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Mexican Martini Cocktail Recipe
ByJames
Walk into any bar in Austin, Texas, and order a Mexican martini. You’ll be served a salt-rimmed glass accompanied by a metal shaker overflowing with extra cocktail. It’s a ritual as sacred as breakfast tacos and as unique to Austin as preserving the city’s eccentric character. It’s not just a variation on the margarita, but the unofficial cocktail of a city that has elevated happy hour to an art form. Born in the early 1980s at the legendary Cedar Door, the Mexican martini recipe transforms the classic margarita with one brilliant addition: olive brine.
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Mexican Martini Cocktail Recipe
Cuisine: USADifficulty: Easy
Servings
1
servingsPrep time
3
minutesCalories
285
kcal
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Ingredients
60 ml 2 fl oz Blanco tequila
45 ml 1 1/2 fl oz Cointreau
45 ml 1 1/2 fl oz fresh lime juice
15 ml 1/2 fl oz olive brine
Kosher salt for rim
2 2 pimiento-stuffed green olives for garnish
1 lime wedge for garnish
Equipment
Cocktail Shaker
Hawthorne strainer
Jigger
Martini glass
Instructions
- Chill a martini glass in the freezer for 5 minutes. Run a lime wedge around the rim, then dip into kosher salt spread on a small plate. Set aside.
- Pour tequila, Cointreau, fresh lime juice, and olive brine into your cocktail shaker.
- Add enough ice to fill the shaker about two-thirds full. The more ice, the better the dilution and chill.
- Seal the shaker and shake hard for 15-20 seconds until the outside feels frost-cold. This isn’t a gentle shake, you want that frothy, well-integrated texture.
- Pour through a Hawthorne strainer into your prepared glass. Leave the shaker with remaining cocktail on the table.
- Thread 2-3 olives onto a toothpick and rest across the glass rim. Add a lime wedge to the rim.
