This margarita recipe is a quick way to feel like you’re on vacation whether you really are or not! Following this one will give you a cold cocktail in about five minutes.

You will need a few things to make this tasty treat, though. The good news is that you can get pretty much anything you don’t have on Amazon in a day or two.

What It Is	Name	Where to Get
Drinkware	Small cocktail shaker	Amazon
Drinkware	Lime squeezer	Amazon
Drinkware	Jigger (2 ounces)	Amazon
Cookware	Pyrex measuring cup	Amazon
Cookware	Cutting board	Amazon
Cookware	Small kitchen knife	Amazon
Ingredient	Patron tequila, 2 ounce	Liquor Store
Ingredient	Cointreau, 1 ounce	Liquor Store
Ingredient	Coarse Kosher salt	Store
Ingredient	Fresh lime (squeeze 1 ounce of juice out)	Store
Ingredient	Ice (about a cup)	Home

Step 1 of making this margarita recipe is to grab your lime, cutting board and kitchen knife. You could just buy some lime juice, but it’s so much better fresh-squeezed.

Slice up 1 or 2 thin pieces of lime to add to the glass as garnish later on and set it aside.

Next, get your squeezer and 2-ounce jigger.

lime squeezer and jigger for margarita recipe

Place your sliced lime in the squeezer with the exposed part facing down and the back part facing up like this:

It probably seems more natural to have the lime the other way around for a margarita recipe, but it’s just easier to squeeze the juice out this way since there are holes on the bottom of the squeezer.

Squeeze out 1 ounce of lime juice into the jigger (which should have measurement lines in it).

Once that ounce is in there, grab your ice and the cocktail shaker.

Put some ice in the shaker and follow that by pouring the lime juice in.

Once it’s in there, get your bottle of Cointreau. Triple Sec also works, too for this margarita recipe.

Once you have that, grab the jigger again and measure out 1 ounce of Cointreau.

Once that’s measured out, dump it into the shaker.

Lastly, get your Patron Tequila for this part of the margarita recipe. I bought a little baby bottle of it, 375 ml.

Measure out 2 ounces of that.

Pour it into the shaker.

Put the lid on top of the cocktail shaker.

Following that, you can probably guess which part this is. Yea, shake it up.

Before you pour it out, there’s one or two more things you need to do for this margarita recipe. Get your coarse Kosher salt.

Take that and dump some out on to the cutting board. Spread it around.

Pouring Kosher salt out on cutting board for margarita recipe

Take a lime and rub it around the rim of the glass for this part of the margarita recipe.

Once that’s done, place the top of the glass on the cutting board and press it into the salt. Get plenty of that on the rim of the glass.

Once your salt is on the rim of the glass, get the shaker.

Take that and pour it into the glass. You could also add ice first, your call. Make sure the filter is in the shaker.

To wrap things up, put some ice in glass if you haven’t already and stick some lime on the rim. There ya have it! Your margarita recipe is all done. Drink and enjoy.

This should be a hit with anyone you know who likes to drink.