Pomegranate Martini Recipe

A classic martini is made with gin and vermouth, and almost always garnished with an olive. This versatile cocktail has become so popular, that one can find it made with just about any addition, from strawberries to chocolate. Apart from the green apple martini, which is my personal favorite, other popular options are vanilla martini, lemon martini, dirty martini and gibson martini. However, after huge recommendations from Oprah, I decided to steer off the familiar, and try the pomegranate martini. However, when I decided to investigate the different ways to make a martini, little did I expect to surprise myself. What I found was that there are dozens of different ways of making pomegranate martinis, and sifting though the bulk of these pomegranate martini recipes, I compiled a list of my favorites.

Making Pomegranate Martini

Recipe # 1
Ingredients

• 1 oz vodka
• 3 oz pomegranate juice
• ½ oz Cointreau orange liqueur

Directions
Stir together the vodka, juice and liqueur in a glass. Fill up ¼ of a cocktail shaker with crushed ice and pour in the contents of the glass. Shake, strain and pour into a martini glass. Serve with a squeeze of lemon.

Recipe # 2
Ingredients

• 1 orange, juiced
• 6 fluid ounces (¾ cup) chilled gin
• ¼ cup pomegranate syrup
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 4 cubes of ice
• Pomegranate seeds, for garnish

Directions
Combine the gin, ice, fruit juices, and syrup together in a medium pitcher. Take out the ice, pour it into 4 martini glasses, garnish with pomegranate seeds, and serve.

Recipe # 3
Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups pomegranate juice
• 1 oz Cointreau liquor
• 2 oz. Patron Silver tequila
• Cup of ice

Directions
Stir together the tequila, juice and liqueur in a glass. Add the cup of ice to the cocktail shaker, and pour in the contents of the glass. Shake, strain and pour into 2 chilled martini glasses. Add pomegranate fruit to the glasses as a garnish.

Recipe # 4
Ingredients

• 2 oz citrus vodka
• ¼ oz fresh pomegranate juice
• ½ oz fresh lemon juice
• 1 oz simple syrup
• Ice

Directions
In this recipe for pomegranate martini, first you have to pour all the ingredients along with the ice into a cocktail shaker. Shake it well, strain and pour into a chilled martini glass. If possible, add a little rose water to the drink. Garnish with orange peel, and serve.

Recipe # 5
Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups fresh pomegranate juice (store bought or homemade)
• Superfine sugar
• 2 ounces Absolute Citron vodka or white tequila
• 1 lemon
• 1 ounce Cointreau liquor
• Sparkling water
• Pomegranate seeds, for garnishing
• Ice

Directions
If you decide to make your own pomegranate juice, slice a ripe medium-sized pomegranate in half and extract juice using a conventional juicer or press. Strain the juice before use. You should get about ½ a cup of juice from one pomegranate. To prepare the martini glass, pass a lemon or lime wedge along the outside rim of the glass, and invert the glass in a shallow dish filled with sugar. Chill the glass. Fill ice halfway up in a cocktail shaker, and over it pour in the pomegranate juice, sparkling water, vodka, lemon juice and Cointreau. Shake, strain and pour into 2 prepared martini glasses. Garnish with pomegranate seeds.

Recipe # 6
Ingredients

• 1 tbsp raspberry sorbet
• 1 ounce of fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 1 ounce of pomegranate juice
• 3 frozen raspberries
• 2 ounces of Krol lemon/raspberry vodka

Directions
This is a tart, but slightly sweet martini. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway up with chopped ice. Pour all the liquids into the shaker and shake. Add the sorbet and shake some more. Strain and pour your drink into a chilled martini glass and garnish with frozen raspberries. Cheers!

Pomegranate martini recipes provided in this article have distinct flavors. Pick one according to how you like your martini's, sweet or tart, or sample each of these great combinations. If you want one for a party, try the first, for if Oprah loves it, so everybody will!