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- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Mix pineapple juice, grenadine, sugar, lemon juice, and instant tea powder together in a 2-gallon container; stir to dissolve sugar and tea powder. Add enough water to fill the container; stir to combine.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Combine simple syrup and bitters in an old fashioned glass. Fill the glass with ice. Squeeze orange peel over the glass to expel oils, then place peel in the glass. Add mezcal and tequila; stir until the drink is ice cold and alcohol has mellowed, about 20 seconds. Garnish with cherry to serve.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Pour salt onto a small plate. Wet the rim of a margarita glass and dip rim into salt.
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Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; pour tequila, sweet and sour mix, triple sec, lime juice, and prickly pear syrup over ice. Cover shaker and shake vigorously; strain into prepared margarita glass.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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Rim a highball glass with chili-lime seasoning and fill halfway with ice.
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Combine tequila, lime juice, and 1 cup ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake for 1 minute. Strain into the glass. Top with grapefruit soda.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Rub lime juice around the rim of a glass and dip in chile-lime seasoning. Fill with ice.
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2
Combine tomato juice cocktail, chamoy, hot sauce, Worcestershire, soy sauce, and cayenne. Mix well and pour over ice. Fill the glass with beer.
Agua Fresca de Pina y Pepino (Pineapple and Cucumber)
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Combine pineapple, cucumber, and sweetener in a blender. Add 2 cups water and blend until smooth.
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Pour into a pitcher and add the remaining 2 cups water.
Pickled Jalapeño Margarita
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add tequila, triple sec, lime juice, and pickled jalapeño juice and shake to combine.
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Strain into a glass filled with ice.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Stir lime juice, mint leaves, and sweetener together in a pitcher; gently crush and bruise mint leaves with a wooden spoon.
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Pour diet lemon-lime soda into juice mixture and stir until sweetener has dissolved.
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Mix in crushed ice to serve.
Quick and Easy Mango Margaritas
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Gather all ingredients.
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Combine ice, margarita mix, tequila, and mango nectar in a blender; squeeze ½ lime into blender. Blend until smooth.
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3
Cut remaining ½ lime into wedges. Pour ¼ to ½ inch sugar onto a small, shallow plate. Moisten rims of 4 glasses with 1 lime wedge; dip moistened glass rims into sugar.
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Divide margarita among sugar-rimmed glasses; garnish with lime wedges.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Combine the limeade, tequila, and triple sec in a blender; fill with ice; blend until smooth.
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Wet the rims of six glasses and dip in kosher salt. Pour mixture into glasses to serve.
Authentic Mexican Hot Chocolate
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 5 min
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Place milk and chocolate in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and simmer, stirring, until chocolate is melted but not boiling, about 5 minutes.
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Pour chocolate mixture into a blender. Cover and hold lid down with a potholder; blend until foamy. Pour into a mug. Break the chile into 2 or 3 pieces, discarding seeds, and drop into the hot chocolate. Drink immediately.
Agua Fresca de Pitaya (Dragon Fruit)
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Cut pitayas in half and scoop out flesh. Combine pitaya, water, lime juice, and sugar substitute in a blender; blend until smooth.
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Fill 2 glasses with ice and pour agua fresca over ice.
Agua Fresca de Pina y Espinacas (Pineapple Spinach Agua Fresca)
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Combine pineapple, spinach, and sweetener in a blender. Add 2 cups water and blend until smooth.
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Pour into a pitcher and add the remaining 4 cups water.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Combine mango and pineapple juice in a blender; blend until smooth. Set aside.
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Rub lime wedge around the rim of a glass, then dip in 1 teaspoon chili-lime seasoning. Juice lime into the glass; add 1 tablespoon chamoy and remaining 1 teaspoon chili-lime seasoning. Pour 1/2 of the mango-pineapple mixture into the prepared glass. Add remaining 1 tablespoon chamoy sauce and top with remaining mango-pineapple mixture.
Spicy Watermelon Margarita
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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Puree watermelon in a blender. Wipe the rim of a margarita glass with a lime wedge; dip rim in salt.
