Amaretto Margaritas
"From Cooking Light, May 2007"
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3⁄4 cup water
- 1 1⁄2 cups fresh lime juice (about 9 limes)
- 1 cup tequila
- 3⁄4 cup orange juice
- 1⁄2 cup Amaretto
- 8 lime slices
directions
- Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves.
- Remove from heat; cool completely.
- Stir in lime juice.
- Combine sugar mixture, tequila, orange juice, and amaretto in a pitcher.
- Serve over ice.
- Garnish with lime slices.
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Reviews
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I cut this recipe down to make a couple drinks...it was a big hit... -
FANTASTIC!!!! We loved this drink....I made it with key lime juice fresh from Key West!!! What a great drink! Thanks for posting! -
Wonderful!! I tried an "Italian Margarita" at a bar last year, and thought of that when I spotted this recipe. I followed it exactly, and made a small pitcher that served four of us sizable drinks during our monthly Ladies Card Night. The fresh lime juice really is a Must in this recipe -- I wouldn't use bottled -- but they aren't too tart OR too sweet. Perfect for a hot day.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
Amber:
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Charlotte (May 27, 1992-June 1, 2009):
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Ashley: Adopted October 8, 1996 - Passed Away January 6, 2009
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