How to Make Bloody Mary

Serves: 8

Preparation time: overnight

Cooking time: –

Ingredients needed to make Bloody Mary:

For the mix:

• 3 cups tomato juice
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp hot Tabasco sauce
• 1 ½ oz freshly squeezed out lime juice
• 1 ½ oz freshly squeezed out lemon juice
• 2 tsp fresh horseradish, peeled and finely grated
• ¾ tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 ½ tsp kosher salt
• 1 tsp celery salt

For the serving:

• Dill pickle spears
• 2 cups vodka
• Pickled green tomatoes
• Ice cubes
• Celery stalks

Cooking instructions for Bloody Mary:

• To make the mix, dump all its ingredients into a glass 1quart container and beat them together until they blend thoroughly.
• Place a tight-fitting lid on top and leave in the fridge for a couple of hours or overnight, if possible, to allow the ingredients infuse the flavours into the mix.
• To serve, take the container out of the fridge and give it a good stir to mix the ingredients back again.
• Plop several ice cubes into 8 tall glasses until they are half-filled and tip 2 oz of vodka into each glass.
• Pour 4 oz of the tomato juice mix into each glass and stir them all together until well combined.
• Insert a dill pickle spear or celery stalk into each serving and top it up with a pickled green tomato.
• Serve chilled.

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Last Updated on March 26, 2013 by