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Blueberry Vodka Martinis

"These blueberry martinis are the hit of any party! Easy to make, but the key is the homemade blueberry vodka that requires 2 weeks to properly infuse. After that, it's smooth and fruity sailing with a splash of lime juice!"

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Why it works: Vodka and lime work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 225 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The recipe

10 servings
Prep30 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Put the blueberries in a clean jar or bowl and muddle them firmly with a muddler or wooden spoon until they break down into a juicy pulp.

  2. Add the lime juice and the raspberry flavored liqueur to the blueberry mixture and stir well.

  3. Pour in the vodka and stir to combine.

  4. Cover the mixture and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or until well chilled.

  5. Strain the chilled mixture through a fine mesh sieve or cheesecloth into a clean pitcher, pressing gently on the solids to extract the liquid.

  6. Chill the serving glasses in the freezer for about 10 minutes before serving.

  7. Pour the strained vodka mixture into a shaker filled with ice, shake well, and strain into the chilled glasses.

  8. Garnish each martini with a twist of lime zest and serve cold.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Vodka + limetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Raspberry + limetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together129 recipes

    Shared aroma: sabinene (woody, terpenic).

  3. Vodka + raspberrytop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the raspberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, lime):

  1. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  2. Orangebetter flavor fit
  3. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  4. Raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, lime. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).