A Smoking Margarita Recipe For Halloween

October 28, 2023 at 12:21 pm · Filed under Cocktails & Spirits, Halloween & Fall, Recipes, The Nibble

How about an eerily smoking Margarita for Halloween? In this case, a grapefruit Margarita is enhanced with fresh rosemary and a smoking rosemary sprig.

Thanks to Canta Negra Tequila for the recipe.

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RECIPE: ROSEMARY-GRAPEFRUIT MARGARITA

Ingredients Per Drink

2 ounces Cantera Negra Silver Tequila (or other silver/blanco tequila)

2 sprigs rosemary, plus 1 extra for optional garnish

1/2 ounce agave nectar

1-1/4 ounces fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice

1/4 ounce fresh-squeezed lime juice

Ice cubes

Optional: 1/2 teaspoon flaky sea salt or black flake salt*

Preparation

1. RIM a rocks glass and fill it with ice. For Halloween, black lava salt makes a great impression.

2. PLACE the rosemary and agave nectar in an empty cocktail shaker (no ice). Muddle until the rosemary becomes fragrant.

3. ADD the tequila, grapefruit, and lime juices, and ice to the shaker. Shake vigorously for 10-15 seconds and double strain (pour from the shaker over a mesh strainer) into the ice-filled glass.

4. LIGHT the rosemary. If you’re using the smoked rosemary garnish, carefully hold a match under the top half of a sprig of rosemary until it starts to smolder slightly. Add the non-smoking stem side of the spring into your glass. Serve.

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*Note that black flake salt is different from kala namak, which is also known as black salt or sanchal. Kala namak is unrefined volcanic table salt with a strong sulfuric flavor which is mined in Central India. Despite its name, it is actually light pink in color. What you want here is either Cyprus black flake salt or Hawaiian black flake salt (also called black lava salt), both of which are midnight-black.