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In a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice, add tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, jalapeño, and 2 ounces of the watermelon puree. Shake until very cold.
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Strain into prepared glass. Garnish with watermelon wedge and jalapeño slice.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- Total
- 10 min
Instructions
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1
Fill a shaker half-full with ice. Add tequila, lime juice, and sweetener to the shaker. Seal and shake vigorously until outside is frosted, 10 to 15 seconds.
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Place salt on a plate. Run 1 lime wedge along the rim of the Mason jar. Press the rim down into salt. Fill the jar with ice cubes.
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Strain margarita into the jar. Top with sparkling water; stir. Garnish with remaining lime wedge.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 6 min
- Total
- 11 min
Instructions
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1
Split vanilla bean lengthwise with the tip of a sharp knife. Place Urfa biber in a tea infuser.
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2
Combine vanilla bean, Urfa biber, milk, and cinnamon stick in a pot.
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Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until milk is steaming and small bubbles appear, 4 to 5 minutes. Remove Urfa biber. Reduce heat to low. Add chocolate and sugar; stir until chocolate is melted, about 2 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick and vanilla bean.
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Pour into cups and top with a dollop of whipped cream. Garnish with bittersweet chocolate.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- Total
- 15 min
Instructions
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1
Add tequila, limeade concentrate, triple sec, lime zest, lime juice, and sugar to a blender; blend until well combined.
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Serve over ice.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- Total
- 15 min
Instructions
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1
Combine 1 tablespoon sugar with salt on a small shallow plate. Moisten rims of two 8-inch glasses with a wedge of lime, dip the moistened glass rims into sugar mixture. Fill the glasses with ice, if desired.
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Place jalapeño and 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar in a cocktail shaker and mash with a cocktail muddler until sugar dissolved and jalapeño juiced. Pour in orange juice, mezcal, and lime juice; fill with ice. Cover and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted, about 30 seconds. Strain into the prepared glasses.
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- Total
- 15 min
Instructions
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Place 1 teaspoon chamoy on a plate. Place 1 teaspoon chili-lime seasoning on another plate. Dip rim of glass first in chamoy, then in chili-lime seasoning. Set aside.
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Combine frozen mango, water, and lime juice in a blender; blend until smooth.
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Place 1/2 tablespoon chamoy in the bottom of the glass. Add 1/2 teaspoon chili-lime seasoning and 1/2 of the blended mangoes. Repeat layers and top with diced fresh mango.
- Prep
- 30 min
- Cook
- Total
- 30 min
Instructions
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1
Wash the lemons and limes, and cut the fruit into quarters. Squeeze juice from the fruit quarters into a 1-gallon glass ice tea jar, and place the squeezed fruit quarters into the jar. Fill the jar with ice cubes, and pour in the sugar and tequila. Top off the jar with more ice cubes if some have melted from the tequila. Seal the jar, and wrap the jar with a wet (but not sopping wet) hand towel.
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Gather 8 or so people in a circle, and pass the jar from one to the next, each person shaking the jar for 3 to 5 minutes. The drink is ready when the sugar has dissolved and the hand towel freezes and sticks to the jar. Dispense into ice-filled glasses and serve.
Mexican Christmas Punch (Ponche Navideno)
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 45 min
- Total
- 65 min
Instructions
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1
Stud each orange with 6 whole cloves, using the pointed ends of the cloves to pierce the skin. Cut oranges into wedges. Reserve 12 wedges for garnish. Cut some slits into each hawthorn.
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Bring water, hibiscus petals, and cinnamon sticks to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat and simmer until water is a deep pink color, 10 to 15 minutes.
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Remove hibiscus petals but leave cinnamon sticks in the water to infuse further. Stir in orange wedges, hawthorns, apples, sugar cane, pear, and brown sugar. Simmer, stirring occasionally, for at least 30 minutes.
