How to make a Margarita Cocktail

Ingredients you require for the perfect Margarita Cocktail

1. 45ml Tequila
2. 14m Triple Sec
3. 90ml Sour mix
4. A dash of lemon or lime juice
5. A lime wedge for garnishing
6. Salt or sugar to rim the glass if you want it to be more decadent
7. Ice cubes

Have a glass that you feel may fit the occasion such as a Margarita Glass and wet the outside with a fresh lime or lemon glass and moisten the rim with one of the above ingredients. Fill a saucer with either Kosher salt or fine sugar (salt is the usual for a Margarita) and place the rim of the glass into the saucer, turning slowly so that the outside rim of the glass is covered with either the salt or sugar. Shake off any excess. Chill the glass after this process.

Place the ice cubes and the above ingredients other than the lime wedge into a shaker. Until well mixed. Pour slowly into your prepared glass. Finish off with a lime wedge as a garnish.

You are now ready to sit back by the pool, relax and enjoy the refreshing flavours of this popular cocktail!

Interesting facts about the Margarita Cocktail

• It is one of the most popular cocktails in Northern America today
• There are three ways that the Margarita Cocktail can be served:

1. Frozen
2. On the rocks
3. Or just as the recipe above

• As for most cocktails there are many stories as to who first invented this cocktail. The following are those that claimed they were the creators of this magnificent cocktail:

1. Sammy Cruz in 1948
2.  Barman "Willie" from Mexico City, in 1934
3. Danny Negrete, in 1936
4. Enrique Bastate Gutierrez, in the early 1940s
5. Francisco "Pancho" Morales, on the 4th of July, 1942
6. Margaret Sames, in December 1948

• Freshly squeezed lime juice is meant to be the key ingredient to this cocktail’s success
• In December 1953 the Margarita was voted the “drink of the month” by the Esquire Magazine
• The first frozen version was invented in 1971 for a Dallas Restaurant