Pomegranate Martini Recipe – Simple and Delicious
Pomegranate Martini is a wonderful drink that has been one of the most popular cocktails in the past few years. It has a beautiful red colour and an amazing taste which manages to amaze people every time they taste it. The pomegranate gives the drink a perfect balance between sweet and sour. It is good to taste and pomegranate martini recipe is very simple.
The ingredients used to make this cocktail are one and a half ounce of Citron or Standard Vodka, one ounce of Cointreau or Triple Sec which is an orange liquor, two ounces of pomegranate juice, sparkling wine or champagne which is optional and lemon or lime peel for garnishing. The bar tools used for the pomegranate martini recipe are shakers and strainers and martini cocktail glasses. One of the many available shakers is the Kohinoor Boston Shaker which is very comfortable. Another good option would be to use the Calphalon three piece Boston Shaker set which comes with the Calphalon ten piece barware set.
To make the pomegranate martini recipe, we first chill the glasses. Next we pour all of the above mentioned ingredients into the shaker. We add six to eight ice cubes and shake it for some time. Continuous shaking is required as it will prevent settling down of any of the ingredients and would result in a homogenous mix of all the ingredients. Next, after proper shaking, the cocktail is strained into the chilled glasses using the strainers. Garnishing is an important part of cocktail preparation. For garnishing the prepared pomegranate martini, lemon or lime peels may be used. It can also be garnished with some pomegranate seeds which can be tossed into the drink. Pomegranate syrup like monin can also be used which adds great colour and flavour to the drink. In the pomegranate martini recipe, if you are squeezing the pomegranate juice yourself, you should first cut the fruit in half and cut out the white walls in them before squeezing as it makes the drink very dry. So the drink is better off without them. The finished cocktail can now be poured into the martini glasses. The glass can be made sugar rimmed by rubbing the lemon to moisten the drinking surface of the glass and then dipping the edge of the glass in sugar. Some good martini glasses are the LED flashing martini glasses, the sturdy palm tree martini glasses, Mikasa ruby martini glasses or the Ed Hardy martini glasses.
The pomegranate martini recipe has become very popular in recent times because of the flavour it provides along with the beautiful colour. Pomegranate martini is the signature cocktail of some of the renowned bartenders and cocktail makers. It has become a very successful drink and is generally seen in many social, business and casual parties. The cocktail, lovingly known as the POMtini is sure to make your party a success. It is a great winter cocktail. Pomegranates have great health benefits and pomegranate martinis are one way to enjoy those benefits.
