Hello you lovely people of Drinks Tube, OK we're gonna do an absolute belter of a classic,
Bloody Mary. This is so good, brunch, lunch, tea time, a really good Bloody Mary is a thing
of joy. So, I'm gonna give you a classic recipe with a few little tips on how to get that
beautiful flavour and then we're gonna take that classic and turn it into a bespoked Bloody
Mary and I'm gonna give you the recipe from my restaurant Barbecoa. So, tall glass, half
fill it with ice and we go with plum tomatoes. Plums are always grade A, just push it through
a sieve and then you get real tomato juice. Next level. So, we're gonna go in with 50ml
of vodka, absolutely gorgeous, fill that right up. Then we're gonna go in with 100ml of beautiful
tomato juice. Now, tomatoes from the plum make so much difference, so trust me on this
one brothers and sisters! We're gonna go in with 15ml of lemon juice. Then we're gonna
go in with a little pinch of salt, a little pinch of pepper, 5 little shakes or dashes
of Worcestershire sauce, about a teaspoon, just under. The same with tabasco, chilli
flavour, really really nice. And then we're gonna get in there and have a little mix up.
So at this point in the game we're gonna go to the garnishes which is celery. What I do
is you can click off these outer sticks here. This is celery gold right there, that's the
flavour, that heart is the best bit of the whole thing, I would just get that nice end
straight in there. Simple, top it up with a few more ice cubes. A little bit of black
pepper's quite nice on the top there, and it's classic to add an aromatic herb, parsley
or dill, chervil, could be tarragon. Give it a little spank and just pop it in there,
and it just gets those smells going, let's have a little try. A really really nice drink,
beautifully balanced, the seasoning is imperative, so let's just push this to the side. Now we
can rift with that, people have done it with fresh horseradish, jarred horseradish, mustard,
these are all some variations that are very good with our friend Mr Bloody Mary. But this
is the Barbecoa Bloody Mary. So it's all about smoking, and you can make a Bloody Mary that
mixes things up. So let me show you what to do! Same glass, let's fill this up with ice,
same measurements as the classic, 50ml of our lovely vodka. Goes straight in. 100ml
of quality tomato juice. Then the same amount of Worcestershire sauce, 5 little shakes,
15ml of lemon juice. And then the fun starts! We're gonna go 1 teaspoon, I suggest heaped,
of good barbecue sauce, there we go. Right there, honestly, if it seems weird, you just
have to put it in your mouth and taste it, it's unbelievable. And then we mix it up,
we're gonna hit it up with some sea salt, have a little taste. Very very nice. I'm gonna
go in with a celery stalk like so, I'm still gonna give it some little herbs, because I
quite like that, so we give it a smack, that's all good. But then we're gonna mix things
up a little bit, we're gonna go in with some smoked bacon, right, it goes very very good.
And then you can take a crinkle cutter and a dill pickle, and I'm gonna do a nice little...
look at that. My God it's turning into a burger, frankly why stop there? Let's go in with an
olive as well, I mean look! I don't even know when to stop! But basically, with a little
bit of celery salt, right, we put that on the top. So that my friends, is the Barbecoa
Bloody Mary. Let's get a little straw, have a little try.
Delicious, really good, and you can kind of start picking and nibbling on things, it's lovely, really really nice.
Now, we have the classic here, we have the Barbecoa, what would you do? If you've got
any really good recipes that rift off that classic recipe, let us know what you do, how
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