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Margarita with limes with guac side shot

The Margarita Dave's version

The classic reborn as a hybrid of the two main versions for the margarita on the rocks using both orange liquor and a little agave syrup.
Course cocktails
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword lime cocktails, margarita, mexican cocktails, tequila
Servings 1

Ingredients

  • 2 oz tequila
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 1 oz fresh lime juice
  • ½ oz agave syrup

Salt or pink sea salt for rim if desired, I love to use a pink sea salt

Lime slice for garnish

Instructions

  1. Rim a double old-fashioned glass with salt, see note.
  2. Place the Tequila, Cointreau, lime juice and the agave syrup in a cocktail shaker.
  3. Fill the shaker with ice.
  4. Seal the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 – 15 seconds.
  5. Fill the double old-fashioned glass (or any 10 oz glass) with ice.
  6. Pour the margarita over the ice.
  7. Garnish with a lime slice if desired. Sprinkle some pink sea salt over the top of the cocktail if not rimming the glass.

Recipe Notes

If you want to rim the glass with salt, run a cut lime across the rim of double old fashioned (10 oz glass) and then sprinkle or rub salt from a dish onto the lime coated rim. I sometimes like only to coat half the rim. Or sometimes, I will sprinkle some over the finished margarita instead of rimming the glass.