Sake Margaritas

In 'Cooking from the Hip' by Cat Cora

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1  cup sake (8 oz.)
• 1⁄2 cup fresh lime juice (plus an extra lime, for garnish)
• 1⁄4 cup triple sec (2 oz.)
• 2  cups  ice
•  salt, to coat the rims of the glasses

Directions

1. Dip the glass rim in a saucer of salt after rubbing it with a cut lime (optional).
2. Straight up--shake the sake, fresh lime juice,triple sec, and ice in 2 batches in a martini shaker; strain into cocktail glasses.
3. Blended--mix the sake, fresh lime juice, triple sec, and ice in a blender, until smooth.
4. Pour into highball glasses or shallow stemmed glasses and serve.