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It's winter, it's time for Christmas and now we're going to make the Gingerbread Martini.
but not just ginger but different spice like nutmeg, cinnamon, honey, touch of vodka.
You will see this nice aroma will attract all the neighbours at your door, the queue of them will
knock on the door because everybody will want one of those.
Get ready, lets do it!
Let's start to chill the martini glass so it's nice and cool for us.
And the first ingredient will be 25ml of vodka.
We add 50ml of dry vermouth.
Fresh lemon, and we are going to add 20ml.
Half the lemon
then we are going to squeeze approximately 20ml.
So we need to make the syrup, spice, the ginger syrup.
Jam jar with a nice seal lid, 100ml of hot water
and the heat is the secret of the success because the heat of the water will have to extract all
the flavours of the spice, it will help to dissolve the other ingredients.
So 100ml, lets put a tiny bit more because it is Christmas, we need to be generous.
The second element would be some nutmeg, and you drop it inside.
Then we add a stick of cinnamon.
The orchestra of the spices.
We're going to split it in half and we're going to put it inside.
Then the ginger, the root of love.
Now you need to peel it, with a spoon you can peel it.
You just scrap it like this.
It's fun, you do it over the sink perhaps and it is very quick.
You will never cut yourself either.
Take a nice piece of peeled ginger away from the rest of the roots
Then we are going to slice it, the thinner you slice it, the more it will interact with the heat of the water.
Nice thin like a razor blade of ginger.
This time we need some sweetness, and what's better than nice thick honey from the countryside.
100ml the same amount as the water.
It's a lot of honey at 100ml but with this entire pot you will make up to 10 portions of the cocktail.
So lets go ahead.
We are going to seal it now, make sure you seal it properly and give it a nice gentle Christmassy shake
just to combine everything to dissolve the honey.
And once you open it, ooooh gingery.
At this point to intensify the flavour we are going to add 50ml of your Amaretto.
And this will lift up all the flavours, also the fact that there is a little bit in here if you keep these in the fridge
for 2 or 3 weeks, it will last nicely.
Now the syrup is ready, 25ml approximately
Oh gosh, the ginger, the nutmeg, the rest of the spices, is perfect for the Christmas.
Ok now it is time for the Christmas action which is not the shopping, it is the shaking.
So lets pick up a shaker.
We fill it up with ice, all the way to the top.
And we're going to seal it.
Now we make a proper Christmas shake.
Look what's happening inside look, see all those microscopic bubbles of air?
That's when the true magic of Christmas will happen.
By hitting it, you break the seal gently and it will open.
But if you can't open it, imagine you can't open it, you give it a kiss here and it will open.
Because Christmas is all about love.
Let's move on, the shaker is ready, we've got the ice inside, the liquid it became a proper cocktail
combined together, chilled, perfectly diluted, let's strain it.
So the glass is here, see how chilled it is.
Lets discard the ice.
It's time for straining it, simply place the cocktail strainer on the top.
With a sieve, we pour in the middle.
So all the little bits, all the little shards of ice that got broken during the shaky shaky action will be seperated
and your cocktail won't be more watery.
How to garnish it? Do you remember we just used this half lemon, so what we will do, we will simply
cut a small disc from the skin, we will squeeze the oil over the drink, this small tiny touch will change
the cocktail, big time.
We will place it in the middle.
Right Gingerbread Martini, lets give it a go.
As you can see it is not too strong, vermouth, tiny bit of vodka, light, clean flavour.
The spice is delicate, honey.
And this is it Gingerbread Martini, if you want to see more wintery magic moments, you should check out
Gennaro making a spiced apple Bellini.
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your Christmas tree on the 25th December with cocktails ready for you! Ciao