Grapefruit Paloma with Dehydrated Grapefruit Garnish
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Tequila 5 min 1 serving

Grapefruit Paloma with Dehydrated Grapefruit Garnish

Mexico’s favorite tequila cocktail with a dried grapefruit garnish that makes it dinner-party worthy.

The Paloma is Mexico’s most popular tequila cocktail — outselling the Margarita in its home country by a wide margin. It’s bright, refreshing, and endlessly drinkable, with a grapefruit backbone that pairs beautifully with blanco tequila. But the garnish is often an afterthought — a lime wedge, maybe a grapefruit slice that’s already browning before the first sip. Citrus House dehydrated grapefruit slices change that. Each dried grapefruit wheel is cut from whole ruby red grapefruits and slow-dried to preserve the blush-pink color and bittersweet aroma. When perched on the rim of a Paloma, it adds a dramatic visual element and releases subtle grapefruit oils into the drink as you sip. It’s the kind of finishing touch that turns a casual tequila cocktail into something dinner-party worthy.

Ingredients

60ml Blanco tequila
30ml Fresh grapefruit juice
15ml Lime juice
10ml Agave syrup
Top Grapefruit soda
1 slice Dehydrated Grapefruit (Citrus House)

How to Make a Grapefruit Paloma

  1. 1 Rim a highball glass with salt (optional) and fill with ice.
  2. 2 Add tequila, grapefruit juice, lime juice, and agave syrup.
  3. 3 Top with grapefruit soda and stir gently.
  4. 4 Garnish with a Citrus House Dehydrated Grapefruit slice on the rim.
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Tips & Technique

Building a Paloma starts with the salt rim — optional but recommended. Run a lime wedge around the rim of a highball glass and dip it in flaky sea salt. Fill the glass with ice. In a shaker (or directly in the glass), combine 60ml of blanco tequila, 30ml of fresh grapefruit juice, 15ml of lime juice, and 10ml of agave syrup. If shaking, strain over the ice; if building in the glass, stir gently. Top with grapefruit soda (Jarritos Toronja or Squirt are traditional choices, but Fever-Tree grapefruit works beautifully too). Now perch your Citrus House dried grapefruit slice on the rim. The dehydrated grapefruit garnish holds its shape perfectly — no wilting, no sliding, no browning. It stays photogenic from first sip to last, and the subtle bittersweet aroma it releases complements the tequila’s agave character.

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