frozen strawberry margarita

This frozen strawberry margarita is icy cold, sweet, and filled with juicy strawberry flavor. Use your favorite blanco tequila and fresh strawberries for the best flavor!

Why I love it:

This frozen strawberry margarita is absolutely perfect. I don't tend to be a blended margarita person; they're too syrupy-sweet. But these guys? I want a lot them with their frosty berries, lime, and grassy tequila.

The taste is balanced, fresh, and assertive. The tequila peeks through with a tempering earthiness and the salty rim reminds you this is, in fact, a margarita and not a breakfast smoothie. 

It’s everything I crave on a hot summer day-- like an old-school 711 slushie, but with real things in it.

Best of all? You can make a big batch and store the extra in a jar in the freezer. The alcohol prevents it from fully freezing, so you can scoop out the sorbet-like margarita whenever you want. Let it warm up a bit and sip away!

strawberry margarita recipe:

• strawberries
• blanco tequila
• cointreau
• simple syrup
• lime
• coarse salt

how to make a strawberry margarita

1. Freeze fresh strawberries, if using.
2. Rim two glasses with coarse salt; set aside.
3. Blend everything smooth (except the ice).
4. Add ice and blend until smooth.
5. Pour into prepared glasses and serve!

blended strawberry margarita tips:

• Freeze fresh strawberries ahead of time. Fresh, perfectly ripe strawberries give the best flavor.
  • Wash, hull, and halve them, then arrange on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet (not touching) and freeze.
  • If you don’t freeze your strawberries, they will blend up very watery and foamy. Frozen berries are the key to a deliciously cold, thick, icy margarita.
• In a pinch, buy frozen strawberries!
• Blend frozen berries with all the liquids first. Once smooth, add ice and blend until again until icy and smooth. This ensures all the strawberries are fully blended and the drink is chunk-free, so you can process the ice just until it reaches a slushy consistency and no further. No watery margs, here!
• Use good blanco tequila. Something smooth and flavorful will go a long way in this drink. We love Emerald Spear Tequila!

salt rim tips

• Use a spice grinder or mortal and pestle grind up the kosher salt (just a bit). A mix of big and small salt crystals is key to an even coating on the glass.
• Moisten the rim of the glass with lime juice, rather than water, to help the salt stick.
• To get a solid salt coating, press the moistened rim firmly into the salt, then pick up the glass, rotate a bit and press down again. Repeat until the whole edge is covered.
• Make it optional: Only dip one side of the glass in salt, so your guests can opt out of the salt. This also looks so modern and beautiful!

make this strawberry margarita your own!

• Fresh herbs: Garnish with basil or mint
• Make it spicy: Add ½ jalapeno to the blender and use a chili salt rim
• Coconut: Add 4 oz of coconut water to the mix
• Ginger: Chop up 1- 2 pieces of candied ginger and toss in the blender with the rest of the ingredients
• Pineapple: Replace half the strawberries with fresh or frozen pineapple chunks
• Lavender: Make a lavender simple syrup with dried culinary lavender, and use it in place of the standard simple syrup
• Make it a virgin margarita: skip the tequila and Cointreau!
• Honey: Replace the 1 oz simple syrup with honey
• Float: Float ½ oz Grand Marnier to the top!

more tequila cocktail and margarita recipes to try!

mango margarita

hibiscus margarita

blood orange margarita

cucumber mint margarita

spiced tamarind margarita

mezcal sour with strawberries and ginger

mezcal negroni

mexican mule (tequila ginger beer cocktail)

pineapple margarita

spicy margarita

tequila sour

ranch water

cantarito

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