July 24th is National Tequila Day so we thought we would make it easy for you to celebrate with a perfect margarita recipe. Choose one based on your celebrity style…
Martha Stewart’s Perfect Margarita
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Ingredients:
1 lime, cut into 6 wedges
Coarse salt
Ice cubes
1 3/4 cups tequila
1/4 cup Cointreau
1/4 cup Grand Marnier
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
2 to 4 tablespoons Lime Simple Syrup Lime Simple Syrup
Directions
1. To salt-rim the glasses, rub a cut lime around the rim of each glass. Fill a saucer with salt, and dip each glass, upside down, into the salt. Set aside.
2. Fill a blender jar three-quarters full of ice cubes. Pour tequila, Cointreau, Grand Marnier, lime juice, and simple syrup over the ice. Begin blending on low, then increase the speed to high, until the ice is very finely chopped and the mixture is frothy. Taste for sweetness, adding more simple syrup if necessary. Blend a few seconds more, and pour into the salt-rimmed glasses. Serve immediately.
Bobby’s Margarita by Bobby Flay
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Ingredients
2 ounces silver tequila
1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1 ounce orange-flavored liqueur, such as Triple Sec
1 slice lime
Directions
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the tequila, lime juice and orange-flavored liqueur and shake well. Pour over ice in a margarita glass and garnish with the lime slice.
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Chillin’ Like a Villian Margarita by Guy Fieri
Ingredients
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1/2 teaspoon ancho chili powder, for rimming glass
1 teaspoon salt, for rimming glass
4 sprigs cilantro
1 1/2 ounces 100 percent tequila blanco
3/4-ounce fresh lime juice
1/2-ounce agave nectar
2 ounces pineapple juice
1/4 cup mango, diced
Ice cubes
Directions
1. Mix together the ancho powder and salt in a shallow plate. Moisten the rim of the glass and coat it in the ancho mixture.
2. Muddle the cilantro in a cocktail shaker, then add the tequila, lime, agave nectar, pineapple juice, mango, and ice. Shake to combine and pour into the prepared glass filled with ice.
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