Best Paloma Recipes

PALOMA

Steps:

• In a highball glass filled with ice, combine salt, tequila and lime juice. Top with soda. Garnish with lime.

PALOMA

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• Combine the tequila, lime juice, and salt in a tall glass. Add ice, top off with diet grapefruit soda, and stir.

PALOMA

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• Dip the rim of a highball glass in a bowl of water, shake off the excess, then sprinkle a spoonful of salt onto a plate or saucer and dip the glass into that to coat the rim.
• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, then add all the remaining ingredients minus the soda water. Shake until the outside of the shaker feels cold, then strain into your prepared glass. Add a few fresh ice cubes and top with soda water to serve. Garnish with the wedge of grapefruit.

MEZCAL PALOMA

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• Rub the cut side of a lime wedge around the edge of the glass. Place salt on a plate and invert glass into salt to rim the glass. Fill glass with ice. Squeeze juice from the same lime wedge into the glass. Pour mezcal over ice, then top with grapefruit soda. Garnish with remaining lime wedge.

GOLDEN STATE PALOMA COCKTAIL

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• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add the tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice and agave syrup. Attach the shaker lid and shake vigorously for 15 seconds. Fill a glass with ice and strain the cocktail over the ice. Top with seltzer and garnish with the lime wedge.

PALOMA

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• Pour some kosher salt on a plate. Rub half of rim of a highball glass with a grapefruit wedge; dip rim of glass in salt. Combine 1/4 cup fresh grapefruit juice, 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, and 1 teaspoon sugar in glass; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in 1/4 cup mezcal or tequila, add ice, and top off with 1/4 cup club soda. Garnish with grapefruit wedge.

LA PALOMA COOLER

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• Rub rim of a highball glass with lime wedge; invert glass in a small dish of coarse salt, twisting to coat rim. Fill glass halfway with ice, 1 teaspoon lime juice, and 1 ounce platinum tequila, then top with Mexican grapefruit soda. Stir. Place cored-out lime half in drink and fill with tequila (try a reposado for added flavor).

GRILLED GRAPEFRUIT PALOMA COCKTAIL

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• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Cut limes in half widthwise. Cut 1 half into 3 wheels.
• Pour sugar into a shallow bowl. Dip lime halves, 2 of the lime wheels, and grapefruit into sugar to coat thoroughly.
• Place limes and grapefruit cut-side down on the hot grill. Cook, turning lime wheels occasionally, until browned and grill marks form, 5 to 10 minutes. Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet to cool.
• Rub remaining lime wheel over the rim of 2 highball glasses. Dip rims in kosher salt. Fill glasses with ice.
• Juice grilled lime halves and grapefruit into a small pitcher. Pour in any juices that accumulated on the baking sheet. Stir in tequila and simple syrup. Divide mixture between glasses and top off with club soda. Garnish with grilled lime wheels.

PALOMA

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• Run half of a cut lime around the rim of a Collins Glass then dip the rim into pink Himalayan salt. Add lime juice, grapefruit juice, tequila, a few ice cubes, followed by the soda. Top with a lime wheel and a straw.Add more ice and top with 4 oz. grapefruit soda.

TEQUILA: PALOMA

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• Combine lots of ice, the tequila, lime juice and grapefruit juice in a mixing glass and shake. Top with soda. Salt the rim of another glass and strain in the mixture. Garnish: Grapefruit wedge.

PALOMA COOLER

Steps:

• Rub rim of a highball glass with lime wedge; invert glass in a small dish of coarse salt, twisting to coat rim.
• Fill glass halfway with ice, 1 teaspoon lime juice, and 1 ounce platinum tequila, then top with Mexican grapefruit soda.
• Stir.
• Place cored-out lime half in drink and fill with tequila (try a reposado for added flavor).

PALOMA

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• Fill a highball glass with ice (dip the rim in salt first, if you like). Add tequila and lime juice, then top with grapefruit soda. Stir ingredients together gently. Garnish with a wedge of lime.

RUBY RED AND TARRAGON PALOMA

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• Rub the rims of 4 to 6 cocktail glasses with some of the grapefruit juice, then dip into the salt. Fill each glass with ice and set aside.
• Muddle the tarragon and sugar in a large cocktail shaker. Add the grapefruit juice, mezquila and ice. Shake vigorously for 20 seconds, then strain, pouring into the salted glasses. Top with the club soda.

LA PALOMA SUPREMA

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• Pour the ingredients over the ice, stir briefly to incorporate ingredients. Garnish with a wedge of lime and enjoy immediately.

GRILLED PALOMA

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• Light a grill and arrange it for direct heat or preheat a grill pan. Grill the grapefruit and the limes over high heat until well browned on the bottoms, 4 to 5 minutes. Let cool slightly.
• Arrange some salt on a small plate. Moisten the rims of 2 high ball glasses and coat with salt.
• For each cocktail: Fill a shaker with ice and add 2 ounces of squeezed grapefruit juice, 1 ounce of squeezed lime juice, 2 ounces tequila and ½ ounce agave nectar. Close the shaker and shake well. Fill one of the prepared glasses with ice and strain the drink into the glasses. Top with 1 ounce of club soda and serve. Fill the shaker with clean ice to make the second cocktail.

CRANBERRY PALOMA

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• Run grapefruit wedge around the rim of a highball glass; dip rim in margarita salt. Fill glass with ice. Add tequila and cranberry sauce, then top with soda. Stir once, garnish with same grapefruit wedge, and serve immediately.

LA PALOMA SUPREMA

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• Add Don Julio Reposado Tequila and grapefruit soda in salt-rimmed, ice-filled highball glass
• Garnish with lime wedge

SALTY PALOMA SODA CAN COCKTAIL

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• Pour off or drink 5 oz. from pamplemousse so that 7 oz. remain in can. Combine tequila, lime juice, and triple sec in a measuring glass or cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and stir or shake well to combine, about 20 seconds. Strain into can. Rub outside rim of can with lime wedge, then sprinkle with salt.

RUBY ROSE PALOMA

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• In a small pitcher, combine the first 4 ingredients., Mix salt and sugar on a plate. Moisten the rims of 2 cocktail glasses with water. Hold each glass upside down and dip moistened rim into salt mixture. Discard remaining salt mixture., To serve, fill glasses with ice. Add half the grapefruit juice mixture to each; top with grapefruit soda and grapefruit slices.

PALOMA MARGARITAS

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• Fill 4 tall glasses three-quarters of the way with ice. Pour 1/2 teaspoon grenadine into each glass. Combine 1 cup tequila, 1 cup grapefruit juice, 1/4 cup fresh lime juice, 2 teaspoons superfine sugar and a pinch of salt in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, then pour into the glasses. Top each drink with 1/4 cup grapefruit soda.