Deluxe

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 1 (11.5 fl oz) can spicy vegetable juice cocktail
• 1/2 lime, juiced
• 1 stalk celery
• 4 dashes pepper sauce (such as frank's red hot®)
• 2 dashes worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
• 4 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers , or to taste
• 1/2 cup crushed ice
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 cup ice cubes
• 4 marinated cocktail onions
• 1/2 carrot (optional)
• 2 short stalks of celery with leaves
• 2 stuffed green olives
• 1/2 lime, cut into wedges
• 2 thin strips of green bell pepper (optional)
• 2 small sprigs of mint (optional)

Recipe

• in a blender, combine the vegetable juice, lime juice, 1 celery stalk, hot pepper sauce, worcestershire sauce, horseradish, , and crushed ice. season with salt and pepper. cover, and blend until smooth.
• use two large frozen mugs, or pint glasses. place one cocktail onion at the bottom of each glass. put 1/2 cup of ice cubes into each glass. use a vegetable peeler to pull a few strips off of the carrot for each glass. put in a slice of green pepper. divide the blended mixture evenly between the two glasses.
• on cocktail toothpicks, place a green olive, a cocktail onion, and a lime wedge. attach each one to a celery stalk so that when inserted, this garnish is on the top of the drink. sprinkle on a few more carrot strips, and garnish each drink with a sprig of mint.