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Margarita Recipes

'Nana 'Ritas Recipe

Ingredients:

• sifted brown sugar
• 6 ounces tequila
• 6 ounces frozen limeade concentrate
• 4 ounces Triple Sec
• 2 bananas
• 6 cups ice cubes

Directions:

Place the brown sugar on a small plate. Wet the rims of 4 margarita glasses and press them into the brown sugar. Combine the remaining ingredients in a large blender until very smooth. Pour into the prepared glasses, making sure not to remove any of the sugar. Sprinkle with additional brown sugar if desired.

Notes:

Makes 4 Servings.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Abuelos Mexican Restaurant's Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 shot of Patron silver
• 1/2 shot of Patron orange liqueur
• Sour mix to taste (fresh lime juice/sugar mixture)

Directions:

Mix, pour and serve on the rocks, with a salted rim.

Notes:

From Abuelos Mexican Restaurant.

Alex's Frozen Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 8 cups crushed ice
• 8 ounces frozen strawberries
• 6 ounces tequila
• 4 ounces frozen limeade concentrate
• 2 ounces Triple Sec

Directions:

Throw together everything in a blender and process until smooth. Serve in chilled glasses.

Notes:

Makes 4 servings.

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Alex's Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups limeade
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 2 ounces tequila
• 1 ounce Triple Sec
• ice

Directions:

Combine the limeade, pineapple juice, orange juice, tequila and Triple Sec. Stir well and pour into salt rimmed margarita glasses, being careful not to remove the salt. Add ice if desired.

Notes:

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Almond Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz. Tequila
• 1/2 oz. Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
• 1 dozen Almonds

Directions:

Put all the ingredients in a blender with ice and pulse for a minute.Pour into a salt rimed margarita glass.Garnish with a almond.

Alton Brown's GOOD EATS Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz 100% Blue Agave Tequila
• 2 tbs Agave Nectar
• 1/2 Hamlin or Valencia Orange, quartered
• 2 Limes, quartered
• 2 Limes, halved
• 1 thin lime slice (for garnish)
• 1 tbs Kosher Salt
• 3/4 cup Ice

Directions:

In one saucer, pour the tablespoon of kosher salt. In a second saucer, pour 1/2 ounce of 100% Blue Agave Tequila.

Dip the rim of a 12 ounce martini or cocktail glass into the saucer containing the tequila. Remove the glass (keeping it upside down) and count to 10 to allow some of the tequila to drip away and evaporate. Then, dip the rim of the glass into the saucer with the kosher salt, give it a wiggle, tap off the excess and invert. Your glass is now ready to receive your Margarita.

Place your juice reamer over the cocktail shaker and extract the juice from 2 limes you have cut in half. (Remember to keep one thin slice of one of these lime halves for a garnish - cut this slice before juicing the limes.)
Next, dump the quartered oranges and quartered limes into the shaker.

Add 2 tablespoons of Agave Nectar into the shaker, on top of the lime juice and the quartered limes and oranges.

Muddle this all together for two full minutes to release the juices and the oils in the citrus skins.

After muddling for two minutes, strain into a glass (or the top of the shaker, if it is a "Boston" style shaker).

Add 1-1/2 of the 100% Blue Agave Tequila, PLUS the 1/2 ounce you used in the saucer to rim the glass.

Place 3/4 of a cup of ice into your cocktail shaker and pour the mixed ingredients over the ice.

Shake this for a FULL THIRTY SECONDS. Keep shaking until you see frost start to form on the outside of the shaker and it becomes ice cold.

Then, simply strain into the prepared glass and apply the lime wheel for garnish.

Anasazi Santa Fe Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.25 ounces gold tequila
• 0.75 ounces triple sec
• 1 ounce fresh lime juice
• 0.5 ounces fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon agave nectar
• ice

Directions:

Shake ingredients (minus the ice) together and pour into a salt-rimmed glass, over ice.

Apple Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of ice
• 1 oz tequila
• 1 oz apple brandy
• 2 tbsp applesauce
• 1 oz sour mix
• cinnamon and sugar for glass rimming
• apple wedge for garnish

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. If desired, wet the rim of a chilled margarita glass with apple brandy and rim the glass with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar.
4. Pour contents into the glass.
5. Garnish with the green apple wedge.

Notes:

Apple brandy and applesauce make a great variation of the classic frozen Margarita. If the mix is too thick once blended, add more applesauce or sour mix: if it's too thin, add more ice. I like to garnish with a wedge of green apple.

Applebee's Blue Coconut 'Rita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz - Malibu Coconut Rum
• 1/2 oz - Sauza Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz - Blue Curacao
• 1/2 oz - Bar Syrup
• 3 oz - Sour Mix

Directions:

Mix, pour, enjoy!

Applebee's Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 oz Cuervo 1800 Reposado Tequila
• 1/2 oz Cointreau
• 1/2 oz Grand Marnier
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz simple syrup (or 1 sugar packet)
• 4 oz of sweet/sour mix

Directions:

Chill glass well. Mix all ingredients over ice and pour into chilled glass.
This recipe for Applebee's Perfect Margarita serves/makes 1.

Asian Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
• 2 oz asian pear cider
• 3 oz premium silver tequila
• 1 oz triple sec
• ice

Directions:

Put ice in cocktail shaker, add ingredients, and shake vigorously until ice cold; strain and serve on the rocks or straight up.

Notes:

Makes 2 drinks

Banana Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 fluid ounces tequila
• 1 (6 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate
• 4 fluid ounces triple sec liqueur
• 6 cups ice
• 2 bananas
• 1/4 cup coarse granulated sugar

Directions:

Sugar the rims of 4 large margarita glasses. To do so, pour sugar onto a small plate, moisten the rims of the glasses on a damp towel and press them into the sugar.

In a blender, combine tequila, limeade, triple sec and ice. Blend until smooth. Add bananas and blend again until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

Notes:

Serves 4

Bartender's Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Jose Cuervo® Especial gold tequila
• 1 splash cranberry juice
• 3/4 oz triple sec
• 3 oz sweet and sour mix
• juice of 1/2 limes
• float Grand Marnier® orange liqueur

Directions:

Shake tequila, triple sec, sweet & sour, cranberry juice, and lime juice in a pint glass. Rim another pint glass with salt and transfer contents. Float the Gran Marnier, garnish with a lime and straw, and serve.

Beach-House Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 shots of tequila; silver, 100% agave recommended
• 1 shot triple sec
• 1 lime
• ice
• salt... optional

Directions:

If you prefer your margaritas with salt, rim your glass with salt.

Slice the lime into eighths (half it, and then quarter the halves) leaving out a slice for a garnish if you wish.

In a shaker, muddle the lime with the triple sec for sixty seconds. If you forgot to bring your muddler on vacation, the handle of a screwdriver (washed!) or pretty much any blunt object will work in a pinch. If you've forgotten to bring a shaker on vacation with you, two cups that are different sizes make a wonderful make-shift shaker.

Add the tequila and enough ice to fill the shaker 1/3 of the way up and shake for thirty seconds.

Strain into your glass and enjoy.

Notes:

This is an easy margarita recipe to remember and make on vacation.

Beer Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate
• 12 fluid ounces tequila
• 12 fluid ounces water
• 12 fluid ounces beer
• 1 lime, cut into wedges
• ice

Directions:

Pour limeade, tequila, water, and beer into a large pitcher. Stir until well-blended, and limeade has melted. Add plenty of ice, and garnish with lime wedges. Adjust with additional water, if needed.

Notes:

Serves 6

Best Margarita Ever Recipe

Ingredients:

• Two parts tequila (good tequila is always better...)
• One 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!)
• One and a half parts fresh lime juice.
• One part simple syrup.
• One part Limoncello (a fairly inexpensive type of lemon liqueur that isn't sour but has lots of big citrus flavor... this is, I think, the secret ingredient in most restaurant margaritas— that extra citrus flavor adds a lot without making the drink more tart).
• Pinch of salt. Very little will go a long way... alternatively, rim the glass with coarse salt.

Directions:

Mix with 5-6 ice cubes in a shaker and shake violently for about 15 seconds (until ice starts to crystallize on the outside of your metal shaker). Pour contents into an old-fashioned glass and, for a nice visual appeal, finish with a few drops of grenadine (let it sink to the bottom for a sweet finish). Add a couple of skinny straws and a slice of lime if you like. Trust me!

Hint: too strong for your taste? Stir in some lemon-lime soda— don't shake!

Notes:

This is the best margarita recipe, capturing the something that makes a restaurant margarita so much better than the homemade versions.

After fiddling with this for a while, I've found that it's better to use fresh lime and syrup rather than sour mix. Even though there are good sour mixes out there, I find they don't have quite the same freshness as when you use a fresh lime. In any case, if you can't get fresh limes or don't have five minutes to make simple syrup, you can substitute a quality sour mix—no neon yellow stuff, please!—for the lime juice and simple syrup above.

Best Margaritas with Fresh Lime Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 teaspoons grated lime zest
• 1/2 cup lime juice from 2 to 3 medium limes
• 4 teaspoons grated lemon zest
• 1/2 cup lemon juice from 2 to 3 medium lemons
• 1/4 cup superfine sugar
• pinch table salt
• 2 cups crushed ice
• 1 cup 100 percent agave tequila , such as Don Julio Reposado Tequila
• 1/4 cup Grand Marnier
• 1/4 cup Triple Sec

Directions:

1. Combine lime zest and juice, lemon zest and juice, sugar, and salt in large liquid measuring cup; cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until flavors meld, 24 hours.

2. Divide 1 cup crushed ice between 4 or 6 margarita or double old-fashioned glasses. Strain juice mixture into 1-quart pitcher or cocktail shaker. Add tequila, Grand Marnier, and Triple Sec, and remaining crushed ice; stir or shake until thoroughly combined and chilled, 20 to 60 seconds. Strain into ice-filled glasses; serve immediately.

Notes:

The real secret to a great Margarita is choosing the best tequila, so save these for special occasions with just a few friends. Start this recipe the day before your party – it’s worth it. The longer the zest and juice mixture is allowed to steep, the more developed the citrus flavors in the finished margaritas - the full 24 hours is best, although the margaritas will still be great if the mixture is steeped only for the minimum 4 hours.

From:

Cook Like James' blog

Big Apple Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Tequila
• 1 oz Apple Liqueur
• 3/4 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

Directions:

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass with a salted rim. Garnish with a slice of green apple, and serve.

Big Red Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Triple Sec
• 2/3 Margarita Mix
• Strawberry Soda
• 1 oz Tequila

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker / stirrer and pour into an unusually shaped glass. Add Crushed Ice and decorations to create a great speciality drink from an easy to make recipe!

Black (Halloween) Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Gold Tequila
• 1 oz Blue Curacao
• 1 oz Chambord raspberry liqueur
• 1 splash Lime juice
• Fill with Sour mix
• Add Cranberry juice

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and pour into salt-rimmed glass. Garnish with lime and rosemary.

Blackjack Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Tequila
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz Raspberry Liqueur
• 4 oz Lime Juice

Directions:

Fill a large margarita glass with ice. Add with tequila, triple sec, and chambord. Add the lime juice or sour mix. Shake, garnish with a lime wedge and serve.

Blood Orange Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup tequila
• 2/3 cup blood orange juice
• 1/3 cup triple sec
• Ice

Directions:

1. In a pitcher, stir all ingredients together.

2. Pour over ice into margarita glasses.

Notes:

These beautifully colored blood orange margaritas are ridiculously good.

Serves 4

Blue Coconut Margarita from Applebee's Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Malibu Coconut Rum
• 1/2 oz Sauza Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
• 1/2 oz Bar Syrup
• 3 oz Sour Mix
• Ice

Directions:

In a shaker, combine all ingredients and shake vigorously for 30 seconds.

Strain and pour into a glass.

Blue Skies Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

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

Directions:

All of the ingredients should be very well chilled before mixing.

Mix together all of the ingredients in a small pitcher. Serve immediately in chilled glasses.

Makes 4 servings.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

Notes:

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Blueberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ozs tequila
• 1/2 oz curacao
• 1-1/2 tsp lime juice
• 2 tsp triple sec
• 2 T sugar
• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 5 ice cubes

Directions:

Blend all ingredients until frothy. Pour into chilled margarita glasses (salt optional). Drink. Enjoy. Repeat.

Notes:

This recipe only makes a couple servings, so plan accordingly.

Bret's Dirtyman Tailgate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• One Whole Bottle (fifth?) of Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila
• One Small Can of Frozen Limeade Concentrate
• Triple Sec

Directions:

You take an empty one gallon water/milk jug. Pour in a whole bottle (a fifth?) of Jose Cuervo Gold. (There's a reason why it's called Dirtyman) Then you add one of those small cans of frozen limeade concentrate. Add one less can of water than what the instructions on the can tell you. This is optional but you can add a two-second free pour of triple sec if you have some. Next put the cap on and shake it up holding the jug with one hand over your head. Very important. Serve in a Solo plastic cup or drink straight from the jug.

Notes:

Great for tailgating!

Brettaritatini Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Cabo Wabo Reposado
• 1/2 oz Cointreau
• 1/2 oz Grand Marnier
• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice

Directions:

Combine ingredients in shaker with ice and shake well. Pour over ice in salt-rimmed martini glass and garnish with lime wedge.

Notes:

I came up with this when I had some time over spring break. It took me a week or so. The Rose's cuts the sourness I find in most of the Limes I buy here in Minnesota. Let me know what you think!

Cabo Wabo Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Cabo Wabo Reposado Tequila
• 1 oz. fresh lime juice
• 1 oz. Damiana liquor

Directions:

Mix together and pour over ice.

No salt, no lime.

Cactus Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Lime wedge
• Coarse salt
• 8 ounces white tequila
• 4 ounces Cointreau
• 4 ounces cactus pear juice
• 2 ounces Roses lime juice
• 2 cups ice cubes

Directions:

Rub lime wedge around the rim of cocktail glasses and dip the rim into a saucer of coarse salt. Place tequila, Cointreau, cactus pear and lime juice and ice cubes in a blender and blend until frothy. Divide among 4 glasses.

Notes:

Serves 4

Caddilac Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Tequilla
• 1 oz Grand Marnier orange liqueur
• 1/4 oz fresh lime juice

Directions:

Chill glass well. Mix all ingredients and pour into chilled glass.

Cafe Annie Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Kosher salt
• 17 lime wedges
• Ice
• 3 cups (1 1/2 pints) top-quality silver tequila
• 1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) Cointreau
• 1 1/2 cups fresh lime juice

Directions:

1. Pour a mound of salt on a plate. Run a lime wedge around the rim of each glass (preferably margarita glasses), then dip the rims in the salt to coat. Put a lime wedge in each glass or on the rim.

