Limeade Margaritas Recipe

Blue rimmed margarita glasses with margaritas in them on ice cubes with sliced lime garnish.

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Limeade Margaritas have three simple ingredients mixed in a pitcher on ice. And there is no blender or cocktail shaker for these easy drinks! You won't believe how good these pitcher margaritas taste for summertime picnics or cookouts, Cinco de mayo, tailgating, or pour a big batch on game day and serve with delicious Mexican food.

Prep Time5

Cook Time0

Total Time5

Course: Drinks & Cocktails

Cuisine: Mexican

Keyword: batch margaritas, limeade margaritas, margarita cocktail, margarita recipe, margaritas, pitcher margaritas

Servings:

Calories: 72kcal

Author: Lisa Hatfield

Equipment

Ingredients

1 can frozen Limeade 12 oz can
2 Corona Beers
1 cup Good Tequilla
2 cups Ice
1 whole lime optional garnish

Instructions

Let the limeade to rest at room temperature for about 30 minutues. Add ice into a pitcher.
Pour the limeade, tequila, and beer into a pitcher. Squeeze fresh lime juice into the pitcher. Give it a good stir, and add ice if serving right away.
Serve cold on ice in margarita glasses, garnish with lime slices. Simply slice the lime into rounds and cut from the center out and place on the rim of the glass.
Optional: Rim glasses with flavored salts like celery salt, sriracha salt, or coarse kosher salt. Run a lime wedge around the rim and dip the rim into salt on a small plate, then pour in the margarita!

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Notes

Limeade Concentrate: Found in the freezer section of your market, look for simply limeade or minute maid brand. Place on the counter for about 30 minutes to make it easy to get out of the can.

Sweetness: If you don't want the margaritas as sweet, reduce the limeade to half of the can.

Tequila: Use one cup (8 ounces tequila) of gold, silver, or Blanco tequila.

Silver tequilas (labeled Blanco or platinum) are mostly clear like water and are the best choice for margaritas. This young tequila is only aged a short time for a couple of months and not more than 60 days.

Gold tequilas are more economical, and rarely aged, but have a darker brown color. Although they can certainly be used in blended margaritas it is not ideal for margarita cocktails. In fact, gold tequilas have often had coloring added to the agave juice prior to fermentation to give the tequila a special dark "premium" color.

Mexican Beers: Use a Mexican lager, try Estrella, Modelo, Jalisco, Tecate, Corona, Dos Equis Light, or Bohemia.

More Flavors & Substitutions

Optional Prepared Glasses: Rim glasses with flavored salts like celery salt, sriracha salt, or coarse kosher salt. Run a lime wedge around the rim and dip the rim into salt on a small plate, then pour in the margarita!

Cherry Limeade Margaritas: In place of beer, add in some cherry liqueur, tart cherry juice, and or strain in some maraschino cherry juice. Garnish with cherries on top! You can also blend it up with ice for a super chilled slushy situation.

Orange Limeade Margaritas: Swap in a cup of triple sec, an orange liqueur called Cointreau in place of the beer.

Pineapple Limeade Margaritas: Add 1 cup of pineapple juice concentrate 1 cup of limeade concentrate, 1 cup of tequila, 1 cup triple sec, and ice, mixed in a blender for slushy margaritas!

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