Wednesday, I am loving the sound of that because it chimes Weekend is approaching! And who says weekend, says cocktails – at least that’s how we hold it at coolbrandz. If you follow me in Social Media, you will have picked up on the fact that I am a cocktail aficionado.
I am following a couple of Instagram accounts of likeminded people; one of them Natalie Migliarini aka @beautifulbooze. It is the most beautiful, colourful, boozy stream that you can imagine. Her recipes are inspiring and her photography fabulous.
Whenever I had a hard day, I am heading over to her blog to find inspiration and maybe recreate some of the cocktails she elaborates. Mine just never look as good, but hey, it really is the taste I am after. So for Cinco de Mayo, here three of Natalie’s Tequila recipes that I recreated at home and that just blew my mind!
1. Vanilla Bean and Jalapeño Paloma
Here the ingredients you need:
- 1.5 tequila
- 1 medium grapefruit, juiced
- 1 teaspoon agave nectar
- 1 teaspoon jalapeno, sliced thin
- 1/8 vanilla bean, seeds scraped
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup of squirt soda
- 1 cup of ice
- Garnish: Thinly sliced jalapeno and grapefruit slices
Instructions:
- In a cocktail shaker add tequila, grapefruit juice, agave nectar, sliced jalapeño, vanilla bean seeds and ice
- Shake for 20 seconds and then pour mixture into serving glass
- Top with squirt soda
- Garnish with jalapeño slices and grapefruit slices
2. Spicy Fesno Margarita
Ingredients below, instruction here:
- 1.5 ounces of tequila
- 1 lime, juiced
- 1 cup fresh or frozen mango
- 1 Fresno chili sliced
- 1 tablespoon of agave
- ½ tablespoon grenadine
- 1 cup of ice
- Garnish: Whole Fresno chili pepper and rim glass with equal parts of salt and chili powder
Instructions
- In a blender combine tequila, lime juice, mango, sliced Fresno chili, agave nectar, grenadine and ice
- Blend until desired consistency
- Rim serving glass with salt and chili powder
- Pour blended mixture into serving glass
- Garnish with whole Fresno chili
3. Spicy Blackberry Margarita
- Find the ingredients and modus operandi below:
- 2 ounces of tequila
- 2 ounces of lime juice
- 5 blackberries plus more for garnish
- 3-4 slice of fresh jalapeño
- 1 ounce of agave nectar
- 1 cup of ice (½ used in the shaker and ½ used to serve the drink)
- Garnish: salted rim and blackberries
Instructions
- Fill cocktail shaker with tequila, lime juice, blackberries, sliced jalapeños, agave nectar
- Add ½ cup of ice
- Shake
- Strain into a salted glass filled with ice