How to Make Olive Juice

Olives are fruits of the olive tree which is native to the coastal regions of the eastern Mediterranean Basin, and is a very essential part of their cuisine because of the oil pressed out of these fruits. Along with having some extremely healthy components, olive oil is one of the most widely used cooking oil because of its flavor. Other than the oil, olives are also pickled and added in many dishes like salads, pastas, breads, salamis and other meat preparations for that slightly pungent and sour taste (which is definitely my favorite). Well, another great use of these pickled olives is to make olive juice and add them to alcoholic drinks such as delicious martinis. In the coming up paragraphs, you will find out how to make olive juice and use it for other purposes. Take a look!

Olive Juice Recipe

Olive juice is used as an extremely important and useful flavoring ingredient in various types of drinks and foods. There are many alcoholic drinks such as the dirty martini, cocktails and foods like breads and pastas where olive juice instead of olive oil is used to give a better flavor. Thus, instead of purchasing olive juice from stores, you could prepare it at home and store it as it has a very long shelf life. There are also many health benefits of olives, because they are rich in proteins, lipids, minerals, antioxidants, vitamins and carbohydrates. These nutrients are surely helpful to the body and they can reach the body through olive juice prepared at home, without using any chemical preservatives. Find out how to make olive juice for various drinks and foods. Keep reading.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of green or black Olives
• 2 tablespoons Vinegar
• 2 cups of Water
• 2 tablespoons of Salt
• 1 Jar with a tight lid

Directions
Preparing olive juice is a very simple procedure, where you will need at least 2 cups of olives (fresh or dry), so that you can get the strong taste of these fruits in the juice. In the dry jar which you are going to store the olive juice, add the olives and push them hard into the jar, so that some amount of juice oozes out. You can then remove the olives into a container or leave it in the jar to mix the water, salt and the vinegar to the olives.

Mix all the ingredients and with the back of a spoon, gently apply pressure on the olives, to ooze out some more natural juice. Then close the jar with the lid very tightly, so that the juice doesn't fall out of the jar. Hold the jar and shake it vigorously, so all the olives mix well with the rest of the ingredients. Refrigerate the juice jar overnight and then use it for your preparations. You can store it for any duration, as it has all the necessary preservatives.

Dirty Martini Recipe

Now that you know how to make olive juice for dirty martinis, let's find out how to prepare a dirty martini itself! If you are a fan of some delicious martinis and wouldn't mind having any amount of repetitions, well, you need to learn how to make one. This recipe is of the dirty martini which is a vodka drink and flaunts a lovely green color with an olive sitting at the end or a tempting triangular glass. Here are the martinis ingredients how it's made.

Ingredients

• 4 stuffed green olives
• 1 dash dry vermouth
• 6 fluid ounces vodka
• 1 tablespoon olive juice from the olive jar

Directions
Add the vodka, dry vermouth, olive juice and olives in a cocktail shaker and strain it out in the martini glass. Place the olive into the glass and serve it chilled with salt on the edges. Your delicious dirty martini is ready to be sipped straight out.

With these great tips on how to make olive juice, hope you had fun reading them. So, go ahead and make some great olive juice, to be consumed with the best martini you ever made!