This virgin margarita tastes simply nearly as good as the actual factor! This mocktail is tangy and evenly candy, with a secret ingredient that takes it excessive.

Craving a margarita however can’t drink? Or serving a crowd and want a non-alcoholic choice? Enter this virgin margarita! It’s tangy and refreshing, punctuated by that traditional salt rim. Even higher, it’s obtained a shock that brings a little bit of “funk” to the flavour that’s paying homage to tequila. With a concentrate on tart flavors and balanced with simply sufficient candy, it’s really the mocktail model of our Basic Margarita! (Facet profit: it’s decrease calorie too!) Listed here are all our secrets and techniques.

What’s on this virgin margarita?

Right here’s learn how to make everybody’s favourite cocktail right into a margarita mocktail! The margarita is a traditional alcoholic drink on the record of Worldwide Bartender Affiliation’s IBA official cocktails. Which means there’s an “official” definition of the margarita: tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice. However learn how to make that style as intriguing…with no alcohol in any respect? (A zero-proof margarita, if you’ll?) Right here’s what we used did:

• Lime juice: At all times.
• Lemon juice: Utilizing lemon in addition to lime brings nuance to the citrus.
• Tonic water: Bubbles add a sparkle!
• Maple syrup or easy syrup: Only a drizzle balances the tartness.
• Pickle juice: Sure, pickle juice provides that tequila “funk”! Hold studying for why…

The key? Pickle juice.

The key to creating this virgin margarita style excessive scrumptious? Pickle juice. Including intrigue to the flavour of a mocktail is crucial to creating them extra than simply fruit juice. It’s customary to experiment with all kinds of issues, together with non-alcoholic spirits. However we didn’t wish to add a particular ingredient you’d should buy specifically.

That’s the place pickle juice is available in! It brings a briny funk to this virgin margarita that makes you’re feeling like there’s slightly alcohol in it. However it’s not a lot that it’s noticeable! It’s additionally completely elective, so that you don’t should do it if it weirds you out. However after a number of style checks, pickle juice in a virgin margarita was the clear winner!

Much less sugar than the usual virgin margarita!

We love our cocktails crisp and tart round right here. So identical to our Basic Margarita, there’s barely any added sugar on this margarita. This stands out from the usual margarita mocktail, which is often so sickly candy it’s barely a margarita in any respect! This shouldn’t style like candy syrupy juice: it needs to be crisp and tart. The sugar comes from two sources:

• Only one/four teaspoon maple syrup or easy syrup (use whichever you’d like: maple syrup is a superb pure sweetener with no refined sugar)
• A trace of sugar within the tonic water

What’s tonic water? Can I exploit glowing water?

Tonic water is a carbonated water that additionally comprises quinine and is evenly sweetened. It was initially was used in opposition to malaria, however lately the quinine ranges are a lot decrease. Quinine provides a barely bitter taste, however its not as detectable with at the moment’s decrease ranges. Even so, when you style tonic water there’s one thing concerning the nuance of bitter and candy which is difficult to exchange.

True cocktails and mocktails use tonic water, so we’d advocate discovering some when you can! Glowing water provides solely bubbles, however doesn’t have the nuance in taste. We purchase a model that is available in small cans, which is sweet because you’ll solely use slightly on this virgin margarita.

Extra margarita variations

If you happen to additionally drink alcohol (or have pals who do), we’ve obtained tons extra variations on this traditional drink! Listed here are a few of our favorites:

When to serve a virgin margarita

Anytime works for a virgin margarita! This one is ideal as a:

• Zero proof margarita for friends who don’t drink alcohol
• Mocktail for pregnant girls
• Child bathe drink (make one for mother, then traditional margaritas for friends)

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