Name: Chef John's "Sunset" Michelada
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients: 2 pints sweet cherry tomatoes; 0.25 cup chopped celery; 0.25 cup chopped red bell pepper; salt and ground black pepper to taste; 0.5 teaspoon flake sea salt (such as Maldon®); 1 pinch freshly ground black pepper; 1 pinch dried red chile pepper; 1 lime, halved; ice cubes; 0.5 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce; 0.5 teaspoon hot pepper sauce; 0.125 teaspoon soy sauce; 1/4 cup homemade vegetable juice; 0.5 (12 fluid ounce) bottle ice-cold Mexican lager

Ingredients

Instructions

Step 1

Place cherry tomatoes, celery, and red bell pepper into a blender. Pulse a few times to get mixture moving. Blend on high until mixture has liquefied, a few more seconds. Place strainer over a bowl and strain mixture to remove seeds and skins. Push mixture through strainer with a spatula to extract the liquid. Season with salt and pepper.
Step 2

Sprinkle flake salt, black pepper, and chili pepper on a small plate. Rub rim of a glass with cut surface of a lime. Invert glass and dip rim into salt mixture.
Step 3

Fill glass with ice and add Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, and soy sauce. Pour in the vegetable juice and juice of 1/2 lime. Fill the glass 3/4 of the way with ice-cold beer. Stir. Top off with more beer. Garnish with lime slice.

Enjoy your meal!