Name: Smoky Chili Margarita
Total time: 5 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 25 ml Blanco tequila; 20 ml Mezcal; 10 ml Triple sec; 7.5 ml Chili liqueur; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 4 drop Margarita Bitters; 2 drop Saline solution 4:1

Smoky Chili Margarita
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Serve in an Old-fashioned glass

Ingredients:
⁵⁄₆ oz	Patrón Silver blanco tequila
²⁄₃ oz	Del Maguey Vida Clásico Mezcal
¹⁄₃ oz	Cointreau triple sec liqueur
¹⁄₄ oz	Chili liqueur
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
4 drop	Difford's Margarita Bitters
2 drop	Saline solution 4:1 (20g sea salt to 80g water)

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill an Old-fashioned glass.
RIM glass with smoked salt (moisten outside edge with orange or lime juice and dip into salt).
Prepare garnish of lime wedge.
SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
STRAIN into ice-filled glass.
Garnish with lime wedge.

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

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Review:

Having tried the Tommy's version of this cocktail, (which as it doesn't have an orange liqueur is actually a "Tequila Sour",) I wanted to make it into a 'real' Margarita with a triple sec liqueur and a touch of added chili spice.

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Variant:

Smoky Tommy's Margarita; Ahumado Atracción Margarita

History:

Created in October 2021 by yours truly and inspired by Stelios Papadopoulos' Smoky Tommy's Margarita.

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Nutrition:

One serving of Smoky Chili Margarita contains 144 calories

Alcohol content:

1.3 standard drinks
21.96% alc./vol. (21.96° proof)
18.7 grams of pure alcohol

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Simon Sedgley

3rd June at 14:34

Hmm...the Tommy's version has 15ml Agave (too much for us) and this one none (too little, if that can be said about none). So we added a mere 2.5ml Agave...still lovely and dry but more rounded for us.

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Kurt Crake

8th November 2024 at 21:57

Needs some additional sweetness. Recommend adding agave syrup or simple to taste.

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James De Gray Birch

29th December 2023 at 15:29

My favourite drink. I have made my own Chilli tequila by adding Birds Eye chilli peppers into a fresh bottle of blanco tequila. So I replace the chili liqueur for chilli tequila. I really like Mezcal so my split is 30ml Mezcal to 20ml Chilli Tequila.
Pink Himalayan salt for the rim and an chilli pepper or slice of depending on size as garnish in addition to the wedge of lime.
Perfection in a glass!

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