sig's Bloody Mary and Pomegranate Prawn Cocktail.

Ingredients

• 500 ml tomato juice ( I use pasata)
• 2 tbsp heaped best tomato ketchup
• 3 limes
• freshly squeezed for juice
• 2 tbsp Grenadine
• 4 tbsp pomegranate juice or 2 oranges freshly squeezed for juice
• 3 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 tbsp Tobasco Sauce
• 2 tbsp Tequila
• 1 salad for 6 as follows
• 300 grams cooked prawns
• 300 grams fresh scallops diced
• 1/2 cucumber
• diced
• 3 spring onions finely chopped
• 8 cherry tomatoes
• quartered
• 1 handful of pomegranate seeds
• 1/2 avocado
• diced
• 1/2 habanero chilli
• deseeded finely chopped (optional)
• 1 small handfull coriander leaves
• chopped
• 2 baby gem lettuce shredded

Instructions

1. Mix tomato juice,ketchup, pomegranate or orange and lime juice,grenadine,worcestersauce, tabasco,tequila salt and pepper in a jug.
2. Try and get a nice mix of firy pep and saltiness, with the fruit juices balancing everything.
3. Add the scallops chill in fridge so that the citrus juices cook (pickle) the scallops.
4. for the salad
5. Cut cucumber in half lengthways and scoop out seeds with spoon,dice the cucumber into little cubes.Cut avocado into little cubes,stir in onions,prawns tomatoes and coriander.Put a small layer of lettuce in bottom of six glasses and add salad scatter over the pomegranate seeds.
6. Pour over the chilli tomato sauce.
7. Either serve salted crackers or buttered brown bread..
8. I have used gin and sherry before instead of grenadine and tequila