Fav Tequila Drinks
Classic Margarita
Ingredients: 1 oz Cointreau, 1 oz fresh lime juice, 2 oz tequila
Preparation: Rub the rim of the glass with the lime slice to make the salt stick to it. Shake the other ingredients with ice, then carefully pour into the glass (taking care not to dislodge any salt). Garnish and serve over ice.
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime wedge, salted rim
2. …Make it Spicyyyy
Make your favorite margarita recipe, and add fresh chopped jalapeños. I usually add about 2-3 slices. Keep in mind, the longer you let it sit, the spicier it gets!
Alternatively, you can make a batch of spicy tequila, and let fresh jalapeños soak in your favorite tequila before creating your marg.
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime wedge, salted rim using tajin and/or chili salt
3. …Make it Fruity
Choose your favorite fruit (I love a berry or grapefruit), muddle the fruit in the bottom of your empty margarita glass.
Complete with your classic marg recipe poured over top with ice.
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish: Lime wedge, sugared rim, and/or chosen fruit wedge
4. Cosmo Marg
Ingredients: 1.5 oz tequila, .5 oz Cointreau, .5 oz fresh lime juice, 1-2 oz chilled hibiscus tea
Preparation: Shake the tequila, triple sec or Cointreau, lime juice and hibiscus tea in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass.
Served: In a chilled martini glass
Standard garnish: Lime wedge
5. Tequila Soda
Ingredients: 4 oz club soda (or your favorite Sparkling Soda like La Croix), 1 oz tequila, .5 oz fresh lime juice
Preparation: Fill a 6-10 oz glass with ice. Pour in 1 oz tequila, squeeze 1-2 fresh lime wedges and drop in the glass, top off with 3 oz of club soda and stir.
Served: Fill with ice and top with sparkling water
Standard garnish: Lime wedge
6. Ranch Water
Ingredients: 3 oz tequila, 1.5 oz fresh lime juice, 4 oz Topo Chico or other sparkling mineral water
Preparation: Add the tequila and lime juice to highball glass and stir.
Served: Fill with ice and top with sparkling water
Garnish: Lime wedge
7. Paloma
Ingredients: 2 oz tequila, 2 oz fresh grapefruit juice, .5 oz fresh lime juice, 1 tsp sugar, 2 oz club soda
Preparation: Pour some kosher salt on a plate. Rub half of rim of a highball glass with grapefruit wedge; dip rim of glass in salt. Combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, and sugar in glass; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in tequila, add ice, and top off with club soda.
Served: On the rocks; poured over ice, in a highball glass
Standard garnish: Lime wedge, salted rim
8. Mexican Mule
Ingredients: 2 oz tequila, .5 oz fresh lime juice, 3-4 oz Ginger beer
Preparation: Pour the tequila, lime juice, and ginger beer into a serving glass of your choice.
Served: Copper mug
Standard garnish: Lime wedge, jalapeno
9. Bloody Maria
Ingredients: 2 oz tequila, .5 oz fresh lemon juice, 4 oz tomato juice, .5 tb horseradish, 2 dashes Tabasco, 4 dashes Worcestershire, 1 pinch celery salt, 1 pinch black pepper
Preparation: Add the tequila, tomato juice, lemon juice, horseradish, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, Tapatio, celery salt and black pepper to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake briefly and strain into a glass filled with fresh ice.
Served: Pint glass filled with ice
Standard garnish: everything lol
10. Tequila Sour
Ingredients: 2 oz tequila, 1 oz fresh lemon juice, .5 oz lime juice, 2 tsp agave syrup, 2 dashes angostura bitters, 1 egg white
Preparation: Add the tequila, lemon juice, lime juice, syrup, bitters, and egg white to a cocktail shaker without ice. Shake for 15 seconds. Add the ice to the cocktail shaker. Shake again for 30 seconds. Strain the drink into a glass; the foam will collect at the top.
Served: In a highball glass
Standard garnish: Serve with a lime wedge and a cocktail cherry.
Recommended Tequila Brands:
Casamigos, Patron, Espolon, Clase Azul, Don Julio, La Gritona
More great local Mexican family owned brands:
Lalo, Fortaleza, Maestro Dobel Cristaleno, Camarena, Corralejo, Caballito Cererro, Casa Dragones (all female owned and operated!)