hello this is chef john from food wishes calm with the perfect margarita that's
right I don't often film cocktail videos but when I do I choose to drink them
afterwards which I did and then tried to edit in voiceover this video so with
that little disclaimer out of the way we can proceed and while there are hundreds
of ways you can make this drink today I'm going to be showing you the most
primal and what I consider the most perfect three ingredient version so with
that let's go ahead get started with those three ingredients starting with
the most important a bottle of tequila and not just any tequila what you're
going to want to look for is a hundred percent pure agave Blanco tequila and
yes Blanco does mean white but sometimes these are also referred to as silver
tequila's just to confuse people you know yours doesn't have to be organic a
little bit of pesticides probably not gonna hurt anything here and then
besides a bottle of white tequila we are also going to need some triple sec which
is a type of sweet orange liqueur and while I'm not going to give you the
exact brands in this video if you drink a lot you should be able to tell just
from the shape of that bottle but anyway as usual I'll be giving specifics in the
blog post and then besides tequila and triple sec our third and final
ingredient will be some freshly squeezed lime juice okay no bottle concentrates
or even worse pre-made sour mixes if you can't find fresh limes for this make
some notes but assuming we can let's take a little wedge of that lime and go
ahead and prep our glasses and to do that we'll just go around the top
moistening in that rim so that when we dip it into our salt crystals a little
stick and speaking of crystals what you're gonna want to use here is a nice
coarse sea salt okay if the salt green is too fine your drink is gonna taste
too salty so basically the bigger the better and we will go ahead and sprinkle
some of that on a plate and then we'll gently press our recently moisten glass
in sort of going around until the rim is coated and while we do want full
coverage we don't want a ton of salt on here which is why we only sprinkle a
thin layer on the plate and by the way a lot of recipes list the salt is optional
but it is not totally mandatory although as you'll see later we only consume a
little bit of it but anyway once the top rim of our glass is
garnished with salts I'm gonna go ahead and add one large ice cube to each of
these glasses since one of the secrets to a perfect margarita is to serve it
over fresh ice and in a frosty frozen glass which is why once our glasses have
been salted and iced we will pop those in the freezer until ready to use and
then once our delivery system is set we can move on to the actual margarita
itself and that will begin by adding some regular ice cubes to this metal
cocktail shaker and we're gonna add exactly 7 cubes since 6 is not quite
enough and 8 would be a little too much and by the way the amounts I've given
here make exactly one margarita and I should mention for best results use
fresh ice okay if you haven't used ice cubes in like nine months make some new
ones please so they don't taste down and then once our ice is in we'll go ahead
and add exactly two ounces of white tequila which most margarita aficionados
will tell you is the best style to use although please be careful after
consuming about three or four ounces of this it will start to act as a truth
serum so consider yourself warned and then after we add two ounces of tequila
we will follow with exactly one and a half ounces of triple sec if for me
that's gonna provide all the sweetness we need okay some folks will add some
simple syrup to this or agave nectar but I think that makes this too sweet throws
off the balance and then last but not least after the triple sec we will do
exactly one ounce of freshly squeezed lime juice and believe it or not that's
it we will carefully and securely place the top on and then we're gonna start
shaking we're gonna shake that not like a Polaroid picture all right that's more
of a waving or fanning motion we need to go full shake here as vigorously as we
possibly can and as you do this you're gonna notice that shaker gets really
really cold and you're gonna fairly quickly get some condensation on the
surface but don't stop we want to shake this until it's literally too cold to
hang on to and we actually have frost forming on the outside and how long
that's gonna take is gonna be up to you since you are after all the boss of
making frost and then once we're confident it is literally ice-cold we
will go ahead and grab our frozen glass and take off the cap and strain that in
oh and by the way one other tip make sure you use a glass
that's big enough so that we have at least an inch of space between where our
drink comes up to and the salt okay if you fill this all the way up that salt
around the rim is gonna dissolve into your drink and throw everything off but
anyway we'll go ahead and strain that in and then finish up with a thin slice of
lime and yes we could garnish this with a wedge lime and many people do but to
me that's just an admission you didn't put in the perfect amount of lime juice
when you mixed it so suit yourself but I'm going with a purely decorative slice
and that's it what I consider to be the perfect margarita is done so let me stop
talking and start sipping and of course guacamole chips and Sol's are sold
separately and that me amigos is one amazing sip all right that first sip
across that salted rim basically Prime's our palette for this literally ice-cold
mixture which for me has the perfect amounts of sweet and sour to balance
that tequila and personally I only enjoy the salt on the first step and then I
keep drinking from the same spot on the glass all right since you don't
necessarily want to drink all that salt but we'll leave that up to you just no
complaints if you get bloated and for the record the classic recipe is three
parts tequila - two parts triple sec - one part lime juice which I sort of
followed here but I did tweak those amounts slightly to what I think is the
perfect ratio and you may have to do the same and if for whatever reason the only
margaritas you've ever had we're done with that pre-made sour mix you are
gonna be absolutely blown away by how much better this is so as long as you're
21 or have a decent fake ID and promise to enjoy these responsibly I really do
hope you give this a try soon so head over to food wishes comm for all the
ingredient amounts and more info as usual and as always and
you