New Orleans Bloody Mary Recipes

BLOODY MARY

Steps:

• Place ice cubes in an Old Fashioned glass until it's 2/3 full. Add the vodka, horseradish, Worcestershire, hot sauce, and vegetable juice. Cover the glass with a shaker, shake well, then let rest in the shaker. Wet the rim of the glass and coat the entire rim with Creole seasoning. Pour the drink back into the glass and garnish with the pepper and the okra.
• Although at Commander's we use sugarcane for our skewers, out-side of our region you may not be able to buy it very readily, so skewer with toothpicks instead.
• Rinse the peppers with cold water and dry them with a paper towel. Remove the stems and chop them coarsely. Place the chopped peppers in a stainless bowl, sprinkle the salt on top, stir, cover with plastic wrap, and place in a cool, dry area for 2 days, stirring every 12 hours. All that salt is there mostly to promote ripening of the peppers.
• Add the vinegar, and puree with a hand blender or in a food processor. Place in a sterilized glass jar with a fresh, sterilized lid, and refrigerate.
• As time goes by, whenever you have an excess of ripe peppers, remove stems, chop and add to the jar. (The salting step isn't necessary for these additions.) When the jar is filled, remove the sauce, puree if you wish, place it in a clean jar, and age it until it reaches the desired flavor -- at least 2 months, or longer.
• Use as the hot sauce in many recipes.

NEW ORLEANS BLOODY MARY

Steps:

• Place Bloody Mary rim salt on a plate. Rub a lemon wedge around the edge of a Collins or Highball glass. Roll the rim of the glasses in the salt to coat the rim. Add ice cubes to the glass.
• To a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add vodka, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, cajun hot sauce, horseradish, creole seasoning, celery salt, sea salt, and black pepper.
• Shake well and pour into the prepared glass. Top with crawfish bitters. Embellish with your favorite garnishes.

EMERIL'S BLOODY MARY MIX

Steps:

• In a blender combine the tomato juice, lemon juice, lime juice, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and hot sauce and process until smooth. Transfer to a nonreactive container and add salt and black pepper, to taste. Refrigerate until thoroughly chilled, at least 2 hours and up to overnight.
• When ready to serve, fill each glass with ice.
• Add 1 ounce of vodka to each glass, then fill the glass with the bloody mary mix. Stir well, and garnish each glass with a pickled green bean and a pickled okra.

NEW ORLEANS BLOODY MARY

Steps:

• In a 4 Litre container, combine all ingredients except for the V8.
• Close lid tightly and shake for 1 minute.
• Fill container 7/8 of the way full with V8, close lid and repeat shake.
• Top off container with V-8.
• Refrigerate mixture for 4 to 24 hours (longer is better).
• Fill glass with ice, pour in mixture, sprinkle with celery salt and serve.
• Cheers!