John’s Spicy Margarita My Cotswold Kitchen

John’s Spicy Margarita

Ingredients: Makes one cocktail

  • 50ml (two shots) Blanco Tequila
  • 25ml (one shot) Cointreau
  • 25ml (one shot) Lime Juice
  • 2 Jalapeno slices without seeds (muddled)
  • Salt rim: sea salt or chilli sea-salt
  • Garnish: Lime wedge and Japapeno Slice.Method:
  1. Start by rimming your glass with salt – run a lime wedge around the rim to make it wet and then dip into a saucer with loose salt on it.
  2. Muddle (gently crush) the Japapeno slices in the bottom of a cocktail shaker or jug and add ice and the other ingredients.
  3. Shake vigorously until well chilled before straining into the salt-rimmed glass making sure to retain the peppers and ice in the shaker. Pop the garnish on top.

Notes

For a sweeter cocktail, add 1-2 teaspoons of agave nectar or syrup sugar. Serve in a cocktail coup, martini glass, or in a tumbler with ice.

Fun facts: Margarita is the Spanish word for ‘Daisy’ and this style of drink comes from a Victorian category of cocktail of the same name (Daisy) which comprised of citrus juice sweetened with a liqueur (in this case Cointreau) and fortified with a base spirit (here it’s tequila).

 

‘Fun facts: Margarita is the Spanish word for ‘Daisy’ and this style of drink comes from a Victorian category of cocktail of the same name (Daisy) which comprised of citrus juice sweetened with a liqueur (in this case Cointreau) and fortified with a base spirit (here it’s tequila). ’
- Prue Leith