Ingredients Features Chef Talk Cocktails Spanish Recipe Chef Talk: Barcelona's Blood Orange Margarita Amy Kundrat August 02, 2010 Everybody loves a good adult beverage. This fairly safe assumption has inspired this recent Chef Talk mini-series focusing exclusively on uncovering and sharing some of Fairfield County's best cocktails. You're going to need to break out the shaker with this first cocktail, the Barcelona Blood Orange Margarita. The margarita is one of the most popular picks at the restaurant known for a bustling happy hour and hearty Spanish tapas menu in its four locations in Fairfield County and now an outpost in your house. Cheers! Barcelona's Blood Orange Margarita Serves 1 Ingredients 6 tablespoons freshly squeezed blood orange juice1 ounce Cointreau2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lime juice1 ounce Patron Silver tequila1 tablespoon liquid sour mixMargarita salt or other coarse salt, for salting the glassLime wedge Directions 1. Pour the orange juice, Cointreau, lime juice, tequila, and sour mix into a shaker filled with ice cubes and shake 5 to 7 times.2. Spread the salt on a plate. Rub the rim of a chilled highball glass with the lime wedge. Dip the rim of the glass in the salt to coat it.3. Pour the margarita into the glass and serve. Related Posts Vive Barcelona (October 5, 2009) Chef Talk: Barcelona's Gambas Al Ajillo (February 13, 2010) Chef Talk: Spicy Lobster Salad (March 4, 2010) [Photo: Courtesy Barcelona Restaurant Group]
