Recipes

[Chi-town girl]

While planning for potential Easter Brunch recipes, I searched for on hand ingredients for the Pecan French Toast cups recipe that I posted. @skatting44  suggested adding Grand Marnier 

We have a supersized/Costco sized bottle of Grand Marnier tucked away from last summer when we typically make Cadillac Margaritas. Plenty for French Toast cups + margaritas 

Do you have a favorite margarita recipe? Blended or on the rocks? Tequila brand?

Classic Cadillac Margarita Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

• ice cubes
• 1 Lime

  thinly sliced (saving the end piece to rub the glass)

• Maldon sea salt or other flaky sea salt, for garnish
• 2 1/2 ounces good quality Anejo tequila

  or any other style of 100% agave tequila that you like

• 1/2 ounce Grand Marnier Cointreau or other orange liqueur
• 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 ounce agave syrup or simple syrup

Instructions

Chill The Cocktail Glass: Prep the cocktail glass by filling it with ice water then set it aside until ready to use.

Make The Crushed Ice: Wrap a handful of ice cubes in a clean kitchen towel or in a ice bag and, using a rolling pin or mallet, tap on it until all the ice is broken up and crushed into pieces ranging from pea-sized to snowflake sized.

Shake The Margarita: place the tequila, lime juice, agave, and orange liqueur in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake well until chilled and frosty, about 15 to 20 seconds.

Serve The Cadillac Margarita: Right before you going to serve the drink, discard the ice water, rub the rim with the end of the lime then dip it in salt, pressing to adhere.

Strain the margarita into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice (with a salted rim, if desired). Garnish with a few slices of the lime and serve.

  Tips To Make A Perfect Cadillac Margarita Cocktail

Regardless of how you have it there are a few key tips to help you shake up cocktail perfection:

• Use 100% Agave Tequila: Truth is you're supposed to use reposado tequila in order to call the cocktail a Cadillac. But, if you want to use silver tequila or the more aged, Añejo style, we say go for it. Just pinky promise us that you'll only use 100% agave tequila (check the label to confirm) and to steer clear of the swill that is mixto tequila.
• Choose A Quality Triple Sec: Just to be 100% clear -- triple sec is not a brand name but rather a style of orange liqueur. It's similar to Curacao liqueur but it tends to be drier and originated in France. While there are plenty of crappy, low grade bottles in your local liquor store labeled "Triple Sec" there are, in fact, high end styles of the liqueur -- like Cointreau or Grand Marnier - that are good enough to drink on their own. As we said before Grand Marnier -- a brandy-based triple sec -- is the de facto liquor for a classic Cadillac margarita.
• Take The Time To Make The Cracked Ice: Like we said, this cocktail is classically served up and not on ice so feel free to make it that way if you'd like. For our version, we like pebble-sized pieces of ice and we crush it by hand. Yes, it takes some extra effort but it's very much worth it.
• Use Freshly-Squeezed Lime Juice: We'll say it over and over until we're blue in the face: please only use freshly-squeezed juices in your cocktails. If you're making a big batch of margaritas, you can by all means juice a ton of limes up to one day ahead and have it ready to go -- just please never use the bottled junk!
• Use Agave Syrup If You'd Like: We like to make our Cadillac Margaritas with one major twist from the classic: by using agave syrup in addition to the triple sec. We do this because we feel that the triple sec on its own can be a lot of orange flavor but you still need a decent amount of sweetener for a balanced cocktails. We take a page from the original agave syrup-based margarita, known as the Tommy's Margarita and created by Julio Bermejo at Tommy's bar in San Francisco in the 1990s, and add a touch of agave syrup to the mix.
  If that's not for you, no sweat. Feel free to leave it out and instead just add more of the triple sec.
• Salt The Rim With Style: Whether you want your margarita with or without salt? That's 100% your personal choice. But, if you are going to add salt, you have a couple options of how to do it. The most classic way is to put salt on the entire rim, which is done by rubbing the cut-side of a lime against the rim of a cocktail glass and then rolling that in a plate of salt.
  
  We like half salt meaning that only part of the rim has salt on it. To do that, we rub the cut side of the lime in one specific part of the glass and then dip that section so that, as it sounds, only part of the glass is salted.

Then, of course, you can mix up the salt as you please! Try different style of salt, be it the flaky Maldon or pink Himalayan salt, or add some flavor to your salt like say some thyme leaves, some chili powder, or dried hibiscus flowers!

[Chi-town girl]

This looks Ah-Mazing 

Papaya Mango Frozen Margarita Cocktail Recipe

When it comes to team frozen margarita versus team rocks margarita, we pledge our allegiance to the margarita on the rocks flag, which is why this is the only frozen margarita on the site. We don't have anything against a frozen margarita, it's just they're too often icy or slushy or too sweet or flavorless. But that all changes when you make it using frozen fruit, which is why the only frozen margarita on the Salt & Wind website is this one. 

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup 100% agave silver tequila
• 1/2 jalapeño

  halved for tequila

• 3 cups frozen mango pieces
• 2 cups cubed fresh papaya
• 1/2 cup jalapeño-infused tequila
• 1/4 cup Cointreau or other orange liqueur
• 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 cup ice cubes
• thinly sliced jalapeño chile

  for garnish

Instructions

Make The Spicy Infused Tequila: Place the jalapeno in the tequila and let soak for at least 30 minutes. Depending on the heat level you like, you can either leave the jalapeno in the tequila or strain it off and discard it.

