White Tea "Paloma" Mocktail for Self-Love (and Glowing Skin)
With grapefruit, spice, lime and honey, this clarity-bringing White Tea "Paloma" Mocktail clears away mental chatter. This will make you better able to hear your inner voice and make space for opportunities to love and honor yourself.
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Ingredients
Drink Base
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 bags white tea (cleansing, new beginnings)
- 3 1-inch cubes green bell pepper (love, self-awareness), muddled
- 5 black peppercorns (banish negativity), muddled
- 1 strip lime rind (healing, love, protection), bitter white removed
- pinch crushed red pepper (fidelity, love, fiery spice)
Mixers
- 2 tbsp honey, plus more for rim (purification, sweetness, prosperity)
- 1 ounce lime juice (healing, love, protection)
- 1 cup grapefruit juice, from 1-2 grapefruit (purification, mental clarity, manifestation) plus the zest, organic
- 5 dashes Hella Cocktail Co. Smoked Chili bitters optional to evoke a smoky mezcal vibe
- 1 scoop collagen powder optional, (read about how and why to add functional ingredients to your mocktails)
- ice
- seltzer to top, (I used unsweetened grapefruit flavor)
Garnish
- palmful fine-grained sea salt (prosperity, cleansing, protection)
- 1-2 grapefruit (zest)
Instructions
- Boil the water and add the tea bags and aromatics, if using. Steep for five minutes. Remove aromatics and squeeze out tea bags. Stir in collagen powder and honey until dissolved and place in fridge until chilled - at least 30 minutes.
- Zest the grapefruit, mixing the zest with a palmful of salt. Really rub the two together to incorporate the essential oils. Roll the rim of two bucket glasses in honey and then dip into the salt mixture.
- Juice grapefruit until you have one cup of juice. Add grapefruit juice, lime juice and your tea mixture to a shaker. Add ice, shake* and strain evenly into both glasses.
- Fill to the top with grapefruit seltzer and enjoy.
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Notes
*Be sure not to skip the shaking with ice and straining step. It might be tempting to just build your drink in the glass, but doing so results in a drink that is a bit too acidic. Shaking with ice dilutes the mixture to perfect drinkability.
Substitutions
Want to use a NA tequila? I haven’t found a great one yet, but if you have, write to me and let me know about it! Replace the ingredients in the drink base with an equal amount of NA tequila. Prefer a different sweetener? See The Ultimate Guide to Mocktail (and Cocktail) Substitutions Prefer a non-alcoholic bitters? See The Ultimate Guide to Mocktail (and Cocktail) Substitutions Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!