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Desert Orange recipe
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Desert Orange

Enjoy the Desert Orange cocktail, which combines smoke, spice and citrus that takes advantage of blood orange season.
Course Drinks
Cuisine Sour
Prep Time 6 minutes
Total Time 6 minutes
Servings 1 cocktail
Calories 240kcal
Author Geoffrey Wyatt

Ingredients

  • 2 oz. mezcal I used Mezcal Vago Espadín
  • 1/2 oz. Ancho Reyes Verde
  • 1/2 oz. Calvit's Tomatillo-Tamarind-Hibiscus Drinking Shrub
  • 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed blood orange juice
  • 1/4 oz. burnt sugar syrup I used Tippleman's
  • 1 dash Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters
  • blood orange wheel
  • pink Himalayan salt

Instructions

  • Salt the rim of a rocks glass with the salt.  Add a large ice cube.
  • Combine the mezcal, Ancho Reyes Verde, shrub, juice, syrup and bitters in a shaking tin with ice and shake vigorously.
  • Strain into the glass and add an orange wheel as garnish.