How to make a refreshingly tasty watermelon margarita using frozen watermelon!
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After a busy day of catching up on errands, hosting playdates, chauffeuring kids to ball games, and juggling other exciting summer activities, you deserve some relaxing “me time”! One of the best ways to cool off, relax, and feel refreshed is with a tasty cocktail like this Watermelon Margarita made with Frozen Watermelon!
This frozen watermelon margarita is a perfect pep up after any busy summer day! And the best part is that it’s a super easy summer drink recipe that requires only a couple of kitchen tools and a few simple ingredients to whip up successfully. So if you’re looking for a simple way to beat that summer heat then here is the refreshing concoction that you’ve been looking for!
To make easy and delicious frozen watermelon margaritas all you need is some watermelon chunks, limes, sugar, Triple Sec, your favorite tequila, a blender, and a lemon squeezer. First, freeze the watermelon chunks for 3 hours. Then, transfer them to a blender and add in fresh lime juice, sugar, Triple Sec, and tequila then blend everything to a “slushie” consistency. Rim 4 short glasses with salt, pour in the margarita mix and garnish with fresh limes and watermelon chunks.
Frozen Margarita Equipment
As promised, for this delightfully easy and refreshing summer drink recipe, you will only need 2 kitchen tools along with a few adorable serving glasses:
Equipment Tip:
You can use food-safe disposable gloves to protect your hands while doing food prep such as rinsing, cutting, and food handling.
Melon-y Margarita Ingredients
Making satisfying and tasty margaritas does not actually require a lot of ingredients either. Mostly just some fresh fruits, a little bit of sugar, some appropriate margarita garnishes, and some of your favorite tequila.
Margarita
- 4 cups Watermelon chunks
- 2 fresh limes juiced
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup Triple Sec
- ⅓ cup tequila I prefer white
Garnish
- 1 fresh lime wedge
- ⅛ cup Himalayan Salt or white salt
- 4 slices watermelon
- 4 fresh lime wheels
How to Make A Delicious Watermelon Margarita
Now let’s get down to this margarita-making business! This easy summer drink process is very simple and quick to do. There is a little bit of watermelon prep that needs to be done a few hours beforehand though so make sure to take this into consideration when it’s time to get started.
Making the Margarita:
- First, prepare your watermelon by cutting it into slices. Cut off the rind from each slice and cut the watermelon slices into very large chunks.
- Cut an extra watermelon slice or two but leave the rind on. Cut those slices down to 4 large watermelon chunks that will be used for garnishing later.
- Transfer the bowl of watermelon chunks to the freezer and let them freeze for 3 full hours.
- Then, pour the frozen watermelon chunks into a blender.
- Next, use a lemon squeezer to squeeze the fresh lime juice from 2 limes into the blender. Then, pour in the sugar, Triple Sec, and your favorite Tequila.
- Finally, cover the blender securely with its lid and blend the watermelon margarita mixture until everything is just combined and a “slushie” consistency is reached.
Garnish with the Goods:
- First, prepare your garnishes by slicing the limes into wedges and pouring the salt onto a saucer big enough for the rims of the glasses.
- Then, run a lime wedge over the entire rim of 1 of the glasses and then immediately dip the glass rim into the salt. Repeat for the other 3 remaining glasses.
- Lastly, pour the watermelon margarita mix evenly amongst the 4 glasses and garnish them with the 4 watermelon chunks and lime wheels. Serve and relax!
Fresh Serving Ideas
This delicious watermelon margarita is going to be the perfect remedy to cool you and the other parents down after chasing the kids around this summer! Need a few more refreshingly simple summer recipes? I’ve got you covered here with some more of my summer favorites:
More melon-y recipes:
- Watermelon Bites Dipped in Chocolate
- Two Ways to Creatively Cut Watermelon
- Watermelon Popsicles with Chocolate Drizzle
Perfectly paired summer recipes:
- Grilled Shrimp
- Grilled Chicken Breasts
- Grilled Salmon Steaks
- Grilled S’mores
- Grilled Mexican Street Corn- Elote
- Classic Guacamole
- Summer Cucumber Salad
- Chocolate-Dipped Watermelon Bites
Watermelon margarita with frozen watermelon
Equipment
Ingredients
Margarita
- 4 cups Watermelon
- 2 fresh limes juiced
- ¼ cup sugar
- ¼ cup triple sec
- ⅓ cup tequila I prefer white
Garnish
- 1 wedge fresh limes
- ⅛ cup Himalayan Salt or white salt
- 4 slices fresh lime from 1 lime
- 4 slices watermelon
Instructions
Margarita
- First, prepare your watermelon by cutting it into slices. Cut off the rind from each slice and cut the watermelon slices into very large chunks.Cut an extra watermelon slice or two but leave the rind on. Cut those slices down to 4 large watermelon chunks that will be used for garnishing later.
- Transfer the bowl of watermelon chunks to the freezer and let them freeze for 3 full hours.
- Then, pour the frozen watermelon chunks into a blender.
- Next, use a lemon squeezer to squeeze the fresh lime juice from 2 limes into the blender. Then, pour in the sugar, Triple Sec, and your favorite Tequila.
- Finally, cover the blender securely with its lid and blend the watermelon margarita mixture until everything is just combined and a “slushie” consistency is reached.
Garnish
- First, prepare your garnishes by slicing the limes into wedges and pouring the salt onto a saucer big enough for the rims of the glasses.
- Then, run a lime wedge over the entire rim of 1 of the glasses and then immediately dip the glass rim into the salt. Repeat for the other 3 remaining glasses.
- Lastly, pour the watermelon margarita mix evenly amongst the 4 glasses and garnish them with the 4 watermelon chunks and lime wheels. Serve and relax!
Video
Notes
Absolutely scrumptious!! Big hit at our gathering!! The only thing I did differently, was to blend the watermelon, run it through a strainer and then freeze it in ice cube trays. I then added a few ice cubes to the mix later. YUMMY!!
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