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Ladle the punch into 12 mugs, making sure each mug gets some slices of fruit. Add 1 fluid ounce rum to each mug to give the punch an extra kick. Garnish mugs with reserved orange slices.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 125 min
Instructions
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1
Combine the lime juice and onion slice in a bowl, making sure the onion is completely covered with the juice. Allow to soak 2 to 3 hours; remove the onion and discard.
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Stir the orange juice, hot sauce, and salt into the lime juice; chill the sangrita before serving.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 40 min
- Total
- 195 min
Instructions
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1
Bring milk, sugar, and cinnamon sticks to a boil in a large saucepan over low heat. Continue to boil, stirring constantly, until milk has reduced by a little more than one-third, about 20 minutes. Remove from the heat. Leave in the saucepan and allow to cool slightly, about 10 minutes.
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Beat egg yolks with an electric mixer until thick and pale. Mix in a little of the warm milk mixture. Pour egg yolk mixture into the saucepan with the remaining milk mixture. Stir to combine and bring to a boil over low heat. Stir constantly, scraping the bottom and sides, until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 7 minutes.
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Remove from the heat, remove cinnamon sticks, and cool to lukewarm, 15 to 30 minutes. Stir in rum and cool completely, about 2 hours.
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- Total
- 260 min
Instructions
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Combine rice, cinnamon sticks, and water in a container and let sit for 2 hours.
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Drain rice and cinnamon sticks, but save the water. Combine rice and cinnamon sticks in a food processor or powerful blender. Process or blend until mixture resembles coarse sand.
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Place rice mixture back into soaking water and let sit for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
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Strain rice mixture through a fine sieve into a container. Add sweetened condensed milk, milk, and vanilla extract. Stir until well combined and refrigerate horchata until ready to use.
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Fill a tall glass with ice cubes and pour equal amounts of cold coffee and horchata into the glass. Add sweetener to taste.
Top Shelf Sparkling Margarita Jell-O
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- Total
- 270 min
Instructions
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1
Stir lime gelatin, lemon gelatin, and boiling water together in a bowl until fully dissolved. Chill in refrigerator for 15 minutes.
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Stir tequila, triple sec, orange liqueur, and sweetened lime juice into gelatin mixture. Gently stir in sparkling water. Ladle mixture into 24 small cups. Sprinkle each serving with lime zest. Refrigerate until set, at least 4 hours. Sprinkle each serving with margarita salt before serving.
Rachel's Coconut Horchata
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- Total
- 1485 min
Instructions
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1
Blend 2 cups skim milk, rice, and cinnamon sticks in a blender on low speed until rice and cinnamon are slightly chopped. Increase speed to high and blend until rice is very small and cinnamon sticks are crushed, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour rice mixture into a sealable container and cover tightly. Refrigerate for 24 hours.
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Strain rice mixture through a fine sieve into a bowl. Discard rice and cinnamon sticks. Stir remaining 6 1/2 cups milk, coconut milk, sugar, and vanilla extract into rice mixture until sugar is dissolved. Refrigerate until chilled.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Combine the tequila, lime juice, and salt in a tall glass. Add ice, top off with diet grapefruit soda, and stir.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Working in 2 batches, place 1 quart ice cubes in a blender. Add 1/2 can limeade, 6 ounces tequila and 2 tablespoons Cointreau. Blend at highest speed until drink is almost smooth. Pour into a pitcher and repeat with remaining ingredients. Store in the freezer.
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To salt the margarita glasses, pour a single layer of salt on a small plate. Moisten each glass rim with lime; dip each rim in the salt. Pour margaritas into each glass; garnish with lime. Serve immediately.
By USA WEEKEND columnist Pam Anderson
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- Total
- 5 min
Instructions
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1
Gather all ingredients.
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Sprinkle salt on a small plate. Lightly wet the rim of a cocktail glass or margarita glass with a damp paper towel. Dip the moistened rim in salt to coat. Set aside.
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3
Combine tequila, orange-flavored brandy, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until chilled. Strain into a salt-rimmed cocktail glass or a salt-rimmed, ice-filled margarita glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.