Name: A frozen paloma cocktail
Prep time: 5 min
Total time: 5 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 400ml freshly squeezed grapefruit juice; +-1.5 cups ice; 2 shots of tequila (50ml) – or more if you want them stronger); 60 – 80ml agave syrup or sugar syrup

The Paloma is my favourite cocktail and you can read all about how to make it in this post. It consists of fresh grapefruit juice, tequila, and lime which is enough to explain why I love it so much. There is no way to improve this perfect drink, so I made a frozen variation instead and it’s delicious.

You need a good quality blender to crush all that ice into a fine snow, and nothing does it better than my Kitchen Aid blender which has various settings to crush ice, blend or make a smoothie. I use it all the time. Whack all the ingredients into the blender, press play and you are seconds away from having an icy cocktail in your hand.

You can adjust the quantities of tequila, sugar syrup and ice to your taste preference. I like to use a nice aged reposado for this drink, but any good quality tequila will work well. You can garnish it with a slice of grapefruit or a wedge of lime. Both work equally as well.

How to make a frozen Paloma cocktail

Simply squeeze the juice from pink grapefruit and lime and place all the ingredients into a blender with ice and blend until frozen. The more powerful the blender the better.

Garnish the glass with a salt or chilli salt rim. When you are ready to serve, take a wedge of lime and run it around the rim of your glass. Dip this into salt or chilli salt to coat the edge.