Margarita cocktail recipe

Use orange liqueur for a classic margarita

Gabriela Moncada
Monday 06 October 2014 06:01 EDT
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Delicious on the rocks, or frozen or even shaken up with fig puree, egg white and lime (the Autumnal Tradicional Sour), there is always one to suit everyone.

Use orange liqueur for a classic margarita, plus good ice, and a cocktail shaker. Salt if you like, and depending on your selection if you like it on the rocks or straight up.

Fresh lime juice - the fresher, the better (people tend to keep lime juice, but after a day the taste just isn’t the same as limes oxidises super quickly), and the kind of ice used can also affect a margarita as if it has any pores this will dilute the drink and make it tasteless, so the time of shaking matters!

35ml tequila

1/2 lime juice (about 15/20ml).

15/20ml. Orange liqueur depending how sweet you like it.

ADD all the ingredients to the shaker, then prepare the glass you are serving it in (salt &/or ice).

Then fill the shaker with ice to the top and SHAKE hard for about 7/10 seconds.

Pour into your glass.

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