Ingredients
2 oz. blanco tequila
1 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. lime juice
1 lime wheel
Salt
Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass and add ice. Shake and strain into a margarita glass. Garnish with a lime wheel and salt. (Cointreau)
Ingredients
1.5 oz. jalapeno infused Milagro Resposado
.5 Triple Sec
.5 lime juice
1 oz. blood orange puree
Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a shaker. Shake and pour on the rocks into a double old fashioned glass. (Beauty & Essex in New York City)
Ingredients
2 ½ oz. PAMA pomegranate liqueur
1 oz. Resposado tequila
½ oz. Triple Sec
Splash of lime juice
Splash of simple syrup
1 lime wheel
Preparation
Shake and serve over ice in a margarita glass. Garnish with a lime wheel. (PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur)
Ingredients
1.5 oz. Patron Reposado tequila
0.5 oz. Zen Green Tea Liqueur
0.5 oz. sour mix
0.2 oz. Triple sec
0.1 oz. Rose’s lime juice
Salt
Preparation
Shake over ice, strain and serve straight up in a cosmopolitan glass. Garnish the rim of the glass with salt. (Haru Sushi in New York City)
Ingredients
2 oz. Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila
.75 oz. Mathilde pear liqueur
1 oz. lime juice
1 oz. blackberry puree
2 oz. ginger beer
Blackberry skewer
Preparation
In a mixing tin, combine all ingredients except ginger beer and shake. Strain into a Collins glass and top with ginger beer. Gently stir and garnish with a blackberry skewer. (Olmeca Altos Tequila)
Ingredients
4 chunks of pineapple, muddled
1 oz. Disaronno
1 oz. reposado tequila
1 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
½ oz. agave nectar
1 pineapple leaf
Preparation
In a mixing glass, muddle pineapple chunks. Combine the rest of the ingredients and shake with ice. Strain into highball glass. Garnish with pineapple wedge and leaf. (DISARONNO)
Ingredients
2 oz. Cabo Wabo Añejo Tequila
1 oz. Licor 43
1 oz. Carolans Irish cream
¼ oz. Tuaca
Mix of cinnamon and sugar for the rim
Preparation
Shake up liquid ingredients with ice. Strain cocktail over fresh ice into a rocks glass, rimmed with cinnamon sugar mixture. (Cabo Wabo Tequila)
Ingredients
5 oz. freshly squeezed citrus juice (this recipe specifically uses blood oranges and satsumas)
5 oz. tequila
3 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice
1 oz. agave nectar
1 jalapeno pepper
Preparation
Place everything in a large cocktail mixer. Using a wooden spoon, muddle the jalapeno in the bottom of the shakers to break it up a bit. Add some ice and place the cocktail shaker lid and shake. Strain out the jalapeno and ice. Serve the margaritas over ice with our without salt. (Gaby Dalkin, author of "Absolutely Avocados")
Ingredients
2 oz. Don Julio Blanco
1 oz. Grand Marnier
1 oz. fresh lime juice
.5 oz. simple syrup
Moët Imperial champagne
1 lime
Salt
Preparation
Add all ingredients, except champagne, in a cocktail shaker and shake. Pour in a rocks glass filled with ice. Top with champagne. Run lime around edge of glass and garnish with salt. Add lime to glass. (Ainsworth Park in New York City)
Ingredients
1 ½ oz. Don Julio Blanco Tequila
½ oz. Canton Ginger Liqueur
2 spoons of cream of coconut
Splash of sour mix
Splash of orange juice
Lime slices
Salt
Preparation
Add all ingredients in a blender with three scoops of ice. Blend until smooth. Pour in a margarita glass. Rim glass with salt. Garnish with lime slices. (Meemo in New York City)