Martini Solids

At the same two other Italians, chef Moreno Cedroni and barman Mauro Lotti, were looking at Adrià's Espesso and other suggestions coming from famous Parisians venues, as a new exciting challenge, and started working at a new kind of cocktails, now called "Martini Solids". Their new creation looked a bit different from Fadiga's "cube cocktails": Martini Solids are made of several jelly cubes, served in a cocktail glass (a Martini glass) and garnished with a fruit-flavoured mousse. The result is a tasty combination of old flavours, with a new twist, and unlike Fadiga's creation, the recipe of Martini Solids is available on specialized magazines.

How to prepare it? Almost any traditional cocktail, from Mojito to Americano, from Martini to Cosmopolitan can be esasily converted into a solid cocktail, using tools that can be found in most house kitchens:
- a hand-blender
- a microwave oven
- a soda siphon
- a filter

To prepare the jelly you just need to mix the basic ingredients of your favourite cocktail, for exemple, for an Americano you need:
- 200 gr Martini Rosso
- 200 gr Bitter Martini
- 100 gr water
in addition, to turn the cocktail mix into a jelly, you will need:
- 20 gr fish-glue
- some cold water
Put the fish-glue into the cold water till and let it soften. Take 50 gr of the cocktail mix and put in the microwave oven, then mix and filter it and finally add it to the rest of the mix and put all into the fridge for about 6 hours. And start preparing the mousse to garnish your cocktail.

To prepare the mousse you will need:
- 700 gr water
- 80 gr sugar
- 20 gr orange zest - 15 gr fish-glue
- 140 gr orange juice
- some cold water
Mix the ingredients and put them in the microwave oven (700 watt or even more) for 3 minutes. Put the fish-glue into some cold water and then add it to the mix, stir well e put in the fridge; when the mix is cold, take it out of the fridge and add the orange juice, and blend with an hand-blender, the filter and pour into a soda siphon (1 lt). Close, charge it and shake, then put in the fridge for at least 12 hours.

To serve the cocktail, cut the jelly into small cubes (side: about 1 cm), put them in a cocktail glass (about 50 gr of ice cubes per serving), then spread some grated orange rind on top. Finally, shake the soda siphon and spray some mousse to garnish your cocktail.



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