Blend The Margarita: Combine all remaining ingredients except a few slices of the jalapeno in the food processor or blender and  blend until smooth. Pour into serving glasses, garnish with jalapeno and serve. 

[deepwaterdotter]

My SIL lets the following mixture sit overnight covered in plastic wrap in the fridge before straining. Mix with 1 cup each Triple Sec and tequila:

4 tsp grated lime zest

1/2 cup lime juice

4 tsp grated lemon zest

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/4 cup ultrafine sugar (optional if sweetness of triple sec is enough )

pinch of salt

[chickenbutt]

I used a pretty boring recipe, although I haven't made them in ages.

I remember it as 3-2-1 - 3 parts mix, 2 parts tequila, 1 part triple sec, plus lime.   I like it on the rocks.   

[QVCkitty1]

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@Chi-town girl wrote:

While planning for potential Easter Brunch recipes, I searched for on hand ingredients for the Pecan French Toast cups recipe that I posted. @skatting44  suggested adding Grand Marnier 

We have a supersized/Costco sized bottle of Grand Marnier tucked away from last summer when we typically make Cadillac Margaritas. Plenty for French Toast cups + margaritas 

Do you have a favorite margarita recipe? Blended or on the rocks? Tequila brand?

Classic Cadillac Margarita Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

• ice cubes
• 1 Lime

  thinly sliced (saving the end piece to rub the glass)

• Maldon sea salt or other flaky sea salt, for garnish
• 2 1/2 ounces good quality Anejo tequila

  or any other style of 100% agave tequila that you like

• 1/2 ounce Grand Marnier Cointreau or other orange liqueur
• 3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1/2 ounce agave syrup or simple syrup

Instructions

Chill The Cocktail Glass: Prep the cocktail glass by filling it with ice water then set it aside until ready to use.

Make The Crushed Ice: Wrap a handful of ice cubes in a clean kitchen towel or in a ice bag and, using a rolling pin or mallet, tap on it until all the ice is broken up and crushed into pieces ranging from pea-sized to snowflake sized.

Shake The Margarita: place the tequila, lime juice, agave, and orange liqueur in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake well until chilled and frosty, about 15 to 20 seconds.

Serve The Cadillac Margarita: Right before you going to serve the drink, discard the ice water, rub the rim with the end of the lime then dip it in salt, pressing to adhere.

Strain the margarita into a rocks glass filled with crushed ice (with a salted rim, if desired). Garnish with a few slices of the lime and serve.

  Tips To Make A Perfect Cadillac Margarita Cocktail

Regardless of how you have it there are a few key tips to help you shake up cocktail perfection:

• Use 100% Agave Tequila: Truth is you're supposed to use reposado tequila in order to call the cocktail a Cadillac. But, if you want to use silver tequila or the more aged, Añejo style, we say go for it. Just pinky promise us that you'll only use 100% agave tequila (check the label to confirm) and to steer clear of the swill that is mixto tequila.
• Choose A Quality Triple Sec: Just to be 100% clear -- triple sec is not a brand name but rather a style of orange liqueur. It's similar to Curacao liqueur but it tends to be drier and originated in France. While there are plenty of crappy, low grade bottles in your local liquor store labeled "Triple Sec" there are, in fact, high end styles of the liqueur -- like Cointreau or Grand Marnier - that are good enough to drink on their own. As we said before Grand Marnier -- a brandy-based triple sec -- is the de facto liquor for a classic Cadillac margarita.
• Take The Time To Make The Cracked Ice: Like we said, this cocktail is classically served up and not on ice so feel free to make it that way if you'd like. For our version, we like pebble-sized pieces of ice and we crush it by hand. Yes, it takes some extra effort but it's very much worth it.
• Use Freshly-Squeezed Lime Juice: We'll say it over and over until we're blue in the face: please only use freshly-squeezed juices in your cocktails. If you're making a big batch of margaritas, you can by all means juice a ton of limes up to one day ahead and have it ready to go -- just please never use the bottled junk!
• Use Agave Syrup If You'd Like: We like to make our Cadillac Margaritas with one major twist from the classic: by using agave syrup in addition to the triple sec. We do this because we feel that the triple sec on its own can be a lot of orange flavor but you still need a decent amount of sweetener for a balanced cocktails. We take a page from the original agave syrup-based margarita, known as the Tommy's Margarita and created by Julio Bermejo at Tommy's bar in San Francisco in the 1990s, and add a touch of agave syrup to the mix.
  If that's not for you, no sweat. Feel free to leave it out and instead just add more of the triple sec.
• Salt The Rim With Style: Whether you want your margarita with or without salt? That's 100% your personal choice. But, if you are going to add salt, you have a couple options of how to do it. The most classic way is to put salt on the entire rim, which is done by rubbing the cut-side of a lime against the rim of a cocktail glass and then rolling that in a plate of salt.
  
  We like half salt meaning that only part of the rim has salt on it. To do that, we rub the cut side of the lime in one specific part of the glass and then dip that section so that, as it sounds, only part of the glass is salted.

Then, of course, you can mix up the salt as you please! Try different style of salt, be it the flaky Maldon or pink Himalayan salt, or add some flavor to your salt like say some thyme leaves, some chili powder, or dried hibiscus flowers!

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