Sunny Mary: a Bloody Good Alternative
Sunny Mary: a Bloody Good Alternative are a light and refreshing Summer cocktail made with golden Roma tomato water and voka for an update on the classic.
Ingredients
- 2 cups tomato water
- ¼ teaspoon celery salt
- juice of 1 lime
- good dash celery bitters
- 1 cup vodka
- ¼ - 1 teaspoon hot sauce I used a yellow mango habanero sauce that was awesome and the right color. If you’re too aggressive with a dark sauce here, you can compromise your yellow color
- ice
- limes half wheels
- cucumber sticks
- tomatoes halves for garnish
Instructions
- Pour tomato water into a pitcher.
- Add the lime juice, celery bitters, celery salt and hot sauce. Mix well.
- Add the vodka. Obviously you can make them more or less boozy. With a little research I found out that the original Bloody Mary was 1:1 vodka to tomato juice. And while that sounds lovely and all, it’s too overwhelming for the delicate tomato water, so add it incrementally.
- Serve over ice with a tall stick of Persian cucumber, a couple of tiny tomato halves, and a lime wedge. Gorgeous.
- And you don't need vodka to enjoy this. It's a great mocktail, too.
