TEQUILA COCKTAILS MARGARITAS
Tequila is a fine and complex liquor and as such it must be sipped slowly. It should be served at room temperature, although some like it ice cold. Traditionally most people serve it in a "caballito", a 2oz glass made exclusively for this purpose. Blanco and Reposado may be accompanied by "sangrita" made of tomato and orange juice with salt and chile. Añejo is preferably served in a snifter so that the aroma is fully appreciated. The tequila shot with lime and salt is Hollywood stuff and few people drink it that way. However, some people do put some lime juice in the tequila or bite the lime before sipping it. Life is, after all, a matter of taste. Choose the right tequila for your cocktail and enjoy it.
Ingredients:
- 2 oz Tequila
- 4 oz Orange Juice
- 1 oz Grenadine
Highball Glass
Mix the ingredients in a mixing glass with ice cubes. Strain into a highball glass over crushed ice.
Sangrita Chaser
Sangrita is a typical spicy and refreshing non-alcoholic chaser made of fresh orange juice, grenadine and chile piquín or a mix of different chiles. Sangrita is the Spanish diminutive for “blood” and is served in a “caballito”. Commercially bottled brands are available in Mexico and in the United States, but they are artificially flavored. It is best to prepare your own Sangrita.
4 cups of freshly squeezed orange juice
¼ to ½ cup fresh lime juice
1 tablespoon of grenadine syrup
½ tablespoon salt
Chile piquín to taste: try first ¼ tablespoon
As with any recipe you may vary the quantities for each ingredient to suit your taste. Some people add fresh tomato juice to increase the red coloration of the sangrita. You may try chile de arbol or Tabasco sauce. You may also add a bit of black ground pepper. Vampiro (Bloody Mary)
1-1/2 ounces tequila
One glass of tomato juice
Add salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce to taste
Garnish with a celery stalk and lemon slice.
Blanco 100% agave is great for a Vampiro. It is the drink of choice the morning after a hangover. You may try Clamato instead of tomato juice, or half-and-half. Some people squeeze half a lemon into the mix to add flavor.
Petroleo
1-1/2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Mexican lime juice
1 serrano chile halved from top to bottom
Pour the tequila and lime juice into a small glass. Add salt, pepper, Maggi sauce and Worcestershire sauce to taste. Mix ingredients. Add one half of the serrano chile and one or two ice cubes. Use Blanco or Reposado tequila.
Dynamite
1 ounce Reposado tequila
1 ounce Blanco tequila
1 ounce Clamato juice
Pour contents into glass. Add one-half teaspoon of Tabasco sauce and the juice of one half lime. Mix contents and add crushed ice, and salt to taste.
Tequila Sour
1-1/2 ounces tequila
2 ounces lemon juice
1 teaspoon sugar
Blend ingredients with crushed ice and strain into sour glass. Garnish with a red cherry. Use Añejo for a better taste.
Cosmoquila
2 oz. Tequila Crystal or Gold
1 oz. Cointreau
½ oz. Fresh lime juice
Splash of cranberry juice
Shaken with ice
Tequilini
2 ½ oz. Tequila Crystal or Gold
Few drops of dry vermouth
Juice of ½ lime
Shaken with ice
Diablo
2 oz. Tequila Reposado
¼ oz. Crème de casis
½ oz. Fresh lime juice
Ginger Ale
Wedge of lime
Over ice
Paloma
2 oz. Tequila Reposado
Fresh grapefruit juice
½ oz. Lime juice
Splash of fizz |
Shooter #13
2 ounces Tequila
1 ounce Curaçao (also good with Limoncello, an Italian lemon liqueur)
crushed ice
1 tsp. powdered sugar
2 limes -- fresh is best)
1 orange
margarita salt
Salt the rim of 2 frosted shot glasses.
Pour into a cocktail shaker the Tequila, Curaçao and sugar with crushed ice.
Add the freshly squeezed juice of two key limes and one orange.
Shake--but don't overdo it-- and strain into shot glasses.
Serve with lime wedge and salt. |
Ice and Fire
1 ounce fine white Tequila
1 ounce peppermint Schnapps
In a frosted shot glass.
You must use high-quality spirits!
At first it is suave and cool and then...
Not for the faint hearted |
Forced Confession
1 ounce Tequila
½ ounce Vodka
½ ounce Golden Galliano
In a chilled shot glass.
Blue Chip
1½ ounces Tequila
½ ounce Blue Curaçao
Margarita salt
fresh lime juice to taste
Shake with ice and strain into salted shot glass. Serve with lime wedge.
Margarita
The Margarita is a great cocktail, but you have to make it correctly. You should avoid using bottled lime-juice since it adds an overly sweet taste. Use fresh limes hand picked at the supermarket; the best ones should be a bit soft when you squeeze them since these might have the most juice. Mexican limes are small in size but they do have an incomparable taste.
Classic Margarita
2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 ounce Mexican lime juice If you want a lighter Margarita:
1.5 ounces tequila
3/4 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 to 1 ounce Mexican lime juice Combine the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice that might be in cubes, coarsely chopped, or finely crushed. You might strain the mixture or pour it into a salt-rimmed margarita or martini glass. To get the salt to stick to the glass pour fine salt on a plate, then run a lime wedge around the lip of a Margarita glass and lightly press it against the salt. You may use Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Mandarin Napoleon, or Midori instead of Triple Sec. If you want a strong agave flavor use a Blanco tequila. For a milder taste use Reposado. If you are giving a party use Gold: it's cheaper.
- 2 oz Tequila
- 2 oz Lime Juice
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- Salt
- Garnish: Lime Wedge
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a margarita glass.
- 2 oz Tequila
- 1 oz Blue Curacao
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- Salt
- Garnish: Lime Wedge
Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice and strain into a margarita glass.
- 2 oz Tequila
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- 1 oz Lime Juice
- 1 oz Strawberry Liqueur
- Salt
- Lime Wedge
Rub the rim of a margarita glass with lime wedge and dip into salt. Shake tequila, triple sec, lime juice and strawberry liqueur in a shaker with ice cubes. Strain into a margarita glass.
- 2 oz Tequila
- 2 oz Lime Juice
- 1 oz Triple Sec
- 1 cup ice cubes
- Salt
- Garnish: Lime Wedge
Rub the rim of a Margarita Glass and dip it into salt. Blend tequila, lime juice, triple sec, and ice in a blender. Pour into a Margarita glass and garnish with a lime wedge.
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