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Happy Saturday Guys!!
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Are you ready for the return of Christmas Drink Saturday?!?! After many of you kindly took the time to comment and email me, asking for the return of the holiday drinks, I decided that Christmas Drink Saturday clearly needed to be brought back! This year I’m starting a week early, for two reasons.
Reason one: Thanksgiving is this Thursday and I think it just feels fitting to have a holiday drink for this big holiday too!
Reason two: When I sat down last weekend to plot out my holiday drinks, I was three over my limit. Yes, THREE. So I decided to throw in an extra drink that’s perfect for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Cool, cool! 🙂
To kick things off, I’m starting with one of my favorite drinks of the bunch. This Paloma is all things Holiday…and it’s perfection…fizzy, minty, gingery, full of sweet pomegranate, and um tequila too! Perfect drink to mix up for any holiday party. The simple syrup makes enough for at least four drinks, but can easily be doubled, or tripled, for a large batch of drinks. My special Christmas touch to these drinks though?
GINGER BEER.
It’s not traditional in Palomas, but it’s so much better than using club soda and adds a killer ginger flavor, which to me, just screams the holidays! Of course, if you prefer, you can obviously use club soda or anything with some fizz! Either way, these drinks are going to be delish! Bring on the holiday festivities!
Pomegranate Ginger Paloma.
Ingredients
Ginger Syrup
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 inch fresh ginger, chopped
- 8 leaves mint
Paloma
- crushed ice
- 1/2 cup pomegranate juice
- 1/3 cup grapefruit juice
- juice of 1/2 a lime
- 2-4 tablespoons ginger syrup
- 2-3 ounces tequila
- ginger beer or sparkling water, for topping
Instructions
Ginger Syrup
- Bring 1/2 cup water, the honey and ginger to a boil over high heat. Once boiling simmer, 1-2 minutes and then remove from the heat. Add the mint, cover and steep 10-15 minutes. Strain out the ginger and mint. Store in a glass jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
Paloma
- Fill your glass halfway with ice. Add the pomegranate juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice, syrup, and tequila. Stir to combine and then top with ginger beer. Garnish with mint. enjoy!
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Pitcher Style Pomegranate Ginger Paloma.
Ingredients
- 2 cups grapefruit juice
- 1/2 cup lime juice
- 1/2 cup ginger syrup, or to taste, recipe above
- 1 1/2 cups silver tequila, or to your liking
- 4 cup pomegranate juice
- ginger beer, for topping (or sparkling water)
Instructions
- In a large pitcher, combine the grapefruit juice, lime juice, ginger syrup, tequila, and pomegranate juice. Chill until ready to serve. Pour over ice and top with ginger beer.
Nutrition
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Cheers to the start of all things festive, fun…and boozy!
Yes! Thank you very much! I will definitely be serving this xmas eve! Can’t wait!
Ah yay! Hope you love it Monica!!
This looks yummy and want to try to make this for a large party of about 10 guests for xmas. Any recommendations how to convert this to a ‘punch’ version?
HI Monica!! Yes, here are the measument for a punch version, just add the ginger beer for topping each glass. Let me know if you have questions. Thank you!
•Paloma
•kosher salt, for rim
•4 cups grapefruit juice
•1 cup lime juice
•1 cup ginger syrup (or to taste)
•3 cups silver tequila (or to your liking)
•8 cup pomegranate juice
•ginger beer, for topping (or sparkling water)
Hi! They look absolutely beautiful – as always
But I quite dislike grapefruit, and no matter how little I add I feel like it comes through really strong.
Do you have any ideas for a substitute?
Thank you in advance 🙂
Hi! You can just use and equal amount of more pomegranate juice or even omit it and add a splash more of lime juice. Let me know if you have other questions. Hope that helps. Happy Thanksgiving! 🙂
Hi Tieghan!
Just wanted to say I’ve tried it out without grapefruit juice (I instead doubled the amount of limejuice), and it worked quite splendidly. A lovely drink, and I’m looking forward to serving it to my guests this coming Wednesday. I’ll wager they won’t be disappointed 😉
Ah yay! I hope they love it!! Thanks so much for making it!
Love this! Can the concoction be made ahead and served in a large pitcher? Thanks!
YES! That works great. I actually did it today! Just add the sparking water or ginger to each glass so it does not go flat. Happy Thanksgiving!
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I’ll have a glass, please!!
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Haha glad you are loving this drink!! Thanks Ruth!
Bring on the Christmas drinks! 🙂 These are gorgeous!
Thanks Laura! 🙂
What a perfect Holiday drink! And those glasses – I want them! 🙂
I will post what they are! Thank you so much Julia!!
I’ll take anything with alcohol or pomegranates! 🙂
Perfect for you then!! Thanks so much Alice!
This is soo gorgeous! It’s so festive and perfect for the holidays!
Thank you so much Andrea!
I think I’ve found my holiday drink!
Awesome! So happy you like this one! Thank you Sara!
I love everything about this post! Can’t wait to try the recipe, love the sparkly pinecones and I’m with the other comments who want to know where you got those glasses??
Thank you! They are from Anthropogie!
Yes to all of the Christmas cocktails!
Thanks so much Rachel!
Definitely trying! Looks great too! Please share where you purchased the glasses! Thanks!
Thank you so much Pam!!
Love the drink, can’t wait to make it! I want the glasses too, any idea where I can find them?!
Thanks, Kara
I don’t know if it’s an identical glass but it looks pretty spot on… look for gilded rim stemless glass at Anthropologie.
Thanks Kara! You can find them at Anthropologie. 🙂
You know what My whole family is addicted to this kind of drinks! This would definitely hit the spot! Pinned!
Woo! Thank you!