Name: Bloody Mary tomato sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 4 tbs tomato ketchup; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce ((use vegan / vegetarian if needed)); 1 tsp Chilli sauce; ½ tsp celery salt; zest 1/2 lemon; 1 tsp lemon juice; 10 cherry tomatoes - finely chopped

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Bloody Mary tomato sauce; a hint of heat makes this easy-to-make sauce a real winner. Use as a dip or sauce, it’s brilliantly versatile.

There is a time and a place where the right answer is a Bloody Mary. Usually for brunch the morning after the night before.

An easy way to stoke an argument is to disagree with a cocktail aficionado about what should go into a proper Bloody Mary: the main ingredients are easy: tomato juice, vodka, and Worcestershire sauce. But from then it gets trickier. A hot sauce of some form is common, but should it be Tabasco, or something else? Celery salt, yes or no? A slice of lemon is a common garnish, but what about lemon juice? And finally, a stick of celery to stir it all with, complete with leaves at the top.

The Bloody Mary is also the inspiration for this sauce. Taking tomato ketchup as its base, it adds the traditional ingredients of Worcester and chili sauces, celery salt and lemon juice.

Worcestershire Sauce (pronounced WOO-STER Sauce) is a great Victorian invention; the secret recipe was invented by John Wheeley Lea and William Henry Perrins in the 1830 in the county that gave it its name. The original iteration was not a success, and it was only after a barrel had matured for some months that they decided that they had a winning condiment. It was from the success of their sauce that they started the eponymous company Lea & Perrins.

Worcestershire has since been merged with its neighbouring county of Hereford and sits approximately one third of the way across the widest part of England and Wales.

The original Lea & Perrins gets its intense addictive umami flavour from fermented anchovies, but of course there are many vegetarian and vegan brands available. We prefer the original in the bottle with the charismatic orange label.

This Bloody Mary tomato sauce recipe is just a matter of mixing the ingredients, and adjusting the resulting sauce to taste. As no blender is needed, it’s perfect for when you’re away from your kitchen. There are many obvious uses: serve with steak, oysters, or barbecued chicken wings, or our freeze ahead chicken kebabs, and here are a few more ideas.

7 Uses for Bloody Mary Tomato Sauce

With seafood; prawns and crabsticks

As a dip served with crudites (try our ultimate crudite platter) and crackers

As a marinade for chicken or for kebabs

Stir into a casserole

Dollop onto a burger

Stir into mayonnaise and serve with thick cut chips

Use it to perk up shop bought dips like hummus.

Buy a packet of wraps and make a batch of my crispy baked homemade tortillas and dip in!

For more of a kick, and a sauce that is perfect with lamb you might like our kebab shop chilli sauce, and we have a list of 40 ways to use up those bottles and jars of condiments in the fridge – including ketchup!

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Bloody Mary tomato sauce

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

1 min

Total Time

10 mins

Bloody Mary tomato sauce; a hint of heat makes this easy-to-make sauce a real winner. Use as a dip or sauce, it's brilliantly versatile. A delicious variation on ketchup, with a traditional kick from Worcester and chili sauces.

Course: Condiment

Cuisine: Vegan

Keyword: Bloody Mary Sauce, Bloody mary tomato sauce

Servings: 6

Calories: 20 kcal

Author: Helen Best-Shaw

Ingredients

4 tbs tomato ketchup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce (use vegan / vegetarian if needed)
1 tsp Chilli sauce
½ tsp celery salt
zest 1/2 lemon
1 tsp lemon juice
10 cherry tomatoes - finely chopped

Instructions

Mix, adjust seasoning if needed.

Recipe Notes

To make this recipe Keto and Paleo friendly, make your own tomato sauce and a vegan worchestershire sauce
This recipe is 1 Weight Watchers Smart Points per portion

Nutrition Facts

Bloody Mary tomato sauce

Amount Per Serving

Calories 20

% Daily Value*

Sodium 317mg 13%

Potassium 105mg 3%

Total Carbohydrates 4g 1%

Sugars 3g

Vitamin A 3.9%

Vitamin C 8.8%

Calcium 0.5%