Attractive Low Carb Seaside Bloody Mary Cocktail (With Or Without Vodka)

Seaside Bloody Mary
~ highball presentation ~

This attractive Low Carb cocktail is Delicious and perfect to serve at brunch, as an appetizer, with or without alcohol. They are impressive no matter what style glass you serve them in.
                                                                            
Cocktail Ingredients:

container for shaking/mixing
1/2 cup (4 ounces) vegetable or tomato juice
3 tablespoons vodka**
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon horseradish
Tabasco sauce to taste (2 - 5 drops)
3 drops liquid Monkfruit sweetener***
black pepper to taste (a dash - 1/4 teaspoon)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
ice
Garnish Ingredients:
lemon & lime wedges
sea salt
green olives

cucumber chunks
large (jumbo) cooked shrimp (with tail on)
skewers/picks
celery stalk

Seaside Bloody Mary
~ tall glass presentation ~

Method:

For One Cocktail:

Place a shrimp and desired garnishes on a skewer or pick. Set aside.

Sprinkle sea salt on a small plate or bowl. Run a wedge of lemon around the edge of a serving glass. Dip the glass into the salt to garnish the rim. Add ice cubes to the prepared cocktail glass.

Place an additional 5 to 6 ice cubes in a shaker container. Add the juice, vodka, Worcestershire, horseradish, Tabasco, sweetener, black pepper and lemon juice. 

Shake well to blend. Strain into the prepared glass. Add the  skewered garnishes.

Makes one.

Method for Four Cocktails:

Prepare 4 skewers or picks with one shrimp, lemon & lime wedges, olives and cucumbers on each pick. Set aside.

Sprinkle sea salt on a small plate or bowl. Run a wedge of lemon around the edge of 4 serving glasses. Dip the glasses into the salt to garnish the rim. Add ice cubes to the prepared cocktail glasses.

Place 2 cups of ice in a pitcher, or 8 cup measuring cup. Add 2 cups juice, 3/4 cup vodka,

4 teaspoons Worcestershire, 1 to 2 teaspoons horseradish, 8 to 20 drops Tabasco, 12 drops liquid sweetener, 1/4 to 1 teaspoon black pepper and 4 teaspoons of lemon juice. Stir well to blend. Pour equal portions into the prepared glasses. Add a skewered garnish to each cocktail. Serve. Makes 4.

**If desired, omit the vodka, to make an alcohol free cocktail. 
***You may substitute another unflavored liquid sweetener, of your choice, or a 1/2 teaspoon of granulated sweetener.

Nutritional info per cocktail (with one of each garnish):
approximately 147 calories ~ 1 gram fat ~ 7.15 grams net carbs 
~ 3.7 grams protein

Nutritional info per cocktail (without celery & cucumber)
approximately 142.5 calories ~ 1 gram fat ~ 6.4 grams net carbs
~ 3.45 grams protein