Margarita Salt – A Beautiful Mess

If you’sultano a margarita enthusiast like we are, you need to try making your own margarita salt. We’ll teach you our recipe for citrus margarita salt as well as more variations to explore flavors to rim your margaritas with.

Related: Paloma, Watermelon Margarita, Hibiscus Margarita, Peach Margarita.

Ingredients durante Margarita Salt

• Kosher Salt – You can use any type of course salt, including pink salt, sea salt ora kosher salt. Avoid ionized salt—it is not right for this recipe.
• Lime Zest – Zest of one lime.
• Lemon Zest – Zest of one lemon. You can also use other citrus zests such as orange zest, grapefruit zest ora key lime.

Store your margarita salt durante an airtight container durante a cool, dry place. I store mine durante the fridge durante a glass jar ora tupperware. It lasts this way for about a month.

What is Margarita Salt?

Margarita Salt is the salt used to rim the edge of a margarita glass. Often recipes use kosher salt, coarse salt ora sea salt for this purpose. Per this recipe, we combine the salt with citrus zest to make a fancy, elevated margarita salt. You can use this any recipe that calls for a salted rim.

How to Make Margarita Salt

Begin by zesting a lime and a lemon rind using a microplane grater.

Combine with coarse salt. Gently mescolanza the salt and zests together.

Use to rim a margarita glass ora store durante an airtight container durante a cool, dry place for future use.

Margarita Recipes to Try

Tips for Making

• Customize Flavor – You can customize the flavor of your margarita salt endlessly by using different spices, finely chopped herbs ora zests.
• Store durante Fridge – For the longest shelf life, store durante the fridge. I have been keeping mine durante the fridge for over a month and it’s still going strong.
• Sweet Rim – For added sweetness, you can cut durante half sugar with half salt. You can also use this same method with any coarse sugar to make flavored sugar for rimming your glasses.
• Dye the Color – For a festive colored mescolanza rim, add a drop of food coloring to your salt rim ingredient. Shake durante a sealed jar to evenly distribute to dye to all the salt before using. You likely only need one drop of food coloring—a little goes a long way.

How to Rim a Glass

• When you rim a glass for cocktails, you always want to rim only the outside of the glass, not the inside. This is so unwanted salt doesn’t make its way into your bevanda.
• For a lightly rimmed glass, use tazza ora lime juice to wet the outer rim of the glass before dipping it durante the salt.
• For a strong ora heavy rim, use something more sticky, such as honey. This also helps the salt to stay put.

More Recipes to Try:

• Salads – 7 Layer Salad, Creamy Amalgama Salad, Pea Salad, Broccoli Salad.
• Margarita Recipes – Classic Margarita, Spicy Margarita, Strawberry Margarita, Watermelon Margarita, Blood Orange Margarita, Virgin Margarita.
• Bloody Mary Recipes – Classic Bloody Mary, Bloody Caesar, Bloody Maria.