2025 Margarita Recipes

watermelon margarita recipe

With National Margarita Day on February 22, there's a chance for your bar/restaurant to spotlight the number-one on-premise cocktail. We've rounded up a collection of margarita recipes for you to feature on your cocktail menus this week and beyond.

 

Photo & recipe: Cantera Negra Tequila

Tommy’s Margarita

Ingredients:

2 parts Cantera Negra Silver Tequila

1 part Fresh lime juice

0.5 part Agave nectar

Blood orange slice for garnish

Directions:

  1. Add all ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. 
  2. Shake vigorously. 
  3. Strain over ice in a half salt rimmed rocks glass.
  4. Garnish with blood orange slice. 

 

Photo & recipe: Partida Blanco

Margarita Azul

Ingredients

45ml Partida Blanco

30ml Bols Blue Curacao​

25ml Fresh lime juice ​

10ml Sugar syrup​

Directions:

  1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker.
  2. Strain into a margarita glass.
  3. Garnish with a lime wedge.

 

Photo & recipe: Tres Agaves

Minty Strawberry Margarita

Ingredients:

2 oz Tres Agaves Organic 100% de Agave Tequila (Blanco or Reposado)

2 oz. Tres Agaves Organic Margarita Mix

3 Strawberries

6-7 Mint Leaves

Pinch of Salt

Directions:

  1. Rim a rocks glass with salt and set aside
  2. Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice
  3. Shake vigorously so ingredients are well blended and chilled
  4. Double strain into salted rocks glass over fresh ice
  5. Garnish and enjoy immediately

 

Photo & recipe: The Restaurant & Bar at The Gilded Iguana Surf Hotel. 

The Gilded Iguana Surf Hotel Margarita

Ingredients:

2 oz Arette Tequila

1 oz Lemon

1 oz Triple Sec

1 Lemon Slice

Garnish: Strawberry, orange, edible Flowers

Directions:

  1. Combine all ingredients into a shaker.
  2. Pour over ice.
  3. Add garnish.

 

Photo & recipe: Skrewball

Passionate Skrew Margarita

Ingredients:

2 ¼ parts Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey

½ parts Tequila

½ parts Fresh Lime Juice

1½ parts Passionfruit Puree

Directions: 

  1. Rim a margarita glass with salt and Tajin. 
  2. Shake all ingredients and pour into glass. 
  3. Garnish with a lime.

 

Photo & recipe: DELEÓN

DELEÓN DeSour Margarita

Ingredients:
1oz DELEÓN Reposado
1oz Fresh Lemon Juice 
0.5oz Agave Nectar
0.5oz Red Wine Float
Garnish: Dehydrated orange 

Directions: 

  1. In a shaker, combine DELEÓN Reposado Tequila, lemon juice, and agave nectar. 
  2. Fill the shaker with ice and shake well until the mixture is chilled. 
  3. Strain the mixture into a rocks glass filled with fresh ice. 
  4. Carefully pour the red wine over the back of a spoon to float it on top of the cocktail.
      

 

Photo & recipe: Monin

Blueberry Lavender Margarita

Ingredients:

oz mL

1 1/2 oz. silver tequila

1 oz. Monin Lavender Syrup

2 pump(s) Monin Blueberry Concentrated Flavor

1 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice

Garnish: Blueberries, salt rimmer, lime slice

Directions:

  1. Fill serving glass full of ice.
  2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
  3. Cap, shake and strain into serving glass with ice.
  4. Add garnish and serve.

 

Photo & recipe: Chateau ZZ

Watermelon Margarita

Ingredients:

2 oz Pueblo Viejo Blanco tequila

1.5 oz Watermelon juice

1 oz Lime juice

0.5 oz Real Fruit Syrup Vanilla

0.25 oz Mint-Infused Aperol

Directions:

  1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well.
  2. Strain the cocktail into a large tumbler filled with cubed ice.
  3. Garnish with a watermelon cube on a pick, topped with a mint sprig.
  4. Serve with a short straw.

 

Photo & recipe: Margaritaville Beach Resort Nassau

Off to See the Lizard Margarita

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Tequila Margaritaville Gold

1 oz. Du Bouchette Melon

2 oz. Margaritaville Margarita Mix

Directions:

  1. Pour all the ingredients in a shaker and pour over ice in a margarita glass. 
  2. Garnish with a lime slice.

 

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