Favorite Margarita Recipe

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In honor of Cinco de Mayo tomorrow I wanted to share my favorite {skinny} margarita recipe with you! Margaritas always make me dream about vacation… a warm summer day, on a beach, with an ice cold marg in hand!

I believe in moderation and definitely love a good cocktail!

Personally, I love a super clean cocktail…not the high sugar concoctions you get at most bars. The typical margarita is loaded with sugar {think “sour mix”} and calories. A small margarita can have over 400 calories in it?!? Crazy!

This super clean recipe and much lower in sugar and calories than any that you would order out. I substitute the typical agave (which has a pretty similar chemical makeup and reaction in body as high fructose corn syrup) with coconut sugar. Coconut sugar has a lower glycemic index than other sugars (including agave) and won’t spike your blood sugar levels. It also contains inulin fiber, which has many gut health benefits.

Ingredients:

  • 1.5 oz of tequila {personally I love Camarena}

  • 1.5 oz of fresh organic lime juice

  • 1 oz of organic orange juice (or 1/2 of a fresh orange)

  • 1/2 tsp of organic coconut sugar

  • Kosher salt

  • Ice

Directions:

  1. Rim your glass with a thin layer of salt (see directions below).

  2. For one cocktails pour all ingredients into a shaker glass over ice.

  3. Shake very well, for approximately 30 seconds.

  4. Add ice to your rimmed glass, and pour margarita into glass.

    * if you want to make 2 cocktails - double the recipe

How to get the perfect salt rim:

  1. Pour some kosher salt onto a plate.

  2. Take a wedge of lime and rub it along the edge of your glass.

  3. Then take your glass upside down and move it through the kosher salt on the plate.