Tomato And Tequila Recipes

TOMATO AND TEQUILA

Steps:

• In tall glass combine tomato juice, tequila and lime juice.
• Add Ice and Tabasco sauce.
• Garnish with cilantro.

TEQUILA BLOODY MARY CHERRY TOMATOES

Steps:

• With a wooden or metal skewer, puncture each cherry tomato with 5 to 10 holes; place in a nonreactive bowl.
• By hand, or in a food processor with knife blade attached, finely chop beefsteak tomatoes; transfer to a medium bowl.
• Finely chop onion; add to beefsteak tomatoes.
• Stir in salt; let stand 5 minutes.
• Strain mixture through a fine sieve, pressing hard on the solids (should yield about 2 cups liquid). Discard solids.
• Grate zest from 2 lemons. Squeeze enough juice from 3 lemons to equal 1/2 cup.
• Gently stir tomato water, lemon zest, lemon juice and remaining ingredients (except margarita salt) into cherry tomatoes.
• Cover and refrigerate, keeping tomatoes submerged in liquid, at least 3 days or up to 1 week.
• To serve, place tomatoes in a glass bowl or a margarita glass. Cover with marinade.
• Provide tooth picks or wooden skewers for serving.
• Serve margarita dipping salt on the side.

SANGRITA (MEXICAN TEQUILA ACCOMPANIMENT)

Steps:

• Chop to the point of Liquid, the serrano peppers and the onion in the food processor, you may need to add some of the tomato juice with it to get it to chop up all of the way. It won't go totally liquid, but don't feel that you can chop it too much.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients, Tabasco and Cilantro are optional, but add nice flavor and color. Put them in a blender or in a jar that you can shake them up inside.
• Mix in the onion and serrano peppers.
• For best flavor, Let sit for 24 hours.
• If you prefer, after 24 hours you can strain the mixture. Keeping the liquid part. It is a personal preference.
• If the drink is too spicy for you, add in more tomato and orange juice, keeping them in a 2 to 1 ratio.

SPICY TEQUILA-LIME TOMATO SOUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large stockpot over medium heat; cook and stir onion, celery, and garlic until softened, 5 to 10 minutes. Add green bell pepper and jalapeno peppers to onion mixture; cook and stir until peppers are softened, about 5 minutes.
• Pour tequila into vegetable mixture and simmer until slightly reduced, 3 to 4 minutes. Add fired-roasted tomatoes, vegetable stock, crushed tomatoes, lime juice, salt, and pepper to vegetable-tequila mixture; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until flavors have blended, about 20 minutes. Stir cilantro into soup just before serving.

SPICY TEQUILA-SPIKED CHERRY TOMATOES

Steps:

• Cut off 1/4 inch from blossom end (opposite stem end) of each tomato and with a 1/4-teaspoon measure carefully scoop out seeds. Wearing rubber gloves, seed and mince jalapeño.
• In a small saucepan sprinkle gelatin over vegetable-juice cocktail or tomato juice and let stand 1 minute to soften. Heat mixture over moderately low heat, stirring, until gelatin is dissolved. Remove pan from heat and stir in jalapeño and all remaining ingredients except tomatoes. Cool filling slightly.
• Using a small spoon and holding each tomato over saucepan, spoon filling into tomatoes, arranging tomatoes on a platter as filled. Chill tomatoes, covered, 4 hours, or until filling is set, and up to 1 day.
• Garnish each tomato with a coriander leaf.