So, today while shopping for liquor with a a friend (which I realize makes me totally look like an alcoholic 
; I'm not, this is a once a semester thing), he told me about a Mexican beverage called Sangrita (so not confuse with the Spanish Sangra, which is a different thing). Sangrita is a mix of tomato, orange and lime juice with a splash of pepper people in Mexico drink alongside their tequila shot (you drink a shot of sangrita, hold it in your mouth, and wash it down with a tequila shot). I tried it out, and indeed, it's glorious, especially if you like salty and sour tastes together (like, say, on a Bloody Mary, which I fucking love).
Being a lazy bastard, I thought how cool would it be to consume the sangrita and the tequila together (indeed, it's another way to drink it: just mix the two, one part each). Thing is, sangrita isn't a beautiful beverage: in fact, it's butt-ugly, so just mixing it with tequila doesn't cut it as far as presentation goes. So I decided to layer the tequila on top of the sangrita, and came up with this:
(note: there are like, a thousand sangrita recipes on the internet. I used a pretty generic one: 2 parts of tomato juice, 1 part of orange juice, 1/2 a part of lime juice, and a splash of Tabasco)
Bloody Mexican
0.6 oz. | 2 cl. tomato juice
0.3 oz | 1 cl. orange juice
0.15 oz. | 0.5 cl. lime juice
1 splash of Tabasco
0.8 oz. | 2.5 cl. tequila
Add the tomate, orange and lime juices, and the Tabasco sauce, to a shot glass and mix them. Lay the tequila on top of the mix.
The quantities are kinda weird in oz. due to the conversion. An easier way to do it is mix a big batch of sangrita, fill half a shot glass with it, and layer the tequila on top of it until the glass is full.
So... it still looks pretty awful
But it's a cool awful, like coagulated blood on the bottom of a bucket of blood serum. I'll serve these on Halloween, I think Plus, it tastes really, really good.
; I'm not, this is a once a semester thing), he told me about a Mexican beverage called Sangrita (so not confuse with the Spanish Sangra, which is a different thing). Sangrita is a mix of tomato, orange and lime juice with a splash of pepper people in Mexico drink alongside their tequila shot (you drink a shot of sangrita, hold it in your mouth, and wash it down with a tequila shot). I tried it out, and indeed, it's glorious, especially if you like salty and sour tastes together (like, say, on a Bloody Mary, which I fucking love).Being a lazy bastard, I thought how cool would it be to consume the sangrita and the tequila together (indeed, it's another way to drink it: just mix the two, one part each). Thing is, sangrita isn't a beautiful beverage: in fact, it's butt-ugly, so just mixing it with tequila doesn't cut it as far as presentation goes. So I decided to layer the tequila on top of the sangrita, and came up with this:
(note: there are like, a thousand sangrita recipes on the internet. I used a pretty generic one: 2 parts of tomato juice, 1 part of orange juice, 1/2 a part of lime juice, and a splash of Tabasco)
Bloody Mexican
0.6 oz. | 2 cl. tomato juice
0.3 oz | 1 cl. orange juice
0.15 oz. | 0.5 cl. lime juice
1 splash of Tabasco
0.8 oz. | 2.5 cl. tequila
Add the tomate, orange and lime juices, and the Tabasco sauce, to a shot glass and mix them. Lay the tequila on top of the mix.
The quantities are kinda weird in oz. due to the conversion. An easier way to do it is mix a big batch of sangrita, fill half a shot glass with it, and layer the tequila on top of it until the glass is full.
So... it still looks pretty awful
But it's a cool awful, like coagulated blood on the bottom of a bucket of blood serum. I'll serve these on Halloween, I think Plus, it tastes really, really good.