Patriotic Margaritas

Classic margaritas get a fresh “shake” when infused with your favorite team colors!

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ingredients 10
Prep Time 10 min
Total Time 1 hr 10 min

Ingredients

Simple Syrup

1: cup sugar

1: cup water

Red Cocktail

1/4: cup cranberry juice cocktail

2: tablespoons (1 oz) silver tequila (clear)

2: tablespoons (1 oz) orange-flavored liqueur

1: tablespoon simple syrup

1: tablespoon fresh lemon juice

: Ice

: Lemon wedge

: Colored sugar

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Directions

1 To make simple syrup, mix sugar and water in 1-quart saucepan. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside to cool, about 1 hour. Pour syrup into glass jar, cover jar and refrigerate until needed. 1 1/4 cups (use 1 tablespoon per margarita).
2 To prepare cocktail, add cranberry juice, tequila, orange-flavored liqueur, simple syrup and lemon juice to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake. Rub rim of martini glass with lemon wedge; dip in sugar. Strain cocktail into glass.

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Expert Tips

To make blue cocktail, prepare as directed above--except use blue Curacao for the orange-flavored liqueur.

You can use citrus vodka in place of the tequila.

Nutrition Information

NUTRITION INFORMATION PER SERVING

Serving Size: 1 Cocktail

Calories: 230
Calories from Fat: 0),

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 0g; 0%
(Saturated Fat 0g, 0% Trans Fat 0g 0% ),
Cholesterol: 0mg; 0%;
Sodium: 0mg; 0%;
Total Carbohydrate: 31g; 31%
(Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 26g 26% ),
Protein: 0g; 0%

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 0%;
Vitamin C: 35%;
Calcium: 0%;
Iron: 0%;

Exchanges:

0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;

Carbohydrate Choices:

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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Mary590

report Posted Jun. 21, 2011 8:04 PM

For luv2cook624 . . . at the bottom of the recipe in small print it says "To make blue cocktail, prepare as directed above--except use blue Curacao for the orange-flavored liqueur."

luv2cook624

report Posted Jun. 21, 2011 5:17 PM

I can see that this recipe would make a red margarita but what did you use for the blue one... blueberry juice?