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Mexican Martini

Tequila, orange liqueur and lime shaken with a splash of olive brine: salty, savory and sweet-tart.

Collection version

For one serving

Ingredients

Tequila
60 ml / 2.03 US fl oz
Triple Sec
45 ml / 1.52 US fl oz
Lime Juice
45 ml / 1.52 US fl oz
Green Olives
Brine from the jar; save two olives for garnish
15 ml / 0.51 US fl oz
Saltoptional
For the salt rim
1 pinch

US fl oz amounts are rounded; use ml for exact measures.

To garnishSalt rim, Lime wedge, Olive

For a salt rim, moisten the rim of a Martini glass with a lime wedge and dip it in salt.
Add the tequila, triple sec, lime juice and olive brine to a shaker, fill with ice and shake hard for about 10 seconds.
Strain into the glass, hang a lime wedge on the rim and add two olives on a pick.

Austin's Cedar Door bar brought it to town in the early 1980s, and it has been an Austin fixture ever since.

Per the Cedar Door method published by PUNCH, with 1 oz converted at 30 ml.