Recipes / Beverages

Christmas Margaritas

A family Christmas-eve margarita built on a fresh homemade sweet and sour mix.

  • cocktail
  • margarita
  • tequila
  • christmas
Christmas Margaritas
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Ingredients

Margarita

  • Good Quality Silver Tequila
  • Sweet & Sour Mix (recipe below)
  • Cointreau or Gran Marnier

Sweet and Sour Mix

  • 3 1/4 cup water
  • 2 1/4 cup fresh lime juice
  • 3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  • 1 1/2 cup simple syrup
  • 1/4 cup fresh orange juice

Instructions

  1. Combine the sweet and sour mix ingredients.
  2. The ratio is 3 parts mix, 2 parts tequila and 1/2 part Cointreau.

Notes

These have been a Marburger Christmas eve tradition since we lived in New Mexico. We grew up cooking steaks on Christmas eve, but when I had my own family, I transitioned to tamales and enchiladas. -Maureen

Simple syrup = 2 cups sugar dissolved in 1 cup boiling water.