2. Fill a large pitcher halfway with ice and add the tequila, Cointreau and lime juice. Stir well and pour into the glasses, adding ice cubes to each glass if desired. Alternatively, fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of tequila, 3 tablespoons of Cointreau and 3 tablespoons of lime juice. Cover and shake vigorously for 1 minute. Pour the margaritas into 2 of the glasses and add ice. Repeat with the remaining ingredients.

Notes:

SERVES: 16

Recipe by Robert Del Grande
From Texas Independents' Day
This recipe originally appeared in July, 1997.

Robert Del Grande says that making his potent margaritas without sugar reduces the risk of hangovers.

California White Grape Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. silver tequila
• 8 oz. white grape juice
• Dash Lemon Juice

Directions:

Mix it up. Pour over ice in large wine glasses with a lemon wedge artfully displayed.
The sweet/sour will play with your senses.

Notes:

Serves 2

Candy Corn Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Tequila
• Orange Liquour
• Lemonade
• Candy Corn

Directions:

Take a couple handfuls of candy corn and a couple cups of tequila and soak for about 3 hours.....then use the tequila (about 2 oz) and add some Orange Liquour (about 1 oz) and lemonade ( to taste)...shake with ice and Voila! A yummy orange Margarita! Perfect for Halloween.....

Cherry Lime Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup cherries pitted and mashed or 2 oz Fresh cherry puree
• 1 oz simple syrup
• 1 oz Fresh Lime juice
• 3/4 oz cointreau
• 1-1/2 oz tequila
• Lime wedge for garnish

Directions:

1) Combine the zest of one lime with several teaspoons of rock salt.
2) Rub a lime wedge around the rim of the glass. Dip into the zest salt mixture.
3) Fill the glass with ice.
4) In a cocktail shaker mash the cherries with the simple syrup and lime juice. Add the other ingredients and shake to combine. If using the puree shake to combine.
5) Pour into prepared glass and and garnish with a lime wedge.

Chili's El Presidente Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Sauza Conmemorativo tequila
• 1 oz. Presidente brandy
• 1 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. Rose's Lime Juice
• 5 oz. sweet n' sour
• 1 fresh lime
• Kosher salt
• Ice cubes

Directions:

Salt the rim of a martini glass and fill with ice.

Fill a martini shaker with ice. Squeeze a fresh lime wedge over ice and drop into the shaker.

Add all wet ingredients, cover, and shake like crazy!

Strain margarita into your salted & iced martini glass.

Garnish with a fresh lime wedge, slit to rest on rim.

Chili's Frozen Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces tequila
• 2 ounces triple sec
• 8 ounces frozen sliced strawberries in syrup
• 4 fluid ounces frozen limeade concentrate

Directions:

Fill a blender with ice and crush. Pour in the tequila and triple sec. Add the strawberries and limeade. Blend for 30 seconds or until smooth. Serve in margarita glasses with the rims dipped in powdered sugar.

Chocolate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ounces Tequila
• 1 ounce Godiva liquor
• 3/4 ounce cream (or half & half)
• 1 tlbs Hershey’s syrup
• 2 ounces orange juice
• ice

Directions:

This is one of those delicate recipes where subjecting chocolaty goodness to the force of your blender with all that ice just doesn’t fly. So throw the ingredients into your shaker for a few quick shakes and pour into a margarita glass with crushed oreos lining the rim!

Notes:

I know, chocolate and tequila don’t normally mix, but when you’re adding Godiva liquor to your shaker, you just gotta believe!

Circus Peanut Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz Tequila
• 2 oz Pisang Ambon
• 1 oz Lime Juice
• Circus Peanut (Marshmallow Candy)

Directions:

Mix well in a blender with ice and serve in a highball glass that has been rimmed with jimmies. Garnish with an orange circus peanut marshmallow candy.

Classic Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 ounces tequila
• 2 ounces Cointreau, Triple Sec or another favorite orange-flavored liqueur
• 2 ounces fresh lime juice (takes about two limes, depending on how fat & juicy the are)
• 1 teaspoon simple syrup, or 1/2 teasppon of sugar, depending on how sour your limes are.
• Lime rounds for garnish

Directions:

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add all ingredients and shake for 30 seconds. Set aside. Place a lime round into the base of a salt-rimmed martini glass. Shake the margarita 15 seconds more, then strain into the glass. Serve immediately. If rocks are desired, place the garnish into the base of a highball glass, fill halfway with ice and pour margarita over the top.

Simple Syrup Easy to make: Take one part sugar and one part water, bring it to a boil, stir to dissolve and cool. Can be made as far in advance as you like; just store it in the fridge.

Notes:

Do yourself a favor & get the good kind of tequila, 100 percent agave. This recipe makes two drinks. Do not operate heavy machinery (i.e. your car) after consuming.

Coconut Almond Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz. Lime Juice
• 1/4 oz. Amaretto
• 1/2 oz. Creme de Coconut
• 2-1/2 oz. Sweet & Sour mix
• 1 1/4 oz. Jose Cuervo 1800 Tequila

Directions:

Shake. Garnish with lime.

Coconut Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups ice
• 3/4 cup coconut cream
• 4-1/2 fluid ounces tequila
• 1-1/2 fluid ounces triple sec
• 1/4 cup sweetened flaked coconut

Directions:

Fill a blender with ice; add the coconut cream, tequila, and triple sec; blend at high speed until smooth. Scatter the coconut onto a plate. Wet the rims of four glasses. Dip the glass rims in the coconut. Serve the margaritas in the prepared glasses.

Notes:

Serves 4.

Coconut Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sweetened shredded coconut
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lime juice, plus 2 tablespoons for glasses (about 5 limes)
• 3/4 cup Coco Lopez or cream of coconut
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons tequila
• 1/4 cup Cointreau or other orange liqueur

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a rimmed baking sheet, toss coconut with the salt. Spread on sheet; toast in oven, stirring frequently, until golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Let cool, then crush with your hands until crumbly.

Pour 2 tablespoons lime juice into a shallow dish. Place coconut mixture in another dish. Dip rims of two cocktail glasses in lime juice, then in coconut mixture, coating well.

Combine remaining ingredients with 1 cup ice in a blender; puree until smooth. Divide evenly between prepared glasses, and serve immediately.

Notes:

Serves 2

Cooks Illustrated Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup lime juice from 2 to 3 medium limes
• 4 teaspoons grated lemon zest
• 1/2 cup lemon juice from 2 to 3 medium lemons
• 1/4 cup superfine sugar
• pinch table salt
• 2 cups crushed ice
• 1 cup 100 percent agave tequila , preferably Reposado
• 1 cup Triple Sec

Directions:

1. Combine lime zest and juice, lemon zest and juice, sugar, and salt in large liquid measuring cup; cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until flavors meld, 4 to 24 hours.

2. Divide 1 cup crushed ice between 4 or 6 margarita or double old-fashioned glasses. Strain juice mixture into 1-quart pitcher or cocktail shaker. Add tequila, Triple Sec, and remaining crushed ice; stir or shake until thoroughly combined and chilled, 20 to 60 seconds. Strain into ice-filled glasses; serve immediately.

Notes:

The longer the zest and juice mixture is allowed to steep, the more developed the citrus flavors in the finished margaritas. We recommend steeping for the full 24 hours, although the margaritas will still be great if the mixture is steeped only for the minimum 4 hours. If you're in a rush and need to serve margaritas immediately, omit the zest and skip the steeping process altogether.

We like our margaritas without salt, but with a nice balance of flavors, not dominated by the tequila.

Corona Beer Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 12oz can of lemon-lime soda (7-Up, Sprite, etc)
• 1 12 oz can frozen lime concentrate
• 12oz of your favorite tequila
• 1 12oz bottle of Corona beer

Directions:

Blend the frozen can lime concentrate in the blender, pour it in a punch bowl then add and mix the remaining ingredients.

WARNING!!! DO NOT mix all ingredients in the blender at the same time, trust me, you'll have a sticky blender and countertop for days.

Rim the glass w/Kosher salt

When mixed, either chill (very cold) or freeze, add ice as you like, serve either over the rocks or frozen, try it!

Notes:

Serves 4-6

Cranberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/4 cup cranberry juice
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1-1/2 cup fresh frozen cranberries, rinsed
• 3/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice
• 3/4 cup tequila
• 1/2 cup Grand Marnier
• ice

Directions:

1. Mix all the ingredients, except for the ice.
2. Pour half of the mixture in the blender and fill the rest of the blender with ice.
3. Blend.
4. Repeat with second half of mixture.

Notes:

Makes approximately 2 medium pitchers.

Cranberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/4 cups premium tequila
• 1-1/4 cups frozen cranberry juice cocktail concentrate, thawed
• 1 cup canned jellied cranberry sauce
• 10 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 6 tablespoons orange liqueur (such as Grand Marnier)
• ice

Directions:

Mix all ingredients In blender until smooth.
Transfer to large glass measuring cup.
Pour half of margarita base into biender; add 2 1/2 cups ice cubes.
Blend until mixture is slushy; pour into salt rimmed Margarita glasses.
Garnish with cranberries.
Repeat with remaining margarita base and 3 1/2 cups ice cubes.

Notes:

Makes 12 drinks.

Creamsicle Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/4 oz Tequila
• 6 oz Crushed Ice
• 3 oz Orange Juice
• 1 scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
• 1 oz Sweet and Sour Mix

Directions:

Blend all ingredients until slushy. Serve in a margarita glass.

Serve in a Margarita Glass

Cucumberita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 parts CAZADORES® Reposado
• 1-1/2 parts sour mix
• 3/4 parts triple sec
• 1/4 cup cucumber
• Splash sweetened lime juice
• Splash fresh lemon juice

Directions:

Blend ingredients with ice and pour into a salt-rimmed margarita glass. Garnish: with a cucumber wheel.

Notes:

For those who prefer their margaritas on the lightly refreshing side.

Dad's House Best Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ shots Herradura Anejo Tequila
• 1 shot Cointreau
• 1 fresh squeezed lime

Directions:

Pour ingredients into a martini shaker with ice. Shake sharply. Serve this best margarita recipe on the rocks in a glass with a salted rim. (Or, blended, unsalted, whatever your preference.)

You can use a lesser tequila, or substitute triple sec for Cointreau, and you’ll be making one of the other drinks from my favorite Mexican restaurant’s menu. For the best margarita recipe, choice ingredients are key.

Olé !!

Notes:

From dadshouseblog.com

My favorite Mexican restaurant has a margarita list two pages long. Different tequilas, different mixers, and one outcome – a kick ass cocktail. Over the years I’ve sampled enough of their margaritas to hone in on the best margarita recipe.

The secret to the best margarita recipe is using quality ingredients. For me, this means Herradura Anejo tequila, Cointreau, and fresh squeezed limes.

Dam Horny Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 shot Damiana Liqueur
• 2 shots Hornitos Sauza tequila
• Margarita mix - your choice of flavors
• 1/2 lime
• salt for rim of glass (optional)

Directions:

Recommended: 16-20 ounce tumbler or other large rocks glass.

If using salt for rim of glass, rub cut side of lime around rim and dip rim in salt.

Fill glass with ice and add Damiana and Hornitos. Fill to top with your favorite margarita mix; stir. Drop lime into glass. Serve. (Optional: Place all ingredients in shaker and shake to mix before pouring into serving glass.)

Note: Can use any size glass - use 1 part Damiana, 2 parts Hornitos tequila, adjust amount of margarita mix accordingly.

Notes:

Credit to Roxanne for this great recipe - best margarita ever!

Desert Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Sauza Tres Generaciones Silver 100% Blue Agave Tequila
• 1/2 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. Desert Pear (Monin)
• 6 oz. RARE Sweet & Sour
• ice

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker and strain into a tall chilled glass filled with ice.

Notes:

This recipe is from Longhorn

Designated-Driver Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 lime wedge
• Coarse salt for dipping the edges of the glasses into
• 1 cup ice cubes
• 1 cup cold water
• 1 can (6-ounce size) frozen limeade
• 2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
• Lime or orange slices, for garnish (optional)

Directions:

Run the lime wedge around the rim of 3 glasses to moisten them. Dip the rims into the salt to lightly coat the edges of the glasses. Place the glasses in the freezer to chill. (This can be done hours ahead of time.)

Place the remaining ingredients except the garnish in the container of a blender. Process until combined and slushy. Pour into the prepared glasses. Garnish each glass with a lime or orange slice, if desired. Serve immediately.

Notes:

Serves: 3

Easy Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounce tequila
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 1 ounce Cointreau or Triple Sec
• cracked ice

Directions:

Combine ingredients. Shake it in a cocktail shaker and serve or blend it in a blender for a foamier drink.

You can also add pureed fruit like strawberries and peaches or even Crenshaw or honeydew melon.

To serve this drink, first dip the rim of a balloon glass in fresh lime juice, then swirl it in coarse salt.

Notes:

Serves 1

Easy Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 part lime juice
• 1 part orange liqueur
• 2 parts tequila

Directions:

Mix together and serve over ice.

Notes:

Fresh lime juice and Gran Marnier are preferred.

El Jimador Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. El Jimador Reposado tequila
• 2 oz. fresh squeezed lime juice
• 1 oz. agave miel (agave syrup)
• 1/2 oz. St-Germain liqueur

Directions:

Rub a lime wedge around rim of a chilled martini glass and salt it (if desired). In a shaker filled with ice combine tequila, lime juice, agave and St-Germain. Shake vigorously. Pour.

Enchanted Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ounces Encantado Mezcal
• 1 fresh lime
• 3 ounces sweet & sour mix

Directions:

Stir over crushed ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

Esta Loca Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz pomegranate juice
• 3 oz orange tequila
• 1 oz orange liqueur or Triple Sec
• 1 oz sweet and sour mix
• 1-1/2 cups ice cubes
• Lime wedge, for garnish

Directions:

Combine all ingredients, except lime wedges, in a pitcher and stir well.

Pour into a margarita glass and garnish with lime wedge.

Notes:

Can also be served on the rocks.

Favourite Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Cointreau (or any decent Triple Sec)
• 2 oz silver tequila (preferably 100 percent agave)
• 3 oz fresh lime juice (juice of 3 limes)
• Kosher salt
• Lime wedges
• Ice cubes

Directions:

Spread kosher salt in shallow saucer. Rub 1 lime wedge around rim of margarita glass. Turn over and press into salt; shake off excess and carefully wipe inside edge of rim so no salt falls into glass.

In large cocktail shaker, combine Cointreau, tequila, lime juice and plenty of ice cubes. Cover and shake well for 10 seconds. Strain into glass and garnish with another lime wedge.

