Muffaletta Mary
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Recipe type: Cocktail
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Serves: 6 drinks
 
A Muffaletta Mary is Bloody Mary's half-sister from New Orleans. She's ¼ olive salad, ¾ tomato juice, and a smattering of other ingredients. The list of possible garnishes is endless: a hunk of provolone or a ball of fresh mozz, pickled cauliflower, cocktail onions, olives, Genoa Salami, ham, mortadella, or pepperoncini, a lightly toasted buttered square of bread.A perfect hangover cure or brunch drink. If alcohol isn’t your thing, I also think this would make an excellent gazpacho. It's a thick pureed blend of briny, tomato-rich liquid. Serve with provolone toast, and you’ve got yourself an effective hangry cure.
Ingredients
  • For the olive salad
  • 1 cup Giardiniera or picked Italian cauliflower, carrots, peppers, olives and celery (found with other Italian food or olives at most grocery stores)
  • ¾ cup green olives stuffed with pimentos
  • ¼ cup kalamata olives, pitted
  • 2 pepperoncini peppers (depending how many you used from the Giardiniera--you want about 4 total)
  • ¼ cup cocktail onions
  • 2-3 basil leaves
  • black pepper to taste
  • 2 Tbsp. brine from Giardiniera or pepperoncinis
  • For the Marys
  • 1 cup olive salad
  • 4 cups Tomato Juice
  • 1 Tbsp. prepared horseradish
  • 1 Tbsp, tomato paste
  • 1 Tsp. hot sauce of your choice
  • 4 dashed of Worcestershire sauce
  • ½ tsp. black pepper
  • Garnishes: Old Bay for glass rim, lemon, mozzarella balls, salami, sharp provolone cubes, pepperoncinis, olives, or celery.
Instructions
  1. To make the olive salad, add Giardiniera, olives, peppers, cocktail onions, basil leaves, black pepper, and brine to a blender. Blend until everything is chopped and mixed together.
  2. Add tomato juice and all other ingredients to the blender. Cover and blend until smooth.
  3. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes before serving to allow flavors to marry. Don't worry if it seems thick. The vodka will water it down a bit.
  4. Pour over ice with desired amount of vodka.
  5. Garnish with hard salami, provolone, pepperoncini, olives, and celery.
Recipe by Sense of Taste at https://sensetaste.com/muffaletta-mary/