Skinny Margarita

It’s a Monday holiday, and that calls for a skinny Margarita! similarly to being one in every of my favourite drink recipes, this easy, four-factor cocktail has come to be considered one of yours too. I added a amusing video for a single serving, but you can easily scale this recipe for a crowd. a few of you (hello Jordan and Jamie!) have even instructed me that, after you made those thin Margaritas once for girls’ night time, your buddies commenced soliciting for you convey it to each accumulating. Cheers. also, if you have room for one more female, you realize who to name.

If I may want to best have one cocktail for the rest of my days (a semi-alarming prospect indeed), it would be a fresh margarita. No mixes, bottled juices, or frozen mumbo jumbo right here. provide me my rim salted, my ice cubes massive and in fee, and an additional splash of tequila for desirable luck.

Margaritas make me think of sunny, at ease afternoons out of doors, long holidays, and nights out with my sisters. They remind me of Taco Tuesdays (and Taco Thursdays) at our favorite Mexican joint in Milwaukee and beaches where I’d want to dig my toes into the sand. I by no means tire of these emotions, and i without a doubt never tire of a properly-made margarita.

Ingredients :

FOR ONE, CLASSIC SKINNY MARGARITA:

• Kosher salt — & lime wedge, to rim the glass
• 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila — about 3 tablespoons
• 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice — about 1 large or 1 1/2 small limes
• 1 1/2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice — about 1/2 medium orange
• 1 teaspoon light agave nectar — add 2 if you prefer a sweeter margarita
• Ice

FOR A PITCHER OF SKINNY MARGARITAS (5 DRINKS):

1. 8 ounces silver tequila — (1 cup)
2. 8 ounces freshly squeezed lime juice — (1 cup, from about 5 medium/large limes)
3. 4 ounces freshly squeezed orange juice — (1/2 cup, from about 4 medium oranges)
4. 2 tablespoons light agave nectar — or simple syrup, more if you prefer a sweeter margarita

Instructions :

1. Rim the glass: Pour a thin layer of salt onto a small plate. Rub a lime wedge around the top edge of your glass to moisten it, then dip the glass into the salt so that it sticks, tapping all the way around. Fill the glass with ice and set aside.
2. For one (or two) drinks: fill a small cocktail shaker with additional ice. Add the tequila, lime juice, orange juice, and agave. Tightly close and shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds (it's longer than you think). Strain into the rimmed glass over the ice. Enjoy immediately.
3. For a pitcher: In the bottom of a pitcher, stir together the tequila, lime juice, orange juice, and agave (do not add ice to the pitcher). Serve immediately (prepare the glasses as in Step or place a sheet of plastic wrap over the top of the pitcher and refrigerate for up to 4 hours.