Watermelon Margarita – A Lovely Mess

I’m actual excited to share this scrumptious cocktail recipe with you right now—a twist on the traditional margarita. A Watermelon Margarita balances sweetness from recent watermelon juice with tartness from recent lime juice and daring tequila taste. The watermelon taste actually comes via on this recipe. When you begin making do-it-yourself margaritas, you’ll by no means return!

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Elements in a Watermelon Margarita

• Watermelon Juice – Be taught to make recent watermelon juice under.
• Tequila Blanco – Select any silver tequila.
• Lime Juice – Freshly squeezed.

The most effective glassware to serve a spicy margarita in is a double quaint glass (or any quick glass). The lengthy necked margarita glasses are greatest for frozen margaritas and for on the rocks margaritas I really like to make use of quick glasses.

Watermelon Margarita Recipe

Start by getting ready your glassware with a salted rim (non-obligatory).

In a cocktail shaker with ice, pour in watermelon juice, tequila and recent lime juice.

Shake for 10-15 seconds till nicely chilled.

Pour into your ready glass with recent ice cubes.

Garnish the glass with a small slice of watermelon and a slice of lime.

Easy methods to Make Watermelon Juice

Making watermelon juice is de facto easy! The style is so recent and juicy and also you received’t consider how simple it’s to make in lower than 5 minutes.

First, fill your blender with watermelon chunks.

Mix till liquified.

Decant the watermelon juice right into a serving container (akin to a big jar or a pitcher). Non-obligatory: Pressure the watermelon juice with a high-quality mesh strainer to take away most pulp and fiber or serve it as is.

Suggestions for Making

• Secret Ingredient – Contemporary lime juice is the make or break, important ingredient on this recipe. Don’t use bottled lime juice.
• Salt Rim – To make a robust salt rim (as you see in my pictures), I take advantage of a bit of honey on my finger to coat exterior of the rim earlier than dipping it in margarita salt. Water additionally works, nevertheless it produces a softer extra refined rim. You can even rim simply half the glass if you wish to have the choice of sipping with salt and with out it.
• Orange Liqueur – Most margarita recipes embrace an orange liqueur (akin to Cointreau, Triple Sec or Grand Marnier). We examined this recipe each methods and it actually doesn’t want the orange liqueur because it already has an ideal candy and robust steadiness. That mentioned, be at liberty so as to add half an oz. of orange liqueur in the event you want.
• Sweetener – Most margarita recipes name for easy syrup or agave syrup. I’m at all times skeptical of a recipe that doesn’t embrace these, so I needed to notice that this recipe is further candy naturally from the watermelon juice and doesn’t want an added sweetener. 
• Salt Concepts – We like to play with completely different variations of margarita salt. Strive including some chili powder to your kosher salt for a spicy rim. Or attempt our do-it-yourself margarita salt recipe with citrus rinds.

Variations

• Frozen Watermelon Margarita – To show this recipe right into a frozen drink, merely freeze a few of the watermelon chunks prematurely (1 cup) and mix the cocktail as an alternative of utilizing a cocktail shaker. 
• Spicy Watermelon Margarita – Add some jalapeño slices or serrano pepper slices to the cocktail shaker earlier than shaking so as to add a bit of warmth to your cocktail. You can even garnish the highest of the drink with a pepper to suggest that it’s a spicy margarita.
• Basil Watermelon Margarita – Add recent basil (or mint) to the shaker earlier than shaking and use as a garnish so as to add an natural aptitude to your cocktail.

Extra Tequila Recipes

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