Notes:

MAKES 1 6-OZ SERVING

Tip: Place liquor bottles, margarita glasses and shaker in freezer for about 1 hour before using to produce an even colder, snappier drink.

Five Gallon Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 liters of Tequila CAZADORES® Reposado
• 2 liters of triple sec (40 proof)
• 10 bottles (750 ml) of sweet and sour ready to use (not concentrate)
• 1 gallon of orange juice
• 1/2 gallon fresh lime juice

Directions:

Mix all ingredients in a large container and stir, serve over the rocks with salt on the rim. Garnish: with a lime.

Notes:

Makes 129 servings. Get ready to party!

Freezer Margaritas Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1-1/2 cup freshly squeezed lim juice
• 1-1/2 cup tequila
• 3/4 cup Triple Sec liqueur
• Lime zest to garnish

Directions:

In a small pan, combine water and sugar over high heat. Stirring frequently, bring mixture to a boil. Remove syrup from heat and cool 1 hour.

In a 2 quart freezer container, combine syrup, lime juice, tequila, and liqueur. Cover and freeze overnight.

To serve, spoon into glasses and garnish with lime zest.

Notes:

Makes 6.5 cups

Frosty Margarita Ice Pops Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup tequila
• 6 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1/4 cup coarse kosher salt
• 6 frozen lime-flavored ice pops or fruit bars, unwrapped

Directions:

Mix tequila and lime juice in 1-cup measuring cup. Place coarse salt in small bowl. Place all ice pops, sticks up, in deep bowl, or place 1 pop in each of 6 glasses. Pour tequila mixture over ice pops. Lightly dip 1 edge of each ice pop into coarse salt and serve.

Notes:

For this clever riff on the "frozen" Margarita, try to use natural lime pops (sold at natural and specialty foods stores) rather than artificially colored and flavored varieties.

Frozen Apple Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. apple liqueur (or schnapps)
• 2 oz. sweet and sour mix

Directions:

Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Notes:

Frozen Apple Margarita is admirable cocktail. It has smooth and little sour apple taste. Great!

Frozen Cactus Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 8 ounces white tequila
• 4 ounces orange-flavored liqueur (recommended: Cointreau)
• 4 ounces cactus pear (
• 2 ounces fresh lime juice
• Crushed ice
• Lime wedge, for garnish
• Coarse salt, optional

Directions:

Combine tequila, orange-flavored liqueur, cactus pear syrup, lime juice and ice in a blender and blend until smooth and frothy. Serve in rocks glass and garnish with lime.

Notes:

Serves 4

Frozen Honeydew Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 pound peeled and seeded honeydew melon
• Coarse salt and a wedge of lime (optional)
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/3 cup Tequila
• 1/4 cup Triple Sec
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 4 lime slices for garnish

Directions:

At least 8 hours before serving, cut melon into 1-inch cubes. Place in a single layer on a foil lined baking sheet, cover with plastic wrap and freeze until solid.

If desired, just before blending, rub the rims of 4 Margarita glasses with the wedge of lime and dip in coarse salt.

Place the lime juice, Tequila, Triple Sec, and sugar in the blender. Blend 20 seconds.

Add the frozen melon cubes. Blend until smooth, about 30 – 40 seconds. Pour into prepared glasses and garnish with a slice of lime. Serve immediately.

Notes:

For an alcohol-free “Margarita”, substitute orange juice for the liquor and increase the sugar by 2 tablespoons.

Serves 4

Frozen Mango Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 ten ounce bag frozen diced mango
• 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 2/3 cup silver tequila
• 2 tablespoons Cointreau
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup ice
• 1 cup water

Directions:

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

Frozen Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp coarse salt
• 1 lime wedge
• 3 oz. Silver Tequila
• 1 oz. Triple Sec
• 2 oz. Lime Juice
• 1 cup crushed ice

Directions:

Place salt in a saucer. Rub rim of a cocktail glass with lime wedge and dip glass into salt to coat rim thoroughly, reserve lime. Pour tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and crushed ice into a blender. Blend well at high speed. Pour into a cocktail glass.

Frozen Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6-ounce can frozen limeade concentrate
• 6 ounces tequila
• 2 ounces triple sec
• 6 ounces lemon-lime soda
• 5 cups crushed ice
• lime slices
• margarita salt

Directions:

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.

Makes about 6 margaritas, depending upon the size of your glass.

Notes:

Squeeze half a lime into a small dish with a flat bottom. Dip each glass into the lime juice and then into the margarita salt.

Frozen Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 (6 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate
• 6 fluid ounces tequila
• 2 fluid ounces triple sec

Directions:

Fill blender with crushed ice. Pour in limeade concentrate, tequila and triple sec. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

Notes:

Serves 4

Frozen Melon Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Midori melon liqueur
• 2 oz. sweet and sour mix

Directions:

Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Notes:

De facto, it is my first frozen cocktail. It has pure-like consistence and it is ice-cold. Great smooth and light cocktail.

Frozen Peach Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 (6 oz) can frozen limeade
• 6 ounces tequila
• 6 ounced Triple Sec
• 6 tbsp lime juice
• 2 cups fresh peaches, peeled and sliced
• 4 cups ice cubes

Directions:

Combine all ingredients except ice in blender.
Blend well.
Pour half of the mixture into a container.
Add 2 cups ice to mixture in the blender.
Blend well.
Pour the blended margarita into a container for the freezer.
Pour the remaining half of the mixture into blender.
Add 2 cups ice to blend.
Place in the freezer until ready to serve.

Notes:

Margarita fans, you're going to love these! They are always a hit at summer parties. Make them ahead of time to keep in the freezer. Fresh peaches are a must. Put a supply of peaches in your freezer to enjoy throughout the year.

Frozen Real Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. El Tesoro Resposado Tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau orange liqueur
• 1 oz. limeade
• 3 cups frozen strawberries

Directions:

Mix the limeade, Cointreau and tequila in a mixing glass. Add 2 cups of ice to a blender, and add the strawberries and tequila mixture. Blend until smooth. Serve in a margarita glass.

Notes:

If the mixture is not smooth, thin with tequila and blend again before serving.

Frozen Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. silver tequila
• 1/2 oz. Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1/4 oz. lemon juice
• 1/2 oz. strawberry liqueur

Directions:

Shave ice into a margarita glass.

Mix all ingredients and pour over shaved ice to serve.

Frozen Watermelon Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. watermelon liqueur
• 2 oz. sweet and sour mix

Directions:

Blend with appropriate quantity of ice until smooth. Serve in margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.

Notes:

The Watermelon Margarita is very popular cocktail among my guests. Frozen version is great too. Bright and delicious cocktail.

Fruit Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Tequila
• 1 oz Triple Sec
• 1 cup Fruit of Your Choice
• 4 oz Sweet and Sour Mix

Directions:

Add the tequila, triple sec, sour mix and fruit (choose one fruit) to a blender with one cup of crushed ice. Blend well. Pour into a hurricane glass, and serve.

Game Night Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup kosher salt
• 2 cups tequila
• 1 cup Triple Sec
• 1/3 cup grenadine
• 1 cup lime juice

Directions:

To rim the glasses, first dip in water then into kosher salt.

In a pitcher filled with ice combine, tequila, Triple Sec, grenadine and lime juice. Stir and pour into salt rimmed cocktail glasses.

Gatorade Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Lime Gatorade
• 1.5 oz Tequila
• Splash of Triple Sec
• Ice

Directions:

STIR this Margarita, don't shake it.

Add ice and serve!

Ginger Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Kosher salt
• 1 quarter-size slice of fresh ginger
• One 1/4-inch slice of Thai chile
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• 1-1/2 ounces añejo tequila
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau
• Ice
• 1 lime wedge

Directions:

Moisten the rim of a margarita glass and press into the salt. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the ginger, chile, sugar and lemon juice. Add the tequila, Cointreau and ice and shake. Strain into the prepared glass over ice. Squeeze in lime juice, fasten the wedge to the glass and serve.

Notes:

Serves 1

Golden Honey Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. gold tequila
• 1/2 oz. Triple Sec
• 1 oz. Honey Simple Syrup
• 2-1/2 oz. sweet & sour or margarita mix

Directions:

Shake well with ice, and strain into a large cocktail glass with a salted rim. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Honey Simple Syrup

* Honey
* Hot water

Mix 4 parts honey to 1 part hot water in a store n pour*.

*Or alternatively use a covered container that is convenient to pour from

Notes:

Makes 1 beverage

Golden Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz Grand Mariner, Cointreau, or Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 3 oz sour mix
• dash of orange juice (optional)
• lime wedge for garnish
• salt for rimming glass (optional)

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a 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.

Notes:

Get out your gold tequila and orange liqueur for a great variation of the classic Margarita. You may also hear of a Grand Gold Margarita, which is the same as this recipe but specifically uses Grand Mariner as the orange liqueur.

Grand Gold Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz Grand Mariner
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 3 oz sour mix
• dash of orange juice (optional)
• lime wedge for garnish
• salt for rimming glass (optional)

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a 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.

Grand Macaw's Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix (Jero's)
• 3/4 oz. 100% Agave Tequila
• 3/4 oz. Bols Triple Sec
• 1 1/2 oz. Rose's Lime Juice

Directions:

Place the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice - shake while singing "MARGARITAVILLE" - strain and pour into a margarita glass with ice.

Garnish with a lime wedge.

(Salting the rim of the glass is optional)

This recipe is made to be served "on the rocks" and NOT as a slushie!

Notes:

This Margarita is exclusively served at PLUM CRAZY in Cottage Grove, WI and was created by Tommy (THE Grand Macaw) Mader.

Grand Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 cups water
• 1-1/2 cups fresh lime juice
• 1-1/2 cups cointreau
• 1-1/2 cups silver tequila
• 1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
• coarse salt

Directions:

Combine the water, lime juice, tequila, and cointreau in a half-gallon pitcher. Stir to mix.

To serve, rub the rim of a margarita glass with lime, and dip in salt. Fill the glass with ice, and top with the tequila mixture. Garnish with a slice of lime.

Notes:

Serves 6

Grand Marnier's "Millionaire's Margarita" Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2oz. Jose Cuervo Reserva de la Familia Anejo Tequilaa
• 1oz. Grand Marnier 150th Anniversary
• 1 1/2 oz. lime juice
• 1/2 oz. fresh orange juice

Directions:

Pour all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

Garnish with an orange wheel or a lime wedge.

Grapefruit Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• juice 1/2 grapefruit
• 2 shots Sauza Blanco
• 1 shot triple sec (De kuyper)
• simple syrup
• lime juice
• ice

Directions:

In a pint sized shaker (makes two or a big double) fill 3/4's with ice cubes.

Add the grapefruit juice, Sauza blanco, and triple sec.

Fill the rest of the shaker with simple syrup + lime margarita mix (make your own lime syrup by dissolving a half cup of sugar into about a liter of hot water. Then add 1/2 a bottle (4 fl oz.) of RealLime lime juice).

Shake ingredients, pour into margarita glass. Garnish with disc of lime and a squeeze of fresh lime juice.

Green Iguana Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz Midori melon liqueur
• 1 oz Tequila
• 1-1/2 oz Cream
• 2 oz Sweet and sour mix

Directions:

Blend ingredients and pour into a margarita glass with salted rim.

Gringo Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 can frozen limeade
• ice
• 1/2 bottle light domestic beer (such as Miller light, Bud Light)
• white tequila

Directions:

Place limeade in bottom of blender. Fill blender the rest of the way to the top with ice. Add beer. Fill pitcher the rest of the way with tequila. Blend until smooth. Serve in salt rimmed glasses (optional).

Notes:

Makes 4

Guava Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• 1 cup silver tequila
• 3 tablespoons Triple Sec
• 3 tablespoons Simple Syrup
• 1 cup guava juice
• 1 lime (sliced)
• margarita salt
• ice

Directions:

Rub a lime wedge around the edges of a glass and dip immediately in the margarita salt to coat the rim of the glass. Place the glass into the freezer for 10 minutes.

In a blender, combine the ice, lime juice, tequila, Triple Sec, Simple Syrup, and guava juice and blend until smooth.

Pour into the chilled glasses, garnish each with a lime slice, and enjoy!

Gummi Bear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Tequila
• 1 oz Watermelon Pucker
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 1 oz sour mix
• 1 oz cranberry juice
• dash of grenadine
• sugar for rimming
• Gummi Bears for garnish

Directions:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar, fill with ice and Gummi Bears.

2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.

3. Shake well.

4. Strain into the prepared glass.

Notes:

How fun is this? Take one of your favorite drinks, add some fruitiness and then add one of your favorite candies to munch on while you drink. Obviously, the Gummi Bear Margarita includes Gummi Bears, which are mixed within the ice, but it also features a fantastic flavored tequila, Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon, a blue raspberry and kiwi infused tequila. Because Gummi Bears don’t look as good blended or just laying around, this particular Margarita is best served on the rocks with the bears mixed up with the ice.

Guy Fieri's Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups crushed ice
• 1/2 cup strawberry puree (frozen can or fresh strawberries, pureed)
• 1 cup tequila
• 2 limes, juiced
• Splash Triple Sec
• Splash simple syrup

Directions:

Combine in a blender, ice, strawberry water, tequila, lime juice, Triple Sec and simple syrup. Puree until smooth. Pour into rocks glasses and serve.

Notes:

From GUY'S BIG BITE, Episode "Taquitos"

Halloween Party Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 Bottles of tequila
• 1 Bottle of cointreau or triple sec
• 1 Gallon of sweet and sour mix
• 2 Pounds of gummy (jelly) worms, as many colors possible!
• Big bag of ice

Directions:

Get a big bowl, prefer a clear glass bowl

Pour all ingredients in the bowl

Add a bag of ice

Throw in the worms

Stir very well with a ladle

Pour your guests a great drink

Notes:

Want your drink sweeter? Add some simple syrup, stir well and taste, want it sourer? Add some fresh lime juice.

Hands Down, The Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Salt (optional)
• Ice cubes
• 3 ounces tequila (blanco or reposado)
• 3/4 ounce Cointreau
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 4 lime wedges (about 1 ounce lime juice)

Directions:

1) Rub one of the lime wedges around the rim of a martini glass. Dip the glass into a layer of salt. Tap the glass once to remove excess salt. (If you wish to give drinkers a choice, rub the lime wedge around only half the glass.)

2) Discard the used lime into a shaker. Fill the shaker with 6-8 ice cubes, tequila, cointreau, simple syrup, and the juice of the remaining 3 lime wedges.

3) Give it five or six hard shakes. Be careful not to over shake or you may "bruise" the margarita with too much water from the melted ice.

4) Strain into the salted martini glass.

5) Drink and enjoy!

Notes:

Forget everything you know about the margarita.

