Ingredients
- 1½ ounces gin
- ¾ ounce dry vermouth
- ¾ ounce Amaro dell’Etna
- Pickled walking onions*
*Pickled walking onions
- 25 marble-sized walking onions (1 cup) or substitute small white pearl onions, roots trimmed, skins peeled and scored with an “x”
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup sherry vinegar (or red wine vinegar)
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon whole coriander seeds
- ½ teaspoon black peppercorns
Instructions
Add liquid ingredients to bar tin, add ice, stir for 20 seconds, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a cocktail onion. Yields 1 cocktail.
*Pickled walking onions
In a medium saucepan, bring water and vinegar to a boil with sugar and spices for 2 to 3 minutes. Add onions to the liquid and simmer for 7 minutes, turn off heat and cool to room temperature. Decant into a small, clean Mason jar. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight before serving. Refrigerate for up to 2 weeks.