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The Perfect Margarita

The Perfect Margarita

A good margarita depends on the quality of its ingredients; always use the best tequila you can find. You'll get excellent results using a citrus reamer, a small, fluted cylindrical wooden tool, to extract every last drop of juice from the limes.

The Martha Stewart Show, November 2005 http://www.marthastewart.com/348226/the-perfect-margarita
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  • Yield Makes 4

Ingredients

    • 1 lime, cut into wedges
    • Coarse salt
    • Ice cubes
    • 1 1/4 cups freshly squeezed lime juice
    • 1 cup best-quality white tequila
    • 1/3 cup Cointreau
    • 1/3 cup sugar, plus more if desired

Directions

  1. To salt-rim the glasses, rub a cut lime around the rim of each of 4 stemmed goblets. Fill a saucer with salt. Dip goblet, upside down, into salt. Refrigerate goblets until ready to use.
  2. Fill blender three-quarters full of ice cubes. Pour lime juice, tequila, and Cointreau over ice. Add sugar; blend, starting slowly, and then increasing to high speed, until ice is very finely chopped and mixture is frothy. Taste for sweetness; add more sugar if desired. Blend a few seconds more; pour into salt-rimmed glasses. Serve immediately.

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