Forget the legends, traditions, and the label on the side of the "just add tequila and triple sec" mixer. Perfect margaritas don't come in buckets. They don't come in plastic cups; and they do not come from what looks like a 7-Eleven Icee machine. They also don't come in bulk–so, forget the pitcher, too.

Each hands down perfect margarita takes time, care, and a bit of effort. It's OK to deviate from the recipe, just know that your margarita won't be as good. If you do choose perfection, this is the way to go.

Hawaiian Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Smirnoff orange vodka
• 2 oz Malibu coconut rum
• 1 oz Malibu passion fruit rum
• 1-1/2 oz DeKuyper Island Blue Pucker schnapps
• 4 oz pina colada mix
• 1 oz sweet and sour mix
• 1-1/2 - 2 oz freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 oz mango juice
• coconut shavings
• margarita salt
• 2 cups ice

Directions:

Get a Margarita Glass and wet the top of the ring of the glass. Dip the glass in a bowl of margarita salt, therefore getting a ring of salt on the top of the glass.

Squeeze a fresh orange into a blender, add the 4 oz. Pina Colada mix, 1 oz. the sweet and sour mix, 2 oz. smirnoff orange vodka, 2 oz. malibu coconut rum, 1 oz. malibu passion fruit rum, 1 1/2 oz. Blue Island Pucker Dekuyper, and 2 cups ice. Blend all ingredients together on high.

Put drink into margarita glass (depending on what size margarita glass you use this might make 2 drinks). Put fresh coconut shavings onto top of drink and serve!

Hawaiian Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

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

Directions:

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

Notes:

Travel to the islands (well, at least in your mind) with this Hawaiian Margarita. A great blended cocktail with strong strawberry and pineapple flavor. Skewer a chunk of pineapple along with a couple slices of strawberries for a fruity garnish. If the mix is too thick once blended, add more sour mix or Triple Sec: if it's too thin, add more ice.

Hibiscus Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ounce white tequila
• 1-1/2 ounce sour mix
• 1 ounce hibiscus syrup (from recipe below)

Directions:

HIBISCUS SYRUP
1/2 liter dried hibiscus flowers
1 liter water
1/4 liter sugar

For the Hibiscus Syrup: Boil hibiscus and water for 25 to 30 minutes. Strain with a sieve and puree the remaining flowers. Add the flower puree and sugar into the liquid and strain with a fine sieve.

For the Hibiscus Margarita: Add the tequila, sour mix, required measure of hibiscus syrup and ice to a shaker. Shake and pour into a rocks glass.

Garnish with dried hibiscus petals.

Notes:

serves 1

Honest-to-Goodness Margaritas for a Crowd Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 750-milliliter bottle silver tequila (in this margarita, the better the tequila, the better the drink. Try Herradura, El Tesoro, El Viejito, Patron, or practically any of the 100% agave tequilas that are available in the market)
• 1 to 2 cups (1/3 to 2/3 of a 750-milliliter bottle) triple sec or Cointreau
• 1 cup freshly squeezed lime juice, plus several tablespoons extra for rimming the glasses
• Several tablespoons coarse (kosher-type) salt, for rimming the glasses
• About a gallon of ice cubes

Directions:

1. Just before serving, in a half-gallon pitcher combine the tequila, the minimum amount of triple sec or Cointreau, and the lime juice. Taste and add more of the orange liqueur if you think your margaritas need more sweet oranginess to balance the other flavors. Remember, you're tasting it warm and undiluted: when chilled and diluted, the flavors will be mellower and the lime's tartness will be more compelling (tangy, warm champagne is not nearly as inviting as ice-cold).

2. Pour several tablespoons of lime juice onto one small plate, several tablespoons coarse salt onto another. Have martini glasses at hand (for an extra special touch, you can chill them). I like the 5-ounce size, since that size drink will stay cold from first sip to last. As your guests ask for their margaritas, invert a glass into the plate with the lime juice to moisten the rim, then lightly dip into the plate with the salt. For each drink measure 2 ounces (4 tablespoons) of the margarita mixture into a cocktail shaker I can do 3 drinks at a time comfortably in mine. If you have a 2-ounce ladle that you can keep in the pitcher, measuring goes much faster. Add ice cubes (I put in 5 cubes for 1, 8 for 2, and 10 for 3). Secure the lid and top and shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds. Strain into the salt-crusted glasses and hand off to the lucky recipients.

Notes:

By Rick Bayless, Mexican food authority, award-winning author, and owner of Frontera Grill and Topolobampo in Chicago.

In the age of the 32-ounce (or larger) Big Gulps and the like, a small drink may not necessarily seem fashionable. But large quantity is not always related to good quality, as is attested by those mammoth margaritas, laced as they are with artificially flavored sweet-and-sour mix. This margarita is the real thing purity and refreshing freshness that's strained into martini glasses after a vigorous rumble with ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Just before your guests arrive, combine the tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice in a pitcher, and you'll be poised for the shaking to begin.

The proportions in this recipe focus a bit more on the flavor of the good tequila. And it's silver (unaged) tequila here, the freshest and most agave-flavored of the tequilas. Reposado (6-month-old) tequila is a little softer, without the bright freshness of a silver, while the añejo (aged) tequila is moving toward the flavor of an aged brandy and I personally don't think that's what margarita flavor is all about.

Makes 20 to 24 old-fashioned margaritas

Horny Toad Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 5 oz. Tequila Sauza Hornitos
• 4 oz. Cointreau
• 6 oz. Lemon Juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 tablespoon Sea Salt, half course, no iodine
• 4 Lemon Slices or Wedges (for decoration)
• 24 Ice cubes, coarsely crushed

Directions:

Shaking a proper Margarita goes as follows:

- Squeeze lemons until you have 6 fld ounces of juice; Usually this will take about 4 lemons

- Put salt on a soup plate; We like to make our own half course salt by crushing course sea salt in a mortar

- Wet the rim of each glass with lemon juice, put the glass upside down on the soup plate and swirl around to collect a nice band of salt salt, giving it that nice frosted look

- Cut one lemon in half, cut one half into 4 wedges; Cut wedges about halfway through and stick 'm on the rim of the glass for decoration

- Pour the tequila, cointreau, lemon juice and 3 or 4 icecubes in a cocktailshaker

- Crush remainder of ice cubes and distribute over glasses

- Shake tequila, cointreau and lemon juice vigorously for 5 to 10 seconds and pour into glasses

Notes:

The "Horny Toad Margarita" refers to the Tequila Sauza Hornitos, a 100% Agave Tequila, which is the main ingredient in this noble concoction.

Tip: For mixing Margaritas I use the "4-5-6 OTL Margarita Rule":
4 parts ORANGE Liquor
5 parts TEQUILA
6 parts LEMON Juice

A word of caution here: The above quantities will yield 4 great Margaritas. Please note that each glass will contain more than 2 fld ounces of 80 proof liquor.
That's quite a drink! Handle with care!

Hypnotiq Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Tequila
• 1 oz Hpnotiq Liqueur
• 1/2 oz blue curaçao
• 2 oz sour mix
• 1 oz pineapple juice
• sugar for rimming
• sugar coated lime wedge for garnish

Directions:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar.

2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.

3. Shake well.

4. Strain into the prepared glass.

5. Garnish with a sugar-coated lime wedge.

This Margarita can also be served on the rocks or blended with about 1 cup of ice.

Notes:

If you’re looking for the ultimate blue Margarita with all the flavors of the tropics, the Hypnotiq Margarita is what you’ve been looking for. Featuring Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon, a blue raspberry and kiwi-infused tequila, Hpnotiq Liqueur and blue curaçao, a Margarita can not get much bluer than this mix.

Italian Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces frozen lemonade concentrate
• 3 ounces tequila
• 2 ounces amaretto
• 1 ounce triple sec
• 3 ounces water
• 3 cups ice cubes

Directions:

Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until slushy.

Notes:

this recipe originated from:
http://www.margaritatexas.com/recipes

Jack Daniel’s Black Raspberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 parts Jack Daniel’s Whiskey
• 1 part Chambord
• 1 part Cranberry Juice
• 2 parts Sweet & Sour
• Splash Sprite
• Lime Garnish

Directions:

Combine liquid ingredients except Sprite in cocktail shaker with ice.

Shake to blend.

Strain into cocktail glass over fresh ice.

Add splash of Sprite.

Garnish with Lime.

Jalapeno Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 jalapeño, serrated with a knife
• 1-1/3 cups tequila
• 1 cup orange liqueur
• 1 cup lime juice (10 limes if you want to use fresh lime juice)
• 3 tablespoons superfine sugar
• salt
• ice

Directions:

1. In a jar, steep the jalapeño and tequila; keep at room temperature for 1 day.

2. Strain the tequila into a large pitcher and discard the jalapeño. Stir in the orange liqueur, lime juice and sugar.

3. Pour the salt and a small amount of the margarita onto 2 rimmed plates. Dip the rims of 6 glasses into the margarita, then into the salt. Fill each glass with ice, pour in the margarita and serve.

Jamaica (Hibiscus) Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 shots of chilled Agua de Jamaica (recipe below)
• 1 shot Tequila Tezón Blanco
• shot of simple syrup
• juice from 1/2 a lime
• lime wedge for garnish

Directions:

1. Pour the Agua de Jamaica, tequila, simple syrup and lime juice into a chilled cocktail shaker filled with ice.


2. Shake well.


3. Strain into a chilled margarita glass.


4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Agua de Jamaica (Hibiscus):

• 2 cups (2 oz) jamaica flowers


• 3/4 cup granulated sugar (more if desired)


• 6 cups water

1. Bring the water to a boil.


2. Add the flowers and sugar and stir continuously
   while the mixture boils for one minute.


3. Pour into a non-corrosive bowl and
   steep for 2 hours.
   
   *Note- this flower will stain so do not use a bowl that will stain.


4. Strain
   the mixture through a sieve, pressing on the flower solids to extract as
   much liquid as possible.


5. Taste for strength and sweetness. If it is too
   potent, add water. If it is too tart, add sugar.


6. Cover and refrigerate until
   time to serve.

Notes:

This is a great recipe for a Margarita that is definitely above average. It uses a sugary water that is flavored with hibiscus flowers that are a wonderful compliment to the bouquet in Tequila Tezón Blanco. It looks beautiful with an unblemished hibiscus in full bloom floating on top.

Japanese Cherry Blossom Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Tequila
• 2 oz sake
• 1 oz cherry syrup
• 1 oz sour mix
• 1 oz lemon juice (approx. 1 lemon)
• sugar for rimming
• cherry and lemon twist for garnish

Directions:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar.
2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into the prepared glass.
5. Garnish with a cherry and lemon twist.

Notes:

Fans of sake and cherry are going to love this flavor-filled Margarita. It features Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Tequila, whose prickly pear infusion adds a great contrast to the cherry syrup and compliments the sake beautifully. Not the best frozen Margarita, the Japanese Cherry Blossom is best served on the rocks or straight up.

Jimmy Buffett's Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Crushed ice
• 3 wedges lime
• 2 ounces gold tequila (Cuervo 1800)
• 1/2 ounce tequila (Cuervo white)
• 1 1/4 ounces Rose's Lime Juice
• 1/2 ounce triple sec (Bols)
• 1 splash orange Curaçao (Bols)

Directions:

Put all ingredients except the 3 lime wedges into a shaker. Squeeze 2 of the lime wedges into the shaker. SHAKE WELL! Rim outside of glass only with lime. Salt only the outside of the glass. Add fresh crushed ice to glass. Strain mixture over ice. Squeeze remaining lime wedge in glass.

Notes:

Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Restaurant Perfect Margarita recipe
Source: Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Restaurants

Juicy Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup tequila (preferably 100% blue agave)
• 1/2 cup Cointreau
• 1 1/4 cups fresh lime juice
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 1/4 cup superfine sugar
• 4 teaspoons honey, warmed

Directions:

Combine all of the ingredients in a large pitcher and stir to dissolve the sugar. Refrigerate until chilled or serve immediately over cracked ice.

Notes:

From Food & Wine Magazine

Kahlua Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Ice, crushed
• Kahlua
• Hershey's Chocolate topping
• Whole Milk
• Block of Cadbury's milk chocolate
• Vanilla ice cream

Directions:

Take the blender, half-fill it with ice, add some kahlua (up to you how much, but you won't taste it until you add about a cup of it), and some (not much) milk.

Blend this for a little bit, the ice should semi-freeze the milk and the kahlua will get cold as well. The ice should be that nice grainy texture.

Add a good dollop of chocolate topping and a scoop of vanilla icecream.

Blend again on medium, keeping an eye on the consistency. You want thick and icy.

Pour into the serving glasses, top with some grated chocolate.

Key Lime Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 parts Cointreau
• 2 (or 6) parts Jose Cuervo Gold
• 1 part Key Lime juice (fresh squeezed only)
• 1 splash Grand Mariner

Directions:

shake vigourously with crushed ice and strain into glass which has been rimmed with course kosher salt

Add 6 parts (instead of 2) of Cuevro Gold if you want a REALLY strong Margarita.

Notes:

Don't drink more than two. Make it one if you are less than 150 pounds or want to conserve the Cointreau.

Key Lime Martini Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz tequila (100% Agave)
• 1-1/2 oz Cointreau® orange liqueur
• 1 oz key lime juice
• 1 oz simple syrup
• Margarita Salt for the glass rim
• Lime wheel for garnish

Directions:

Place the sugar and water in a small saucepan and stir to combine. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved and the syrup is slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool. Transfer the syrup to a container with a tight-fitting lid, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use.

Fill shaker half full of ice and add all ingredients. Shake vigorously for 15 to 20 seconds. Pour martini into a salt rimmed martini glass and garnish with a lime wheel.

Killer Spring Break Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 oz. can Limeade
• 1 (6 oz. limeade) can - Filled with Silver Tequilla
• 1/4 (6 oz. limeade) can - Triple Sec
• 1/2 (6 oz. limeade) can - water
• 1 - egg white (optional)
• Kosher salt
• Lime wedges

Directions:

Fill the blender container 3/4 full with ice. Add all ingredients and blend on Frappe setting until smooth like a slushy. Rub edge of glass with lime and dip into salt. Pour in the Margarita and add a lime wedge.

Add a few grains of Green colored sugar to the blender... it adds just enough color to lightly green up the batch of margaritas!

Notes:

Note: I don't always use the egg white. It adds no taste, just holds the drink together.

Kiwi Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup superfine sugar
• 1/3 cup gold tequila
• 1/3 cup triple sec
• 2 large kiwis, peeled
• 1 cup fresh lime juice
• 2 cups small ice cubes

Directions:

Combine the sugar, tequila, triple sec, kiwis, and lime juice in a blender; fill with ice cubes; blend until smooth.

