garnish - lime wedge or wheel, and fresh blueberries
Instructions
Prep the glass.
Place the kosher salt on a flat plate. Rum a lime or orange wedge around the rim of the cocktail glass. Dip in the kosher salt so that the salt sticks to the rim of the glass. Fill the glass with crushed ice and set aside.
Blueberry Margarita
In a cocktail shaker muddle the fresh blueberries until they are pulverized. Use a cocktail muddle stick or the handle end of a wooden spoon.
½ cup fresh blueberries
Pour in the Cointreau, tequila, lime juice, orange juice and simple syrup. fill the shaker about ⅔ with ice.
1.5 oz silver or reposado tequila, ½ oz Cointreau, ½ oz fresh lime juice, ½ oz fresh orange juice, ½ oz simple syrup
Shake the margarita vigorously for about 20-30 seconds.
Strain into your prepared cocktail glass.NOTES ON STRAINING: The solids of the crushed blueberries can clog the strainer of the cocktails shaker. You may need to repeatedly rattle the shaker back and forth so the liquid can strain through the solids. Blueberries are full of little seeds, if you do not want those in your cocktail you can double strain your cocktail by setting a small fine mesh sieve over your cocktail glass and straining the cocktail through that.
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Notes
SIMPLE SYRUP: A 1:1 ratio of water and sugar-In a small saucepan over low heat warm ½ cup water and pour in ½ cup sugar. Dissolve the sugar and then cool off the heat for about 5 minutes.Can be stored in the fridge in an air tight container for up to 6 months!SWEETER BLUEBERRY MARGARITA: If you like a sweeter drink add another ½ oz of simple syrup and rim the margarita with sugar or a mix of 50/50 sugar and salt, instead of all salt.