Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale and on this episode of of Laura in the Kitchen I want to show
you how to make delicious watermelon margaritas.
Is it groundbreaking?
No.
Is it difficult?
No.
Does it require a video?
Probably not.
But, but, whenever I show a recipe - whenever I show myself drinking anything or having
anything on Instagram or anywhere really, I get bombarded with questions about 'can
you make a recipe?
I love to have a place to go print and always have them'
So this is my favorite watermelon margarita, you can do the same thing with mango, and
it would be phenomenal, all you need is some fresh watermelon.
Now I don't like this frozen, I like my watermelon margarita on the rocks.
But if you're doing mango, use frozen mango, because that - I'm weird, I like my mango
margaritas frozen, my watermelon margarita on the rocks.
Don't ask, that's just what I prefer.
Then you'll need some really delicious quantro or triple sec, any sort of orange liqueur
that would be great, if you want to do this alcohol free, use orange juice.
Fresh lime juice, some silver tequila, if you don't want to use tequila and you want
to make this no alcohol, then use a lemon lime soda or something like that and it would
be great.
I've also got a lot of simple syrup because I like my margaritas a little bit sweet.
I don't like them tart because whoo!
It already puts hair on my back, I don't want it to be like really strong, so we're going
to make a watermelon juice.
All I do for this is I take my fresh watermelon, look how red and sweet and wonderful that
is.
Going to pop that in there.
And I'm just going to put the lid on and let it go until it turns into juice.
My oven's preheated for something else, which you will see later.
It is done.
You want to strain this, just to make sure it catches any bits of anything left behind
because again, you're looking for a watermelon juice.
Nice and clear.
That is perfect.
If you're using really good sweet delicious watermelon, then we will not have a need for
any additional sweetener but like I said, I like it so that's what we do.
Then I just take about half of this, you can make this as strong or as weak as you want
to.
I'm going to take about, you know what let's take most of it, leave a little bit of it
behind.
And I'll take the rest of my liquor, add that in there.
And I know that for me, I'm going to want about a tablespoon of simple syrup, simple
syrup is nothing more than equal parts water and sugar brought to a simmer just long enough
for the sugar to dissolve and then you go ahead and let it cool and stick it in your
fridge and use it any time you need to sweeten anything.
If you don't want to go through that trouble, just use some agave nectar, it will be fine.
This is going to mix for just a second and we're going to prep our glasses.
So your choices are salt or sugar.
I'm a salt person.
So you just rim the edges of your glass with some lime.
And then you go ahead and do that same thing with either salt or sugar, my husband would
do sugar, I do salt.
You know me, if you've known me for a long time you know I'm a sucker for anything salty,
so this is definitely my choice.
Okay, not too much ice or you'll water it down.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Nobody wants a watered down margarita.
Yes.
How beautiful!
All I'm saying is this is wonderful but if you want to go ahead and add a few leaves
of basil to this, I know what you're thinking, I've lost it.
But I haven't, if you add a couple leaves of basil to this, it just mixes with the watermelon
incredibly well.
You cannot even imagine.
So go ahead and do that, don't think I'm nuts, just try it, it would be your new go-to drink.
Mmm.
You know, the world is a better place when you're drinking a watermelon margarita.
That is perfect.
It is not too strong.
It is not too sweet.
It's not too acid, I mean it's just absolute perfection, this is the recipe that I love
and that I build all my margaritas around.
Go to LauraintheKitchen.com, give it a try, let me know how you like it, tag me on Instagram
so I can see you enjoy your margarita, cheers to the weekend!