Mezcal paloma
Check out this quick and easy summer cocktail recipe with mezcal, zesty limes and sweet yet slightly bitter grapefruit juice. A paloma is usually made with tequila but using mezcal instead adds a lovely smoky edge to the drink
Bacalar cocktail
- Easy
- Serves 1
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- 1 lemongrass stickbroken into pieces
- 25ml Mezcal Amores
- 25ml chardonnay
- 25ml homemade sugar syrup(see below)
- 25ml fresh lime juice
- 2 basil leaves
- ginger alefor topping up
- edible flowersto garnish
HOMEMADE SUGAR SYRUP
- 200g caster sugar
Method
step 1
First, make the sugar syrup. Put the sugar in a pan with 100ml of water and stir over a low heat until the sugar has
dissolved. Cool completely and pour into a sterilised bottle. It will keep in the fridge for up to a month.step 2
Put the lemongrass in the bottom of a cocktail shaker and muddle using a muddler or the end of a rolling pin to release the flavour.
step 3
Add a handful of ice followed by the mezcal, chardonnay, sugar syrup, lime juice and basil leaves. Seal with the lid
and shake well for 20 seconds. Double strain into a glass filled with ice, top up with ginger ale and garnish with an edible flower, if you like.
