I am so excited to share with you that I am finally creating content for YouTube, and my first video went live today! Watch today’s recipe below.
To celebrate we’re making a recipe from my first cookbook, Chicano Eats: Recipes from my Mexican American Kitchen, for a cocktail that I like to call La Cuba. Quite a few recipes in the book are inspired by different family members, and la Cuba is essentially my dad’s take on the traditional Mexican Paloma.
Did you know that the Paloma is Mexico’s national cocktail, and not the margarita?
This drink is easy to throw together, and if you don’t have any Mezcal on hand, feel free to leave it out! I promise it will still be just as delicious. The base of this cocktail is grapefruit, pineapple and lime juice mixed with tequila and a kiss of mezcal, then topped off with grapefruit soda. Simple and refreshing.
I hope you give the recipe a try, and please give my channel over a YouTube a subscribe! I’m excited to continue this video journey and see where it leads. Nos vemos pronto!
Cuba
Ingredients
- 2½ oz pineapple juice
- 1½ oz grapefruit juice
- 1 oz lime juice
- 2 oz tequila
- 1 oz mezcal
- pinch of sea salt, plus more for the rim
- ice
- grapefruit soda
- lime and orange slices for serving
Instructions
- Fill a small bowl with about 1/2 cup of sea salt. Run a lime wedge around the rim of your glasses and dip it into the bowl, making sure the rim has a nice even coating of sea salt.
- In a highball glass or jarrito filled with 1/2 cup of ice, mix together the pineapple juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice, tequila, mezcal and pinch of salt.
- Give it a stir, then top off with grapefruit soda.
- Garnish with orange and lime slices.
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