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Chatazo
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Chatazo
Photographed in an UB Koto Collins 35cl
| 2 oz | Patrón Silver blanco tequila |
| 3 oz | Pink grapefruit juice (freshly squeezed) chilled |
| 1⁄4 oz | Monin Pure Cane Syrup (65.0°brix, equivalent to 2:1 rich syrup) |
| 3 drop | Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water) |
How to make:
- Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
- Prepare garnish of pink grapefruit slice wheel.
- POUR all ingredients into chilled glass.
- Briefly STIR.
- FILL glass with ice.
- Garnish with grapefruit slice wheel.
Strength & taste guide:
No alcohol
Medium
Boozy
Sweet
Medium
Dry/sour
Review:
Zingy tequila-laced grapefruit. Mexico's answer to a cocktail suited to brunch or indeed pretty much any other time of day.
History:
Jesús Azpeitia Morales, better known as El Chato, has been making this, the signature cocktail at his Bar El Chato in Atotonilco el Alto, Jalisco, Mexico since 1960.
Nutrition:
One serving of Chatazo contains 194 calories
Alcohol content:
- 1.3 standard drinks
- 11.99% alc./vol. (11.99° proof)
- 18.9 grams of pure alcohol
- More Aperitivo/aperitif cocktails
- More Breakfast/brunch cocktails
- More Citrusy cocktails
- More Long drinks & highballs cocktails
- More Summer cocktails
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