Tis the season for lots of food, friends, family and cheer. So I thought I would make things a little more cheery with a cranberry martini. What else should I have done with the extra cranberries I had after making some fresh Thanksgiving cranberry sauce?  Exactly… make a martini.

This recipe is much like a Cosmopolitan but better, because we are using fresh cranberries and not concentrated juice from a bottle.

Happy Holidays!

Enjoy!

cranberry martini

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Prep Time 5 mins

Total Time 5 mins

Course Spirits

Servings 1 martini

Ingredients

  

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• CRANBERRY SIMPLE SYRUP
• 2 cup fresh cranberries
• 3/4 cup water
• Liquid stevia to taste or 3/4 cup sugar
• MARTINI
• 6 ounces vodka
• 1 ounce vermouth
• 2 ounces cranberry simple syrup
• Fresh cranberries for garnish
• Sprig of rosemary for garnish

Instructions

 

• SIMPLE SYRUP
• COMBINE. In a small pot add cranberries and water. Stir, then cover with a lid. Cook on a stove top at medium high heat for 7-10 minutes or until cranberries "pop."
• REDUCE. Reduce heat to low and mash cranberries with a spoon. Cook for another 5 minutes, until you notice the mixture starting to gel on the sides of pot.
• STRAIN. Pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer. This will be your simple syrup for the martini. 
• MARTINI
• COMBINE. Ice, vodka and cranberry syrup to a cocktail shaker. SHAKE well.
• POUR. Pour into a chilled martini glass.
• GARNISH. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and cranberries.
• ENJOY!

Notes

• SAVE. Save the remaining cranberry mixture after straining for jam or for a traditional cranberry sauce.
• CRANBERRY SAUCE. To make the cranberry sauce, use remaining mixture with a dash of lemon juice and more sweetner, if desired. I like it as is... A little sweet, a little tart. 

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