Salsa Bloody Mary

[ChiliDude]

I just finished drinking this experimental libation, and thought of mentioning it.

1 12-oz. glass
1 jigger of vodka
fresh juice from 1 lime
Tabasco Habanero Sauce, to your tolerance level
Tomato juice
ice

To the glass add 2 standard fridge size ice cubes, the lime juice, vodka and hot sauce. Stir well. Fill the glass within a half inch of the rim with the tomato juice, and stir carefully. 'Tis ready to imbibe.

Warning: The hot sauce mentioned above is potent, but oh so good.

[CrazyOne]

I've been making something like this on and off for months. (Basically I'll make it regularly, until I get through the bottle of tomato juice, then I might not buy another bottle for a while.) I go basically with those ingredients: lime (absolutely necessary), tomato juice, hot sauce (I use Cholula though). I also usually grind in some pepper.

But. I use tequila, not vodka. I go with whatever I have around, sometimes reposado, sometimes blanco. Either can be good, just depends on preference.

It's a really meaty sort of drink, of course, with the tomato juice, just short of chunky you might say. ;-) But sometimes that works for me.

[ChiliDude]

I also have Cholula in the fridge. It is one of the better hot sauces. I also have an unopened bottle of Dave's Insanity that was give to me a few years ago, and I'm aware of it's potency.

I actually used a bottle of the well known multi-vegetable juice for my drink, but did not wish to endorse its use.

Thanks for your input...

[StriperGuy]

Not sure what makes it a "Salsa Bloody Mary."

Personally I like worchestershire, horseradish and a dash of celery salt, or crushed celery seed in my bloody as well. You can generally use whatever hot sauce you want for the kick.

Heck, if you use a chipotle hot sauce (I like Bufalo brand) it adds a nice smokey note.

http://www.amazon.com/Bufalo-Chipotle...

[ChiliDude]

I called it 'Salsa' for want of another name since tomato, hot sauce and lime juice were the ingredients along with the vodka.

I never buy salsa in a jar because it is cooked. I make a salsa cruda that goes by the name 'pico de gallo', and uses the 3 ingredients in the libation. I know that pico de gallo also has onion, salt, and cilantro.

[StriperGuy]

My point being, if it's really going to be a "salsa bloody mary" do something to make it so:

- Chunks of tomato
- or chili
- or onion

As I write this, I think you are on to something, conceptwise. My thoughts on a salsa bloody:

- 2 TBP coarsely chopped tomato
- 1/2 tsp very finely chopped jalapeno
- 1/2 Tsp very finely chopped cilantro
- Likewise with a tiny bit of finely chopped raw onion
- 1/2 tsp of horseradish (fresh preferred)
- 2 dashes worchestershire
- 1/8 tsp or less crushed celery seed
- healthy grind black pepper
- 1/8 tsp or less Bufalo brand chipotle sauce
- 1-2 oz vodka
- juice of 1/2 lime
- add ingredients to a tall glass with ice
- fill glass with V8 juice and stir
- Add a swizzle of 1/2 a whole fresh poblano pepper cut down the middle

Now that's a salsa bloody...

[EvergreenDan]

Instead of V8, I'd use pureed tomato, maybe with come cucumber and green pepper. From my gazpacho experience, it would be much, much better. When's brunch?

Oh, and maybe tequila, rather than vodka?

[StriperGuy]

Natch on the pureed tomato.

Huevos rancheros too?

[MGZ]

I agree that cilantro is a fundamental note in the salsa “chord.”

[daddysjewele]

Since I work at a wing place, when someone wants their Mary (spicy)...i add one of our hotter wing sauces ...and I mean HOT, so u cant add too much. Gives my own lil spin on one of our "chain" recipies ;-) Seems to go over quite well with the customers.

[TuteTibiImperes]

Oh my, when I read the thread title my first thought was a Bloody Mary with chunks of salsa-type stuff floating in it, and I almost threw up in my mouth a little. Blech, chunky is great for peanut butter, awful for mixed drinks.

Actually reading the recipe, it sounds OK, though like others have said, I prefer a dash of worcestershire sauce and some celery salt or old bay in mine as well.

I really prefer what I have learned is called a 'Bloody Caesar' which is a Bloody Mary, but which substitutes Clamato for the the tomato juice.

[StriperGuy]

Bloody caesar is a classic as well.

[CrazyOne]

I think I have put celery salt in mine before. And I was looking to buy worcestershire a couple times, but every bottle had HFCS in it and I couldn't bring myself to buy it. Unless I'm purposely buying a junk food, it can't have that in. ;-)

[StriperGuy]

HFCS is just sugar. Can not understand why people get so hot and bothered about it. There is fructose in apples, and oranges. HFCS is not different then say Agave syrup which is very high in, guess what, fructose, but that is somehow politically correct.

And heaven forbid, particuarly the tiny amounts you get in Worcestershire sauce any effect would be vanishingly small.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fru...

Heck, if you really want, make your own worchestershire sauce from scratch. I have and it tastes GREAT.

[joonjoon]

Technically HFCS is not "just sugar." Sugar is sucrose, and HFCS is a combination of glucose and fructose. Not saying HCFS is good or bad...just saying it's not sugar.

But yeah, I find it annoying when people get all bent out of shape about HCFS.

[StriperGuy]

Glucose, fructose, and sucrose, are all just Sugar.

Different kinds of sugars certainly, but sugar. In fact, sucrose is just one fructose molecule bound to one glucose molecule.

[joonjoon]

I know that sucrose = fructose+glucose. When you used the word "sugar" I took it to mean table sugar, rather than the entire category of sugars.

[CrazyOne]

Sorry I mentioned it. We really don't need a big HFCS debate here in the Spirits forum. There are appropriate places for that discussion. :-)