Sweet Spicy Watermelon Paloma Mocktail
Intro & Description
If you’re unfamiliar with the paloma, it’s a traditional Mexican cocktail that consists of a mix of grapefruit juice, silver tequila, lime, and club soda. It’s super simple, but very thirst quenching, and oh so good!
Our mocktail is deliciously intoxicating but not inebriating. This sweet, sour, and slightly spicy, Watermelon Paloma Mocktail is a refreshing addition to any celebration. Palomas are always topped off with a little fizz action in the form of sparking water or club soda.
This Watermelon Paloma is a tasty, refreshing, sweet and spicy mocktail that lets you sip on a tasty drink all day while you celebrate from home!
Recipe
Ingredients:
750ml BWG Watermelon Punch
4 Tablespoons lime juice
Pinch of salt
½ Jalapeño
1 Cup lemon/lime soda like Sprite or sparkling coconut water
Preparation:
First off, open the lemon/lime soda or sparkling water and pour 1 cup into a measuring cup.
Slice half the jalapeño, and add the slices into the measuring cup with the soda or sparkling coconut water.
Using a spoon or pestle, smash down on the jalapeño slices.
Then set aside so jalapeño will steep into the soda / sparkling coconut water.*
Divide the Watermelon Punch between 2 glasses so there’s approximately ¾ cup Watermelon Punch in each.
Then, squeeze in 2 tablespoons of lime juice into each glass.
Pour a half cup of the jalapeño-infused soda or sparkling water into each glass.
Add a pinch of salt to each glass and stir well.
Serve chilled with extra slices of jalapeño and lime.
Recipe Notes
Instead of infusing the sparkling coconut water / lime soda with sliced jalapeño, you could also simply grate half a jalapeño into the Watermelon Punch and stir well.
To infuse the sparkling coconut water, you use a pestle (you could also use a spoon), and give the slices of jalapeño (while in the sparkling coconut water) a few gentle pounds to release some of the heat in their seeds. However, if spice isn’t your thing, then skip the jalapeño and this step.