Description
Classic martini but garnished with blistered shishito peppers and lemon slices. I also like this in a dirty martini. Any roasted or blistered peppers can be used depending on how sweet or hot you may like it.
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 10 peppers shishito peppers
- 10 thin slices lemon
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ medium lemon, juiced
- ½ teaspoon flaky sea salt
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 30 fluid ounces vodka
- 10 fluid ounces dry vermouth
- ice as needed
Instructions
- Heat a heavy cast iron or steel pan over medium-high to high heat and add 1 tablespoon oil. Add the peppers and blister
- letting them sit on one side and then tossing a few times until they at blistered all the way around
- about 8 minutes total. Season with sea salt.
- Lay the lemon slices in the pan so that they are flat to the bottom of the pan. Allow the lemons to color slightly and flip
- about 2 minutes total. Remove to a bowl.
- Squeeze lemon half over peppers. Sprinkle on flaky salt and drizzle with 1 teaspoon oil.
- Shake or stir vodka
- vermouth
- and ice together in batches
- adding 1 teaspoon or so of the juices from the bowl of peppers and lemons to each batch. Strain into martini glasses. Garnish each martini with a pepper and a slice of lemon.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 20 mins
Servings: 10