Pomegranate Margarita cocktail

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Pomegranate Margarita

  • Medium
  • sweet
  • sour

A sweet and sour, medium-strength cocktail, shaken over ice, served in a margarita glass.

Serve in: margarita glass

Ingredients

  • 2 oztequila
  • 2 ozpomegranate juice
  • 0.75 ozlime juice
  • 0.5 ozagave nectar
  • iceoptional
  • saltoptional

How to Make a Pomegranate Margarita

Instructions

  1. Pour all ingredients with ice into a cocktail shaker.
  2. Shake vigorously until outside of shaker is frosty.
  3. Rub a cut lime around the edge of the glass and roll the edge in the salt to coat.
  4. Fill glasses with ice and strain over the cocktail mix.

Garnish

Decorate with a lime wheel.

Tips & substitutions

  • No tequila? Try gin or white rum.
  • No lime juice? Try lemon juice.

The glass

Serve this one in a margarita glass. The Margarita glass is a variant of the classic coupe glass that is typically used to serve Margaritas. It features a small, secondary bowl in the center that gives it a little extra volume and some aesthetic flair.

Did you know

A variation from hundreds of permutations of margaritas. Margaritas are now churned out in every conceivable flavor from pomegranate to strawberry, raspberry, ginger-pineapple, cucumber mint, green tea, and chocolate, variously served in glasses rimmed with salt or sugar, straight up, over ice, or frozen.