Cocktail Time with Kevin Kos | Martini with Mushrooms, Sake and CRAZY garnishes @KevinKos | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
You know umami from food (or your taste buds do!) but what about in a cocktail? I made a Martini with mushrooms, sake and some really crazy garnishes to create a real umami concoction. This Martini is unlike any you’ve had before, thanks to soy sauce-infused pickled mushroom, mushroom flavored olive oil and the green tea ice. Sounds like a lot, right? Check out the detailed recipe down below. Cheers!

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Soy Sauce-infused Pickled Mushrooms:

· Pickled mushrooms
· Salt-reduced Soy Sauce
Stuff a small jar with pickled mushrooms and cover with salt-reduced soy sauce. Place in the fridge for at least 24 hrs.

Mushroom flavored olive oil

· 50 ml (1.33 oz) olive oil
· 3 g dried mushrooms (I recommend porcini)
Blend ingredients in a blender then filter through a coffee filter. Keep in the fridge (if your olive oil solidifies add a small amount of other vegetable oil before blending).

Green Tea Ice

Make green tea (0.5 g/100 ml) then strain and place in the fridge. Cut up the ice to your desired sizes.

Umami Martini:

· 60 ml (2 oz) KI NO BI Kyoto Dry Gin
· 15 ml (0.5 oz) Shirayuki Sake
· Chill with green tea ice
· Soy sauce-infused pickled mushroom
· 3 drops of mushroom olive oil
· 3 drops of soy sauce
Chill the mixing glass with the green tea ice. Dump the ice, add gin and sake and stir with more green tea ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass, add a soy-sauce infused pickled mushroom and 3 big drops of mushroom olive oil, followed by 3 drops of soy sauce (on the oil drops).

For a New York Sour made with wine foam and a cherry pit syrup click here: youtu.be/BNcOQKOWNYo

0:00 Intro
0:33 Tasting notes
1:28 Ingredients & KI NO BI Gin
2:19 Porcini mushroom olive oil
5:37 Soy-sauce infused mushrooms
6:12 Green Tea Ice
7:39 Making the Umami Martini
9:27 Outro & Outtakes

Here are some of my favorite YouTube cocktail channels:
@How To Drink
@Steve the Bartender
@Truffles On The Rocks
@The Educated Barfly
@Vlad SlickBartender
@Behind the Bar

The team behind this video:
Robi Fišer
Sašo Veber
Phantom hand

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