Fresh Cranberry Margaritas

• Produce

  • 12 oz Cranberries, whole

• Condiments

  • 2 oz Cranberry syrup
  • 3 tbsp Lime juice
  • 1 oz Lime juice

• Baking & Spices

  • 1/2 cup Granulated sugar
  • 1 Sugar - either granulated or sanding sugar to rim the glasses

• Drinks

  • 3/4 cup Orange juice

• Frozen

  • 1 Ice

• Beer, Wine & Liquor

  • 1 oz Orange liqueur
  • 3 oz Tequila

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Description

Ingredients

• 12 oz whole cranberries, either fresh or frozen
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 3 tbsp lime juice (about 1½ limes)
• ¾ cup orange juice
• 2 oz (4 tbsp) cranberry syrup
• 3 oz (6 tbsp) tequila
• 1 oz (2 tbsp) lime juice
• 1 oz (2 tbsp) orange liqueur
• ice
• sugar - either granulated or sanding sugar to rim the glasses

Directions

• To make the cranberry syrup: Add all the syrup ingredients to a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce the heat to medium and let the syrup simmer for about 10 minutes, or until the cranberries have burst. Cool for 5 minutes. Puree the syrup in a blender and strain through a fine mesh strainer into a container. Transfer the container to the refrigerator until the syrup is cool. Syrup can be made up to 1 week ahead.
• To make the margaritas: Prepare two cocktail glasses. Pour a few tablespoons of sugar onto a plate. Wet the rims with a little water or lime juice (the squeezed lime halves are great for running along the edges of the glasses) and turn them upside down onto the plate into the sugar. Once the glasses are rimmed with sugar, fill the glasses about halfway with ice.
• Add syrup, tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur to a cocktail shaker. Fill it the rest of the way with ice. Shake vigorously and then pour the cocktail into the two glasses.