Blood oranges are in season which means of course it’s time to make a Blood Orange Martini! With it’s beautiful color and sweet/tart flavor, it’s irresistible.
Fresh squeezed blood oranges are a favorite here at One Martini. We’ve used them in various vodka cocktails including a blood orange cocktail and a blood orange ginger cocktail. We’ve even mixed them with tequila for some beautiful blood orange margaritas.
This blood orange martini takes a little bit of work to make. You have to muddle the fruit and strain it rather than just using fresh squeezed juice. But it’s worth the effort. Although if you’re very short on time, you could juice the blood oranges instead. We won’t tell.
Blood Orange Martini
Ingredients
1 blood orange
2 ounces Orange Vodka
juice from 1/2 lime (should be about 1/2 ounce of lime juice)
2 tablespoons simple syrup
Preparation
Slice and peel 1 blood orange (leave 1 slice with the peel on for garnish).
Place blood orange slices into a glass and muddle.
In a cocktail shaker add the vodka, lime juice, and simple syrup.
Shake
Now, the mixture needs to be strained before serving.
Anyway you can do this works but the method I used was to place a small strainer over a martini glass.
Pour the mixture into the strainer and press it with a spoon to get all the juice out of the pulp.
Garnish with a slice of blood orange and serve.
Makes 1 martini.
Now doesn’t that just sound awesome? Of course it does.
Cheers!
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Gorgeous photography!
I do love blood oranges.
Thank you Alison. I love blood oranges too (especially in martinis).
I agree with Alison, the photos are gorgeous!
Looks delicious!
Thanks Kimsley!
nice job on those shots! er photos I mean.
Thank you. That’s definitely a compliment coming from you.
Know what would go good with these? My chocolate brownies made with blood orange infused olive oil!
Those sound delicious. Share the recipe please!
Oh my, YUM!
We agree Galit.
Blood oranges usually make me think about Dexter. Not anymore. YUM.
We will take blood orange martinis over Dexter any day.
This one looks REALLY good to me.
Loving the pictures!!! Amazing!
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You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.
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