Dirty Martini Pasta
If you love dirty martinis and pasta, you’ll love this recipe for dirty martini pasta. It’s a quick and easy way to make a flavorful sauce with olive brine, lemon, garlic, butter, and blue cheese. Treat yourself with something indulgent and delicious.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 500 grams Spaghetti
- 2 knobs Butter
- 4 Garlic cloves peeled and finely chopped or minced
- 2-3 Anchovies chopped
- 200 grams Green Olives pitted and reserve the brine
- 80 ml Gin or Vodka
- 60 ml Olive Brine
- 1 Lemon zested
- 100 grams Blue Cheese crumbed
- 10 grams Flat leaf parsley chopped
Instructions
- Bring a large pot with salted water to a boil. Cook pasta according to instructions. Once pasta is al-dente reserve about 250ml of pasta water and drain the pasta. Put the pasta back into the pot and set a side for later.
- In a large saucepan, heat the butter 2 knobs of butter over a low to medium heat. Be careful to not burn the butter.
- Once the butter is melted, add the minced garlic, chopped anchovies, olives and lemon zest. Gently sauté for 4 minutes while stirring occasionally.
- Add the juice of a half a lemon, the brine of the olives and gin. Bring to a gentle boil. Reduce the sauce by half. This should take about 5 minutes. Turn the heat down.
- Put the pasta pot with pasta back on the stove on a very low heat. Pour the butter olive sauce over the pasta along with a 125ml pasta water. Toss the sauce with the pasta until well mixed.
- Add half the chopped parsley, a few generous grinds of black pepper, and half of the blue cheese, crumbled; toss to combine. See if the the consistency needs any adjustment by adding more pasta water if needed. You will see the sauce will go silky, creamy and glossy.
- Garnish with remaining parsley and add the crumbled blue cheese. For an extra kick sprinkle some red chili flakes or drizzle some chili oilServe and Enjoy! xxx