Contents
Ingredients
Tequila – 50 ml
Cointreau – 25 ml
Lime juice – 15 ml
Salt – 2 g
How to make a cocktail
Make a salty rim on your cocktail glass.
Pour the alcohol into the shaker, then squeeze the lime.
Add ice cubes to the shaker and shake well.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
* Use this easy Margarita cocktail recipe to make your own unique mix at home. To do this, it is enough to replace the base alcohol with the one that is available.
Margarita video recipe
How to drink a margarita cocktail
Please note that the Margarita cocktail contains freshly squeezed lime juice.
Substituting packaged or concentrated juice is highly discouraged. The photo shows a cocktail in an ordinary cocktail glass, but there is also a special margarita glass, in which a guest is usually served a cocktail.
There is nothing special in the use of Margarita, they made and drank in slow sips, but there is one feature that is recommended to be implemented – a salty rim on the glass.
It is very easy to make it with a special margarita rimmer on hand, but if you don’t have one, just use a saucer of salt.
The calorie content of a Margarita cocktail is 192 calories.
The history of the Margarita cocktail
There are many speculations and legends regarding the authorship of the cocktail, but there are still two main versions.
According to the first of them, the cocktail appeared on Christmas Day 1948.
A well-known socialite named Marguerite Sames hosted a Christmas reception at her resort home in Acapulco, Mexico.
She came up with a game for the guests in which all its participants had to try the cocktails prepared by the hostess. A sweet drink based on tequila and sprinkled with salt delighted absolutely all the guests, and they decided to call it Margarita, in honor of the hostess.
After the party, the cocktail began to be prepared in all the houses of Hollywood, and it quickly gained popularity.
Another version says that in 1937 in the London “royal book of cocktails” a recipe for a drink called “Picador” was published, which consisted of tequila, Cointreau and lime juice.
Margarita cocktail variations
Non-alcoholic Margarita – lemon juice, orange juice and lemon mix.
Margarita Blue – Blue Curacao liqueur is added to the original recipe.
Strawberry margarita – Triple sec liqueur and strawberries are added for decoration.
Frozen Margarita – all ingredients are poured into a Margarita glass with crushed ice.
Margarita video recipe
How to drink a margarita cocktail
Please note that the Margarita cocktail contains freshly squeezed lime juice.
Substituting packaged or concentrated juice is highly discouraged. The photo shows a cocktail in an ordinary cocktail glass, but there is also a special margarita glass, in which a guest is usually served a cocktail.
There is nothing special in the use of Margarita, they made and drank in slow sips, but there is one feature that is recommended to be implemented – a salty rim on the glass.
It is very easy to make it with a special margarita rimmer on hand, but if you don’t have one, just use a saucer of salt.
The calorie content of a Margarita cocktail is 192 calories.
The history of the Margarita cocktail
There are many speculations and legends regarding the authorship of the cocktail, but there are still two main versions.
According to the first of them, the cocktail appeared on Christmas Day 1948.
A well-known socialite named Marguerite Sames hosted a Christmas reception at her resort home in Acapulco, Mexico.
She came up with a game for the guests in which all its participants had to try the cocktails prepared by the hostess. A sweet drink based on tequila and sprinkled with salt delighted absolutely all the guests, and they decided to call it Margarita, in honor of the hostess.
After the party, the cocktail began to be prepared in all the houses of Hollywood, and it quickly gained popularity.
Another version says that in 1937 in the London “royal book of cocktails” a recipe for a drink called “Picador” was published, which consisted of tequila, Cointreau and lime juice.
Margarita cocktail variations
Non-alcoholic Margarita – lemon juice, orange juice and lemon mix.
Margarita Blue – Blue Curacao liqueur is added to the original recipe.
Strawberry margarita – Triple sec liqueur and strawberries are added for decoration.
Frozen Margarita – all ingredients are poured into a Margarita glass with crushed ice.