St. Elmo's Fire Bloody Mary

One of my favorite Sunday activities is Bloody Mary drinking. I love trying out different restaurant's Bloody Mary recipes at brunch but also love to stay in and make my own favorite version. Just to warn you - this Bloody is extremely spicy! You can adjust the spice level as needed. I call this Bloody the St. Elmo's Fire Bloody Mary, because I use St. Elmo's cocktail sauce in it. St. Elmo's is a 1902 steak house in Indianapolis that serves world famous shrimp cocktail. If you're ever in Indianapolis please do yourself a favor and try it out. The sauce is so spicy from the fresh horseradish it will literally clear out your sinuses. Brad and I love all things spicy and we both teared up the first bite we took of this shrimp cocktail! My immediate thought was how amazing would this be in Bloody Mary's?! We had to specially order bottles of this sauce from the restaurant, however now you can pick it up from Costco!

Another way to truly step up your Bloody Mary game is to make your own tomato juice from scratch! It tastes 10 times more fresh and doesn't have all the extra sodium the canned variety carries which doesn't make for a refreshing drink (and which makes it harder to cure your hangover if that's what your Sunday Bloody sipping goal is). It's definitely a lot less work to just buy store-bought though, so I'll leave that decision up to you! However, if you'd like to make your own you will need tomatoes (in the winter tomatoes usually aren't as flavorful, so you might want to purchase the smaller varieties like grape or cherry), celery, carrots, parsley, cilantro, sugar, lemon juice, olive brine, Worcestershire, hot sauce, horseradish, celery salt, and pepper. Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until smooth. Strain through a mesh sieve to remove any remaining vegetable chunks then chill until ready to use.

For the St. Elmo's Fire Bloody Mary you will need: tomato juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce, St. Elmo's cocktail sauce (or horseradish), celery salt, pepper, fresh lemon and lime juice.

....and of course vodka! A lot of restaurants serve Bloody's with Peppered flavored vodkas which are good, but I prefer to use regular vodka and flavor my cocktails naturally. To adjust the level of spiciness use more/less hot sauce and horseradish/St. Elmo's sauce.  Add all ingredients to a glass, shake with ice and dump back into glass. Garnish with celery, pickles, and shrimp or whatever else you'd like to throw in there! Cheers to Sunday Funday!

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St. Elmo's Fire Bloody Mary

 

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Prep time

10 mins

Total time

10 mins

 

Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 4 oz tomato juice, store-bought or homemade (homemade: 1 pint grape tomatoes, 1 celery rib, 1 large carrot, ¼ cup fresh parsley, ¼ cup fresh cilantro, 2 tbsp. sugar, 2 tbsp. fresh lemon juice, 2 tsp. olive brine, 1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp. horseradish, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. pepper, 3 dashes hot sauce)
• 2 oz vodka
• 1 tbsp. Worcestershire
• 4-5 dashes hot sauce
• ¼ tsp. St. Elmo's cocktail sauce (or ⅛ tsp. horseradish)
• squeeze of fresh lemon
• squeeze of fresh lime
• ⅛ tsp. celery salt
• ⅛ tsp. fresh ground pepper
• Celery, pickle, and shrimp (garnish)

Instructions

1. Prepare tomato juice if making homemade (add all ingredients to food processor and pulse until smooth. Push through sieve to remove any remaining vegetable chunks. Chill until ready to serve). *makes around 2 cups.*
2. Build by adding all ingredients (except for garnish) into a tall glass with ice.
3. Pour entire contents into a shaker and shake.
4. Dump back into glass.
5. Garnish using a toothpick to hold in place.

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