5 Tequila Zarpado Cocktails to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo
These 5 Tequila Zarpado Cocktail recipes will help get your Cinco de Mayo celebrations started in no time... Salud!
1. Pineapple Margarita
- 2 oz Tequila Zarpado
- 1/2 oz triple sec
- 1 oz fresh lime juice
- 1/2 oz agave syrup
- 1 oz pineapple juice
- Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake + strain into a glass with ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.
2. Blood Orange Margarita
- 3 oz Tequila Zarpado
- 1 oz Gran Marnier
- 4 oz blood orange juice
- 1 oz agave nectar
- 4 mint leaves
- Garnish: rock salt + blood orange slice
- Garnish 2 glasses with rock salt. Set glasses aside. Place the mint leaves in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Using a wooden muddler, gently mash the mint 3 to 4 times to release the juices. Add all of the remaining ingredients, including ice, to the shaker with the mint leaves. Shake + strain into each glass.
3. Hidden Fire Margarita
- 2 oz Tequila Zarpado
- 1 oz triple sec
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- 1/2 oz lime juice
- 3 dashes Aztec chocolate bitters
- Using a lime wedge, rim a glass with black lava salt. Add several slices of jalapeno + lime juice to a shaker. Add all additional ingredients. Shake with ice. Add fresh ice to salted glass and strain contents of shaker into glass.
4. Cacique
- 1 3/4 oz Tequila Zarpado
- 1/4 oz mezcal
- 3/4 oz lemon juice
- 3/4 oz rosemary black pepper honey syrup
- 1 egg white
- 1 dash grapefruit bitters
- Add all ingredients to a shaker and reverse dry shake. Fine strain into a coupe. Garnish with rosemary and black pepper.
5. Chipotle Paloma
- 2 oz Chipotle-infused Tequila Zarpado
- 3/4 oz grapefruit syrup
- 3/4 oz lime juice
- grapefruit soda
- Add first Tequila, syrup and lime juice ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake + strain into a glass with ice. Top with grapefruit soda. Garnish with chile threads and marigold.