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Bloody Mary (aka Festival ‘Salad’)

Easy
Serves 4
Prep 5 min
Cook 5 min

An actual salad is about as likely as finding a reasonable phone signal at a festival, so here's all your vitamin requirements in the form of a proper Bloody Mary instead. It's the style we serve at our delis, which means enough Worcestershire sauce to wake the dead and warming spices – I use both Aleppo and Urfa chilli – to give it depth without overwhelming heat. Serve it all in one jug with celery sticks bristling out like a bouquet and plenty of glasses on the side.

Ingredients

120ml worcestershire Sauce
1½ tsp balsamic vinegar (aged if possible)
1 tsp aleppo chilli
1 tsp urfa chilli
1 tsp sugar
½ tsp ground black pepper
½ tsp celery salt (or fine sea salt)
160ml vodka
2 tbsp lime juice
1L tomato juice
a few celery stalks, for garnish

Method

  1. Place the first 7 ingredients into a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Immediately turn off the heat and pour into a large jug to cool completely.
  2. When cool, add in the remaining ingredients and stir to combine. Place a few cubes of ice into 4 tall glasses and pour over the Bloody Mary mix. Add a celery stalk to each glass and mix to chill. Enjoy immediately.