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CHEVYS 100% BLUE AGAVE MARGARITA
If you want to enjoy a really good margarita get to a Mexican food chain and order it “on the rocks.” The rocks versions are usually made with top shelf tequilas, rather than the cheaper stuff found in the slushy blended kind. Create your next margarita masterpiece with this bright blue dazzler, or with one of the other happy Chevys clone recipes that follow.
1½ ounces Herradura silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ ounce blue curaçao liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS HOUSE ROCKS MARGARITA
This formula re-creates the chain’s basic rocks margarita. Nothing fancy, but still good when you use freshly made sweet & sour.
1½ ounces El Jimador silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS LAVA LAMP MARGARITA
This one gets its name from the look of the Chambord that’s added to the glass after the drink is mixed. Drizzled on top of the drink, the tasty raspberry liqueur serpentines in slow-mo to the bottom of the glass. Since the drink is served layered, instruct your designated drinker to stir before sipping, or get a mouthful of lava.
1½ ounces Sauza
Conmemorativo tequila añejo
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
½ ounce Chambord liqueur
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add tequila, triple sec, and sweet & sour mix to the shaker, shake, then pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (add salt around the rim of the glass first if you want it).
3. Drizzle Chambord into the glass, add a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS THE SUNBURN MARGARITA
Here’s a sweeter margarita for tequila lovers with a cranberry fetish.
1½ ounces El Jimador silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
¼ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
¼ cup cranberry juice
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients, shake, and pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS ULTIMATE ORANGE MARGARITA
If by delicious you mean Herradura tequila, Cointreau, orange juice, and homemade sweet & sour mix, then, yes, this margarita is quite delicious.
1½ ounces Herradura reposado
tequila
½ ounce Cointreau liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) orange juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
• MAKES 1 DRINK.
CHEVYS WATERMELON FRESH FRUIT MARGARITA (ON THE ROCKS)
Chevys is famous for margaritas made with fresh, pureed fruits. While these drinks usually come in blended form combined with house margarita mix right out of a machine, they are much better when ordered on the rocks. Here now is a clone of the most popular flavor, watermelon, made by simply pureeing some fresh melon in your blender. First cut some ripe seedless watermelon from the rind, and then coarsely smash it in a bowl with a potato masher or large fork (this gives the blender something