Best Perfect Margarita Recipes

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.

JIMMY BUFFETT'S MARGARITAVILLE PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except for the lime into a shaker.
• Squeeze 2 of the lime wedges into the shaker and then Shake Well.
• Rim outside of glass only with lime and then with salt.
• Add fresh crushed ice to glass and then strain mixture over ice. Squeeze remaining lime wedge in glass.

THE PERFECT BLENDED MARGARITA

Steps:

• Combine the lime juice, triple sec, tequila, lemon juice, and 2 cups ice in a blender; blend until smooth.
• Place 1 cup ice cubes in a cocktail shaker; add desired amount of margarita; cover and shake well; serve.

PERFECT BLUE AGAVE MARGARITA

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in a drink shaker.
• Add ice.
• Shake to cool and mix the ingredients.
• Add salt to the rim of a glass if you'd like and then pour in the drink.
• Enjoy.

THE PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• To salt-rim the glasses, rub a cut lime around the rim of each of 4 stemmed goblets. Fill a saucer with salt. Dip goblet, upside down, into salt. Refrigerate goblets until ready to use.
• Fill blender three-quarters full of ice cubes. Pour lime juice, tequila, and Cointreau over ice. Add sugar; blend, starting slowly, and then increasing to high speed, until ice is very finely chopped and mixture is frothy. Taste for sweetness; add more sugar if desired. Blend a few seconds more; pour into salt-rimmed glasses. Serve immediately.

SAMMY HAGAR'S PERFECT MARGARITA RECIPE - (3.9/5)

Steps:

• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add juice of 3 limes. Add an equal part of Cointreau (equal to the lime juice). Add an equal part of Grand Marnier (equal to the lime juice). Add a double part of the Cabo Wabo Tequila (double to the lime juice). Add a 1/4 teaspoon of Agave Nectar. Shake 21 times and let sit for 1 minute. Add salt to the rim of your Margarita glass and pour mixture into the glass. Enjoy

APPLEBEE'S PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Put all ingredients except the lime wedge and olive in a shaker. Add ice, shake until very cold and pour into a salt-rimmed margarita glass. Garnish with lime wedge and olive.

JOE'S PERFECT 'ANTI-SOUR MIX' MARGARITA

Steps:

• Pour 1/4 to 1/2 inch of salt onto a small, shallow plate. Moisten the rim of a large glass with water and dip into the salt. Fill the glass with ice, and set aside.
• Pour the tequila, orange liqueur, and lime juice into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into the prepared glass. Slowly pour in grapefruit soda to serve.

PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Moisten the rim of a margarita glass with lime juice; dip into coarse salt or hold inverted& sprinkle coarse salt over the outside of the rim.
• Place cubes in a cocktail shaker and add the rest of the ingredients (use equal amounts of fresh lime juice and sweetened lime juice).
• Shake briskly.
• Pour into glass, garnishing with a lime slice or wedge (if desired) and serve.

THE PERFECT FROZEN MARGARITA

Steps:

• In a blender, combine ice, tequila, Cointreau, water, sugar, lime juice, lemon juice and egg white. Blend mixture until smooth and pour into a pitcher. Coat rims of margarita glasses with salt, as desired. Pour margarita mixture into glasses; garnish with lime slices. Makes one 36 oz pitcher

A PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Salt the rims of 2 large margarita glasses. To do so, pour salt onto a small plate, moisten the rims of the glasses on a damp towel and press them into the salt.
• In a cocktail mixer 3/4 full of ice, combine tequila, Grand Marnier, cointreau, simple syrup, raspberry liqueur and lime juice. Pour in sweet and sour until ice is covered. Shake vigorously and strain into glass.

APPLEBEE'S PERFECT MARGARITA RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• Chill glass well. Mix all ingredients and pour into chilled glass. This recipe yields 1 serving.

PERFECT AGAVE MARGARITA

Steps:

• 1. In a mixing glass or mason jar add all ingredients except the salt and lime garnish.
• 2. Mix well with a spoon or cover the jar and shake very gently.
• 3. To salt the rim of your glass (optional) drag a cut lime around the rim and then gently dip the rim in a saucer filled with fluer de sel so that the salt sticks to the rim. Fill the glass to the top with ice. Add cocktail mixture to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until well chilled. About 30 seconds.
• 4. Strain contents of shaker over the ice in the glass and garnish with slice of lime.
• 5. Enjoy -- repeat.

PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Chill cocktail glass for 15 minutes. Pour coarse salt on a napkin or saucer. Hold each glass upside down, run a piece of lime around rim, then lightly twirl in salt; shake off any excess. In a glass pitcher mix liquors and juice with ice with a long-handled spoon. Pour drink into glass over a few ice cubes.;

PERFECT PATRON MARGARITA

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice.
• Shake till chilled, then strain into glass or pour over ice.

PERFECT FROZEN MARGARITA

Steps:

• Put into blender: 1 - 6 oz. can frozen limeade (Minutemaid®, we've found, has a lot of pulp) Using the same can the limeade came in as a measuring device, add a little over ½ of the can Triple Sec (60 proof). Vary as to your taste - more Triple Sec will make it sweeter; less than ½ can will make it more tart. Again, using the limeade can, fill the can slightly less than half full with gold tequila and pour into the blender. This measure can also be adjusted for your taste (or tolerance for alcohol). (If the 6 oz. can of limeade is not available, you can use the 12 oz. one and just pour up half of the blended limeade, tequila and Triple Sec mixture (before the ice is added) for use in a later batch. If that use is to be at a later date, just pour it up into an appropriate sized container and put it in the freezer.) Blend with enough ice to make 40 oz. If you like salt in your margaritas, but don't like the salt shower in your beard or upon your chest/bosom you can add the salt directly into the blender. The salt tempers the harshness of the tequila and the sourness of the lime. The 6 oz. can (or half the 12 oz. can) makes cocktails for 4 or servings for 2 if you have it with a lot of nachos - and don't plan on driving the rest of the evening!

PERFECT STRAWBERRY MARGARITA RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Steps:

• The night before, hull and cut up the strawberries into small pieces. Put them into a large pitcher with the tequila. At least a couple of hours before, in a small saucepan bring to a boil the sugar, one cup of water, and the lime zest. Once the sugar is dissolved (which it should be by the time the water boils), remove from heat and let cool for for a few minutes. The amount of sugar is a guideline, it depends on how sweet you like your limeade and how tart your particular limes are. Place a strainer over a bowl, or wide-mouthed serving container, and pour the sugar syrup through it, straining out the lime zest. Chill. In a large pitcher, combine the lime-infused simple syrup, lime juice, 2 cup water, tequila with strawberries, and orange liqueur. If you'd like salt rimmed glasses, before you pour the drinks, fill one small saucer with water and one with pink salt. Coat the rim of each glass in water and then salt.

THE PERFECT PATRON MARGARITA RECIPE

Steps:

• In a mixing tin, full of ice, combine Patrol Silver, Citronge, lime & orange juice. Shake well, strain and serve on the rocks. Garnish with a lime wheel.

PERFECT MARGARITA

Steps:

• Moisten rims of two glasses with lime juice and dip in Kosher salt. Mix tequila, Cointreau, Grand Marnier, fresh lime juice and simple syrup in a blender or shaker. Place ice into blender or fill glasses with ice. Pour margarita mixture into prepared glasses. Garnish each glass with lime slice. Enjoy! VARIATION: I use .5 ounce more lime juice. NOTE: We use El Tesoro Platinum Tequila by De Don Felipe. One Jigger = 1.5 ounces. For convenience, I use a Simple Syrup by Stirrings that contains only cane sugar. You can find it at you local liquor store or at www.stirrings.com

JIMMY BUFFETT'S MARGARITAVILLE PERFECT MARGARITA | MIX THAT DRINK

Steps:

• Fill a shaker with ice and add everything but the lime wedges.
• Squeeze in the juice from 2 of the lime wedges and shake very well until beads form on the outside of the shaker.
• Rim only the outside edge of the margarita glass with lime and twist it around in a saucer of coarse salt (see my page on how to rim a cocktail glass).
• Fill the glass about halfway with crushed ice and strain the mixture into it.
• Squeeze the last lime wedge on top and drop it in.