Notes:

Serves 4

Knock You Naked Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Lime Juice
• 1 oz Sweet and Sour Mix
• 2 oz Cuervo 1800 Tequila
• 2 oz Triple Sec
• 3 oz of Corona (beer)

Directions:

Add ingredients to a shaker, just like normal margarita, then add 3 ounces of a Corona.

Shake and enjoy over ice or straight up!

Kristirita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 - 6 oz frozen limeade (I use Minute Made)
• 3/4 (limeade can) silver tequilla (Patron of course is best but any will do)
• 1/2 (limeade can) triple sec.
• 1 bottle/can beer (I use corona light or regular - but any should do)
• ice, lime wedges, salt

Directions:

Put can of frozen limeade, tequilla and triple sec in blender (liquids should always go on bottom) then fill most of the way full with ice (leave room for beer). Blend limeade, tequilla and triple sec with ice till ice is crushed and blended. Slowly poor in beer and blend until frozen and smooth. (To get the smoothest frozen margarita, you should always get a funnel going in your blender - you can always add a touch of water slowly to get the funnel going.) Trace margarita glass rim with limes and dip in salt. Poor and enjoy!

Notes:

Great girls night out margarita!

Kryptonite Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Silver Tequila
• 1 oz Melon Liqueur
• 1/2 Lime
• 1/4 oz Salt
• Ice

Directions:

Salt rim of glass
Shake Tequila and Melon Liqueur with ice
Strain into glass
Squeeze 1/2 of a lime into mixture

Lemon Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1 cup white Tequila
• 1/3 cup Triple Sec

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a sealable container with crushed ice. Shake well. Salt rims of glasses if desired. Pour and serve.

Notes:

Serves 4

Lime Sorbet Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 pints lime sorbet
• 1/2 cup tequila

Directions:

Rub the lime wedges around the rims of 8 stemmed glasses. Place the sugar on a small plate. Turn each glass upside down and dip the rims in the sugar to coat.

Place 2 scoops of sorbet in each glass and pour 1 tablespoon of tequila over the top of each. Serve with a spoon.

Notes:

Let everyone enjoy this drink! For a nonalcoholic, kid-friendly version of the Lime Sorbet Margaritas, replace the tequila for each glass with 2 tablespoons club soda or seltzer.

Makes 8 servings.

Longhorn Steakhouse Apple Cider Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 oz. Stirrings Spiced Apple Mix
• 2 oz. Cabo Wabo Tequila
• 1 oz. Licor 43
• 1/2 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps
• 10 oz. Hard Cider
• 1 oz. Sour Mix
• Stirrings Spiced Apple Rimmer

Directions:

Rim a margarita glass with the Stirrings Spiced Apple

Place liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake gently.

Notes:

You can use a cinnamon-sugar mixture if you don't have Stirrings rimmer.

Low Carb Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 tsp orange extract
• 1 packet Splenda (or 2 tsp powdered)
• 1 tsp water
• 1 shot tequila
• 1/8 tsp lime juice
• 1/4 tsp lemon juice

Directions:

Mix together the orange extract, Splenda and water. This pretty much is the curocao - orange extract is up to 85% alcohol. Put crushed ice into a shaker and pour this liquid over the ice. Now add in 1 shot tequila, plus the lemon and lime juice. Shake thoroughly and pour into a glass.

You are practically at 0g of carbs here. You get a tiny amount of carbs (let's say 0.4g) from those dashes of lemon and lime juice.

Notes:

Most margarita recipes involve curocao, triple sec or grand marnier. All are LOADED with sugar. This is a great recipe that is pretty much 0g carbs!

Low Carb Sugar-free Sweet and Sour Mix Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 2 T lime juice
• 1/4 cup equivalent artificial sweetener (liquid preferred)

Directions:

Combine it all together. Store covered in the refrigerator.

This recipe is really a starting place. You can vary the concentrations of the juices and sweetener depending upon your taste, the particular juices you use, and how much ice you are adding to the drink. You can use this mix to make whiskey sours, daiquiris, margaritas, etc. (Try it with Jack Daniels - yum!) Fresh lemon and limes taste best, but bottled works OK.

Notes:

This is the sweet/sour mixer ONLY. Use this in your favorite margarita as a substitution for the sweet/sour mix.

Low-Calorie Margarita-Lite Drink Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup seltzer water
• 1 ounce tequila
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1/8 cup lime juice
• 1 teaspoon agave nectar (or Rose's Sweetened Lime juice)

Directions:

Combine everything but the seltzer in a cocktail shaker, add ice, shake and pour into a glass with the seltzer.

Notes:

Takes a margarita (300+ calories) and reduces it to around 120-140 calories.

Mango Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 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 (individual quick frozen or fresh)
• sugar (for rim of glass)

Directions:

Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Pour the mixture into a sugar-rimmed glass.

Mango Margarita on the Rocks Recipe

Ingredients:

• sugar, for rim
• 1/2 lime, quartered
• 1/2 cup tequila, good quality
• 1 ounce triple sec (or Cointreau liqueur or Grand Marnier)
• 2/3 cup mango nectar
• 2 ounces simple syrup
• 3 tablespoons lime juice
• 1 cup ice cube
• lime, slices garnish

Directions:

Rim margarita glass or cocktail glasses with sugar, if inclined.

Pour ingredients into cocktail shaker and shake.

Strain into glasses.

Squeeze juice from 1 lime quarter into each drink and garnish glass with lime slice.

Mango Margarita-Easy! Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 Shots Mango Tequila (try Margaritaville brand)
• 1 Shot Peach Schnapps
• .5 Shot Lime Juice
• Ice
• Sugar... optional

Directions:

If you'd like, rim your glass with sugar.

Fill your mixer around 1/3 full with ice and then add the liquid ingredients. Shake for 30 seconds and pour into your glass.

Enjoy.

Notes:

If you find this margarita a bit sweet, switch from a 1:2:3 lime juice, schnapps, tequila ratio to a 1:1:2 ratio. I use .75 shot lime juice and schnapps and 1.5 shots of tequila to keep the total amount of liquid the same. If you're able to work partitive proportions after having a couple of margaritas, reward yourself with an extra shot of tequila.

Mangorita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers tequila
• 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger triple sec liqueur
• 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger fresh lime juice
• 1 mango - peeled, seeded and sliced
• 4 ice cubes
• 1/4 cup mango nectar

Directions:

In a blender, combine the tequila, triple sec, lime juice, mango, and ice. Blend until ice is finely crushed. Sweeten with mango nectar to your liking.

Notes:

Makes 1 Drink

Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Tequila
• 1 oz Lemon or lime juice
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec

Directions:

Rub rim of cocktail glass with rind of lemon or lime, dip rim in salt. Shake ingredients with ice and strain into the salt-rimmed glass.

Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 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)

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a 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.

Notes:

here are three basic ways you can serve this cocktail: neat (as in this recipe), on the rocks, or frozen. The next question is, salt, sugar or nothing on the rim of your glass. The possibilities really are endless.

Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of ice
• 1 1/2 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 3 oz sour mix
• lime wedge for garnish
• salt for rimming glass (optional)

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. If desired, salt the rim of a chilled margarita glass.
4. Pour contents into the glass.
5. Garnish with the lime wedge.

Notes:

The frozen, blended version of the original Margarita. This version has a nice, light sour lime taste but there are many more variations with almost any flavor you may want. If the mix is too thick once blended, add more juice: if it's too thin, add more ice.

Margarita de Sandia Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3-1/2 cups seeded, cubed watermelon
• 3/4 cup tequila
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• Crushed ice

Directions:

Bring sugar and water to a boil in a medium saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves; boil 1 minute. Remove from heat; cool.

Process watermelon in a blender until smooth. Combine all ingredients, and shake well.

Notes:

Makes 4 servings

Margarita Ice Pops Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• 2 tablespoons tequila
• 2 tablespoons orange liqueur (recommended: Grand Marnier)
• Kosher salt, for garnish
• 4 small cups (recommended: Dixie)
• 4 popsicle sticks

Directions:

Combine sugar, lime juice, water, lemon juice and orange juice in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Once cool transfer to a blender with tequila, orange liqueur, and lime wedge and process until smooth. Pour into the cups and cover the top of each cup with foil. Place the popsicle stick in center of cup (down through foil, which will hold it in place). Freeze until hard, preferably overnight. Remove from freezer and run cup under warm water to loosen popsicle. Garnish with kosher salt and serve. Enjoy!

Margarita Jelly Shot Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz fresh lime juice
• 1 oz simple syrup
• 1 oz water
• 1 package unflavored gelatin (1/4 oz)
• 3 oz white tequila
• 2 oz triple sec
• food coloring (optional)

Directions:

1. Pour the lime juice, simple syrup and water into a glass container and add the gelatin.
2. Allow this to sit for one minute.
3. Microwave on high for thirty seconds.
4. Stir thoroughly, ensuring the gelatin is dissolved.
5. Add the tequila, triple sec and food coloring.
6. Stir thoroughly.
7. Pour into shot glasses, molds or a baking pan for a sheet of Jell-O to cut up once set.
8. Refrigerate until the liquid sets.
(At least 2 hours, but overnight refrigeration is recommended)
9. Serve cold.

Notes:

A great recipe for adapting a Margarita into a Jelly Shot. Try this recipe to get the hang of making Jelly Shots then adapt your other favorite cocktails into these party favorites.

Margarita on the Rocks Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sweet and sour mix
• 1 cup triple sec
• 1-1/2 cups gold tequila
• 1/3 cup brandy-based orange liqueur (such as Grand Marnier)
• 2 limes, quartered

Directions:

Salt the rims of 8 glasses. To do so, pour salt onto a small plate, rub the rims of the glasses with lime, and press them into the salt. Fill the glasses with ice.

In a blender, combine sweet and sour mix, triple sec, tequila and Grand Marnier. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses, squeeze a quarter lime into each glass, and serve.

Notes:

Serves 8

Margarita Popsicles Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup fresh lime juice
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons fresh orange juice
• 2 tablespoons tequila
• 2 tablespoons Grand Marnier
• 1 tablespoon lime zest

Directions:

Combine sugar, through orange juice in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Add tequila, orange liqueur, and lime zest, mix to combine. Pour molds and cover with foil. Place the popsicle stick in center and freeze until hard, preferably overnight.

Margarita Texas Rita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 oz Margarita Texas Mix
• 3 oz Cavalino Blanco Tequila
• 2 oz Paula's Texas Orange Liqueur

Directions:

Mix all ingredients into shaker with ice, shake and strain into glass. Enjoy huge Texas taste.

Notes:

Recipe on the bottle of Margarita Texas Mix.

Margaritas by the Gallon Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 cups tequila (you’ll need two fifths for this)
• 2.5 cups triple sec (just a fifth, please)
• 2.5 cups fresh lime juice
• 2.5 cups fresh lemon juice
• 2 cups simple syrup

Directions:

Mix ingredients together in gallon container. Don’t forget to refrigerate! When ready to serve, pour mixture into a 16-ounce glass filled with ice. Salted rim is optional.

Makes 21 margaritas.

Notes:

It’s summer, which means barbecues, camping trips and river floats are on the agenda for the next few months. I always love showing up with a gallon jug of pre-mixed margaritas for the party, so I’ve decided to share my recipe with you.

When I can’t find a gallon jug lying around, I just buy a gallon of distilled water from the grocery store for less than a buck and use the water to feed the plants.

Margaritaville - The Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Margaritaville Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz Margaritaville Silver Tequila
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec
• 1/2 oz Orange Curacao
• 1/2 oz Rose's Lime Juice
• 2 Lime Wedges Squeezed

Directions:

Rim margarita glass with salt.
Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice.
Squeeze limes over shaker and drop them in shaker.
Shake vigorously and pour into a margarita glass.

Notes:

From the drink menu at Margaritaville.

Margaritaville Gold Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Margaritaville Gold Tequila
• 1/2-ounce Cointreau
• 2 ounces premium sour mix
• Lime juice, for glass rim
• Kosher salt, for glass rim
• Sliced lime, for garnish

Directions:

Fill a 12-ounce glass with ice. Add tequila, Cointreau, and sour mix. Shake well. Rim the glass with lime juice and kosher salt. Garnish with lime and serve.

Notes:

From Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Cafe.

Margaritaville Italian Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz Margaritaville Calypso Coconut
• 1/2 oz Amaretto
• 1-1/2 oz Margaritaville Margarita Mix

Directions:

Rim margarita glass with sugar.
Combine ingredients in a shaker filled with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Add orange wheel garnish.

Notes:

From the drink menu at Margaritaville.

Margaritaville Pink Cadillac Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz Margaritaville Last Mango
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec
• 4 oz Margaritaville Margarita Mix
• 1 oz Cranberry juice

Directions:

Rim margarita glass with salt.
Combine ingredients in a shaker.
Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
Add lime wedge garnish.

Notes:

From the drink menu at Margaritaville.

Margaritaville Who's To Blame Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz Margaritaville Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec
• 4 oz Margaritaville Margarita Mix

Directions:

Rim margarita glass with salt.
Combine ingredients in a shaker.
Shake and pour into a margarita glass with ice.
Add lime wedge for garnish.

Notes:

From the drink menu at Margaritaville.

Maria's Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz tequila blanco
• 2 oz lemon water
• 1 oz bols triple sec
• 1 tsp simple syrup

Directions:

To make the lemon water use one cup water to 4 medium sized lemons, add about a tablespoon of simple syrup... sugar disolved in water over low heat... this replaces sweet and sour or the lime juice used in most recipes. Add the ingredients as you would in any shaken margarita with crushed ice... pour into salted glass

Notes:

If you have ever had a Margarita that was white and tasted quite strong and not limey and artifical tasting it was probably based on this recipe. This is the best Margarita you will ever taste... made with Herradura or Corazon Blanco it is heaven.

Matt's "Had a Bad Day" Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz Master of Mixes Sweet and Sour Mix
• 4 oz 1800 Silver Agave Tequila
• 2 oz Cointreau
• Cracked Ice
• Course Salt
• 10 oz Margaritaville Mango Tequila
• Splash of Orange Juice

Directions:

You've had a bad day.

Start with a shot (2 oz) of Margaritaville™ Mango Tequila.

Taste good, doesn't it? Have another shot (2 oz) of Margaritaville™ Mango
Tequila.

Consider having a Margarita.

Have another shot (2 oz) of Margarita Mango Tequila.

