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Basic Bloody Mary Mix Recipe

A basic Bloody Mary recipe with tomato juice, fresh horseradish, hot sauce, citrus, celery salt, Worcestershire sauce, and vodka for a spicy brunch cocktail.

By chow · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Basic Bloody Mary Mix Recipe

Why it works: Lemon and lime match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,289 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Basic Bloody Mary Mix Recipe

8 (6-ounce) drinks
Cook2 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

80Calories
4 gProtein
1 gFat
18 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Chili1 tsp (2.7g)8
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Celery Stalks1 stalk (40g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Horseradishnot in our table0
Vodkanot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,289 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Sauce + vodkatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, lime, sauce, horseradish, celery, pepper, vodka):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, lime, sauce, horseradish, celery, pepper, vodka. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.