprig of basil and a couple droplets of EVOO over the top.
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker, add ice, and vigorously shake until you can’t hear the ice anymore. This usually takes about two minutes. Strain the cocktail into a coupe glass and garnish with a chamomile flower and stem to the side of the glass.
OliveOil Martini:
4oz vodka with ice
pour in martini or cosmo glass
Drizzle 1/2 oz Spanish Extra Virgin OliveOil to form a small pool on top
Hungry for more? Get some other cocktail recipes for your upcoming Halloween party.
Note: I was provided with a bottle of olive oil from Spain to facilitate this review.
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