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Elegante Margarita
One of the best Margarita recipes around. Richly endowed with flavour
Simon Sedgley
18th October at 12:08
Such an expressive Margarita. We decided to give that expression a gentle, friendly nudge by splitting the syrups 17.5ml lime cordial (our own, homemade) and 2.5ml simple syrup. Really delicious for us.
25th July at 01:07
Good, but a bit boring. Used regular Cointreau as I didn't have the "l'Unique" version. Also, I don't understand why there would be lime cordial AND sugar syrup...seems redundant. I omitted the sugar syrup & it was sweet enough. Might try to zhuzh it up next time, though there are so many other recipes, why bother?!
25th July at 16:30
Regular Cointreau is now called Cointreau L'Unique, so you used the right liqueur. Thanks for the feedback on sugar syrup; something others agree with below. I found the cocktail too tart without syrup, but I have halved the measure.
20th June at 14:41
It may depend on the cordial used, but we found the proportions well working and only added three drops of saline solution.
24th March 2024 at 12:22
It's really good! I can see why everybody says to omit the sugar syrup, with the cordial it's already sweet (To me at least).
3rd March 2024 at 20:20
Great fruity cocktail. Agree with others and will omit sugar syrup next ;tie
7th January 2024 at 11:28
Very nice. Not big on sweet drinks here. So as suggested by others I halved the sugar syrup.
30th October 2023 at 22:23
Wonderful!
2nd July 2023 at 07:07
Agree with John- but I used 5ml of Agave in place of sugar syrup- still pretty sweet, but if I make again it will be a no to any sweetener, the lime cordial is enough.
20th July 2022 at 19:46
Great version of the Magarita. I agree with Gregg Byfield, lowered the sugar syrup to 5ml and it was sweet enough. If you like a more sour Margarita, I would eliminate the sugar syrup entirely.
22nd February 2022 at 21:51
For me 5ml of sugar syrup was enough.