Delicious Margarita Recipes

I consider the most important step to make divine Margaritas is salting the glass. The salty flavor complements the flavors of the margarita recipe, and the light crunch can provide a pleasant sensation.

I actually prefer to mix salt and sugar half and half, so it's not so salty. And if you're worried about sugar, then consider using Stevia extract as a substitute for the sugar. But my favorite is a Margarita Rimmer by Stirrings, such as Mango Rimmers!

If you want to know how to salt a margarita glass the traditional way, here it is....

Do not use plain Salt - it will actually give your margarita a taste which is too salty.

Always choose a coarse grind salt such as kosher salt, Seal Salt or a Margarita Salt made specifically for margaritas. The coarseness also adds texture and creates a stunning looking rim. However, some bartenders will mix salt 50/50 with sugar as well, to give the rim a sweeter taste.

To rim the glasses, there are two ways to do it... and the secret is in using lemons or limes instead of water. The traditional way to do it is with limes, but you can use lemons if you are in a pinch.

The first way is to cut a piece of lime and rub it along the rim of the glass. Alternatively, you can dip the rim in a small amount of lime juice on a large enough saucer or plate to be able to dip the entire rim at once.

Next comes the salt (or salt/sugar) dipping. On a saucer or plate large enough for the entire rim to be dipped at once, pour enough salt so it is about 1/8 to 1/4 inch deep. Then dip the rim on, twirling around so the salt sticks on the entire rim. Then fill with the margarita of choice and serve!

Tequila, the primary alcohol in a margarita, pairs very well with salt and lime. Served without salt, the Margarita Recipe suffers.

You can purchase a Margarita rimmer set or purchase your salt in a tin, so that you can use the tin for mess proof salting.

Margaritas in the Summer are appealing with the salt around the rim. The salt helps your body maintain water at a time when the alcohol from the Tequila is depleting your system of water. The Salt with the Tequila is a good counter-balance, as long as it's not too much salt, or too many Margaritas for that matter!

While there are many varieties of Salt Rimmers i.e. Stirrings Rimmers, you can concoct your own.

I bought Country Time Lemon powder crystals in the 10 pack box and added this to Rock Salt in equal parts and it was quite good; maybe not as good as Stirrings, but good and needless to say, cheaper!

Mango Rimmers by Stirrings is my favorite, so I will continue to hunt for the more exotic flavors in powder form to add to my Margarita Rimmers.

A good Margarita Recipe includes a delicious Rimmer!

The Best Margarita Recipe Ever

* Two parts tequila (good tequila is always better...)
* Half part Grand Marnier (this is a critical part... trust me, don't go cheap on the citrus liqueur. Cointreau also goes very well, but really doesn't have the same aromatic flavor that Grand Marnier has; try them side-by-side; they have totally different flavors... if you cheat here with Triple Sec or Orange Curaçao, you must add a dash of orange bitters!)

The rest of the Limoncello Margarita Recipe.

ORIGINAL MARGARITA RECIPE- 1948

* 1 oz. Cointreau
* 2 oz. Tequila, white
* 1 oz. Lime Juice

The authentic margarita invented by Margarita Sames in Acupulco in 1948. Shake with ice and pour into a glass with a lightly salted rim.

CABO WABORITA

* 1 oz. fresh lime juice
* 1 oz. triple sec
* 2 oz. Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo tequila (100 percent weber blue agave)

Mix in a shaker over ice. Serve in a salt-rimmed glass.

La Perfecta Margarita Recipe

1 1/4 ounces El Tesoro Anejo tequila
1/2 ounce Grand Marnier
2 ounces margarita mix

Shake ingredients and pour into a cocktail glass. Squeeze a lime wedge over the drink and drop it in. Garnish with two olives.
Source: Z'Tejas

APRICOT MARGARITA

* 1-1/2 cup fresh apricots, halved and pitted (or 16-oz. can juice-packed, unpeeled apricot halves, drained)
* 1/2 cup tequila
* 1/4 cup sugar
* 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
* 1/2 cup apricot nectar
* About 3 cups ice cubes

Combine apricot halves, tequila, sugar, lime juice and apricot nectar in a blender; cover and blend until smooth.

