Japanese Drinks At Home Izakaya; Fresh-Squeezed Grapefruit & Spicy Tomato Jam Sour

I like drinking while watching Japanese Izakaya TV shows, and I found the new-style Japanese sour!

It is called “fresh-squeezed grapefruit & tomato jam sour”.

What the heck is the drink? Can’t imagine the taste!

So, I couldn’t stop myself to make it!

I made homemade spicy tomato jam and squeezed fresh grapefruits!

So, what’s taste like?

Actually, it’s really tasty!

So refreshing, the kind of drink you try to savor by sipping extra slowly while mixing the passion color of grapefruits and tomato jam!

Yet, always disappears quickly!

Refreshing, still, tangy grapefruits, sweet grapefruits, citrusy grapefruits, sweet tomato jam, spicy jalapeno peppers…

It’s a mysterious delicious summer cocktail!

Grapefruit juice interacts with a number of medications, including statin drugs, increasing your risk of developing side effects of these pharmaceuticals. If you take medication, talk to your doctor before consuming the juice to avoid a harmful interaction.

What’s “Sour” Cocktail In Japan

Simply, Japanese sour is a casual Izakaya drink, which is made of distilled spirits, fizzy water, and added flavor.

If you dive into Japanese sour drinks, you’ll be much confused…

Simply, remember, Japanese sour is the Izakaya drink, which is made of distilled spirits, fizzy water, and added flavors.

5 Things You Want To Know About Japanese Sour Cocktail

Japanese "Sour" cocktail is not a classy stylish cocktail that you order at a fancy bar, wearing a cocktail dress. Japanese sour drink is absolutely casual Izakaya drink made of (reasonable) distilled spirits and fizzy water with flavors, sometimes fresh-squeezed fruit juice, tea, and artificial syrup. Basically, it is a reasonable drink at Izakayas chains or Karaoke rooms. The sour drink is often called Chu-hi, so what's the difference between Sour and Chu-Hi? If you dive into the Japanese sour drink definition deeper, it's so chaotic.

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How To Make Spicy Tomato Jam

You can get a tomato jam jar from a store, but it’s easy to make.

You don’t have to add jalapeno peppers if you don’t want to make it spicy.

It goes well with not only crackers but also ricotta cheese as dessert.

Use non-reactive pots such as  Stainless steel, ceramic, glass, and metal cookware with enamel coating. Avoid using aluminum as it is prone to chemical reactions with tomato acids.

Sweet & Spicy Tomato Jam

Rico McConnell

This Easy Tomato Jam is actually made for my Japanese sour drink!

But, the perfect condiment to add extra flavor to toast bread, sandwiches, and crackers. Sweet and spicy. Please try it on ricotta cheese!

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Ingredients  

• Tomato
• Jalapeno peppers
• Sugar *30% of the weight of tomatoes
• Lemon juice

Instructions 

Peel The Tomato Skin

• Remove the stem and cut a shallow X on the bottom of the tomato.
• Add water to a pot and bring the water to a boil.
• Meanwhile, fill a large bowl with ice water and set it aside.
• Gently place the tomato into the boiling water. You can add several tomatoes.. 
• Remove them after 30 seconds, or when the skin begins to peel back and transfer them into the ice water immediately.
• Since the skin wrinkled and came off the flesh, peel the skins off with your fingers.

Chop The Ingredients

• Coarsely chop the tomatoes. Reserve any juices and add to chopped tomatoes.
• Chop the jalapenos.

  *Wear kitchen gloves while chopping jalapeño peppers
• Combine chopped tomatoes, brown sugar, chopped jalapeno pepper, lemon juice in a large pot and leave them for 30 minutes-1 hour.

  *It can enhance rich flavor to take the juice out and combine.

Make Tomato Jam

• Bring the mixture to a boil over high, medium-high heat.
• Skim the scum off constantly.
• Cook and stir occasionally until the liquid has reduced by half.

Notes

*If you don’t have time to peel & chop tomatoes, you can crush them! in the food processor!

* Use non-reactive pots such as  Stainless steel, ceramic, glass, and metal cookware with enamel coating. Avoid using aluminum as it is prone to chemical reactions with tomato acids.

Keyword condiment, Easy, Hot, Spicy, Sweet, Vegetables

Fresh-Squeezed Grapefruit & Spicy Tomato Jam Sour

Rico McConnell

It’s a mysterious delicious summer cocktail! So refreshing, the kind of drink you try to savor by sipping extra slowly while mixing the passion color of grapefruits and tomato jam! Yet, always disappears quickly! Refreshing, still, tangy grapefruits, sweet grapefruits, citrusy grapefruits, sweet tomato jam, spicy jalapeno peppers…

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Ingredients  

• 2 Fresh grapefruits
• Distilled spirits *Vodka/ Japanese Korui Shochu/ Japanese Shochu (Mugi/ kome/ kokuto)
• Spicy tomato jam

Instructions 

• Prepare a big glass or beer mug.
• Make fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice.
• Fill a glass with ice.
• Pour distilled spirits and stir well.

  *Add more ice to fill the glass if needed.
• Add spice tomato jam.
• Pour fizzy water.

  *You can skip it if desired.
• Pour fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice to finish.

Keyword Alcohol, Cocktails, drink, fruit, Izakaya, Summer

The Best Shochu To Make Sour Cocktail

I know you store vodka in the home bar already, it is absolutely fine!

If you want to upgrade this Japanese sour cocktail, here is the guide to which JAPANESE SHOCHU to choose.

The Best Japanese Shochu To Make Lemon Sour (Lemon Chu-Hi) At Home

Japanese cocktail, Izakaya cocktail at home. Japanese lemon sour also called Lemon Chu-Hi is simply made of distilled spirits such as Shochu/ vodka. For the authentic and lowe alcohol content sour/Chu-Hi, let's use Japanese Shochu. Shochu offers several flavors, and choose mugi/rice or Kosui Shochu to make a Japanese sour cocktail.

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Why Not Korean Soju?

What big difference between Japanese shochu and Korean soju in the US is roughly alcohol content level.

However, Korean soju and Japanese Korui Shochu are almost similar.

For more details, read this post.

What You’ll Need To Make Fresh Squeezed Grapefruits & Tomato Jam Sour At Home

To make this sour drink, I highly recommend using FRESH SQUEEZED grapefruits.

SO, You definitely need a squeezer to squeeze grapefruits.

We really enjoy this mysterious sour drink with guests, so we upgraded a manual squeezer to this electric juicer!

It’s so easy to make not only fresh grapefruits juice but also fresh orange juice every morning!

VIVA, VITAMIN C LIFE!

• Homeleader Citrus Juicer Stainless Steel Juice Squeezer Electric Orange Juicer with Two Cones, Powerful Motor for Grapefruits, Orange and Lemon

You don’t have time to make homemade jam? Or wanna skip the hassle of canning?

It’s not hot spicy jam, but,

Here’s the time saver.

This jam is absolutely delicious. All Natural tomato jam with No additives or Preservatives.

It’s very versatile!

• Tomato Jam 7.7 oz – All Natural Jam – JAMMY YUMMY- NO PECTIN ADDED – Made with Cane Sugar and few ingredients for a natural taste!