Watermelon Margarita – A Stunning Mess

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

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Substances in a Watermelon Margarita

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

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

Watermelon Margarita Recipe

Start by making ready your glassware with a salted rim (optionally available).

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

Shake for 10-15 seconds till properly chilled.

Pour into your ready glass with contemporary ice cubes.

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

The way to Make Watermelon Juice

Making watermelon juice is admittedly easy! The style is so contemporary and juicy and also you gained’t imagine how straightforward 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 (resembling a big jar or a pitcher). Elective: Pressure the watermelon juice with a high quality mesh strainer to take away most pulp and fiber or serve it as is.

Ideas for Making

• Secret Ingredient – Recent 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 photographs), I take advantage of slightly 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 delicate rim. You too can 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 (resembling 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 powerful stability. That mentioned, be at liberty so as to add half an oz of orange liqueur if you happen to choose.
• 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 wished to notice that this recipe is additional candy naturally from the watermelon juice and doesn’t want an added sweetener. 
• Salt Concepts – We like to play with totally different variations of margarita salt. Strive including some chili powder to your kosher salt for a spicy rim. Or strive 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 number of the watermelon chunks upfront (1 cup) and mix the cocktail as a substitute 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 too can garnish the highest of the drink with a pepper to indicate that it’s a spicy margarita.
• Basil Watermelon Margarita – Add contemporary 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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