Friday, June 13, 2014

Frozen Watermelon Margaritas





It's the beginning of the weekend after a long week at work. That sounds like a good enough reason to make some margaritas. Not just your everyday margaritas, but watermelon is involved.

Can you believe I have never had a margarita before! I knew that it was time to change that, when I saw a recipe for this frozen watermelon margarita. I love watermelon in the summer time and we had a nice ripe one sitting in the refrigerator.

It turns out that watermelon is excellent in a margarita. I froze the watermelon overnight and used my blender to blend up the margarita, with the frozen watermelon I didn't have to use ice. The frozen watermelon was enough to make this margarita nice and thick.

I have a feeling I will blending up some other drinks with frozen watermelon in the near future.



Frozen Watermelon Margaritas (Source: yummly.com)
Ingredients:
Makes 4 drinks
4 cups watermelon, seedless, cut into chunks
4 lime wedges
Salt, put on a small plate
3/4 cups tequila
1/2 cup triple sec
1/3 cup fresh lime
Directions:
1. Place the melon chunks in a plastic bag and freeze until solid. (I froze mine overnight).
2. Run a lime wedge around the rim of the glass. Dip the moistened rim in salt. Set the glass aside. Repeat with the remaining glasses
3. Add all of the ingredients into a large blender and blend until smooth. Divide into glasses and place a watermelon edge on glass and serve.



9 comments:

  1. Welcome to the world of frozen Margaritas. There's no doubt that they're especially good with fresh fruits. Hope you keep experimenting, I find it so much fun.

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  2. look reallyy delicious Dawn and what beautiful color!

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  3. This looks terrific, Dawn. Bet the mix would make some great popsicles too.

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  4. So fresh and colorful.
    Looks and sounds like the perfect summer drink!

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  5. This looks perfect, just what we need after a hard week at work!

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  6. Yummy! I love margaritas. I've found mostly, though, I just like the excuse to drink something sweet. This would be good even without tequila, I think!

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  7. I love a good margarita. I've never had a watermelon margarita but I KNOW I would love it!

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  8. gimme watermelon ANYTHING and im gonna try it lol great post, pinning for later :) xo, jess @ www.dreamingofleaving.com

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  9. Clever freezing the watermelon! Even if the blended iced melon melts, it will still taste great!

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