Buying Guide for Blenders. Blender speeds are not very important, but power is.  For the smoothest and least chunky frozen margarita, buy the highest powered blender you can afford.

Additionally, the thicker the container is the longer your margarita will stay cold.  This is a feature that the blenders marketed directly to margarita-makers have.  However, if you cannot afford one of these blenders, then just store your frozen margaritas in the freezer and they will stay perfectly frozen until poured into a margarita glass and enjoyed!

Shop for a Bender Here.  This website has the best prices and biggest variety for blenders I have seen on the internet.  They also have consumer reviews for a lot of their blenders which I find very valuable!

•  Blanco – comes straight out of the still and into the bottle. It’s also called silver or white.
• Joven -  just a blanco that has had fake coloring added to it to make it look gold (like Cuervo Gold).
•  Reposado and Añejo - aged tequila

Typically, for margaritas you should use a silver/blanco or reposado Tequila that is made 100% from the blue agave plant.

The smooth and aged Tequilas like an Añejo or the ultra aged and filtered do not make a great Margarita. You need that “bite” of the blanco/silver/white or reposado.

Miss Charming has a great site with valuable info about mixing margaritas and proper use of tequila.

Strawberries, sliced in syrup

Tequila

Frozen limade concentrate

Triple sec

Ratio 4:3:2:1

Basically, just add strawberries to the basic frozen margarita recipe.  Here is a tip, if you do not have strawberries in syrup, use fresh strawberries and add a few tablespoons of simple syrup or powdered sugar.

Serve in glass rimmed with sugar (optional)

Tequila

Triple sec

frozen limade concentrate

Ratio 3:2:1

Blend in a powerful blender, add ice until reaches desired consistency. 

This recipe is a very popular vesion of a regular margarita, and is sweeter than the traditional recipe.  Add in some fresh lime juice when you serve it for extra flavor

Tequila

Orange Liqueur

Fresh lime juice

Ratio 3:2:1

Blend ingredients in powerful blender and add ice until desired consistency is reached.  Serve in a glass rimmed with kosher salt (optional).

This is a traditional margarita recipe, just blended with ice.  Serve in a glass rimmed with sugar (optional)

Teguila (gold, 100% blue agave plant)

Grand Marnier

Fresh lime juice

Ratio 3:2:1

Shake and strain into glass rimmed with kosher salt (optional)

This is a very popular margarita, but very different from the typical margarita recipe.

Tequila

flavored liqueuer

sweet and sour mix

Ratio 1:1:1

Okay, this is a very simple recipe for flavored margarita.  Here is the deal, you can make a margarita any flavor you want!  If you want to make a flavored margarita for which you do not have the liqueur for, then just add in the flavored juice you want and keep the triple sec from the basic margarita recipe.  Put in twice as much juice as triple sec.

Tequila (blanco, 100% blue agave plant)

Orange liqueur (cointreau or triple sec)

sweet ‘n sour mix

Ratio 3:2:2

This is a typical margarita recipe – though not traditional!  I do have a recipe for traditional margaritas on this site.  This is sweeter than the traditional recipe, which uses fresh lime juice instead of sweet ‘n sour mix.

Shake and strain into glass lined with kosher salt (optional)

Tequila (choose a silver/blanco, 100% aged blue agave)

Orange Liqueur (cointreau)

Fresh Lime Juice

Ratio 3:2:1

Shake and strain into a glass (rimmed with kosher salt if preferred)

See my tips page for more information on how to pick out the liqueur and tequila.

This is a very traditional margarita, and not very sweet at all.   Good tequila is key to making this recipe taste good