Sangrita

• Total Time: 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 0 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 1

• 6 medium tomatoes, peeled and seeded
• 3 oranges, juice of
• 2 limes, juice of
• 1 small white onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• salt
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, to taste (A proper sangrita is quite spicy)
• tequila (optional)

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients except the tequila in an electric blender.
2. You may have to do this in batches, depending on the capacity of your blender.
3. Blend until smooth.
4. Serve chilled or over a little crushed ice.

Reviews

[Valinorrim]

You can't have a Bandera without Sangrita! BTW, Sangrita would be more litteraly translated as "little blood". What is a bandera? It's how a lot of us in Mexico ask for our Tequila of choice. Bandera means flag. Mexico's flag is Green, White and Red... You are served a shot glass of criollo-lime juice, a shot glass of you favorite Tequila Blanco, and a shot glass of — you guessed it — Sangrita! It's the perfect chaser trio...

[echo echo]

Well, I had regular Minute Maid orange juice on hand and also part of a bottle of tomato juice. So I used 3 cups of tomato juice plus 2 tomatoes and 1-1/2 cups orange juice. Since I only had one LARGE white onion, I only used 1/4 of it. It's hot and I've been relentlessly thirsty and found this very refreshing. It was also very spicy, thanks to the cayenne (actually I reduced the cayenne a little and added a dash of Tropical Pepper Co. Hot & Sweet Sauce), and a bit tangy thanks to the citrus. And did I add the tequila? You bet! All in all, a very nice thing to do to tomatoes.