Cocktails on Friday!
Blackberry Jalapeno Margarita
Ingredients:
- 8 – 10 fresh blackberries
- 12 Old El Paso pickled jalapeno slices
- 3 ounces tequila
- 2 ounces Cointreau
- 1-ounce fresh lemon juice
- ½ ounce Old El Paso pickled jalapeno juice
- Ice
- Fresh lemon wedges for garnish Kosher salt or flaky sea salt
Instructions:
- To a cocktail shaker add blackberries and jalapeno slices.
- Using a muddler or wooden spoon, thoroughly mash up the blackberries.
- Add the tequila, cointreau, fresh lemon juice, pickled jalapeno juice.
- Add ice and shake vigorously until chilled, about 2 minutes.
- Spread out a layer of kosher salt, about a tablespoon onto a small plate.
- Take a lemon wedge and run it around the rim of glass.
- Dredge in salt to rim the glass, moving the glass around evenly coat glass.
- Fill glass with ice and strain the margarita into the glass.
- Garnish with additional lemon wedges and pickled jalapenos.
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Carrot Cucumber Margarita
Prep time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- Lime wedges
- Salt
- 1 Cup tequila
- 1 Cup fresh carrot juice
- 1/2 Cup cucumber fresh cucumber juice
- 1/3 Fresh lime juice
- 1/2 Cup Cointreau
- Ice cubes
Instructions:
- On a small plate, spread salt. With lime wedges moisten rim of 6 oz. glasses
- Dip glasses in salt
- Place glasses in the freezer to chill.
- In a pitcher combine tequila, carrot juice, cucumber juice, lime juice, and Cointreau
- Remove glasses from the freezer and serve the margarita mixture over ice.
- Garnish and enjoy!
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