Margarita Recipe
The margarita and its different variations have come to become one of the most popular cocktails of all times. You can opt for a fruity margarita mix or go in for an exotic blue margarita. Frozen margarita or golden margarita, strawberry margarita, mango margarita - the choice is endless. Line your margarita glasses with salt or sugar and drink up! If you want to be saved the hassle of blending a margarita, go in for margarita mixes that can be picked off the shelves. Get innovative and create your own margarita recipe.
Margarita Recipe Ingredients:
The basic margarita recipe consists of three ingredients - Tequila, Cointreau (triple sec) and fresh lime juice. The true art of making margaritas lies in the ideal ratios and the pizzaz with which it is served. The ratio for margarita mix can vary from equal parts of each ingredient to 3:2:1 tequila: cointreau: lime juice. The triple sec is an orange liquer that adds a sweet-and sour flavor to the cocktail. Different flavors can be substituted for the triple sec to make interesting variations. Shake the margarita with ice and serve in salt rimmed glasses. You can add Grand Marnier instead of Triple sec for concocting an exotic margarita.
* 1 1/2 oz tequila
* 1/2 oz triple sec
* dash of lemon or lime juice
* 3 oz sour mix
* lime wedge for garnish
* salt or sugar to rim the glass (optional)
Preparation:
1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
2. Shake well.
3. If desired, salt the rim of a chilled margarita glass.
4. Pour contents, with ice, into the glass.
5. Garnish with the lime wedge.
Mixing the Ingredients
1. Get a blender. You do not need a a good one because there is not a requirement for crushing ice.
2. Put the ice cubes in the blender.
3. Pour in the tequila and triple sec so that the ice starts diluting the liquor.
4. Using your straining device to keep out lemon seeds, squeeze that fresh lemon into the blender.
5. Pour in the lime aide concentrate. Try not to exceed the prescribed amount -- go light on this stuff (if anything).
6. Pulse or blend only long enough to get the concoction mixed so that it sort of fizzes and changes consistancy slightly. Blending into crushed ice is OK, I just do not prefer it.
7. Toss 4 ice cubes into a 12 ounce, salt rimmed glass, and then pour the margarita!
8. Cut up a lime and hang it off the edge of the glass. This is completely optional. Only garnishment.
Blue Margarita Recipe
The Curacaco is what adds the blue color to this blue ocean margarita. Take 4 ounces of tequila, 1 ounce triple sec, ¼ cup fresh lime juice, 2 ounces blue curacaco and 1tsp sugar. Blend in a shaker with plenty of ice.
Golden Margarita Recipe
A golden margarita needs anjeo tequila and Grand Marnier. Shake with sour mix, lime juice and plenty of ice.
Frozen Margarita Recipe
Whip up a frozen margarita with limeade, tequila and triple sec. Blend with lots of ice cubes till it looks slushy. Do not overdo the ice when blending your frozen margaritas - the trick is to have barely enough to float in the liquid. You can add frozen fruit for a variation. Try peach, raspberry, strawberry or cherry liquers for a frozen margarita with a twist. Serve frozen margaritas with mango fusion vodka and watch your guests coming for more.
Banana Margarita Recipe
Want your margarita with dollops of Vitamin C and Potassium? The banana margarita is a smoothie that offers you just that. Blend 3-4 oz tequila with 4 oz margarita mix and juice of lime and a banana.
Mango Margarita Recipe
Are you a mango afficiando? Try our mango margarita recipe. Mix a cup of silver tequila with 2 cups of fresh lime juice, castor sugar and liqueur. Toss in frozen mango chunks and blend till smooth.
Margarita Mix Recipe
Do not want to go through the bartending hassle of blending your margarita? Opt for ready margarita mix. Pick up a margarita mix in the flavor of your choice - strawbeery, lemon, raspberry and pinã colada. Typically the margarita mix is to be blended with water in a blender or frozen beverage machine...and your cocktail is ready! A margarita mix can be very convenient at a party since margaritas are popular and you can make them straight up or frozen. Pick up ready margarita mix in fruity flavors of pineapple, kahlua and vanilla. Low carb margarita mix keeps the sugars out of your drink. The taste may be a wee bit different but if you are watching your calories, you gotta pay for it!
Glasses Margarita Recipe
Do not commit the blunder of serving margaritas in wine glasses or simple water glasses. Buy stemmed glasses with wide openings - ideal glasses to serve your margaritas in style. If you can opt for exquisite margarita glasses, they are likely to cost you a tidy packet. Instead you can pick up margarita glasses made of sturdy polycarbonate and look like expensive glassware. Before serving. rub lime around the rim of the margarita glass and drip the glass into a plate of coarse salt. Check with your guests if they would prefer their glasses rimmed.
Margarita Strawberry Recipe
The strawberry margarita is a popular margarita cocktail. Blended with fresh strawberries or strawberry schnappes, this cocktail has many takers. Serve a strawberry margarita in a glass rimmed with sugar instead of salt. Shake schnapps, tequila, triple sec, lemon juice,and strawberries with ice. Strain the blend into the margarita glasses. You can whip up a strawberry margarita with 1 oz. Tequila, ½ oz. Triple sec. Dash of grenandine and sour mix along with pureed strawberries. Blend all the ingredients together and serve them with a lime wedge or fresh strawberry. A dollop of whipped cream can be added.
The original Margarita Recipe
Ingredients: tequila, triple sec, lime juice, sour mix
Served: on the rocks or neat
Rim: salt or sugar optional
The Margarita is one of the cocktails that has a number of variations, in fact there are too many "Margaritas" to keep track of and many are such a stretch from the original that they are only Margaritas by name.
The Margarita is typically a mix of tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice and a sweetener. This base mix has been adapted to include almost any fruit and liqueur imaginable. Other options of a Margarita are whether to serve it neat, on the rocks or blended and to rim or not, usually with salt or sugar.
This collection of Margarita recipes spans the flavors and is an ongoing project that is updated regularly.