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Margarita

Margarita
4 mins preparation,

The Margarita is a bit like a bowl of cornflakes – you go ages without having one and then one day you rediscover it in all its delicious simplicity, and you wonder how you ever lived without it.

Blanco and reposado tequilas tend to work best in this recipe. A blanco tequila is the unaged expression of tequila while a reposado tequila is a tequila which has been aged in American or European oak for two to 12 months. Also try substituting the Cointreau with agave syrup or the Giffard Agave Sec.

Ingredients

50ml Tequila reposado or blanco
25ml Cointreau
25ml freshly squeezed lime juice

Method

1

Glass: margarita or cocktail glass

2

Add all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake for 15 to 20 seconds

3

Strain into a margarita or cocktail glass.

4

Alternatively, serve over cubed ice in a rocks glass

5

For a salt rim, run a lime wedge round half the rim and dip it in a saucer of sea salt

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