Mocktails are no longer viewed as a vibe killer and non-alcoholic drinks are all the rage these days! Learn how to make a banging Margarita mocktail that you’ll wanna keep refilling all night long. Who needs tequila?
Margarita Mocktail
PREP TIME 10 min
QUICK TIPS
INGREDIENTS
MAKE FOR
1 Person
60
Ml
2
Oz
2
Parts
lime juice, freshly squeezed
30
Ml
1
Oz
1
Parts
orange juice, freshly squeezed
30
Ml
1
Oz
1
Parts
lemon juice, freshly squeezed
a dash of olive brine
1
teaspoon agave nectar (or maple syrup)
60
Ml
2
Oz
2
Parts
club soda, to taste
0
a slice of lime, to garnish
sea salt, for the salty rim (optional)
ice
INSTRUCTIONS
01
If you’d like to add a salty rim to your cocktail glass, run a lime wedge around the rim and dip the glass in salt. Twist the glass until thoroughly coated and tap off any excess salt
02
Half fill a cocktail shaker or mason jar with ice
03
Add the juices, olive brine and agave and shake for 15 seconds until chilled
04
Pour into your rimmed glass and top up with soda to taste
05
Garnish with lime
The best Margarita mocktail recipe
For this tasty mocktail, we’re leaving the tequila on the shelf. You’ll need to replace the zesty, sweet flavour it brings, though. By mudding together lime, orange, and lemon juice, you can achieve a similar flavour profile that also mimics the sharp kick of tequila. For that quintessential tart and sweet Margarita balance, always use freshly squeezed juice. A logical sweetener to swirl in would be agave nectar, as tequila is also made from this succulent plant.
For the final je ne c’est quoi, that foxy flavour we all know and love, add a little olive brine, which is the liquid from your jar of olives. Got leftovers? Use up olive brine in our Dirty Martini. Add a little soda for fizz and texture, and, of course, all good Margaritas need a salty rim. So, wipe the edge of a rocks or coupe glass with a lime wedge and dip the glass into a saucer of flaky sea salt. Just tap off the excess before you pour in your mocktail.
Tips for the best Margarita mocktail
Making a Margarita mocktail recipe that’s perfect for you is very subjective. Some like it tangy, and others prefer it sweet, so here are our top tips for making it just so:
To chill: When making your Margarita Mocktail, you’ll still need to shake it up with ice just like a boozy one for a good 15 seconds. This gives the chill factor and blends all the ingredients well.
To sweeten: Using freshly squeezed juices will deliver a sweeter drink, but if the lime and lemon are still too snappy for you, up your orange juice or add a little extra agave to taste.
To look the part: Always use kosher or sea salt for your Marg’s classic salty rim. Avoid table or fine salt as it is too intense. Add a little lime, lemon, or orange zest to the salt for extra tang and colour.
Tonic water or sparkling water?
Cocktail purists will choose tonic over sparkling or soda water, mostly. Both drinks have the fizz, which is a key building block of a mocktail or cocktail as it gives it texture. The difference is tonic water is slightly sweetened and has quinine, which gives it a bitter tang. Sparkling water or soda water can seem a little two-dimensional in a drink compared to tonic, unless you have a magic ingredient like olive brine, which adds that nuance of flavour without adding sugar. We’ll let you decide.
Additional recipe variations
Here are some tips to customise your Marg:
To serve your whole squad: This recipe scales up easily so you can serve a crowd. Prepare your freshly squeezed juices up to 4 hours in advance, and make sure to chill them well. Add the soda water last minute before serving.
To spice it up: For a spicy kick, muddle a few jalapeño slices with your olive brine and agave before you mix in your juices. Add a pinch of chili flakes to your salt, or try a tangy tajin rim to garnish your Margarita mocktail recipe.
To get bitter: For a more tangy flavour, switch the soda for tonic water to give a deeper bitter taste to your drink.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
A Margarita mocktail is just as refreshingly delicious as its boozy counterpart and is a great way to get a similar flavour profile without alcohol.
Although there are non-alcoholic tequilas hitting the market, you can achieve the same flavour profile when you mix together good measure of lemon and lime juice to create that fresh tangy taste that has a warm bite.
A triple sec is a blanket name for orange liqueur. A Margarita typically includes Grand Marnier, which is a bitter orange liqueur, so the mocktail version includes a squeeze of orange juice and olive brine to give it that bitter funk.
Our non alcoholic Margarita punch is s cocktail without booze but can also be referred to as a mocktail or a virgin cocktail.
In our Margarita, tequila is replaced with a mix of citrus juices, which gives the tequila kick without the alcohol. Sugar syrup gives the mocktail a thickness that mimics the texture of rum.
Our Margarita mocktail recipe is super simple to whip together. It’s a matter of shaking freshly squeezed lime, lemon and orange juice with a little olive brine over ice. You can sweeten it with a little agave nectar and top it up with some soda water for a little fizz.
A virgin Margarita is a mocktail made without tequila and orange liqueur. Our recipe is made up with a trio of citrus juices instead, sweetened with agave nectar and given a little tang with olive brine.
