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Lychee Martini

If you're a martini person, try this out. The lychee gives it a really beautiful perfume. If you don't have a cocktail shaker, make it in a jug of ice, stir with a long spoon and strain into glasses.

By jamieoliver · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Lychee Martini

Why it works: Vodka 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 29 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Lychee Martini

Serves 2

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By jamieoliver. 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.

  1. Vodka + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Syrup + vodkatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Syrup + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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