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Bone broth cocktails are a thing now

Adding some lamb broth can give your Bloody Mary a little reboot. Photo: Getty
Adding some lamb broth can give your Bloody Mary a little reboot. Photo: Getty

You might add spinach to smoothies and chia seeds to oatmeal, but would you ever think to add bone broth to cocktails?

Better known as a healing soup, believed to foster gut health and boost your immunity, bone broth is consumed more for its benefits than taste. But consider the Bloody Mary: mixed with tomato juice and spices, most of the ingredients seem better fit for a meat dish than country club cocktail. What’s the harm, then, in adding a little broth? Exactly.

At least, that’s how Ariane Resnick, author of The Bone Broth Miracle, sees it. “When I started reading about bone broth cocktails, I started just feeling like it was the perfect way to ease up on the seriousness of something like bone broth,” she tells Yahoo Health. “It’s a way that you can kind of lighten it up and say hey, you can still have fun while being healthy.”

Plus, Resnick points out, once you try bone broth in a cocktail, you might find that it makes the alcohol more drinkable. “I found that this scotch that I loved in theory but had a hard time drinking was actually easier once I added bone broth. It mellowed it out and gave it a [food-like taste].”

So you’re interested - or at the very least, intrigued. Where do you start? “I began with the classics,” Resnick says — the Bloody Mary, or, as she calls it, the Mary Had A Little Lamb. Worried it’ll taste like, well, meat? Don’t be. “You could put 60ml of almost anything into a Bloody Mary and you’d never know,” Resnick says.

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If you’re not quite up for the challenge of crafting your own broth cocktail, try this tried-and-true recipe.

Mary Had A Little Lamb
60 ml lamb broth
60 ml vodka
60ml tomato juice
Juice of 1/2 lemon
2 dashes hot sauce
1 dash worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon grated horseradish root
1/4 teaspoon celery salt
Freshly grated black pepper (to taste)
Garnish: celery stalk, piece of beef jerky, or pickled vegetable

Heat bone broth in a small pot just until room temperature and no longer gelled.
Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake until well combined. Serve over ice in a highball glass.

Thisarticle originally appeared on Yahoo Health