Now, let's start the Margarita:

1. Assemble the following ingredients while having a shot (2 oz) of Margaritaville™ Mango
   Tequila:
   
   "Master
   of Mixes" Sweet and Sour Mix
   
   4 oz of 1800 Respado Silver Tequila
   
   2 oz Cointreau
   
   Splash of Orange Juice


2. Mix all contents will crushed ice


3. Have another shot (2 oz) of Margaritaville™ Mango Tequila


4. Pour into salt-rimmed glass


5. Enjoy the Margarita!


6. Done? Have another shot (2 oz) of Margaritaville™ Mango Tequila

Now, how bad was your day?

Melon Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 cups frozen cubed honeydew melon
• 3/4 cup white tequila
• 1/3 cup fresh lime juice
• 3 tablespoons sugar

Directions:

Place all of the ingredients in a blender and pulse until smooth. Serve in chilled glasses.

Notes:

Makes 4 servings.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

There are few drinks that are as satisfying as this one is on a hot summer day. The frozen sweet melon is very cooling and the tequila, well it just makes you feel great! We can buy frozen honeydew melon year round in our area grocery stores. If you cannot, at least 6 hours in advance, cube a large ripe honeydew melon and freeze it. You can buy and cube the melon well in advance and keep it in the freezer for up to 6 months. For a more potent drink that is even more fantastic, float a shot of Midori on top of the glass before serving.

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Mesa Grill Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 8 oz. white tequila
• 4 oz. triple sec or other orange liquer
• 4 oz. lime juice
• Coarse salt (optional)
• Lime wedge

Directions:

Variations:

Rocks Margarita
Combine tequila, triple sec, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and shake well. Pour into a chilled Collins glass and garnish with the lime wedge.
Optional: Rub a lime wedge around the rim of the glass and dip the glass into a saucer of the coarse salt.

Up Margarita
Combine tequila, triple sec, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker with ice cubes and shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with a lime wedge.
Optional: Rub a lime wedge around the rim of the glass and dip the glass into a saucer of the coarse salt.

Frozen Margarita
Combine tequila, triple sec, and lime juice in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour the mixture into a goblet and garnish with a lime wedge.
Optional: Rub a lime wedge around the rim of the glass and dip the glass into a saucer of the coarse salt.

Notes:

SERVES: 4

From THE MESA GRILL GUIDE TO TEQUILA

Recipe by Laurence Kretchmer
This recipe originally appeared in June, 1998.

Midori Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ounces Sauza Commemorativo
• 1 ounce Midori
• 1 ounce sweet and sour mix

Directions:

Blend with crushed ice and pour into salted glass

MILLION® Orange Mango Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce tequila
• 2 ounces MILLION® Premium Green Tea - Orange Mango Flavored
• 1/2 ounce orange-flavored liqueur
• 1-1/2 teaspoons lime juice
• Ice
• Sugar

Directions:

Pour the tequila, MILLION® Orange Mango Green Tea, orange liqueur and lime juice in a shaker over ice.

Shake vigorously.

Rim a glass with sugar, add ice and pour mixture over ice.

Makes a sweet, fruity, orange-mango margarita!

Notes:

Ask for MILLION® Premium Green Tea at your local market. If they don't have it, tell them to get it!

MILLION® Premium Green tea is coming soon to the Miami/South Florida area! Find out more at DrinkMillion.com!

Miracle Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Partida Blanco Tequila
• 2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice
• 1 oz Grand Marnier
• splash of Veuve Clicquot Champagne
• lime wedge
• lemon wedge
• orange wheel for garnish
• blue sugar for rimming (optional)

Directions:

1. Squeeze lemon and lime wedges into a mixing glass full of ice.
2. Add Partida, orange juice and Grand Marnier.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a margarita or martini glass rimmed with blue sugar.
5. Float 1 oz of Veuve Clicquot champagne atop.
6. Garnish with an orange wheel.
7. Celebrate the Miracle!

Notes:

Ilene Steinberg at I bar in Tribeca created this orange Margarita in honor of the New York Mets' bid for the 2006 World Series Championship. The Miracle Margarita is a cocktail that has it all: orange liquid with a blue sugar rim, a great tequila and a splash of the bubbly for subtle celebration.

Nectarine Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Tequila
• 2 oz nectarine mix or 1/3 nectarine juice
• fill with margarita mix
• ice

Directions:

ice (shake) rocks or blended frozen. Add 2 oz flavor mix.

Notes:

Add Schnapps for a Cherry, Peach, Blackberry, Raspberry, Strawberry, or Wildberry Nectarine Margarita.

Obamarita (from the Avalon Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Silver tequila
• 1 oz. Blue curaçao
• 3/4 oz. Lime juice, freshly squeezed
• dash Simple syrup
• splash Prosecco
• Lime twist to garnish

Directions:

In mixing glass, shake tequila, blue curacao, lime juice and simple syrup with ice; strain into rocks glass with salted rim over ice. Top with Prosecco; garnish with lime twist.

Obamarita (from The Green Grape) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz pineapple juice
• 1/2 oz lime juice
• 1-1/4 oz Tito’s Vodka
• dash bitters
• 3/4 oz triple sec

Directions:

Combine ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously. Serve up.

Notes:

Inspired by the rumor Obama likes margaritas, it incorporates lime, Tito’s Vodka (an All-American spirit made in Texas as a nod to the outgoing President), pineapple juice (in tribute to Obama’s Hawaii connection), a dash of bitters (recognition of the bitter economic pill we are taking) and triple sec (because just a spoonful of sugary orange liqueur will make the economic medicine go down).

Orange Mango Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce tequila
• 1 ounce mango nectar
• 1 ounce fresh squeezed orange juice
• 1/2 ounce orange-flavored liqueur
• 1-1/2 teaspoons lime juice
• Ice

Directions:

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake and and pour. Serve on the rocks.

Orange Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of ice
• 1 1/2 oz tequila
• 1/2 oz Triple Sec or orange liqueur
• dash of lime juice
• scoop of orange sherbert
• orange slice and lime wedge for garnish

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour contents into a chilled margarita glass.
4. Garnish with the lime wedge and orange slice.

Notes:

A delicious orange-flavored frozen Margarita that is smooth and creamy thanks to the orange sherbert. If the mix is too thick once blended, add orange or lime juice: if it's too thin, add more ice or sherbert.

Orange Sunrise Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 oz. sweet and sour mix
• 5 oz. Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila
• 4 oz. Grand Marnier
• 1 oz. Orange Syrup

Directions:

Mix all ingredients over ice and pour into a salt rimmed glass.

Makes a nice orange-sunrise colored drink with a hint of orange citrus flavor.

Notes:

Makes two 8oz. mixed drinks.

Organic Alien Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Alien Tequila Silver
• 1 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1 oz. agave syrup

Directions:

Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice. Serve on the rocks by straining into a salt-rimmed, ice filled glass.

Notes:

Served at La Madonna Restaurant, Las Vegas, NV

Original Margarita Recipe (from Carlos “Danny” Herrera) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. Silver Tequila
• 2 oz. Contreau
• 1 oz. lime juice

Directions:

Shake with crushed (shaved) ice, and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass, which has a salt rim.

Notes:

Accredited to Carlos "Danny" Herrera. Carlos “Danny” Herrera is said to have invented the Margarita in Rosarito, Mexico, at Rancho La Gloria, which is named after his daughter Gloria Amezcua. This is one of the "original" margarita recipes.

Original Margarita Recipe (from Danny Negrete) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. silver tequila
• 1 oz. Triple Sec
• 1 oz. lime juice

Directions:

Shake with ice, and then strain into a whisky glass containing crushed ice. A salted rim is optional.

Notes:

Accredited to Danny Negrete. Danny Negrete is often said to be the Bar Manager who invented the Margarita for his girlfriend, who happened to like salt in her drinks. This is one of the "original" margarita recipes.

Original Margarita Recipe (from Francisco “Pancho” Morales) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Silver Tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau orange liqueur
• 1 oz. lime juice

Directions:

Shake with ice, and then strain into chilled cocktail glass, which is rimmed with salt.

Notes:

Accredited to Francisco “Pancho” Morales. Francisco “Pancho” Morales is said to have invented “his” Margarita on the 4th of July 1942, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which lies opposite El Paso, Texas across the US border. This is one of the "original" margarita recipes.

Original Margarita Recipe (from Margaret Sames) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. Silver Tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau orange liqueur
• 1 oz. lime juice

Directions:

Shake with ice, and then strain into a chilled champagne glass (saucer style), which is rimmed with salt.

Notes:

Accredited to Margaret Sames. Mrs. Sames was a Texas socialite who owned a holiday villa next to the Flamingo Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. This is one of the "original" margarita recipes.

Outback Steakhouse's Coral Reef Rita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 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
• Coarse Salt

Directions:

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.

Notes:

Serves 1

Peach Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup ice
• 1 1/2 oz tequila
• 1/4 oz Triple Sec
• 1/4 oz Peach Schnapps
• 1/4 oz Lime Juice
• 1 skinned, pitted, fresh medium peach or equivalent canned peaches

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour the contents into a chilled margarita glass.

Notes:

If you're tired of the same old Margaritas, this is an excellent alternative. The peach flavors are subtle and sweet and using fresh peaches as opposed to canned will create a stunning summer treat. If the mix is too thick once blended, add more juice: if it's too thin, add more ice.

Peachy Mango Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups diced fresh mango
• 1 cup tequila
• 1 cup peach schnapps
• 1/2 cup lime juice

Directions:

Blend all ingredients with ice. (Can also be served on the rocks, if desired.)

Notes:

Makes 4 to 6 servings.

Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 T Tequila (for decorating the glass)
• 1 T Salt (for decorating the glass)
• 2 oz Fresh lime juice
• 2 oz White tequila
• 2 oz Triple sec or Cointreau
• 8 Ice cubes

Directions:

Preliminaries:
To make the traditional ring of salt around the rims of the glasses, pour a little tequila into one of the saucers, and the salt into the other. Turn the glasses upside down, one by one, dip the rim first into the tequila, shaking off excess liquid, then into the salt; and set the glass upright.

Making the cocktail:
Measure the fresh lime juice, tequila, and orange liqueur into the container of the blender, pour in ice, and puree, pulsing the machine on and off for a few seconds. If you want a uniform frozen effect, puree until you hear no ice crackling; otherwise leave in a few bits of ice - a matter of taste. Serve at once, pouring into the middle of each glass so as not to disturb the ring of salt.

Source: Chef Zarela martinez, of 'Zarela' restaurant, Second Avenue, New York.

Notes:

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT SUGGESTED
2 Saucers (for dipping glasses
Into)
4 Coupes (shallow wide-mouthed
Wineglasses) about 3/4-cup
Capacity
An electric blender


From "In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs" by Julia Child.

Pineapple Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups lime juice, about 20 limes
• 2 cups white tequila
• 2 cups Triple Sec
• 2-1/2 cups fresh pineapple juice
• Fresh pineapple slices, for garnish

Directions:

Combine the lime juice, tequila, Triple Sec, and pineapple juice.

Fill a cocktail shaker 1/2-way with ice and 2/3 full with the margarita mixture.

Shake for 30 seconds and pour into glasses.

Decorate the rim of the glass with fresh pineapple slices and serve ice cold.

Pineapple Tangerine Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 tangerines, tangelos, or mandarin oranges
• 2 cups fresh pineapple cubes, tightly packed or canned pineapple chunks
• 2 tablespoons , rice syrup, or other sweetener
• 1 teaspoon lime juice
• 2 cups ice cubes
• 1/8 teaspoon mild chili powder
• 1 pinch salt
• Pineapple wedges dipped in chili powder for garnish

Directions:

Juice tangerines. (You should have about 1-3/4 cups juice). Place in blender with pineapple, sweetener, lime juice, ice, chili powder, and salt. Blend on highest speed till smooth, about 30 seconds. Serve margaritas in goblets garnished with pineapple wedges.

Notes:

Serves 6

Pink and Fruity Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Ice
• 1 cup sweet and sour mix
• 1 cup cranberry juice
• 5 ounces tequila
• 3 ounces Triple Sec
• 2 ounces Grand Marnier
• Lime slices
• Maraschino cherries

Directions:

Fill four salt rimmed glasses with ice. Mix the sweet and sour mix, cranberry juice, tequila, Triple Sec, and Grand Marnier in a pitcher or cocktail shaker. Carefully pour the mixture into the glasses. Garnish with the lime slices and cherries.

Notes:

Makes 4 Servings.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes

From PerfectEntertaining.com

Pink Lemonade Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 tub CRYSTAL LIGHT Pink Lemonade Flavor Low Calorie Soft Drink Mix
• 1-1/2 cups cold water
• 1/2 cup cold orange juice
• 2 Tbsp. tequila
• 1 Tbsp. lime juice
• 5 cups crushed ice

Directions:

Place drink mix, water, orange juice, tequila and lime juice in blender container; cover.

Blend on high speed until drink mix is dissolved.

Add ice; cover. Blend on high speed until thickened and smooth. Serve immediately.

This can be made without the tequila for those who enjoy their drinks without spirits, but why bother?

Notes:

Serves 5

Pink Raspberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Tequila
• 1 oz Tequila Rose
• 1/2 oz crème de noyaux
• 1/2 oz Chambord
• 2 1/2 oz cream
• dash of grenadine
• sugar for rimming
• fresh raspberries or strawberries for garnish

Directions:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar.
2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into the prepared glass.
5. Garnish with a cherry and lemon twist.

Notes:

I doubt I’d call this a Margarita, beyond the tequila it does not have a Margarita element at all. Nonetheless, it is an excellent summertime dessert drink. The flavor is a complex mix of prickly pear, almond, raspberry and cream that features the sweetness of Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Tequila, a prickly pear-infused spirit. The Pink Raspberry Margarita is equally great when served straight up, on the rocks or blended.

Pomegranate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 1/2 cups pomegranate juice (see Note)
• 1 cup añejo tequila
• 3/4 cup fresh lime juice
• 10 thin strips or slices of cucumber, for garnish

Directions:

1. In a small saucepan, combine the sugar and water and simmer over high heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved; let cool completely.

2. In a tall pitcher, combine the sugar syrup with the pomegranate juice, tequila and lime juice. Stir well, fill the pitcher with ice and stir again. Pour into 10 margarita, martini or cordial glasses, garnish each with a cucumber strip and serve.

Notes:

SERVES: 10

To make fresh pomegranate juice, cut the pomegranates in half crosswise and use a citrus juicer, preferably a large one, to extract the juice. One large pomegranate yields 1/3 cup of juice, which can be frozen for up to 6 months.

Recipe by Marcia Kiesel
From Raise Your Spirits
This recipe originally appeared in December, 1997.

