Margarita is called my love.
Margarita is called our love. She comes from Mexico, our Mexico dear and cute. That colorful, fun Mexico of white sand beaches, ancient ruins, cobbled streets and longed-for cantinas.
It is not very clear the origin of the margarita, the quintessential Mexican cocktail or, at least, the most exported. Legends and stories place it between the 30s and 50s, between Tehuacán, Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana or Ensenada. But surely, surely it arose in Mexico, perhaps called that because it was dedicated or created to a woman named Margarita (perhaps the showgirl Rita de la Rosa). And with that woman's name, it has come to us today, a worldwide enjoyed cocktail that you can now prepare at home to toast with health. As Chavela Vargas sang, as a certain José Alfredo wrote: Take this bottle with me / And in the last drink we go.
Carlos Luis Marrufo, from Enmezcalarte and barman of the house of mexico shares the recipe for the classic margarita with tequila and offers us the possibility of making it with mezcal “for a more smoky version.” “Simple recipe with easy-to-find ingredients,” he says.
Well shaken, tequila or mezcal.
INGREDIENTS:
Table salt or another type of more special salt (such as worm salt or Tajín chili)
30ml lemon juice
30 ml orange liqueur (Cointreau)
Sweetener or simple or agave syrup (optional)
60 ml of mezcal or tequila (the classic one)
1 piece of lemon
ice
ELABORATION:
1. Put the salt on the edge of the glass: rub the outer rim of the glass with a lemon wedge. On a plate, we put the salt and impregnate the glass placing it laterally, it is better not to place it upside down on the plate so that the glass is not filled with salt.
two. We cool the glasses with a few ice while we continue with the preparation (later we will throw those ice).
3. We mix 30 ml of lemon juice, 30 ml of orange liqueur, 50 ml of tequila or mezcal, we add, optionally, sweetener depending on how sweet they like it (if you add syrup, a little bit). Add ice to the shaker and we shake just the right amount of time to mix them and cool that it does not get watery.
4. Throw away the ice with which we cooled the glasses and serve, better strained.