Paloma Recipe (Paloma Cocktail)

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 ounces tequila

  blanco is best
• 2 ounces fresh grapefruit juice
• ½ ounce fresh lime juice
• ¼ ounce simple syrup

  or use agave
• 2 dashes grapefruit bitters

  optional
• Soda water to top

  1-2 ounces - or use Fresca, Squirt, or Topochico
• Ice
• Coarse sea salt

  to rim the glass - or salt + tajin for a spicy version

Instructions

• 1 Add the tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice, simple syrup, and grapefruit
  bitters (if using) to a shaker with several cubes of ice. Shake well. Give it a
  good 30 seconds of shaking to really infuse the tequila.
• 2 Rub a lime wedge around the top of a collins or other cocktail glass. Pour the
  salt (or salt + tajin) onto a small plate, then dip the glass into it to coat
  the rim. The lime juice will help the salt stick.
• 3 Strain the liquid into the glass over ice.
• 4 Top with soda water.
• 5 Garnish with a grapefruit wheel or aromatic grapefruit peel.

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