Name: Perfect Gin Martini
Prep time: 3 min
Yield: 1 martini
Ingredients: ice cubes; 2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers dry gin; 1/4 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger dry vermouth; 1 drop anise flavored liqueur, such as Sambucca®; 1 pitted green olive

Perfect Gin Martini

"Crisp, clean gin martini cocktail. One is not enough! Chill the gin in the freezer overnight before preparing the drink. This prevents the ice from melting and diluting the drink. Do not allow plastic or metal of any kind to touch the drink."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients

Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Perfect Gin Martini

1 martini

Prep3 min

Ingredients

ice cubes
2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers dry gin
1/4 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger dry vermouth
1 drop anise flavored liqueur, such as Sambucca®
1 pitted green olive

Directions

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By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together94 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Anise + olivetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together80 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Vermouth + olivetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Gin + olivetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together48 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Gin + anisetop 43% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the anise

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, vermouth, olive):

Thymefits better
Rosemaryfits better
Garlicfits better
Anisethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against gin, vermouth, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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