Cook this: Lemon Drop Martini
In this week’s edition of Cook This, chef Shereen Pavlides mixes up a sweet martini for a warm summer night.
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Lemon Drop Martini
Yield: 2-3 servings Prep time: minutes
4 lemons
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
turbinado sugar (such as sugar in the raw)
8 ounces premium vodka
Freshly squeeze 3 lemons (6 tablespoons juice).
Thinly slice 2 wheels from the 4th lemon, to garnish and cut a wedge from the remaining lemon.
Set aside.
Bring water and sugar to a boil in a 2-quart sauce pot over medium-high heat.
Reduce heat to medium and whisk to dissolve the sugar.
Continue cooking until syrupy, 5 – 6 minutes. Remove.
Stir in the lemon juice.
Let set to cool. (Yield: about 6 ounces)
Pour sugar onto a rimmed plate to coat the bottom.
Rim two large martini glasses with the lemon wedge then turn each glass upside down into the sugar, coating the rim of each glass.
Drop one lemon wheel into the bottom of each glass.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
Add vodka and lemon simple syrup.
Shake vigorously for 30 seconds and pour among each glass.