Pomegranate Passion Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 can Minute Maid Frozen limeade
• 2 bottles beer (light beer)
• 1 cup Margaritaville Mango Tequila
• 1 Cup Pom Brand Pomegranate Juice
• Triple Sec to taste

Directions:

Mix the limeade, beer, tequila, and pomegranate juice. To taste, add triple sec(some like it without). Serve with minty salt rimmed glass over ice. Tasty--and a huge hit at parties!

Presidente Margarita (Chili's) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces premium tequila
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau liqueur
• 1/2 ounce Presidente Brandy
• 4 ounces (or 1/2 cup) sweet & sour
• Splash of Lime juice

Directions:

Mix the above in a shaker with ice, shake well, pour into salted rim glass, add a slice of lime. Enjoy!

Prickly Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 oz Voodoo Tiki Desert Rose Tequila
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 2 oz sour mix
• 1/2 oz orange juice
• dash of grenadine to color
• sugar coated lime wheel for garnish
• salt or sugar for rimming

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Strain into a chilled margarita glass with a sugar or salt rim.
4. Garnish with a sugar coated lime wheel.

Notes:

This is a fantastic Margarita that has an equally fantastic flavor that's a great alternative to the everyday lime or strawberry variety. The key to the drink is Voodoo Tiki Tequila Desert Rose Tequila, a prickly pear-infused tequila with a distinct flavor filled with sweetness and refreshing finish. While the recipe below is for an up drink, this is also great on the rocks or blended with about 1 cup of ice.

Prickly Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2oz Patron® Silver Tequila
• 1/2oz Pêra™ Prickly Pear Syrup
• 1/4oz Fresh squeezed lime juice
• 1/4oz Pink grapefruit juice

Directions:

Shake & pour into salted margarita
glass.

One 11oz bottle of Pêra™ Prickly Pear Syrup makes about 16 Margaritas.

Notes:

by Prickly Pear Ranch
http://www.pricklypearfruit.com

Prize Winner Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Chinaco Reposada Tequila
• 1 ounce Grand Marnier
• 2 ounces fresh lime juice

Directions:

Pour all ingredients over ice into a tall mixing glass and shake briskly. Strain into a chilled glass with a salted rim and garnish with lime wheel.

Notes:

Bartender Jason Hopper of Santacafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, won the First Annual Grand Margarita Contest with this traditional rendition.

Pujol Restaurant Tasty Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 parts Milagro 100% agave tequila (blanco/silver)
• 2 parts limon (mexican green lemons/key limes, not the yellow american lemons)
• 1 part Controy (less-expensive alternative to cointreau/gran marnier)
• 1 part jarabe (mexican simple syrup, many brands available)

Directions:

shake with tons of ice, strain then serve in a martini glass

Pumpkin Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Partida Reposado Tequila
• 1 oz. fresh lime/lemon juice mix
• splash of pumpkin puree
• sesame seeds
• lime wedge

Directions:

Rim a cocktail glass with lime juice and sesame seeds. Mix ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Quickie Blender Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 CUP HOT WATER
• ¼ CUP SUGAR
• ¼ CUP REAL LEMON JUICE
• ½ CUP REAL LIME JUICE
• ¼ CUP COINTREA
• ¾ CUP TEQUILA
• ICE CUBES
• use fresh squeeze if you like
• use fresh squeeze if you like
• or Grande Marnier
• or Vodka or 1/2+1/2

Directions:

In a blender, combine the hot water with the sugar and blend till dissolved.
Add all other ingredients except ice and blend for a few seconds.
Add ice until blender container reads 32-40 oz. (This will depend on your taste preference.)
Blend till ice is to your desired consistency. Pour into salt rimmed glasses.
Enjoy!

Raspberita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Frujá Raspberry
• 1 1/2 oz. Sauza Hornitos Tequila
• 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
• 1/2 oz. simple syrup

Directions:

1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake well.
3. Pour into a chilled margarita glass.

Notes:

This recipe for a raspberry-flavored Margarita features a wonderful liqueur, Frujá Raspberry. You'll find that the raspberry flavors of this cocktail are authentic and true to fresh, hand-picked raspberries.

Raspberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 5 ounces sweet-and-sour mix
• 2 ounces premium tequila
• 1 ounce cointreau
• 1 ounce Chambord (raspberry liqueur)
• 2 cups ice
• 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges

Directions:

Pour the sweet and sour mix, tequila, cointreau, and raspberry liqueur into a shaker filled with ice. Shake until the shaker is frosty on the outside.

Rub the rim of a margarita glass with a lime wedge, then dip in salt.

Add a few ice cubes to the glass, then strain the liquid from the shaker carefully into the glass.

Garnish with a lime wedge.

Red Bull Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz Jose Cuervo® Especial gold tequila
• 3 oz Red Bull® energy drink
• 1 oz triple sec
• Fill the rest with Margarita mix

Directions:

Serve with salt or sugar around the rim of the glass

Notes:

From the drink menu at Margaritaville.

Reviewed here:
http://rumshopryan.com/2009/12/30/red-bull-margarita-recipe/

Red Lobster Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
• A splash of fresh orange juice
• 1 cup sugar
• 1-1/2 cups tequila
• 3/4 cup Triple Sec
• Ice
• 3-3/4 cups water

Directions:

1. In a pitcher (or blender), combine the sugar and water. Stir until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Add the lemon and lime juices, and the splash of orange juice.
3. Mix in the tequila and the Triple Sec, and stir well.
4. Keep in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Notes:

I have tried Margaritas from everywhere and I still think these are the BEST! This recipe was taken directly off the Red Lobster web-site. Thanks for sharing Red Lobster!

Red Robin Ultimate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila
• 1/2 oz. Triple Sec
• 4 oz. Sweet and Sour
• 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier
• ice

Directions:

Pour ingredients into shaker and shake until well blended.

Fill a salt-rimmed glass with ice and pour mixture over ice.

Garnish with a lime slice and enjoy!

Rhubarb Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 stalk rhubarb, chopped
• 1/2 cup simple syrup
• 6 ounces white tequila
• 4 ounces Grand Marnier
• 3 cups ice
• basil or mint leaves, for garnish (optional)

Directions:

Cook the chopped rhubarb and 1/2 cup of the simple syrup in the sauce pan over low heat until softened, about 5 minutes. Cool. Combine the rhubarb mixture with the tequila, Grand Marnier, and ice in the blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and garnish each with a basil or mint leaf.

Notes:

Makes 4 servings.

Rieber Red Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz 1800 Tequila
• 1 1/2 oz triple sec
• 4 oz strawberry margarita mix

Directions:

Add strawberry margarita mix, tequila, and triple sec to a blender with crushed ice. Blend, and serve with a straw in a chilled glass or mug.

Rio Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 parts Cuervo Gold
• 2 parts Duffy's lime juice (can be tough to find, but there's no substitute)
• 1 part triple sec
• 1 part clear apple juice

Directions:

Shake together then enjoy.

Ruby Red Grapefruit Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Wedge of lime
• 2 teaspoons coarse margarita salt
• 14 ounces ruby red grapefruit juice, with pulp (about 3 medium grapefruits)
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 5 ounces reposado tequila
• 2 ounces triple sec
• 4 slices grapefruit or twists

Directions:

Run a lime wedge halfway around the rims of four margarita glasses and dip into salt. Set aside.

Combine 7 ounces grapefruit juice, one-half ounce lime juice, 2 1/2 ounces tequila and 1 ounce triple sec in a cocktail shaker. Shake over ice until chilled. Strain into two ice-filled, salt-rimmed margarita glasses.

Garnish with a twist or slice of grapefruit. Repeat to make two more cocktails.

Notes:

Serves 4

Silver Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz. Silver Tequila
• Juice of 1/2 lime (fresh)
• 1/2 oz. Triple Sec

Directions:

Shake with ice and strain into a salt rimmed cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Simple Syrup (for any Margarita) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 cup of water

Directions:

To make about 1.5 cups of simple syrup: In a saucepan over medium heat, mix together 1 cup of granulated sugar with 1 cup of water. Bring the mixture to a boil and, once the sugar is dissolved, remove the pan from heat. Allow the mixture to cool completely. Pour the mixture into a glass jar and refrigerate until use.

Skeletons in Your Closet Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 parts Hornitos Plata Tequila
• 1 part DeKuyper Island Blue Tropical Schnapps
• 1 part pineapple juice
• 1 part mango juice

Directions:

Do you have any Skeletons in Your Closet? Admit it, we all do. But now there's a variation of the Margarita that takes it a step further. This is a great fruit Margarita on the rocks that's a little out of the ordinary with DeKuyper's Island Blue Tropical Schnapps, pineapple and mango. This bright green cocktail is great for your Halloween party and will likely turn into one of your new favorites.

Mixing Directions:

Rim a margarita glass with salt.
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake well.
Strain over ice into the prepared margarita glass.

Skinny Girls Margarita (from The Real Housewives of New York) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz of clear Tequila (100% agave, Patron Silver) - (count 1, 2 while you pour, no need for measuring)
• A splash of fresh lime juice
• A splash of Cointreau, Grand Marnier or Triple Sec

Directions:

Combine all ingredients over a glass of ice.
Garnish with a lime wedge and salt (or sugar) if you'd like.

Notes:

Makes one serving.

Smokey Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces El Tesoro tequila
• 1 ounce Triple Sec
• 1 ounce fresh lime juice
• 3/4 teaspoon simple syrup
• 1/2 ounce Del Maguey
• ice

Directions:

Place tequila, Triple Sec, lime juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker and shake until combined.

Serve over ice in a rocks glass and pour mezcal on top; do not stir the mezcal into the drink, as it should "float" on top.

Snow Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup Margarita Mix
• 2/3 cup Tequila
• 1/2 cup Snow (yep, we said snow...)

Directions:

NO BLENDER NEEDED-- Go outside and get snow. Put it in a glass, add liquor and mix and enjoy!

Notes:

There is no frozen Margarita finer than one made with fresh driven snow and the colder the temperature the lighter and finer the snow.

Sour Patch Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Voodoo Tiki Green Dragon Tequila
• 1/2 oz Midori melon liqueur
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 1 oz sour mix
• 1 oz orange juice
• Roses lime juice floated on top
• sugar for rimming
• sugar coated lemon for garnish

Directions:

1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar.
2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into the prepared glass.
5. Garnish with a sugar coated lemon.

This Margarita can also be served on the rocks or blended with about 1 cup of ice.

Notes:

Do you remember those little sugar covered gummy children called Sour Patch Kids that made you pucker when you were a kid? That's what this Margarita tastes like and it's fantastic. The Sour Patch Margarita captures the spectrum of sour flavors, mixes them up and strains them out into a flavor-filled, sugar lined drink that is perfect for hot summer afternoons or any time you have a sour sweet tooth. Like the Gummi Bear Margarita, you can also add the gummy candies into the ice for an extra treat when you serve this on the rocks.

Southern Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz. Jose Cuervo Tequila
• 3/4 oz. Southern Comfort
• 5 oz. Sweet & Sour Mix
• 1/2 oz. Lime Juice

Directions:

Combine in tall glass over ice. Drop a lime wedge in glass.

Serve in a Collins Glass

Spicy Desert Pear Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 oz. 100% Blue Agave Blanco Tequila
• 3/4 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. Fruitpure Prickly Pear
• 1 oz. Mixerz Margarita
• 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
• 2 dashes of hot sauce
• ice
• salt
• chipotle chile powder

Directions:

Mix all ingredients briskly in an ice-filled shaker and strain into a tall chilled glass filled with ice. For chipotle salt rim, combine equal parts of coarse salt and chipotle chile powder. Garnish with lime spiral and leaf. Cherry optional.

Spicy Pineapple Serrano Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 parts Tequila CAZADORES® Blanco
• 4 fresh pieces of pineapple (muddle) or 3 parts pineapple juice
• 2 fresh slices of Serrano chile (muddle)
• 1 part simple syrup (or 3/4 part agave nectar)
• 1 part fresh lime juice

Directions:

Serve on the rocks

Notes:

Looking for something a little less traditional yet fun, fruity and delicious? Try this heated little Tequila CAZADORES number: Pineapple Serrano Margarita. Fresh pineapple and Serrano chile peppers muddled together give this margarita spicy kick.

Spike's World Famous Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 ounces Tequila
• 2 ounces Triple Sec
• 6 ounces Sour Mix
• 2 tablespoons of Lime Marmalade
• Ice

Directions:

Pour ingredients except for the ice into your blender and blend for about 15 seconds, Now add the ice and blend for 30+ seconds. Pour into margarita glasses (salt optional) and enjoy!

Notes:

When you’re friends ask you about how you found this recipe…tell them about your good friend Spike at blenderking.com!

Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• Frozen strawberries in syrup
• Tequila, blanco 100% blue agave
• Frozen limade concentrate
• Triple sec
• 4 oz
• 3 oz
• 2 oz
• 1 oz

Directions:

Blend ingredients in a high power blender (very important for consistency!). Please note, the ratio of the ingredients is 4:3:2:1 and you can adjust amounts accordingly to make any size batch. Its optional but quite tasty to serve in a glass rimmed with large sugar crystals.

Notes:

If you want to use fresh strawberries, add a little simple syrup or powdered sugar to your recipe.

Check out other recipes at www.bestmargaritarecipes.com

Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups crushed ice
• 1/2 cup strawberry puree (frozen can or fresh strawberries, pureed)
• 1 cup silver tequila
• 2 limes, juiced
• Splash Triple Sec
• Splash simple syrup

Directions:

Place everything in a margarita machine or frozen drink machine and blend on high until smooth. Pour in to your favorite margarita glasses and salt the rims. Try an easy margarita mix instead of worrying about fresh fruit for an easy recipe.

Strawberry-Banana Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup fresh strawberries, hulled and halved
• 1 ripe banana, peeled and sliced
• 4 1/2 ounces (1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon) tequila
• 1 1/2 ounces (3 tablespoons) triple sec
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime or lemon juice
• 1 cup crushed ice

Directions:

Place strawberries and banana slices on a plate and freeze at least 1 hour.

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth but still very thick.

Pour into chilled margarita glasses.

Notes:

Makes 3 servings (serving size: 6 ounces).

Super Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 oz. Cointreau
• 4 oz. Tequila
• 4 oz. freshly squeezed key lime juice
• ice

Directions:

Combine ingredients and shake with ice or pour over ice, or pulse in blender.

Dip serving glass in water then dip edge of glass in salt.

Notes:

Makes 4 servings or serves one, four times.

Super Simple Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 12 oz Frozen Limeade Concentrate (available at any grocery store)
• 12 oz Sprite or carbonated lemon-lime drink of your choice
• 12 oz Corona
• 12 oz Tequila

Directions:

So, a frozen limeade, a can of sprite, a bottle of corona, and tequila (use the empty limeade can to measure out your tequila). Mix it up, break out the margarita salt, and enjoy before the summer's gone!