CACTUS MARGARITA

1 1/4 oz. tequila
1/2 oz. pineapple concentrate
5 oz. sweet & sour or margarita mix
1 oz. cream of coconut
12 oz. ice

Blend all ingredients until slushy. Note that there is no cactus used here, nor is tequila made from a cactus, nor in fact is any fermented or distilled drink in Mexico made from cactus.

I love Margaritas!

1 shot good quality tequila
1 shot triple sec
1/4 cup sweet and sour mix
1/4 cup cranberry juice
1/2 shot Grand Marnier
1 wedge of lime
lime juice, in a shallow dish
margarita salt, in a shallow dish
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Place lime juice in a shallow dish. Invert a glass and dip the rim in the lime juice. Immediately dip in the margarita salt to coat the rim.

Place enough crushed ice in the glass to fill it half way. Stir in the, tequila, triple sec, sweet and sour mix, cranberry juice, and Grand Marnier. Serve with a wedge of lime on the rim.

* 1 1/4 ounces sauza commemorativo tequila
* 1/2 ounce prezidente brandy
* 1/2 ounce Cointreau liqueur
* 3 ounces sour mix
* 1 splash of lime juice

1)

3 cups Cracked Ice
1/4 cup Powder Sugar
1 cup Tequila
6 ounces Frozen Orange Juice

Rub rims of 4 Glasses with 1 lime half; dip rims of glasses in granulated sugar. Squeeze juice from both lime halves into blender, add remaining ingredients and blend.

Serves 6

2) 2 oz Herradura Silver
.5 oz Cointreau
Juice of 1/4 orange
Splash Campari

Put tequila, Cointreau, and juice in a shaker with ice. Shake to combine. Pour into chilled cocktail glass (strain if you dislike pulp). Pour Campari over the back of a spoon, let settle.

This variation was very nice. The first half of the drink is sweet from the juice and Cointreau, and spicy from the tequila. As you drink, you slip into the tangy/bitter half, and finish wanting another.

3)

4) Another Variation of Margarita Sunrise

This is a Tex-Mex version of the Salty Dog, using tequila rather than vodka or gin.

* 2 ounces tequila
* 4 ounces grapefruit juice
* 1 wedge lime
* coarse salt

Wet the rim of an old fashioned glass with lime juice, then dip in salt. Fill glass with ice. Pour in tequila and grapefruit juice. Squeeze and drop in the lime wedge. Stir.

Cool Mint Rita Margarita Recipe

* 1-½ oz. Cuervo gold tequila
* ½ oz. Cointreau
* ½ oz. of Dekuyper Creme de Menthe
* 3 oz. Margarita mix

Shake ingredients with ice. Pour into a salted cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh mint or lime.

Margaritini (combination Margarita & Martini)

* 2 oz. El Tesoro silver tequila
* 1 oz. Cointreau
* Splash of Margarita Mix
* Fresh lime juice

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a Martini glass.

Iguana Margarita Recipe (Melon flavor)

* 2 Liters of Tequila
* 1 Liter of Triple Sec
* 1/2Liter Midori (Melon Liqueur)
* 1 Margarita Mix
* Add water to make 5 gallons

Watermelon Margarita
* 1-½ oz. tequila
* ¾ oz. triple sec
* ¾ oz. Midori
* 2 oz. sour mix
* 6 oz. cubed, seeded watermelon
* 8 oz. ice

Blend all ingredients together; serve in a 14-ounce glass. Garnish with lime and watermelon wedge.

Raspberry Margarita

2 ounces Tequila Tezon Blanco
1 cup fresh raspberries
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce agave nectar
Juice of 1/2 lemon
ice

Mix all ingredients except ice. Pour into blender and process with ice until slushy. Serve in a cocktail glass.

Tequila Tezon Blanco is a clear, versatile tequila, and since its taste and nose already hint of citrus and pepper, it pairs very nicely with orange-based liqueurs in a basic or upgraded margarita like the Tezon Raspberry Margarita.

