How to Make Great Frozen Margaritas
Posted: Friday, July 23, 2010
by The Old Gray Mare
www.DressYourHorse.com
Save your dollars at the local watering hole at your next party, try this margarita recipe and my three variations using fresh local ingredients. My margaritas are darn-tootin' great!
Ingredients for the Sweet/Sour Base:
8 medium Limes to equal 1 cup Lime Juice
7 Lemons to equal 1 cup Lemon Juice
1 cups of regular Sugar
Hint: Use Lemons and Limes at room temperature. With light hand pressure, roll each fruit back and forth on the table surface several times to release more juice.
Ingredients for salting each Glass:
Kosher Salt or Sea Salt your preference
Lime Wedge
Ingredients for blending the regular Frozen Margarita:
1 cups of Sweet/Sour Base
cups Tequila your favorite brand
cup Triple Sec
2 full cups of ice
The perfect Margarita in the perfect glass with the perfect lime wedge. Yum!
Step 1 Make the Sweet/Sour Base.
From 1 Lime and 1 Lemon, peel strips of zest. Mix sugar and water in cooking pot and add the zest strips. Bring to a boil on medium heat, and stir well. Cool. After the sweet/sour mixture has cooled to room temperature, remove all zest strips and discard them. In the interim, juice 1 cup liquid from the Limes and 1 cup from the Lemons. Mix the juices into the Sweet/Sour Base and stir well.
Step 2 Prepare the glasses
Use a shallow dish and cover bottom with an eighth inch salt. Rub each glass rim with the lime wedge. Dip firmly into salt to coat rim. To get rid of loose salt, snap glass with fingers or tap lightly on table surface.
Step 3 Blend all ingredients.
Put ice, Sweet/Sour Base Mixture, Tequila and Triple Sec into blender. Hit pulse on the blender several times; thicken and mix together the ingredients. Avoid over-mixing to prevent diluting the drinks.
Variations: My Sweet/Sour Base works for any of the following variations. It will keep nicely in the refrigerator for several days.
No. 1 Make a Peachy Margarita
When blending, use 1 cups Sweet/Sour Base, 2 cups frozen peaches, cup Tequila, cup Schnapps (Peach!), cup Sorbet (Lime works best) and the 2 cups of ice.
No. 2 Make your Margarita zesty
Hint: For this one, add a pinch of Chili Powder to the salt when you edge the glasses with salt. When blending, use cup Sweet/Sour Base, cup Tequila, cup Brandy, cup natural Orange Juice, Tabasco pepper sauce, 2 cups of ice and add the secret pinch of chili powder for spice.
No. 3 Make a Fresh, Fruity Margarita
When blending, use 1 cup Sweet/Sour Base, 1 cup Tequila, cup Pineapple Juice, cup Cream of Coconut (little hard to find) and 2 cups of ice.
Prepare these Margaritas and enjoy a fun time with your guests.
This article is written by The Old Gray Mare of www.DressYourHorse.com, www.FantasyKritters.com, www.TShirtsbyLily.com.
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)I haven't had a Marguerita since I was in California ages ago! They are so delicious. I like the sound of the zesty one...We don't do a lot of drinks here but, during a get-together, it's a refreshing, delicious drink. Zesty is good! Jennifer, thanks for taking the time to read and comment!
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