Cooking Lesson #476: The Paloma Summer Cocktail

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How you doin’? Here is another of our great summertime Happy Hour cocktails. The Paloma is the perfect, refreshing patio drink made fresher by real ingredients, high quality grapefruit liqueur and bitters.
 
Pamplemousse is a slightly sweet, delicately fruity liqueur made from grapefruits is produced in France. It is a wonderfully versatile liqueur that can easily be enjoyed in a chilled Moscato, margarita, vodka soda, or just over ice.  LaCroix’s most popular flavor was grapefruit, or as the company calls it “pamplemousse,” the French word for the citrus.
 
Prep time: 5 minutes
Yields: 1 cocktail

Ingredients 
1-1/2 ounces Blanco tequila
1/2 ounce Pamplemousse Liqueur (Grapefruit)
1/4 ounce simple syrup
2 ounces grapefruit juice
1 ounce Squirt soda
Grapefruit bitters
2 lime wheels
 
Directions

1. Add the tequila, Pamplemousse liqueur, simple syrup and juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
2. Shake until chilled and strain into a glass with a single, large round ball of ice (or over ice cubes).
3. Top with Squirt and add a few dashes of bitters.
4. Give a quick stir.
5. Garnish with a couple of lime or grapefruit wheels.

ChefSecret: 

• Grapefruit Bitters are bitters sweetened with honey. They add dynamic flavor to gin, vodka, and tequila as well as wine spritzers, champagne cocktails, and floral aperitifs like Lillet. They are available at better liquor stores and online or you can make it yourself.
• Grapefruit can interact with different medications such as statins and blood pressure meds. Look it up before you mix it up... and drink it down!

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