Cocktail recipe

Frozen Margarita

A blended cocktail featuring Tequila Blanco, Cointreau, Lime juice.

Frozen Margarita cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Tequila Blanco
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 1 oz Lime Juice
  • 0.25 oz Orange Juice
  • 0.25 oz Agave Syrup

Method

  1. Optional rim: moisten half the rim of a rocks glass with lime and dip it in salt.
  2. Blend the tequila, Cointreau, lime juice, orange juice, and agave syrup with a heaping glassful of pebble ice until smooth.
  3. Pour into the prepared glass.

Story

Mariano Martinez of Dallas built the first frozen-margarita machine in 1971 from a repurposed soft-serve ice cream machine. It is now in the Smithsonian.