Paloma Cocktail Recipe – Cookie and Kate

Do you love a good paloma? Me too. The paloma is a wonderfully bubbling grapefruit, a lime and a tequila cocktail from Mexico. If you enjoy a greyhound, grapefruit Margarita or Ranch water, this cooling drink is exactly in your alley.

South of the border, Palomas are usually made from grapefruit -soda such as squirt or jarritos, the sprite taste similar. Up here, They often mix bartender With fresh grapefruit juice and sparkling water instead. I prefer that mine is less sweet and citrus, so I love the option “Made-From-Scratch”.

This Paloma recipe is made from scratch with basic ingredients. You need tequila, fresh grapefruit and lime, simple syrup (what to make very easy) and topo chico or sparkle water. Make them at home with top shelf tequila and you will enjoy a better paloma for less money than you would pay for a restaurant.

To make this paloma, we will shake everything apart from the Topo Chico In a cocktail screner full of ice cream. Shaking the ingredients together results in the type of paloma that you would receive in a chic cocktail bar. It is a short step that is worth the additional effort.

Finally we pour the mixture into a glass filled with ice and surpass it with Topo Chico Keep all of these wonderful bubbles. You can see how it comes together in the short video below.

Paloma ingredients

This Paloma cocktail consists of five simple ingredients and an optional pinch of salt. Serve it via ice in a highball glass. Here is what you need to do one:

1) Tequila Blanco

Tequila Blanco is the key. Tequila Blanco is also known as tequila plata or white or silver tequila in English. Since it is bottled shortly after the distillation, it is generally colorless and offers the purest tequila taste. Old tequilas (reposado or añejo) taste smoky and dominate the citrus aromas, so I do not recommend them for palomas.

For Palomas I recommend Casamigas, Espalon or Milagro. They are my top brands for all tequila cocktails. Always choose 100 percent agave tequila so you know exactly what you buy. Cheaper tequila mixtos contain a mixture of alcohols and additives that can contribute to hangover.

2 & 3) Fresh grapefruit and lime

Freshly suitable grapefruit and lime taste better than bought juices bought in the shop. The fresh citrus juice cuts the taste of alcohol. To make a cocktail, you need a small to medium lime and half a grapefruit.

Juice -tips: Quarter the grapefruit and press the juice into a measuring cup. Roll it under your hand before cutting to get the most lime juice from your lime. I like to use This citrus juice To get every last drop and I press the juice directly into the juice This measures Jigger (Affiliate links).

4) Simple syrup

A small amount of simple syrup brings together this cocktail. It makes the rough edges of alcohol and citrus fruits and results in a beautiful Sipper. In order to prepare simple syrup, the same parts of water and sugar (or honey) warm in a small pan on the stove or a bowl in the microwave. Stir until the sugar dissolves.

5) Topo Chico or sparkling water

Topo Chico with its plenty of tiny bubbles makes an amazing paloma. Mineragua is another Mexican sparkling water that is just as beautiful. Otherwise you can use all unblooked sparkling water or club soda.

6) Teeny Tiny pinch of salt

The salt is optional, but increases the overall taste of the cocktail. Try your drink without it and then with him to taste the difference. Or you can lye the edge of your drink with lime juice and salt as you would do with a margarita.

Watch how to make a paloma

Paloma variations

This cocktail is fantastic as written, but here are some fun opportunities to change the taste. Choose one or May two, like a combination of spicy salt and fresh chilli pepper.

• Do it salty: Line the edge of the glass with lime juice and then salt or tajín, a Mexican spice mix of chili, lime and sea salt.
• Make it sharp: Add a thin round of fresh Serrano or Jalapeño pepper to the cocktail shaker.
• Make it particularly refreshing: Add a few cucumber slices to the cocktail shaker.
• Make it floral: Replace the liqueur or honey from St. Germain-single syrup for the simple syrup.
• Add vanilla: A drop – no more – from vanilla extract tastes amazing.
• Add aperol: Aperol offers a bitter sweet Italian turn that makes the drink light orange. Since it is cute, try 1/2 ounce of Aperol and cut the simple syrup in half.
• Reinforcter of the citrus taste: Add one or two lines of Angostura’s orange bitter bitter to the Shaker.

Paloma that operate the suggestions

This Mexican citrus cocktail naturally goes well with its favorite Mexican recipes for Mexican and Tex-Mex. Serve guacamole, queso or salsa with tortilla chips for the happy hour. Try Enchilada, Tacos or Quesadillas for dinner.

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