Blue Margarita for Carmen (with Curaçao)
Blue Margarita recipe - smooth, citrusy, a touch sweet, sour and salty, this electric Blue Margarita is the sexiest, most provocative margarita ever!
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 4 min
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 60 ml tequila blanco
- 30 ml Curaçao
- 30 ml lime juice ((save the used lime for the glass rim))
- 15 ml simple sugar syrup ((or to taste))
- salt sprinkled on a saucer
- lime slices for decorating the glass/drink
- 2 ice cubes
- 200 g white sugar
- 125 ml water
Instructions
- 1
Run a lime slice all around the rim of your glass and dip the glass rim into the salt, coating well.
- 2
Add the required amounts of tequila, Curaçao, lime juice and syrup into your shaker with the ice cubes. If you don't have a shaker, just use a jug.
- 3
Shake it all up really well, both to mix as well as to chill the drink. If you don't have a shaker, just stir it all up in the jug.
- 4
Taste, add more syrup or lime juice if you think it needs it.
- 5
Pour the blue margarita, minus the ice cubes, into your prepared glass, stick a lime slice on and sip away!
- 6
Place the water and sugar into a small pan and bring to a boil.
- 7
Simmer for 10 minutes on the lowest heat to allow the flavours to develop and the syrup to thicken.
- 8
Leave to cool, no need to place in the fridge.