Today's Spring Fling is a little drink I have been playing with lately and I think it is ready for an unveiling. It is, quite simply, Tamarind & Tequila. Okay, so there is a little more to the drink than tamarind and tequila, but those are the basic flavors and they always work well together.
Essentially, this drink uses a few sweet ingredients to balance the natural sour flavor of the tamarind and raw agave taste of a good blanco tequila. The tamarind ingredient I chose to use is a tamarind nectar because it not only mixes well in stirred and shaken drinks, but it is readily available (look in the juice aisles). Jumex is the nectar that I can find locally (Goya makes a fine nectar as well) and it comes in a 12 ounce can, posing a freshness problem if you are making fewer than 8 drinks at one time. My solution is to store the remainder in recycled glass bottles, with the small club soda and ginger ale bottles being my first choice.
Beyond that, this drink is very easy to make and is excellent to serve alongside Mexican cuisine.
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