How to Make a Grilled Cocktail for Memorial Day

This Bloody Mary recipes includes steak. Yes, you can have it all.

By Sarah RensePublished: May 25, 2018

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The grill is going to be hot this weekend, the coals burning flavor into Memorial Day burgers, brats, steaks, and hey, maybe even some octopus. Might as well use it to make a fiery-tasting cocktail, too.

The Arrowhead Bloody Mary is a whopper of a drink. It twists a traditional Bloody Mary recipe by using Grand Marnier and fresh tomatoes instead of juice. It also packs flavor reminiscent of the red-hot grill with a rim dunked in peppery steak rub. The final flourish is a chunk of seared steak—"perfect if it’s the morning and you had steak left over from the night before," says James Bowers of the Grand Marnier team, who created the cocktail.

You've waited a long, cold winter for this three-day holiday weekend. You deserve a meaty cocktail to celebrate.

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Yields:: 1 serving(s)
Total Time:: 5 mins

Ingredients

2 parts vodka
1/2 part Grand Marnier
3 cherry tomatoes
2 pieces Fresno Chili (red jalapeño)
7 -10 leaves cilantro
1 pinch sea salt
steak rub*

Directions

1. Step 1Muddle tomatoes and chili in a tin.
2. Step 2Slap the cilantro and add it in, then add the rest of the ingredients (minus steak rub).
3. Step 3Shake, then strain into an ice-filled rocks glass that has been rimmed with steak rub.
4. Step 4Garnish with a skewer of cherry tomatoes and a piece of grilled steak.