Margarita Salt – A Lovely Mess

Should you’re a margarita fanatic like we’re, you want to strive making your individual margarita salt. We’ll train you our recipe for citrus margarita salt in addition to extra variations to discover flavors to rim your margaritas with.

Associated: Paloma, Watermelon Margarita, Hibiscus Margarita, Peach Margarita.

Elements in Margarita Salt

• Kosher Salt – You should use any kind after all salt, together with pink salt, sea salt or kosher salt. Keep away from ionized salt—it’s not proper for this recipe.
• Lime Zest – Zest of 1 lime.
• Lemon Zest – Zest of 1 lemon. You too can use different citrus zests akin to orange zest, grapefruit zest or key lime.

Retailer your margarita salt in an hermetic container in a cool, dry place. I retailer mine within the fridge in a glass jar or tupperware. It lasts this fashion for a couple of month.

What’s Margarita Salt?

Margarita Salt is the salt used to rim the sting of a margarita glass. Typically recipes use kosher salt, coarse salt or sea salt for this function. On this recipe, we mix the salt with citrus zest to make a flowery, elevated margarita salt. You should use this on any recipe that requires a salted rim.

Methods to Make Margarita Salt

Start by zesting a lime and a lemon rind utilizing a microplane grater.

Mix with coarse salt. Gently combine the salt and zests collectively.

Use to rim a margarita glass or retailer in an hermetic container in a cool, dry place for future use.

Margarita Recipes to Attempt

Suggestions for Making

• Customise Taste – You may customise the flavour of your margarita salt endlessly by utilizing totally different spices, finely chopped herbs or zests.
• Retailer in Fridge – For the longest shelf life, retailer within the fridge. I’ve been retaining mine within the fridge for over a month and it’s nonetheless going sturdy.
• Candy Rim – For added sweetness, you possibly can minimize in half sugar with half salt. You too can use this similar methodology with any coarse sugar to make flavored sugar for rimming your glasses.
• Dye the Coloration – For a festive coloured cocktail rim, add a drop of meals coloring to your salt rim ingredient. Shake in a sealed jar to evenly distribute to dye to all of the salt earlier than utilizing. You seemingly solely want one drop of meals coloring—a bit of goes a great distance.

Methods to Rim a Glass

• If you rim a glass for cocktails, you all the time need to rim solely the surface of the glass, not the within. That is so undesirable salt doesn’t make its method into your drink.
• For a evenly rimmed glass, use water or lime juice to moist the outer rim of the glass earlier than dipping it within the salt.
• For a robust or heavy rim, use one thing extra sticky, akin to honey. This additionally helps the salt to remain put.

Extra Recipes to Attempt:

• Salads – 7 Layer Salad, Creamy Pasta Salad, Pea Salad, Broccoli Salad.
• Margarita Recipes – Basic Margarita, Spicy Margarita, Strawberry Margarita, Watermelon Margarita, Blood Orange Margarita, Virgin Margarita.
• Bloody Mary Recipes – Basic Bloody Mary, Bloody Caesar, Bloody Maria.