Margarita – Classic and Low Carb

Looking for the best low-carb Margarita recipe to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Why is it so hard? For such a simple drink with few ingredients. Surprisingly, the tastes for Margaritas will vary for every restaurant or bar. Some Margaritas are very tart and some much too sweet. Our “classic” version is low in carbs and high in taste. It eliminates the sugar and higher carb fruit juices. We tried many variations, but keep coming back to our favorite!

Ingredients

The key ingredient is tequila. This is where a lot of the variations occur. Some restaurants have pages in their drink menu devoted to every brand of “top notch” tequila imaginable. Margaritas should be made with a top quality silver tequila. We like “1800 Silver” for our Margaritas. It is clean and neat and a classic “silver” tequila.

Classic means lime juice! But, you can also find mango, peach, strawberry, melon, orange, and raspberry juice Margaritas. For a while, frozen Margaritas were all the rage. Margarita mixes and sweetened lime juice sodas are used to make quick inexpensive Margaritas and many bars offer versions with these additives. However, we still prefer ours to be classic lime and “on-the-rocks.” Stick with fresh lime juice. A helpful tip would be to buy a large bag of limes at your favorite wholesale store, use a juicer, measure the right amount for a drink and freeze them in ice cube trays.

The original Margarita recipes were made with only tequila, lime juice, and agave syrup for sweetening. Current recipes often use a simple syrup made with dissolved sugar in water rather than agave. The ingredients should be combined with a large amount of ice and shaken.

Some form of orange flavored liqueur is also frequently added. Grand Marnier, Triple Sec, and Cointreau are all orange flavored and work well with a “classic margarita.” Some restaurants call the orange flavored Margarita a “Texas Margarita.” But, the orange liqueurs do add carbs.

Our Recipe

To make our recipe low carb we eliminate the agave syrup or the sugar based simple syrup. We make it even more simple by adding “EZ Sweetz” and water directly to our shaker. It is liquid splenda or liquid sucralose. Splenda is filled with 99% of bulking materials like Dextrose and Maltodextrin. These add to the cost and the carbs of Splenda. Liquid sucralose tastes just like sugar! We use 5 drops in our margarita and have less after-taste and less carbs than our original.

For our orange taste we use “orange extract.” It has zero carbs and a little goes a long way. Again, we buy “Nielsen-Massey organic orange extract” from Amazon; it is advertised as the finest available, and we agree. Add fresh squeezed lime juice and a good silver tequila and you have a “classic” low-carb thirst quenching Margarita for Cinco de Mayo!

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Enjoy Cinco de Mayo and celebrate this wonderful Holiday with good food, good friends, and our Tasty Low Carb Margarita! It will become your go-to Margarita Recipe! To make a large batch of Margaritas try our Classic Low Carb Margarita Mix!

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