Margarita

Name: Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients: 50 ml Tequila (100% agave); 20 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Fresh lime juice

100% agave tequila, triple sec and fresh lime shaken and served up, with an optional half salt rim.

Recipe card

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Makes 1 drink · about 4 min to make

Ounces are US fluid ounces (29.57 ml), rounded.

If you want a salt rim, run a lime wedge around half the outside rim of a chilled glass and dip it in salt.
Add all the ingredients to a shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into the chilled cocktail glass.

Printable recipe card Quantities as given in the IBA's official specification.

Bright, sharp and salty-edged. A half salt rim lets each sip be salted or not. Use 100% agave tequila and freshly squeezed lime.

It is served shaken with ice, without ice, or blended (frozen); salt on the rim is common.

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