Bloody Maria

Name: Bloody Maria
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: ice cubes; 2 slices of lime; 1½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce; clamato juice (tomato and clam), or tomato juice, to taste; 2 double shots (about 100 ml) tequila blanco; Tabasco, to taste; ½ juicy lime; 1 tablespoon flaked sea salt; 150 ml orange juice; ½ small red onion, grated

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Good Table

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

About

I love the standard-issue Sunday Bloody Mary bolstered with sherry and some celery, but occasionally I want to move left-field and Mexico is the right place. Tequila blanco is a young tequila, under a year old.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon flaked sea salt
½ juicy lime
150 ml ora

Americas
Mexico
Pescatarian
Gluten-free
Drinks

Method

Wet the lip of two large, heavy-based tumblers, then turn upside down and press on to a side plate scattered with the salt. The lip of the glass should now be white-rimmed and salted.

Into a small jug squeeze the lime and orange juices through a small sieve and then press through the juice from the grated onion. Add the Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco and as much clamato or tomato juice a