Strawberry Margarita

6 oz. can frozen limeade concentrate
2/3 limeade can tequila
1/3 limeade can triple sec
1 small carton frozen strawberries

Put all ingredients into blender container. Fill blender with ice and blend until smooth.

Ultimate Margarita Recipe

1.5 cups tequila
1/2 cup Grand Marnier
1/3 bottle beer (light beer: Budweiser, Coors, Miller)
1 can frozen lemonade concentrate
juice from 1 lemon
juice from 1 lime
sugar to taste
ice
salt, if preferred to rim glass

In a blender combine all ingredients, blend until smooth. Alternately, combine all ingredients except ice in a pitcher and pour into an ice filled glass.

Maya Margarita

1oz Fresh Lime Juice
1oz 100% Agave Tequilla
1oz Xtabentun Liquor
1 Pinch of Sugar

Add ice and shake well and pour into a glass rimmed with salt and a lime. Salud!

Mango Margarita Recipe

1 1/4 ounces silver tequila
1-ounce triple sec
1 1/2 ounces freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 ounces simple syrup or sweet-and-sour mix
3/4 cup partially frozen mango, unsweetened (prefer individual quick frozen or fresh)

Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a hurricane-style glass.

Cadillac Margarita

1 1/2 oz tequila
1 oz Grand Marnier® orange liqueur
1/4 oz fresh lime juice

Shake 100% blue agava tequila with grand marnier and lime juice, and strain into a chilled salt-rimmed cocktail glass. Serve.

Margarita Italiana

* 2 Liters ofTequila
* 1/2Liter of Triple Sec
* 1/2StraLiter of Aaretto
* 1Margarita Mix
* Add water to make 5 gallons

Clement Margarita Recipe


1 1/2 ounces premium tequila
1 ounce Clement Creole Shrubb
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice

Shake all ingredients together with ice, then strain into a glass rimmed with salt.

Wine-A-Ritas

* 3 Liters of Los Cabos Wine
* 1Liter ofTriple Sec
* 1Margarita Mix
* Add water to make 5 gallons

Get Me Naked Margarita

* 1 bottle Beer (Corona)
* 3/4 can Tequila, gold
* 1/4 can Triple Sec
* 1 can Ginger Ale
* 1 can Limeade

Add contents of one frozen limeaide container into pitcher. Fill limeade container 3/4 full of tequila and add to pitcher. Fill limeade container 1/4 full of Triple Sec and add to pitcher. Add 1 bottle of Corona and 1 can of ginger ale. Mix with a large spoon, and serve on the rocks.

Pink Cadillac Margarita Recipe

* 2 Liters of Tequila
* 1/2 Liter of Triple Sec
* 1/2 Strawberry Mix
* 1/2 Margarita Mix
* Add water to make 5 gallons

Pomegranate Margarita

2 ounces Sauza Blanco Tequila
1 ounce Triple Sec
3 ounces sweet and sour mix
3 ounces pomegranate juice
Ice

Prickly Pear Margarita Recipe

2 ½ ounces Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Prickly Pear Infused Tequila
½ ounce Triple Sec
2 ounces Sour Mix
½ ounce Orange Juice
Dash of Grenadine for color

Combine all ingredients in a glass with ice and shake. Drink on the rocks, or strain into a martini glass for Mar-Tiki Style. Garnish with a lime wheel.

or,

3 ounces tequila blanco
1/2-ounce Cointreau
1 1/2 ounces lime juice
2 ounces prickly pear syrup

Kosher salt and turbinado sugar, for garnishing the glass Kumquats and lime peels, for garnish.



Combine the tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and pear syrup in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously to incorporate. Wet the rim of a margarita glass and dip into salt and sugar mixture. Pour margarita into glass over ice. Garnish with a kumquat and a curled piece of lime peel.

Maya Margarita - Xtabentun Margarita

1oz Fresh Lime Juice
1oz 100% Agave Tequilla
1oz Xtabentun Liquor
1 Pinch of Sugar

Add ice and shake well and pour into a glass rimmed with salt and a lime. Salud!

