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Sausage Martini

Why did the olive meet the martini, the onion the Gibson? It just seems to make sense that if you want a snack in your liquor, you should make it a sausage. Give a new life to those pesky little Vienna wieners, or buy good-quality knackwurst and pickle them in a brine of equal parts vinegar and water. Serve in a small martini glass.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Serves 1

Ingredients

2 ounces (60 ml) vodka
1/2 ounce (15 ml) white vermouth
Dash of canned Vienna sausage juice
Drop of Tabasco sauce
1 canned Vienna sausage

Preparation

  1. Freeze a martini glass. Shake together the vodka, vermouth, sausage juice, and Tabasco. Serve in a chilled glass with a Vienna wiener on a skewer. Add more juice and it’s a dirty sausage martini.

Cookbook cover of The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan, and Meredith Erickson.
Reprinted with permission from The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan & Meredith Erickson, copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
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