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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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.
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.
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.
Steps 9 and 10 - place lid on cocktail shaker and shake for about 20 seconds.
Steps 11 and 12 - pour into cocktail glass and garnish with a blood orange slice.
That's it, that's all there is to making this delicious cocktail!
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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Blood Orange Margaritas
Ingredients
- Himalayan Salt or Kosher for the rim of the glass
- lime wedge
- 1 1/2 ounces tequila silver, blanco
- 1 ounce blood orange juice freshly squeezed
- 1 ounce lime juice freshly squeezed
- 1/2 ounce simple syrup
- 1/4 ounce Cointreau
- ice
Instructions
- Rub rim of margarita glass with lime wedge and dip rim into salt. Hold glass at the angle you like to put as much salt on as you prefer.
- Put the rest of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill about half way with ice. Place the lid on the top and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds.
- Pour into the salt-rimmed margarita glass and serve with the lime wedge.
Notes
Equipment
Nutrition
This post was originally published in 2015 and has been updated for 2019.
Well, delicious! Blood orange is a favourite of mine! Can't wait to try this 🙂
You'll have to let me know what you think!
He took an immense bite of tasting that margarita, it must be delicious. Congratulations on posting this recipe.
I made quite a few blood orange margaritas when they were in season! So good! Espolón is my favorite tequila for sure!
Oh my! I think everything is better with blood oranges, and these margaritas sound fab! Such great color, too! Nice!
I love blood oranges, this is such a pretty color and sounds delicious!
Probably my favorite margarita of all...though I have never quite understood Margarita Day in winter. Unless someone in Australia started it!
This is just perfect for summer! Love the vibrant color!
I'll take 2 please ! They look amazing! Cheers !
I swear I am making this this weekend.
There is a national margarita day?!
I originally was going to make a blood orange margarita too but after I saw there were already two I made jello shots instead haha. Such a great holiday!
I saw your jello shots! They look amazing!
I love blood oranges and I love Espolon tequila -- I can only imagine how fantabulous these are. Salud!
It was sooo good!
What a gorgeous looking margarita! I love the ruby red color this margarita gets from the blood oranges.
I know! It's so pretty!
Stunning >> I love blood oranges! Salud!
Me too!
I love love love blood oranges and may have had a little obsession with them this year. Nothing beats the vibrant color and the tangy citrusy flavor. So good! ~ Cheers!
Me too!
I find blood oranges so intriguing because of their color and sweetness. These look amazing! Happy National Margarita Day!!
This looks like a great margarita! I didn't know you all were "celebrating" today but I am too. 🙂
It's the best day to celebrate!
What gorgeous colors!
Thank you!
The best!? Now that just means that I have to whip myself up a batch today! These are so pretty, and definitely sound refreshing - Happy National Margarita Day!
You need to make these!!
I had no idea that so many bloggers were celebrating margarita day! I love anything flavored with blood oranges, so this would probably be my favorite too if I tried a lot of margarita recipes. Though I probably won't get to it this year.
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Well, if you ever do, let me know what you think!
I love the idea of using blood oranges - that's one gorgeous drink!
And, it tastes as good as it looks!