Blood Orange Margaritas

LAST UPDATED: April 23, 2020 PUBLISHED: February 21, 2019 By Pam Greer 33 Comments As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Gorgeous red orange color and so smooth, these Blood Orange Margaritas are the best margaritas ever! Full of fresh, crisp flavors that are perfect for sipping.

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Two glasses of deep red blood orange margaritas.

The Best Margarita Recipe Ever

I celebrate all the major holidays - including National Margarita Day.

Wait...what? It's not considered a major holiday? Well, it should be because nothing else delivers like a perfectly prepared margarita. I'll take margaritas in almost any form, but once I discovered these blood orange margaritas, I knew I had a favorite.

Oh, I don't like to play favorites - with my children or my margaritas. But c'mon, you know that one child that is just a teensy bit higher up on your list? This margarita is that child.

So smooth. So crisp. So perfect.

Ingredients in the Margarita Recipe

Tequila - you want to use a good quality white tequila.

Salt - for rimming the glass.

Blood Orange Juice - freshly squeezed. Buy oranges when they're in season and freeze the juice in ice cube trays.

Lime Juice - fresh squeezed, save lime wedge for running along the edge of glass.

Simple Syrup - equal parts water and sugar heated until sugar dissolves. Store in refrigerator for about a month.

Cointreau - or Triple Sec or my Homemade Orange Liqueur also works. Some people only use cointreau in margaritas, while I prefer it's flavor if sipping straight or in a cocktail where the cointreau flavor would be more forward, in a margarita I am fine with a less expensive liqueur.

Steps for Making a Blood Orange Margarita

Steps 1 and 2 - juice your blood oranges. It's easiest using a citrus press, we use a commercial juicer and while it's an investment up front, we've had it for 6 years and we still love it! Gather the rest of your ingredients: lime juice, tequila, orange liqueur, salt, and simple syrup.

Photo collage showing steps 1 and 2 for making margarita

Steps 3 and 4 - Run a lime wedge along the rim of your glasses and dip in salt to coat the rim. Add tequila to a cocktail shaker.

Photos showing steps 3 and 4 for making a margarita, rimming with salt and adding tequila.

Steps 5 and 6 - Add blood orange juice and lime juice to cocktail shaker.

Steps 7 and 8 - add orange liqueur to cocktail shaker and then add ice.

Photo showing steps 7 and 8 for making margaritas.

Steps 9 and 10 - place lid on cocktail shaker and shake for about 20 seconds.

Photo collage of steps 9 and 10 for making blood orange margaritas.

Steps 11 and 12 - pour into cocktail glass and garnish with a blood orange slice.

Steps 11 and 12 - pouring into cocktail glass and garnishing with blood orange slice.

That's it, that's all there is to making this delicious cocktail!

Two bright red blood orange margarita cocktails garnished with blood orange slices.

Blood Orange Cocktails

Blood orange season is fleeting. I wait all year for it and then enjoy every single sip of this margarita. I also enjoy this Blood Orange Whiskey Sour. I'm thinking I need to come up with blood orange gin and tonic, what do you think?

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