Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail

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

How To Make Blood Orange Thyme Paloma Cocktail

Ingredients

thyme syrup (directions below)
salt
2 oz Silver Tequila
1/2 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

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.

How To Make Thyme Syrup

Ingredients to make Thyme Syrup

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1 cup fresh thyme stems and leaves, packed

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.

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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