Southern Living Bloody Mary Recipes

BOURBON BLOODY MARYS

Steps:

• Whisk together vegetable juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire, and celery salt in a large pitcher until well combined. Cover; chill at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours.
• Pour 1 cup vegetable juice mixture into each of 6 tall glasses filled with ice. Top each with ¼ cup (2 oz.) bourbon, and stir well to combine. Garnish as desired.

BLOODY MARY POACHED SHRIMP

Steps:

• Place 1 cup water and 3 cups of the Bloody Mary mix in a large saucepan; bring to a boil over high. Remove from heat. Add shrimp; cover and let stand until shrimp are barely opaque in centers, about 8 minutes. Immediately stir ice into shrimp mixture to stop cooking; let stand until shrimp are cool, about 5 minutes. Drain shrimp, and pat dry.
• Stir together cocktail sauce, vodka, oil, lemon juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire, celery seeds, pepper, and remaining 1 cup Bloody Mary mix in a large bowl or a large heavy-duty ziplock plastic freezer bag.
• Stir shrimp, sliced celery, and onion into cocktail sauce mixture. Cover (or seal bag), and place in refrigerator to marinate at least 8 hours or, preferably, up to 24 hours.
• Transfer shrimp mixture to a large serving bowl. Top with desired garnishes, and serve immediately. (The dish can be made in advance. Store, covered, in refrigerator up to 3 days.)

SOUTHERN LIVING BLOODY MARY RECIPE

Steps:

• Cook bacon slices until crisp. Drain on paper towels and blot dry; then crumble (making about 1/4 cup). Pulse crumbled bacon, kosher salt, Old Bay seasoning, ground coriander, and celery salt in a mini food processor until ingredients are uniformly ground, 6 to 8 times. Store in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 week.
• Process all Spicy Bloody Mary Mixer ingredients in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate in an airtight container up to 4 days.
• Rub a lime wedge on the rim of 16-oz. glass. Spread Bloody Mary Bacon Salt in a saucer; dip glass rim in salt. Fill glass with ice. Squeeze lime wedge and lemon wedge into glass, and add vodka. Top with Spicy Bloody Mary Mixer; stir to combine. Garnish with a pickled okra pod, celery stick, or bamboo pick threaded with olives and cocktail onions.

BLOODY MARY

Steps:

• Chill cocktail glasses. Add all ingredients into a pitcher in the order listed above (vodka last). Fill one half of a cocktail shaker with ice and tomato juice mixture. "Roll" the ice and juice, pouring from one cocktail shaker to the other to chill and aerate, then strain into a chilled glass filled with ice. Garnish each glass with a celery stalk.

OLD BAY BLOODY MARY

Steps:

• Stir together the first 9 ingredients in a large pitcher.
• Cover and chill.
• Stir in vodka; serve over ice.
• Garnish, if desired.