Watermelon Margaritas Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Makes 2 cocktails
Ingredients Needed
- 2 tablespoons flaked salt
- 250g/8.8ozs watermelon chunks, frozen
- 60ml/2flozs tequila
- 30ml/1floz triple sec or Grand Marnier
- 20ml/0.7flozs lime juice plus half a lime for rim
- 180g/6ozs crushed ice
- 30ml/1floz sugar syrup (optional but recommended)
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 - Rub lime against the rim of margarita glasses. Place salt in a shallow plate and run along the lime juice (go light on the salt).
Step 2 - Place the watermelon chunks, tequila, triple sec or Grand Marnier, lime juice, crushed ice and sugar syrup in a high speed blender and whizz until smooth. Thermomix directions: set to 10 seconds, speed #9. Pour into glasses and serve. Add a slice of lime and a wedge of watermelon onto the rim too or even a cocktail umbrella!
Personal Note
My very own fruit bat Mr NQN absolutely loves these watermelon margaritas and no it's not just because of the alcohol. When I was testing them he happily drank them all because the days that I tested these were all very hot days during summer. Nobody believes me when I tell them how much he loves fruit. He will forego dinner with a massive platter of fruit if I let him. I mean nobody loves fruit as much as he does - well maybe a baby hippo but I swear no human loves fruit more than him.
Last weekend we went to a farewell party for Monica and Marco. They're both moving back to Italy and I am devastated about it but trying to remain positive as my food twin moves to the other end of the world. They had a party at a bar and had all of the food catered by a Laotian caterer. Plates of delicious sausages, noodles, curries, fried chicken and salads lined a table and everyone enjoyed all of the food. There was a lot of it and Monica told me to pack some up to take home with me because she had over catered (again the food twin thing).
Mr NQN was happily eating the salads but then Monica announced that the mango sticky rice and fruit plates were coming up. Like a cartoon he speedily shovelled all of the food on his plate in a fast scooping motion that the people around us starting laughing. "You like dessert huh?" one guy remarked. Mr NQN grinned and was first in line for the fruit plate and mango with sticky rice and once everyone had had some, he went back for seconds (while I went back for seconds of the fried chicken!).
So tell me Dear Reader, are you a fruit person? What are you first in line for? Savoury or sweet?