Simply Limeade Margarita Recipe with Fresh Blueberry | Purple Margarita
A generous splash of Simply Limeade bottled juice makes the loveliest purple margarita with fresh blueberries. It’s an easy Simply Limeade margarita recipe that uses bottled already sweetened limeade as our margarita mix with citrusy blue curaçao standing in as our triple sec.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Fresh Blueberries - plus more for garnish
- 1½ oz Silver Tequila - I used Espolón blanco tequila
- 1 oz Blue Curaçao - plus more for floating on top
- 4 oz Simply Limeade - bottled juice brand
- 1 wedge Fresh Lime - plus slices for garnish
Instructions
- Pour a little bit of salt onto a flat plate. Swipe the rim of the glass with a fresh lime wedge and dip it into your margarita salt to coat all the way around. Set aside.
- Drop fresh blueberries into the cocktail shaker and muddle until evenly crushed and juices have been released.
- Splash in your blanco silver tequila along with the blue curaçao liqueur.
- Splash in the Simply Limeade bottled juice and squeeze in the fresh lime juice from a fresh wedge of lime. Add in a heaping scoop of ice and cover.
- Shake vigorously until everything is evenly mixed together and completely chilled through.
- Add fresh ice cubes to your salt rim margarita glass. Strain the margarita cocktail into your glass over fresh ice leaving behind the old ice and crushed fruit in the cocktail shaker.
- Garnish this delicious fresh berry vibrant purple margarita with a fresh slice of lime and some skewered blueberries.
- If desired, float a little more of the blue curaçao liqueur right over the top. Serve chilled. Serve immediately.
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