{"id":2107455,"date":"2025-01-29T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/?p=2107455"},"modified":"2025-05-15T06:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:50:11","slug":"olive-garden-salad-martini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteofhome.com\/article\/olive-garden-salad-martini\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tried the Viral Olive Garden Salad Martini, and I Was Pleasantly Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"Oh, FoodTok. While some of your recipes make sense, like TikTok spaghetti<\/a> and baked feta pasta<\/a>, others are less...intuitive. This viral Olive Garden salad martini is the latest TikTok creation to take the internet by storm, and it made me do a serious double take.\r\n\r\nIf you have not<\/em> seen the Olive Garden salad martini yet, it comes from creator @alessandrapizzz<\/a>, who is known for her inventive cocktails. This recipe involves making a martini using bottled Olive Garden salad dressing as a mix-in and garnishing it with Parmesan cheese, croutons, pepperoncini and olives. Yes, salad dressing<\/em> in a cocktail.\r\n\r\nShockingly, the comment section is pretty divided, with a good number of followers saying how delicious this martini is. (The other half is firmly in the hard pass category.)\u00a0I was cautiously optimistic about this take on a martini recipe<\/a>. If you enjoy mixology, then you might be aware of a technique known as fat-washing. Fat-washing is a process when gin, vodka or other spirits are infused with a form of fat (typically an oil) to enrich the flavor of the cocktail and give it a silkier mouthfeel. It has a similar effect to adding egg whites to a gin fizz<\/a>. Perhaps this cocktail isn't quite as strange as it sounds!\r\n

Ingredients for the Olive Garden Salad Martini<\/h2>\r\n\"ViralaVarious\r\n\r\n \r\n