Celebrate the flavors of the Southwest summer harvest with this Spicy Prickly Pear Sparkling Margarita! The flavors of freshly squeezed juice with a splash of hard drink, and a splash of cayenne all close to create this refreshing, vivacious pink prickly pear cocktail. Cheers!
Do we have all our ingredients for a Southwest-inspired cocktail? Prickly pears, check. Tequila, check. Contemporary limes, check. Agave, check. Oh, and spicy cayenne, check!! Prime all this off with some seltzer and you’ve got yourself a sip of the Southwest. This spicy prickly pear cocktail is super zesty with the foremost vivacious colours and is created with classic Arizona ingredients. It doesn’t get additional colourful than this! once the summer Arizona rains offer you prickly pears, create margaritas. Isn’t that however the old saying goes? Well, it will in my kitchen!
Using the freshly picked prickly pears from a recent journey to Arizona succulent Ranch, I wished to create a drink that was lightweight and refreshing with a splash of hard drink. Prickly pears area unit thus painting to the Arizona landscape, I couldn’t facilitate however create a Southwest-inspired drink from this beautiful succulent fruit. This prickly pear cocktail is jam-packed with freshly squeezed limes, zest, and heat spicy cayenne heat. This cocktail is flavorous on its own, however add the spicy lime zest sugar rim and you’ve got yourself the simplest pink hard drink drink of the season!
Taking a let out of a raw prickly pear is like intake a watermelon and a strawberry, tired one mouthful. And whereas this succulent fruit can be flavorous on its own, it truly takes on the flavour of alternative ingredients once employed in recipes. during this cocktail, the prickly pear fruit becomes virtually flavourless however provides some major color! As you'll be able to see, describing this prickly pear cocktail as vivacious pink is associate degree understatement! If you're skeptical that a cocktail might extremely be this stunning, you may simply got to see and check out it for yourself.
INGREDIENTS :
Margarita :
- 2 medium prickly pears
- 2/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (about 4 medium limes)
- 1 1/2 cup ice cubes
- 8 tablespoons agave
- 6 ounces of silver tequila
- 1 bottle sparkling water (16 ounces)
Glass Sugar Rim & Garnish :
- 1/5 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime zest (1 medium lime)
- pinch of cayenne
- Additional limes for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS :
- Prepare prickly pears by slicing each in half, lengthwise. Using a spoon, scoop out all prickly pear meat and seeds, discarding the skin (see notes of using foraged prickly pears). Using a fork, mash the pulp and seeds into a semi-puree consistency. The total yield is 4 tablespoons of puree.
- In a medium bowl or large pitcher, mix together prickly pear puree, fresh lime juice, agave, and tequila. Stir well and set in refrigerator to chill.
- Prepare the glass sugar rim by blending sugar, lime zest, and cayenne together in a food processor* for 1-2 minutes or until well blended. Transfer the sugar mix to a plate, then smooth and flatten the sugar until level. Rub an 8 ounce glass rim with lime, then turn the glass rim upside down and place the lime rubbed rim on the sugar plate. In a circular motion, rub the glass rim into the sugar mix until the rim is completely covered in sugar. Repeat until each glass has the sugar, lime, cayenne mix around the rim.
- Take the prickly pear margarita mixture out of the refrigerator and completely strain with a fine mesh sieve* into a serving pitcher. Make sure to separate and remove all prickly pear seeds and chunky pulp. Add ice to each sugar rimmed glass, then pour the strained margarita mixture filling about 3/4 of the way. Top off the rest with sparkling water and garnish with a lime slice.
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