- John Kanell from Preppy Kitchen here,
and today we're making the perfect margarita.
But do you like yours or regular or spicy?
So spicy you don't even know what to do except
give me another, I'm so thirsty and hot at the same time.
These are both really great and this is gonna
change your life, so let's get started.
First off let's juice a quarter cup of fresh lime juice.
Never use the bottled stuff, that is sacrilegious.
I love a good margarita, so here's the simple version first.
We're only using fresh, natural ingredients.
We're gonna use 40 milliliters of fresh lime juice.
See if you can get that in there. (chuckles)
Well, there we go, yeah. (chuckles)
That was the tricky part, everything else is easy now.
Add a bunch of ice in here.
80 milliliters, or the big part,
of a really nice silver tequila.
There you go.
40 milliliters of a simple syrup.
You could skip this, you could be very conservative on it
but I think a little bit of extra sweetness is nice.
Didn't even fill it all the way up.
And now a generous 40 milliliters of a nice orange liquor.
This is Cointreau, my favorite, also love Creme Barney.
I am not a Triple Sec fan for margaritas, nope, thank you.
Think I'm gonna give this a set aside because (laughs)
we're sitting it aside so that we can rim our glass
and everything's all set up and nice.
So lime juice, have a plate of salt at the ready.
Beautiful, I love giant flakes of sea salt in my margarita.
Okay, now (chuckles) now we can give it a shake.
Kay, adding a nice big ice cube into my glass.
And strain that drink in.
(light music)
Nice and easy, let's give it a taste.
And by let's I mean me.
That's really nice.
Mm, it's like adult Limeade.
If you want a little something extra like I do, Topo Chico
is so good, it's Mexican mineral water and it is really,
really bubbly, so just a nice splash in there.
Move the ice cube around and,
even better, oh my gosh, how could this be improved upon?
Let me tell ya, on to the spicy margarita.
To make our spicy simple syrup we're gonna start off
by removing the stems from eight Thai chilies,
cut them vertically, and then cut that jalapeno as well.
Remove the stem, chop, chop, chop,
let's add it all into our saucepan
along with half a cup of sugar and half a cup of water.
You can scale this recipe up if you wanna make a big batch.
This is to make a couple spicy drinks,
for you and your friends.
Place the space over, like, a medium high heat,
bring it to a boil and then it boil for, like, a minute,
take it off the heat, and let it steep.
The longer it steeps the more of that chili flavor
is gonna get infused, and I'm actually muddling it up
just a bit to really break those chilies in there.
I want to have my lips fully puffed up
like a Kylie Jenner lip kit. (laughs)
That's the level of spice I'm looking for.
My spicy simple syrup has been stepping,
that's like a tongue twister by the way,
for over 20 minutes now, it is so spicy.
Like. (laughs)
Flames!
It's really good, though.
It's always interesting when it's like,
oh my god, it really hits you after a second too. (laughs)
Okay, let's fill our shaker up with ice.
This time we're gonna do two, I'll put it in parts for you,
because maybe milliliters is a bit confusing or whatever.
Anyways, two parts tequila silver, there we go.
One part of a nice orange liquor, again,
this is Contra, delicious.
One part lime juice, fresh, of course,
and pour it carefully.
So proud of myself for not spilling.
All right and a generous one part of the spicy simple syrup,
this makes a big difference, so. (laughs)
Will I be paying the price for this?
I already don't care. (laughs)
Give it a good shake.
Another salted glass and giant ice cube, in you go.
And let's pour this drink out.
All right, and what about a garnish?
Look at this.
One Thai chili, slice it carefully.
Don't get anything in your eye.
Now we're just going to arrange it right there on the glass.
How about them apples?
Mostly for the sake of garnish you could add
a few pieces of jalapeno as well, up to you, though.
Oh my god. (laughs)
You know what?
I kinda like them both equally, although I'm more excited
about the spicy margarita because I don't make it as often.
This is so good, just label it
so no one has a horrible mistake.
Just gonna warn you ahead of time, you don't want your kids
coming in like, "Ahh, I thought it was sugar water!"
If you liked this drink, check out my Paloma!
It is tequila and grapefruit juice,
little bit of something extra, and you're gonna love it.
No spice, but totally delicious, dangerously smooth.
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