Blackberry Margarita Recipe

20 ml Blue Curaçao
40 ml Tequila
5-10 cl frozen raspberries
2 ice cubes
1 lime
Salt

Frozen Lemon-Lime Margarita

6 oz. Can of frozen limeade concentrate
6 oz. Tequila
2 oz. Triple Sec
6 oz. Lemon-lime soda
5 C Crushed ice
Lime slices
Margarita salt

Pour limeade concentrate, tequila, Triple Sec and soda into large plastic
container, and stir to mix. Fill blender with 5 cups crushed ice. Add
limeade mixture to ice in blender and blend until slushy. Pour into salt-
rimmed Margarita glasses. Garnish with lime slices.


Frozen Watermelon Margarita
Makes 4 cocktails
4 c. 1-in. chunks seedless watermelon
4 lime wedges
Kosher salt on a small plate
3/4 c. Triple Citrus Tequila or any good tequila
1/2 c. Triple Sec
1/3 c. fresh lime juice
Place melon chunks in a plastic bag; freeze until solid. Run lime around the rim of a glass. Dip rim in the salt.

Transfer about 3/4 of the melon chunks, separating them, to a blender. Add tequila, Triple Sec, and lime juice and blend until smooth. Add remaining melon and blend until smooth. Squeeze a lime wedge into each cocktail, drop the wedge into the glass.

Frozen Mango Margarita

1 (10-ounce) bag frozen diced mango
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
2/3 cup tequila (preferably silver, 80 proof)
2 tablespoons Cointreau or other orange liqueur
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
2 cups ice water

Put all the ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

And there's nothing better than trying out the various drink rimmer flavors.

Frozen Chocolate Margarita

3 tablespoons chocolate syrup
1 teaspoon triple sec
1 ½ oz light tequila
8 to 10 ice cubes
1/8 teaspoon hot Sauce
½ cup Lords of Salt Chocolate salt

Add first 5 ingredients into a blender and process until smooth. Crush chocolate sea salt and place in a shallow dish or saucer. Wet rim of glass with lime wedge and dip glass into chocolate sea salt to coat. Pour into glasses.
Serves 2.

Frozen Hawaiian Margarita Recipe

1 cup of ice
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz Triple Sec
2 oz fresh or canned pineapple
dash of sour mix
strawberry and/or pineapple for garnish

Pour the ingredients into a blender.
Blend until smooth.
Pour contents into a chilled margarita glass.
Garnish with the strawberries and pineapple.

The Curacaco is what adds the blue color to this blue ocean margarita.

1 (10-ounce) can frozen margarita mix
3/4 cup tequila
1/4 cup blue curaçao liqueur
2 tablespoons lime juice
serves: 5 cups

here's another variation of Blue Margarita:

1 teaspoon coarse salt
4 ounces Tequilla
2 ounce Triple Sec
2 ouncees freshly squeezed lime juice
2 ounces blue Curacaco
2 teaspoons superfine sugar
2 1/4-inch slices star fruit for garnish
1 lime, cut into wedges

Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Place Tequilla, Triple Sec, lime juice, blue Curacaco, and sugar in the shaker; shake hard for 30 seconds. Fill the prepared glasses with ice cubes. Strain the margarita into the salt-rimmed margarita glasses. Garnish each with a slice of star fruit or a lime wedge.

Bahama Mama Blue Margarita

6 ounces tequila
4 ounces blue curacao
4 ounces sour mix
Ice
Serves: 4

Pour the ingredients (except the ice) into your blender and blend for about 10 seconds. Then, throw in a handful of ice and blend for another 30 seconds.

Blue Margarita - Party Mix

2 Liters of Tequila
1 Liter of Blue Curacao
1/2Liter of Triple Sec
1 Margarita Mix
Add water to make 5 gallons

Blue Skies Margarita

5 ounces tequila
3 ounces blue curacao
2 ounces rum
2 cups sour mix
sliced limes and lemons

1 (12 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate, undiluted
1 (12 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, undiluted
3 cups tequila (or to taste)
1 (2 liter) bottle diet Sprite
lime slices (optional)

In punch bowl add a lot of ice. Mix concentrates and tequila. Add to punch bowl with ice and stir. Slowly add DIET SPRITE and stir again until mixed.