El Restaurante Mexicano
Summer 2002
El Restaurante Mexicano
Summer 2002

The Bar Necessities

Recipe and photo from "The El Paso Chile Company Margarita Cookbook" by W. Park Kerr; photography by Duane Winfield. © 1999. Reprinted with permission of William Morrow and Co. Inc., New York, N.Y.

Frozen Watermelon Margaritas
Makes 4 cocktails
4 c. 1-in. chunks seedless watermelon
4 lime wedges
Kosher salt on a small plate
3/4 c. Triple Citrus Tequila or any good tequila
1/2 c. Triple Sec
1/3 c. fresh lime juice
Place melon chunks in a plastic bag; freeze until solid. Run lime around the rim of a glass. Dip rim in the salt.

Transfer about 3/4 of the melon chunks, separating them, to a blender. Add tequila, Triple Sec, and lime juice and blend until smooth. Add remaining melon and blend until smooth. Squeeze a lime wedge into each cocktail, drop the wedge into the glass.

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