Notes:

A word of caution: don't put it in a blender and think you can use the low "Stir" setting to mix it. You'll lose half the margaritas as it spews out the top and all over your kitchen. Yes, I'm kitchen-challenged - even with blenders.

Superior Grill Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 liters of Tequila
• 1 liter of triple sec
• 2 cups of sugar
• 1 quarts of lime juice
• 1.5 frozen Margarita mix

Directions:

Mix ingredients and enjoy!

Notes:

If you live in Louisiana, you know about Superior Grill. With locations in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport these guys pretty much have this state covered and are forcing many of its citizens to have a good time with their fantastic margaritas.

Tabasco Classic Hot Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Herradura Silver Tequila
• 1 oz.Cointreau
• Freshly Squeezed Lime (half)
• Agave Nectar (1 drop)
• Grenadine (1 drop)
• Blue Curacao (1 drop)
• Tabasco
• ice

Directions:

In an ince-filled mixing glass, add tequila, Cointreau and squeeze of lime. Shake and strain the ingredients into a cocktail glass, which should be rimmed with Tabasco brand Pepper Sauce and salt. Garnish with a slice of lime and pineapple leaves.

Notes:

Makes 1 drink
Recipe from tabascofoodservice.com

Tailgate Tom's Passionate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz PassionFruit Margarita Tequilla
• 2 oz Rosa's Lime Juice
• 1 oz. Triple Sec

Directions:

Pour each ingredient listed above in a glass. Stir and pour over ice.

Notes:

Invented by Tom & Kevin before Jimmy Buffett in Irvine, CA

Tailor Restaurant Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup kosher salt
• 1 wedge lime
• 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) fresh lime juice
• 2 heaping teaspoons superfine sugar
• 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce) Cointreau or other triple sec orange liqueur
• 1/4 cup (2 ounces) reposado tequila
• About 2 cups ice cubes

Directions:

Spread salt on small plate. Rub lime wedge halfway around rim of 10-ounce glass (such as double old-fashioned). Dip moistened side of glass in salt to lightly coat. Set aside.

In cocktail shaker, stir together lime juice and sugar until sugar partially dissolves (about 5 seconds). Add Cointreau, tequila, and 1 cup ice cubes. Shake vigorously for 25 seconds, then strain into prepared glass. Fill glass with remaining ice cubes.

Notes:

Serves 1
Eben Freeman, bartender of Tailor Restaurant in New York City, developed this adaptation of a classic cocktail. Reposado tequila, aged in oak for at least two months but less than a year, gives the drink a smooth smokiness. If you prefer a more vegetal flavor, you could substitute blanco (unaged) tequila; it's probably best to steer clear of añejo (aged in oak for at least a year but less than three years), which could darken the hue and add unwanted oak, vanilla, or caramel flavors.
To sweeten his Margarita, Freeman trades the traditional sugar syrup for superfine sugar, which gives the drink a slightly grainy texture. Freeman's final signature touch: Only half the glass gets a salted rim.

Tamarind Margarita (Frozen) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 oz blanco tequila
• 3 oz tamarind concentrate
• 1 oz simple syrup
• chili powder for rimming
• 1 cup ice

Directions:

1. Pour the ice, tequila, tamarind concentrate and simple syrup into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Rim a chilled margarita glass with chili powder.
4. Pour the blended contents into the glass.

Notes:

This recipe is from About.com

he tamarind is a sweet and sour fruit with a unique flavor and here it is accented by rimming the glass with chili pepper. The bartender rimmed the glasses Tajin Fruit Seasoning and not only is it great this purpose, it is handy to store in the cupboard to sprinkle on fruits, popcorn or anytime chili powder is called for.

Tequila Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. tequila 100% agava
• 1/2 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. fresh lime juice

Directions:

Shake with ice, and then strain into chilled cocktail glass, which is rimmed with salt (optional).

Notes:

Admirable cocktail! Sour, refresh and bright cocktail.

Texas Roadhouse Strawberry Banana Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 4 oz. Tequila
• 2 oz. Sweet/Sour Mix
• Juice of one large lime
• three large strawberries
• 1/2 banana

Directions:

Blend above ingredients and serve on the rocks with no salt.

Notes:

Makes 2 drinks.

Thanksgiving Cranberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups tequila
• 1-1/3 cups cranberry juice
• 1 cup orange-flavored liqueur (triple sec of Cointreau)
• 2/3 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice

Directions:

Combine the tequila, cranberry juice, orange liqueur, and lime juice in a large pitcher. Shake over ice.

Strain into margarita glasses or low cocktail flutes. Alternately, strain into low tumblers filled with ice.

Notes:

From Bobby Flay

Serves 10

THE 25th Anniversary Perfect Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Cuervo 1800
• 1/2 oz. Cuervo White (White for bite!)
• 1-1/4 oz. Roses Lime Juice (accept NO substitutes)
• 1/2 oz. Bols Triple Sec

Directions:

Fill shaker with broken crushed ice
Squeeze in 2 fresh lime wedges
Savor the fresh aroma....Aaaaaahhhhh!!!
Add 2 oz. Cuervo 1800 (now just 1800)
Sniff the cork!
Add 1/2 oz. Cuervo White (White for bite!)
Add 1-1/4 oz. Roses Lime Juice (accept NO substitutes)
Add 1/2 oz. Bols Triple Sec
Add a "splash" of Bols Orange Curacao (Shhhhh...secret ingredient!)
Cover Shaker and SHAKE Vigorously (till the outside is frosty)
Flip Shaker in air (3 times if you're a PRO!)
Uncover shaker and savor the flavor!
Rim Margarita glass with lime peel (the OUTSIDE ONLY) and salt OUTSIDE of glass, strain mixture over FRESH crushed ice.
Squeeze in 1 lime wedge and toss over left shoulder.
Kick back, turn up the tunes....and ENJOY!!!

Notes:

Bart Jackson
Oh'at Lana's, Mt. Pleasant SC (Private house bar)
This is my copyrighted mixture that won Jimmy Buffett's original search for the Perfect Margarita in 1985, submitted in the form of a treasure map style, that Jimmy later used in postcards, posters, t-shirts and was included in the Beaches, Boats and Bars Box set....and NO...I NEVER made a dime off of it, (of course then Jimmy hadn't made a dollar!) still waitin' on that check...just the recognition and knowledge that the recipe was mine! Thought since it's been 25 years, I'd share with you guys!...Cheers!

Three Amigos or The Titty Twister Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 shot (.75oz) of Patron Silver
• 1 shot (.75oz) of Corazon Reposado Tequila
• 1 shot (.75oz) of El Tesoro Anejo Tequila
• 1.50oz of Contreau
• 3oz of Jose Cuevo Margartia Mix

Directions:

In a shaker filled with ice. Pour ingredients in shaker and shake about 7 times chilled. Pour in a Margarita glass not rimmed with salt.

These ingredients makes one Margarita per person.

Enjoy and Respect this drink!!!!

This drink may cause Hallucinations!!! :)

Notes:

Invented by Glenn Uhrlass, Tequila lover. First introduced at a Cinco De Mayo party at my home in Baltimore, Maryland

Top Shelf Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz Contreau orange liqueur
• 1/2 oz Grand Mariner orange liqueur
• 2 1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
• 1 oz lime juice
• 1 1/2 oz Tequilla

Directions:

Fill mixing glass with ice. Pour in all ingredients. Shake well. Pour into salt rimmed glass. Add lime wedge or wheel.

Trader Vic's Rock Candy Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces of Patron Silver
• 1 ounce of Cointreau
• 4 limes
• 1 ounce Trader Vic's Rock Candy Syrup
• Quality non-iodine Salt

Directions:

Chop one lime into 4 wedges, the others in halves. Take one wedge and spread across a Margarita glass (rimming with a quality salt of choice). Keep wedge for garnish and toss other 3 wedges into the eyes of the people staring at you salivating but not offering to help.

Fill shaker 3 quarters up with ice, add 2 ounces Patron silver and 1 ounce Cointreau. Squeeze the halves (of 3 limes) into shaker and top with a good simple syrup. I prefer Trader Vic's "rock candy" for consistancy and taste. (Plus you can give it double duty by using it-and limes-for a real Mai-Tai later).

Notes:

The rock candy syrup works to lessen the harsh tartness of the limes. Less syrup will be needed based on lime freshness. I tend to find that the fresher the lime, the less syrup you need. Make sure to get one of those hand juicers. One squeeze into the shaker helps minimize the 'trash' that can get in with juicing via other methods. Nothing beats fresh lime in a margarita.

Traditional Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 oz. Silver or Gold Tequila
• 1 oz. Triple Sec
• 2 oz. Lime Juice
• Coarse Salt
• Lime Wedge

Directions:

Rim a large cocktail glass by rubbing the rim with the lime wedge and dipping it into a saucer of coarse salt. Combine remaining ingredients in a cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Shake well and strain into the chilled, salted cocktail glass.
(Sally Ann Berk, The New New York Bartender's Guide, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc. 1997)

Notes:

This is a personal version, and it's really quite wonderful, sweeter then normal, without such a harsh tequila taste.

Traditional Margarita with a Twist Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1.5 cups quality tequila (Jose Cuervo 1800, Patron or Agave Anejo)
• 0.5 Cup Grand Marnier
• 1/3 bottle of Beer (makes the margarita taste smoother and ads a hint of carbonation)
• 1 can frozen lemonade concentrate (without pulp)
• Juice from 1 lime
• Juice from half a lemon
• Half a Cup of agave nectar
• Ice

Directions:

Simply add the ingredients to a blender and mix it up!
Pour into a margarita glass and enjoy.

Notes:

Recipe based on a version by Vilis Ozlos.

Triple Orange Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 ounce ultra-premium tequila
• 3/4 ounce Imported GranGala Triple Orange Liqueur
• 1 ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
• 1/2 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1/4 ounce agave nectar (a natural sweetner; you can sub simple syrup to taste)
• 1 lime wheel
• 1 orange peel

Directions:

Pour the tequila, orange liqueur, juices, and nectar into an ice-filled shaker. Add the orange peel, shake vigoriously, and strain into a chilled ice-filled glass or chilled margarita glass to serve it “up.” Garnish with a lime wheel and the orange peel.

Tropical Fruit Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Jose QuervoTropical Fruit Tequila
• 1 oz. Midori
• Sour Mix
• Margarita salt

Directions:

Start with a 16 ounce cup/glass. Fill with ice. Like any good Margarita, lots of tequila. I use 2 ounces. 1 ounce of Midori and finish with sour mix. Shake well and salt your rim...the more the better. Garnish with an orange slice,and enjoy!

Notes:

Paulette Brennan while working for the Nav-a-gator, in Lake Suzy, Florida

Ultimate Cadillac Frozen Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 oz frozen Limeade
• 1/3 cup Triple Sec
• 2/3 cup Premium Tequila
• 6 oz (1/2 bottle) Corona
• Blender full of ice
• Splash of Grand Marnier

Directions:

Blend Limeade, Triple Sec, Tequila, and ice in blender until smooth. Then mix in Corona. Pour into glasses and top with Grand Marnier.

Ultimate Frozen Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 6 fluid ounces tequila
• 2 fluid ounces triple sec
• 8 ounces frozen sliced strawberries in syrup
• 4 fluid ounces frozen limeade concentrate

Directions:

Fill a blender with ice and crush. Pour in the tequila and triple sec. Add the strawberries and limeade. Blend for 30 seconds or until smooth. Serve in margarita glasses with the rims dipped in powdered sugar.

Notes:

Serves 4

Ultimate Lime Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup tequila
• 3/4 cup orange liqueur, such as triple sec
• 1 cup fresh lime juice
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ice cubes

Directions:

Combine first 4 ingredients in a 4-cup measuring cup.

FOR BLENDED MARGARITAS:

Fill blender halfway with ice cubes.
Add half of margarita mixture.
Blend until mixture is thick and icy.
Divide between two glasses.
Repeat with more ice cubes and remaining margarita mixture.

FOR MARGARITAS ON THE ROCKS

Fill four glasses with ice cubes.
Divide margarita mixture among glasses and serve.

MAKE-AHEAD TIP

Margarita mixture can be made up to 8 hours ahead and prior to being blended with ice.
Cover and refrigerate.

Notes:

Serves 4

Ultimate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau orange liqueur
• 1 oz. sweet and sour mix
• juice of 1/4 limes

Directions:

Pour tequila, cointreau, and sweet & sour over crushed ice. Add lime juice. Can be made frozen by putting in a blender with 3 cups ice.

Ultimate Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 'Herradura' Tequila (Reposado)
• 'Finest Call' Sweet & Sour Mix
• 'Tropicana' Orange Juice (No Pulp)
• 'Joaquin's' Triple Sec
• 'Grand Marnier' Orange Liqueur
• 1.5 ounces
• 3.0 ounces
• 1.0 ounces
• 0.5 ounces
• Added to taste (.5 - 2.0 ounces)

Directions:

Combine the tequila, Triple Sec, sweet & sour mix, & orange juice, in a cocktail shaker half-full of ice. Shake well & strain into a frozen salt-rimmed margarita glass. Float the Grand Marnier over the top to your taste (may take some experimentation). I usually double the ingredients to make two at a time.

Notes:

Except for the 'Grand Marnier', the name-brand of the other ingredients could probably be substituted with one's favorite. The name-brands listed are just the ones I typically use. I use 'Reposado' tequila, as I feel 'Anejo' just gets lost in the mixture ('Anejo' I save for drinking straight). As for the inventor/origin, I couldn't say. The recipe was imparted to me by an old friend.

Valentine's Day Strawberry Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz. silver tequila
• 1/2 oz. triple sec
• juice of half a lime
• 2 strawberries

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender with 4 or 5 ice cubes, and process until smooth.

Pour into a margarita glass.

Serve garnished with a strawberry on the rim and share with someone you love!

Virgin Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon lime zest
• 2 tablespoons lemon zest
• 1-1/2 cups fresh lime juice
• 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
• 4 cups orange juice
• 1/4 cup agave syrup
• 2 tablespoons salt
• Lime slices, for garnish

Directions:

Combine the water and sugar in a small saucepan over medium heat and add 2 tablespoons of the lime zest and the lemon zest. Bring to a boil, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and cool to room temperature.

Combine the cooled citrus syrup with the lime and lemon juices, orange juice, and agave syrup. Chill thoroughly.

Combine the remaining teaspoon of lime zest with the salt and mix well.

When ready to serve drinks, rub the rim of each glass with a piece of lime, then dip the rims into the salt. Serve the margaritas over ice or straight up, as desired, garnished with a lime slice.

Notes:

Serves 8 (makes 2 quarts)