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Exotic Fruit Martini Cocktails
If you like to learn about cocktails, you have certainly learned that being familiar with all recipes of cocktails is practically impossible. You might ask “why”? The main reason is that there are many recipes which are known by extremely small groups or communities of people; and some cocktails are even known just by the people who created them. But the uncountable number of cocktails is not the only thing which we know for sure. Another fact known for sure is that martini is the most popular and loved cocktail of all times.
Perhaps, you don’t know much about the history of martini as they appeared long time ago, especially in comparison to the other cocktails. At first, martinis were prepared only in top discos, clubs and bars and their price used to be really high. Then, a little bit later, martinis could be found almost in every club and bar no matter whether it was a five-star one or not. Logically, the price went down significantly at that time. And at last, came the times which we live in now. I am talking about the times when we are able to prepare a jug of martini in our home whenever we feel like “partying”. But the greatest thing about martini is that there are hundreds of recipes in existence and you can always experiment by using different fruits: it could be apple, pineapple, peach and many others. The classic “lime martini” is still loved by many people but there is definitely severe competition struggling to conquer the first place.
However, there is a group of martinis which has become quite popular recently. These are the martinis containing exotic fruit juices. For instance, that could be lime, pineapple, lychee and even raspberry. We are not going to discuss the lime and pineapple juices as they were just mentioned. But the lychee and raspberry fruits definitely need to get their fair share, especially when the surveys show that these two variations of martini cocktails have gained more popularity than any other cocktail (not only among the martini). It sounds like a huge success, doesn’t it?
Perhaps, it would be best if we started with the more exotic fruit: lychee! Here is some background about this amazing fruit: it was cultivated in China 4000 years ago but its Thailand is considered to be the country it originates from! Determining the taste of lychee is pretty difficult as the most accurate adjective would probably be “specific”. However, if we need to choose among bitter, sweet and sour; it’s somewhere in the middle between bitter and sour. Of course, the sour taste should not be a surprise to you if you know that lychee contains nearly as much vitamin C as the limes and lemons do!
And now, let’s take a look at the raspberries. They are definitely much more popular than the lychee which explains why they are not going to be discussed so widely. Basically, these are small, round and red fruits tasting quite specifically. Their taste is neither bitter nor sweet, not even sour- they just need to be tasted. Anyway, raspberries definitely taste quite good! Surprisingly, their taste is much more different than the lime (respectively lychee) which makes their usage in many martini’ recipes quite unusual. Even though your raspberry martini may not taste like what you are used to, you can be sure that you’ll love it!
Do you love martinis? Don’t miss the Martini Guide for great martini recipes such as the ever popular lychee martini and the exotic and excellent pomegranate martini.
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