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Tequila Mixology Recipes

Traditional Paloma

  • kosher salt
  • 1 grapefruit wedge
  • ¼ cup of grapefruit juice
  • 1 tsp. sugar
  • splash of lime juice
  • ¼ cup El Jimador Blanco Tequila
  • or your favorite Mezcal
  • splash of club soda

DIRECTIONS

Pour some kosher salt on a plate. Rub half of rim of a highball glass with grapefruit wedge; dip rim of glass in salt.

 

Combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, and sugar in glass; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in tequila, add ice, and top off with club soda. Garnish with grapefruit wedge.

Traditional Margarita

  • 4 oz. Hornitos Blanco or Reposado Tequila
  • 2 oz. Cointreau
  • 1 Tbsp. coarse salt
  • 1 ½ oz. fresh lime juice from 2 limes

DIRECTIONS

Run lime wedge around rims of rocks glasses, and then dip the glasses in salt. Set those aside. In a cocktail shaker, combine lime juice, Cointreau, tequila, and ice. Shake ingredients and strain into rocks glasses over fresh ice. Garnish with lime wheels.

Blackberry Mint Julep Margarita

  • 2 oz. Patron Añejo Tequila
  • 5 blackberries
  • 6 mint leaves
  • 1 oz. fresh lime juice
  • 1 oz. honey syrup: one part honey, one part water

DIRECTIONS

In a shaker, add all ingredients and muddle. Add ice and shake.

Strain into a julep cup over fresh ice. Garnish with 2 speared blackberries and a mint sprig.

Spicy Mango Margarita

  • 2 oz. mango pulp
  • ½ oz. fresh lime juice
  • ¼ to ½ oz. simple syrup (depending on mango sweetness)
  • 2 ½ oz. of hot pepper infused El Mayor Blanco Tequila
  • ½ oz. Grand Marnier
  • ice

DIRECTIONS

Combine mango, lime juice, sugar, spicy tequila, orange liqueur, and some ice in a blender. Blend until you have a smooth drink, strain if desired. Sample and adjust the amount of sugar and/or alcohol to taste.

 

Pour a few tablespoons of Tajin or lime chili salt mix on a small flat plate. Moisten the rims of a cocktail glass with a slice of lime. Turn the glass upside down, swirl it around in the Tajin mix until the rim is coated.

 

Pour the spicy mango margaritas into the glass and serve immediately.

Broncos Sunset

  • ½ oz. Blue Curaçao
  • 1 oz. Camarena Silver Tequila
  • ½ oz. Ancho Reyes Chile Liqueur
  • ¼ oz. Campari
  • ¼ oz. Aperol
  • ¾ oz. orange juice
  • ¼ oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • â…› oz. simple syrup
  • Garnish: blood orange slice

DIRECTIONS

Add the Blue Curaçao to the bottom of a rocks glass, and top with crushed ice. Add all of the other ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake. Slowly pour into the glass over the ice, and garnish with a blood orange slice.

Chihuahua Martini

  • 2 oz. Sotol Por Siempre or
    Casa Lotos Sotol Blanco
  • 1 oz. Vya Extra Dry Vermouth
  • ½ oz. 1888 Premium Olive Juice

DIRECTIONS

Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with an olive.

Silvermine

  • 6 – 8 quarters fresh lime
  • 6 fresh mint leaves
  • ½ oz. simple syrup
  • 1 ½ oz. Herradura Silver Tequila
  • ½ oz. Cointreau

DIRECTIONS

In a shaker, add the first three ingredients and muddle together. Fill the shaker with ice. Add Tequila and Cointreau and shake vigorously. Serve in a highball glass with salted rim.

The Añejo Manhattan

  • 1¼ oz. Don Julio® Añejo Tequila
  • ½ oz. sweet vermouth
  • 1 dash cocktail bitters
  • 1 orange twist

DIRECTIONS

Add all ingredients to a mixing glass, then add large ice cubes. Stir until cold, keeping viscosity intact. Strain into a chilled martini glass, garnish with orange twist.

El Diablo Refinado

  • ¼ oz. Koch Espadin Mezcal
  • 2 oz. El Mayor Tequila Blanco
  • ½ oz. Merlet Crème de Mûre (blackberry liqueur)
  • ½ oz. Canton ginger liqueur
  • 2 dashes lemon bitters
  • Garnish: 1 lemon twist

DIRECTIONS

Rinse a chilled coupe with the mezcal and pour out the excess or use atomizer. Fill a pint glass with ice. Add remaining ingredients except the garnish and stir well. Strain into the prepared coupe and garnish with the lemon twist.

Bracket Buster Punch

Yield: 12 to 14 drinks

  • 2 cups silver tequila
  • 1 cup orange liqueur
  • ½ gallon orange sherbet
  • 2 liters ginger ale
  • 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate
  • orange slices for garnish

DIRECTIONS

1. Place the orange sherbet and frozen orange juice concentrate in a large punch bowl and allow them to thaw for about 10 to 15 minutes.

2. Once it has thawed, stir in the ginger ale, tequila, and orange liqueur. 

3. When serving, garnish the glass with the orange slice.