San Diego Paloma
We are HUGE fans of Paloma’s in our house. A delicious cocktail doesn’t have to be complicated! When you use fresh ingredients, you don’t need much! Let the spirit and the beautiful summer San Diego grapefruit speak for themselves!
CHEERS!
Prep time: 15 minutes // Cook time: 0 minutes // Total: 15 minutes // Serving size: 2
Ingredients / Equipment:
5 oz fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
1/2 oz agave
4 oz Reposado tequila
Tajin (or salt)
Ice
Soda water
2 Grapefruit peels
1 lime wedge
Cocktail shaker or mixing glass
Juice press / squeezer
Cocktail strainer
2 glasses
Instructions:
Juice your grapefruit and lime if you haven’t already!
Take your two glasses and a lime wedge and run the lime wedge around the rim of the glass. Next, coat the rim with Tajin or salt. Fill your glasses with ice.
Fill your cocktail shaker with ice. Add grapefruit juice, lime juice, agave and tequila. Give it a good shake for about 15 seconds.
Strain your paloma over your fresh ice and top with soda water.
Garnish with your grapefruit peels and you’re good to go!
CHEERS!
Notes:
This is a great recipe with mezcal too!
And its still refreshing as a non-alcoholic option!
You can see by our photos below how much we love drinking Palomas!
Fun fact: Traditional Palomas that you’d find down in TJ are made with Squirt grapefruit soda!
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