A Classic Caesar Cocktail with a Pickle Twist

A caesar cocktail with vodka, calmato juice, a dash worcestershire, a dash tabasco sauce, a squeeze of lime, and our secret pickled ingredient.  Pickles! 

Prep time: PT5M

Total time: PT5M

Rating

4.31 stars (13 reviews)

Keywords

caesar cocktail, caesar drink, spicy caesar

Ingredients

Celery salt or Montreal Steak Spice (for the rim)
2-3 Lime wedges
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Pickle juice (or more to taste)
6 oz Clamato Juice
2-3 dashes Worcestershire Sauce (or more to taste)
2-3 dashes Tabasco (or more to taste)
1/4 tsp Celery salt or Montreal Steak Spice (to sprinkle on top)

Cuisine

Canadian

Steps

Take a lime wedge and run it around the top rim of your glass, then dunk the rim in the celery salt or montreal steak spice.  Fill the glass with ice.
Pour in the vodka and the pickle juice.  Squeeze in some lime juice ( I like at least 2 wedges, but I usually have a bit more. I like it limy).  Fill the glass with clamato juice.  
Add the worcestershire and tabasco and sprinkle some montreal steak spice in, or you can use garlic plus, or lemon pepper...  whatever you like.   Give it a good stir.  
Garnish with pickles, cheese, pepperoni or spicy beans, or olives or whatever you like.

Nutitrion

Serving Size: 1 cocktail
Calories: 213 kcal
Carbohydrates: 24 g
Protein: 2 g
Sodium: 892 mg
Sugar: 7 g

Reviews

John Crawford on 2022-01-30 (5 stars):
BLOODY BULL Just add 1/2 cup of beef bouillon to your cocktail. You can any spice you want, but a little Frank’s helps. Tim the glass with beef bouillon and celery salt. Wow!
Chris on 2018-09-05 (5 stars):
Can I use strubs pickle juice?
Susan on 2018-08-06 (5 stars):
Make it as above and add 2 tsp (or more) of horseradish sauce. :0) PS: A small bottle of Clamato is 8 to 12 bucks in Australia! :0)
John on 2018-08-05 (5 stars):
The juice is a great add, which is why I usually have dill gherkins in mine, but I also switched from vodka to gin. The juniper in the gin really compliments the clamato (I also prefer Walters) in a way that vodka can never really match.
Lisa on 2018-05-01 (3 stars):
For an even tastier Caesar I like to add a garlic clove... I dare you!
Dakota on 2018-04-05 (5 stars):
Definitely dill pickle juice!
Jennifer Hankins on 2018-03-23 (5 stars):
Thank you! I have all the ingredients ready to make these this weekend! Oh, and here is my favorite pickled okra brand...looks like you can buy them on line...give them a try! http://www.talkotexas.com/ Loving the blog, thanks for all the wonderful ideas!