How to Make Celery Margarita

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time: –

Ingredients needed to make Celery Margarita:

• 6 celery stalks, rinsed, trimmed and chopped into 1’’ pieces
• 2 oz sugar syrup
• 4 oz Lillet Blanc
• 8 oz silver, 100% agave tequila
• 4 oz fresh lime juice
• 4 tender celery stalks with leaves, trimmed
• Ice cubes

Cooking instructions for Celery Margarita:

• Toss the chopped celery into a blender and pour in the syrup and a splash of lime juice.
• Pulse at high speed for half a minutes, until the stalks are smashed and scrape it out into a fine mesh sieve.
• Strain it into a bowl, while pressing the solids with the back of a spoon to extract as much juice as possible; throw away the solids.
• Measure 1 cup of strained celery juice and set aside.
• Leave 4 martini glasses in the fridge until they are chilled.
• Pour the celery juice into a 1-quart bowl, along with bouts of Lillet Blanch and tequila.
• Give them a nice stir to mix well and pour 6 oz of it into a cocktail shaker.
• Toss few ice cubes into it until the shaker is half-filled and give it a nice shake for about half a minute or until water beads appear on its outer surface.
• Pour it into a fine-mesh strainer to drain into a chilled glass and place a celery stalk in it.
• Make rest of the margaritas in a similar fashion.
• Serve chilled.

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