Luchador Recipe
By
Kate Ramos
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This spicy beer cocktail will give you the strength to execute the high-flying moves and pile drives of the greatest luchadores (Mexican wrestlers), or at least the strength to watch them on TV.
What to buy: Clamato is a spicy tomato drink spiked with clam juice. Look for it in the juice aisle of the grocery store or in Latin markets.
Game plan: Keep a beer mug nice and frosty in your freezer for when you get the urge for an ice-cold Luchador.
This recipe was featured as part of both our Cinco de Mayo cocktail menu and our Tailgating Recipes photo gallery.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 (12-ounce) pilsner-style Mexican beer, such as Modelo
- 2 ounces Clamato juice
- 1 ounce lime juice
- 3 dashes hot sauce
- Pinch cumin seeds
- Pinch freshly ground black pepper
- Pinch kosher salt
- Ice
INSTRUCTIONS
- Pour beer into a frozen pint glass.
- Combine remaining ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice. Shake vigorously, strain over beer, stir, and serve.
Replace the clamato with tomato, avoid the msg in Clamato!
I have these on Sundays and didn't know they had a name....I just called them bloody beers.
Yeah, i find it hard to distinguish between this and a michelada as others have said
its the same exact thing under a different label which is not known at all
FWW, the piledriver (and in fact any move where the wrestler lands on his or her head) is strictly prohibited in lucha libre and grounds for a disqualification. The drink sounds like a nice variation of the michelada. I'll have to add a dash of cumin next time I make those.
Beer and Clam' ......a regular drink here in British Columbia. No lime and hot sauce however.
I actually tried this last night, nah, not my cup of tea, something about the old school days in Kansas and 'red' beer and hazy nights kept haunting me; but, still to each his/her own, as long as it's not the so called "king of bottled beers"
I drink a michelada whenever it is really hot or I want to drink a crappy, warm PBR. Just add tapatio, lime juice and bit of salt. It is awesome and easy to make even a few drinks later.
i can handle a regular modelo and might try it with tomato... something about clamato in this recipe that makes me cringe, that's all
I appreciate how everyone has already complained about renaming something and calling it your own.
Aklein - not a negro, but just your standard old modelo especial. And adding tomato juice (or clamato) is popular in several cultures as a "red beer"
most of this sounds intriguing, though it's really a michelado without the Jugo Maggi and Worsterchire... but Clamato? over my dead bones would I do that to an innocent Negro Modelo... like bobinnola said, maybe salt, I'll add maybe lime and hot sauce......Clamato!?!?!?!
I've heard the spiel about how these are great and refreshing and someone even espoused that it's a wonderful "hair of the dog" choice for hangover weekends... but, honestly this drink made me want to die. I will stop with salt in the mexican beer, tomato and other savoury products belong in bloodys...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelada