So one evening I decided to add some colour to our lives and disregard the awful weather outside by organizing a quick Mexican evening. It’s not really the difficult – I put together a cheerfully decorated table and made some Quesadillas – the easiest Mexican dish ever (just take two tortillas, sprinkle the first one generously with some grated cheese, cover with the other one and put for a few minutes into the warmed oven until the cheese melts).
But the real star of the evening was one of my favourite drinks ever – frozen strawberry margarita!!!
I’ve never really had time nor the ingredients to mix cocktails at home, but we’ve got some professional cocktail equipment and beautiful Martini glasses as a wedding gift from my best friend. So I decided to give them a try and searched the web for a professional recipe; I wanted a margarita which really is a frozen one, not just a normal ones with ice cubes thrown in.
I decided to use the recipe from The Blender Bible by Andrew Chase and Nicole Young. It goes like this:
Ingredients:
1 ice cube
10 frozen strawberries
2 tbsp (25 mL) strawberry syrup
1 tbsp (15 mL) freshly squeezed lime juice
2 tsp (10 mL) freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 oz (50 mL) Silver Tequila (I used a bit less, I’m not a huge tequila fan actually...)
1/2 oz (15 mL) orange liqueur (I used Cointreau – apparently it’s the best choice in this case)
coarse salt, for rimming (I used sugar)
I basically dumped all the ingredients into my blender (starting with the ice cube and strawberries) and mixed everything up. The effect was amazing! Look at the photos – I promise you they taste even better that the look! The ingredients above are for one portion only, so you definitely need to multiply them by…well, that’s up to you. Enjoy!