Celebrate the season with a Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail you can sip on and dream about warmer weather.
Citrus cocktails are a perfect cocktail for the winter months because they take advantage of the winter citrus season.
Here in Florida, we don't need a reason like the holidays to sip on a sweet herbal cocktail like a blood orange Paloma.
Cocktail Herb Garden
Back in the spring, I planted my Cocktail Herb Garden. My cocktail herbs are still supplying me with fresh herbs like thyme, one of my favorite fresh herbs to use in my recipes.
I have two varieties of fresh thyme growing. Regular thyme which is one of my three favorite herbs to use in soups and stews.
And lemon thyme which was a new thyme variety to me. I don't think I have ever grown it in my garden before now.
Herbal Cocktail Recipes
Savoring the flavors of fresh herbs in a cocktail is easy to do when you grow your own fresh herbs.
Fresh thyme is very easy to grow and all you need is a large pot of thyme or lemon thyme growing to enjoy a delicious herbal cocktail recipe like this Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail whenever you have a craving for a citrus flavored cocktail.
Thyme is an easy herb to grow on a windowsill during the winter months in cold climates.
Growing some of your favorite herbs is a great way to turn your boring cocktail party into something really special.
Before long you'll be the mixologist that everyone wants to hang out with just so they can sip on your herbal cocktails.
Cocktail recipes for the holidays
Citrus based cocktails are perfect for the holidays when it is easy to find fresh winter citrus fruit like Blood Oranges and Palomas.
The cold months of winter are when the Florida citrus season is in full swing.
A Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail is the perfect way to chase the winter blues away.
Herbal Cocktail recipes
- Pineapple Sage Blackberry Mimosa
- Pineapple Sage Mojito
- Jalapeno Thyme Margarita recipe
- Blood Orange Smash Cocktail recipe
Ingredients To Mix Blood Orange Thyme Paloma
- thyme syrup (directions below)
- salt
- 2 oz Silver Tequila
- ½ oz blood orange juice
- chilled club soda or chilled blood orange or grapefruit soda (I used club soda to allow the flavor of fresh blood orange juice to shine through)
- sprigs of fresh thyme
- blood orange wedge
- ice
Directions to make
- Rim glass by swirling it in a shallow bowl with homemade thyme syrup.
- Dip the glass into a shallow bowl of salt.
- Fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Add the blood orange juice and tequila to the glass.
- Top the cocktail glass off with chilled club soda.
- Garnish glass with sprigs of fresh thyme, wedges of a blood orange.
Ingredients To Make Thyme Syrup
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup fresh thyme stems and leaves, packed
Directions
- Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan.
- Heat on medium until sugar has dissolved, stirring occasionally.
- Bring to a boil.
- Remove the pot from the burner and allow to cool slightly about 10 minutes.
- Place the fresh thyme stems and leaves into the warm sugar syrup, pushing it down until it is submerged. Place a lid on the pot and allow to steep for about 2 hours or overnight.
- Strain through a fine-meshed strainer that has been lined with a coffee filter or cheesecloth.
- Transfer the thyme syrup to a glass bottle and cover. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Keep unused thyme syrup refrigerated for about 3 weeks.
Helpful tips to make this cocktail recipe
- Plant a Cocktail Herb Garden with your favorite herbs so you can enjoy an herbal cocktail all year long. Or purchase some fresh thyme at the market.
Helpful products to make this Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail recipe
- Curved Collins Cocktail Glass
- Wooden Cocktail skewers
- The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
- Fine meshed strainer
- Coffee filters or cheesecloth
- Glass Bottles to store Thyme syrup
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Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail
Ingredients
- thyme syrup (directions below)
- salt
- 2 oz Silver Tequila
- ½ oz blood orange juice
- chilled club soda or chilled blood orange or grapefruit soda (I used club soda to allow the flavor of fresh blood orange juice to shine through)
- 1 med sprigs of fresh thyme
- 1 small blood orange wedge
- 1 scoop ice
Ingredients to make Thyme Syrup
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup fresh thyme stems and leaves packed
Instructions
Directions to Make Thyme Syrup
- Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan. Heat on medium until sugar has dissolved, stirring occasionally. Bring to a boil.
- Remove the pot from the burner and allow to cool slightly about 10 minutes.
- Place the fresh thyme stems and leaves into the warm sugar syrup, pushing it down until it is submerged. Place a lid on the pot and allow to steep for about 2 hours or overnight.
- Strain through a fine-meshed strainer that has been lined with a coffee filter or cheesecloth.
- Transfer the thyme syrup to a glass bottle and cover. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Keep unused thyme syrup refrigerated for about 3 weeks.
Directions to make Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail
- Rim glass by swirling it in a shallow bowl with homemade thyme syrup.
- Dip the glass into a shallow bowl of salt.
- Fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Add the blood orange juice and tequila to the glass.
- Top the cocktail glass off with chilled club soda.
- Garnish glass with sprigs of fresh thyme, wedges of a blood orange.
Recipe Expert Tips
- Must make the Thyme simple syrup before the cocktail recipe.
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