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:
- 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.
- Muddle (gently crush) the Japapeno slices in the bottom of a cocktail shaker or jug and add ice and the other ingredients.
- 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).