Cranberry Margarita

Last updated December 13, 2021. Originally posted December 13, 2021 By Jyothi Rajesh 35 Comments

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Say cheer’s with this brilliant bright red colored Cranberry margarita, a perfect Christmas and New year drink. The vibrant bright red color is so stunning to look at it. The drink has a perfect balance of sweet, tart and totally refreshing. This holiday drink is made with fresh homemade cranberry juice, orange liqueur, tequila and lime juice – a combination that is fit for any party.

cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses

Refreshing cranberry margarita

Easy to make, made from scratch and is bursting with full of flavors. The color of the drink is so stunning to look, you won’t be able to resist it.

A perfect drink to kick start holiday mood or any celebrations. For Thanksgiving gatherings to Christmas holidays, for New year’s eve party to girls margarita night party, for valentine’s day celebration drink to relaxing weekend drink, this margarita is perfect for any occasion.

What you’ll need

To make fresh cranberry juice –

2 cups fresh cranberries
¼ cup water
⅓ cup sugar

To make cranberry margarita-

2 cup fresh cranberry juice
4 tablespoon lime juice
¾ cup tequila
½ cup fresh orange juice
½ cup orange-flavored liqueur Cointreau or Triple Sec
Ice cubes

Garnish –

Fresh cranberries
Lime wedges
Sugared cranberries
Rosemary sprig
Ice cubes
Margarita salt or Sugar

Made from scratch

There are two ways – one exacting the juice from fresh berries and second making a cranberry syrup to make margarita

Using fresh homemade juice gives you the best tasting margaritas. Feel free to use store bought packaged juice from carton if you want to speed things up.

Into a juicer, throw in fresh cranberries and juice it. Making your own cranberry juice from scratch won’t take much time. Balancing the tartness of the cranberries is done with sugar or any sweetener.

Puree fresh cranberries and squeeze the heck out of them through a strainer. Then add sugar accordingly to balance out the tartness of fresh cranberries.

Alternatively ….

Into a sauce pan add cranberries, sugar and water. Bring it to boil. After 8 to 10 minutes cranberries will turn soft. Mash it a little and turn off flame.

Allow the cranberry juice to cool a little. Then strain off using fine mesh sieve and squeeze out as much juice as you can.

Let cranberry juice cool down completely before using it in margarita.

If you can’t make your own cranberry juice, use the store-bought-cranberry juice. Recommend you to use brand that is 100% juice). It’s easy to make, convenient and tastes GOOD too!

How to make cranberry margaritas

To fresh cranberry juice (or store bought juice) squeeze in lime juice.
Into the cocktail shaker add ice cubes, cranberry juice with lime, fresh orange juice, orange flavored liqueur, silver tequila, Shake well until all ingredients blends well.
In a small wide bowl, mix margarita salt and caster sugar (not powdered sugar, sugar with fine crystals).
Take a lime wedge and run it around the rim of the glass in which you want to serve cranberry margarita. Dip rim of the glass in salt sugar mix and make sure it coats evenly around the rim.
Drop a few ice cubes into the serving glasses.
Pour cranberry cocktail into the serving glasses.
Garnish with few fresh cranberries, a lime wedge and serve and sugared cranberries over rosemary sprig.

How to serve cranberry margaritas

The traditional way to serve any margarita is to have a coarse salt around the rim of margarita glasses. We don’t want to skip any traditions here, so yes we can add our own little twist to the traditions.

Margarita salt and caster sugar together makes it great as well. If you don’t have margarita salt, use regular coarse salt.

Serve cranberry margaritas in glass wares.

New Year’s Eve Menu Ideas

Italian stuffed mushrooms

Prawn cocktail

Potato wedges

Baked chicken tenders

Chicken Biryani!

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