Grape Martini Recipe 455

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• Mix together with crushed ice in a glass and garnish with mint leaves.

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• Pour the vodka, Cointreau, and grape juice into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glasses to serve.

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• Thread 3 grapes onto each cocktail pick and freeze until ready to serve, at least 2 hours.
• In a shallow bowl, mix together the lemon zest and coarse sugar.
• Moisten the rims of 4 martini glasses with the lemon. Dip the rims of the glasses into the lemon-sugar.
• Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a pitcher and add the grape juice and vodka. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour 1/2 of the vodka mixture into the cocktail shaker and shake for 20 seconds. Pour into 2 of the prepared glasses. Repeat with the remaining vodka mixture. Place a cocktail pick into each glass and serve.

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• Combine the vodka, rosemary, grape juice and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake hard. Strain into a martini glass. Thread 1 grape on a rosemary sprig and place in glass. Serve.
• *To make fresh grape juice, puree 1 cup seedless green California grapes in a food processor or blender and strain through a fine sieve. It will make about 1/3 cup.

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• Reserve 4 grapes for garnish. Crush remaining grapes in a shaker with a wooden spoon to release juice. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer; discard solids. (You should have about 1/2 cup juice.) Rinse out shaker. Stir vodka and sugar in a bowl until sugar dissolves, about 3 minutes. Combine grape juice, vodka mixture, lime juice and ice in shaker. Shake well and strain into 4 martini glasses. Garnish each with 1 grape and serve.

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• Pour ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain into a martini cocktail glass.
• Garnish with a cherry at the bottom, and serve.