Name: Japanese Slipper Margarita
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Blanco tequila; 15 ml Mezcal; 15 ml Green melon liqueur; 15 ml Triple sec; 15 ml Lemon juice; 4 drop Saline solution 4:1

Ingredients

1 fl oz

Blanco tequila

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Green melon liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Cointreau L'Unique triple sec liqueur

¹⁄₂ fl oz

Lemon juice (freshly squeezed)

4 drop

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Method

SHAKE all ingredients with ice.

STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish

Garnish with maraschino cherry dropped into cocktail.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Nutrition:

One serving of Japanese Slipper Margarita contains 168 calories

Alcohol content:

1.5 standard drinks
21.91% alc./vol. (43.82° proof)
21.2 grams of pure alcohol

Gallery

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Comments & Discussion

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Rob de Santos Premium Member 14w

Surprisingly good. One drop of saline was more than enough.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 15w

Excellent Simon. My lemon juice produced more of a 7 with Combier and Midori.

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 15w

Seven is what I aim for in sours.

Steven Jepson Premium Member 49w

I do love Midori - it brings a quite distinctive taste but such an amazing colour.
I dialled the Mezcal down to 1/4 shot and found it much improved

Florian Ruf Premium Member 1y

Thank you for the recipe Simon. For me the Mezcals smoke is a bit overpowering the melon and orange notes. It could be worth a try to reduce/omit Mezcal.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

Being perhaps a bit passe and un-cool , we love green melon liqueur cocktails. With this one, we substitute lime for the lemon juice and increase its volume by 7.5ml to 22.5ml. We also add 7.5ml Agave syrup. And we use dry Curacao as the triple sec. Perhaps this makes it a kissing cousin of the Bitter Margarita.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 15w

Did try your version and it was quite good really.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 15w

Cheers Calvin.

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 15w

Actually, looking back over our notes, we finally settled on the following recipe:
30ml Blanco Tequila
15ml Mezcal
15ml Orange Curacao
15ml Midori Green Melon Liqueur
20ml Lime Juice
5ml Agave Syrup
4 drops Margarita Bitters
1 or 2 drops Scrappy's Fire Tincture
Garnish with a lime salt rim and a floated dehydrated lime wheel
This is the one we now offer at our frivolously fun late Sunday afternoon parties. We call it the Mexican Slipper.

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Letti Penguin Premium Member 1y

I love a japanese slipper but it is quite sweet and sherbety. This is much more subtle, the melon is just coming through the tequila and mezcal. We did wonder if a little more melon or citrus might be needed but perhaps that would loose the subtle exotic interest.