Best 9 Authentic Margarita Mix Recipes

CLASSIC MARGARITAS

Steps:

• Rub the rim of 4 rocks glasses with lime; dip in coarse salt. Fill three-quarters of the way with ice. Combine 1 cup tequila, 2/3 cup fresh lime juice, 1/3 cup orange-flavored liqueur and 2 teaspoons superfine sugar in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, then pour into the glasses. Garnish with lime.
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THE PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Moisten the rim of a glass with a lime wedge. Sprinkle salt onto a plate. Lightly dip the moistened rim into the salt. Place a large ice cube in the glass and freeze the prepared glass until ready to serve.
• Fill a cocktail shaker with fresh ice. Add tequila, triple sec, and lime juice. Cover and shake vigorously until outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into the prepared glass and garnish with a slice of lime.

AUTHENTIC MARGARITA RECIPE

Steps:

• Squeeze fresh limes into a bowl.
• Pour two shot glasses of fresh squeezed lime juice in shaker.
• Add one shot glass of Cointreau to shaker.
• Add one shot glass of Tequila.
• Fill half a shot glass with water, then squeeze raw honey into the shot glass.
• Mix well.
• Slowly pour your honey water into your shaker until you reach desired sweetness. Start with half a shot glass before adding more.
• Shake your margarita mix.
• Rub sliced lime around rim of glass.
• Dip glass into plate or bowl of sea salt.
• Pour margarita over crushed ice.

THE AUTHENTIC MARGARITA

Steps:

• Use a citrus squeezer to squeeze 4 oz. of lime juice into a cup and set it aside.
• Add 3 oz. of tequila and 1.5 oz of Cointreau into a blender. Follow that up with the lime juice from the previous step, 2 cups of ice and blend it!
• (Optional) Add Salt Around the Rim: Now to set up your glasses, cut a lime into small wedges and use one of them to rub a small amount of lime juice around the rim of your class. The lime juice will help the salt stick around the edges.
• Pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of salt into a small plate. Grab the glass you just rubbed lime juice on and hold angle it so you can rotate the rim and make sure you've added salt around it evenly.
• After salting the glasses, finally pour the margarita into your glass. Add a lime wedge to your glass as the final garnish, invite friends, and say cheers.

REAL MARGARITAS

Steps:

• If you like margaritas served in a glass with salt, rub the outside rims of 6glasses with a cut lime and dip each glass lightly into a plate of kosher salt.
• Combine the lime juice, lemon juice, Triple Sec, tequila, and ice in a blender and puree. Place extra ice in a cocktail shaker. Fill with margarita mix, shake well, and strain into glasses.

AUTHENTIC MARGARITA MIX

Steps:

• Place ingredients in blender and blend well.
• For an authentic Magarita, mix three parts mix, 1 part tequila and 1/2 part Cointreau or Triple Sec and serve in a glass with salted rim. (To salt the rim, wipe rim of glass with lime skin and dip upside down in a plate of salt.
• To make bartenders simple syrup, used in bars since it won't cloud or settle in your drink, take 1 cup water, 2 cups sugar and simmer or Nuke (microwave) until the sugar is dissolved, cool to room temperature Keep on hand.

PARKER'S FAMOUS MARGARITAS

Steps:

• Measure the tequila, lime juice, sweetened lime juice and triple sec into a cocktail shaker and add a generous scoop of ice. Cover and shake until the shaker is frosty, about 30 seconds.
• Rub a lime wedge around the rim of a margarita glass and dip in salt. Fill each glass with ice. Strain equal amounts of the cocktail into the glasses to serve. Garnish with a lime wedge.

CLASSIC MARGARITA

Steps:

• Moisten rim of 1 cocktail glass with lime wedge. If desired, sprinkle salt on a plate; dip rim in salt. Fill glass with ice. In an empty cocktail shaker, combine tequila, Triple Sec and lime juice. Fill with ice; cover and shake until frost forms on the outside of the shaker, 15-20 seconds. Strain into prepared glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

AUTHENTIC MEXICAN MARGARITAS

Steps:

• Place tequila, Controy, limejuice and cranberry juice in blender.
• Fill until almost full with crushed ice. Shake well or blend until very slushy.
• Wet rim of martini or Margarita glass with water and swirl in small dish of salt.
• Pour Margarita into the glass. Ole and Feliz Navidad!