Blood Orange–Cinnamon Margarita

Excerpt, recipe and photo from The Tippling Bros. A Lime and a Shaker by Tad Carducci and Paul Tanguay.
Copyright © 2015 by Tippling Bros. LLC. Photography by Lauren Volo.
Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Photo: Lauren Volo

May 04, 2015

When winter’s citrus season rolls around, there’s nothing like a Blood Orange Margarita, and a bit of cinnamon adds an even more delicious layer of wintry flavor.

Ingredients

2 oz. blanco tequila
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
3/4 oz. fresh blood orange juice
3/4 oz. cinnamon syrup

Tools:shaker, strainer
Glass:Old Fashioned
Garnish:blood orange slice

Preparation

Add all the ingredients to a shaker. Add ice and shake to chill. Strain over fresh ice into an Old Fashioned glass. Garnish.

Tip: As an alternative to making cinnamon syrup, and for a bit more dramatic presentation, substitute plain simple syrup (1:1) for the cinnamon syrup and rim the glass with a salt of equal parts kosher salt and freshly grated cinnamon and a half part of granulated white sugar.