Drink · 5 min · Amounts not specified
Tomato orange sipper
Savory brunch without vodka. Salt and a little heat.
The sheet · 1 tall glass · 5 min
easyWhy tonight. Savory brunch without vodka. Salt and a little heat.
What it needs
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- tomato
- orange
- lime
- smoked salt
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: hot sauce.
Method
- Tomato and orange sounds wrong and is an old Spanish combination — both are sweet and acidic and they meet in the middle.
- Salt the tomato juice first and taste it before anything else goes in.
- Lime for sharpness, orange for sweetness, and smoked salt on the rim.
- Roll it between two glasses rather than shaking, so the tomato does not go pale and frothy.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- tomato
- Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
- orange
- Sweeter and rounder than lemon and lime, so it softens rather than sharpens.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- smoked salt
- Smoke without a fire, delivered as seasoning.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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