Irish Margarita Recipe: Green Cocktail for St Patrick's Day

You'll find plenty more of my favorite St. Patricks Day drinks here.

This recipe is meant for people over 21 years old. Please drink responsibly.

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• ❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 💭 Things to know
• 📚 Related recipes
• Equipment
• Irish Margarita Recipe
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe

This bright, emerald green margarita is beautiful and so festive with the gold sugar rim! It tastes like a grown up Hawaiian punch!

You know, being from Texas and all, a margarita recipe tends to be my first go to when I want to mix up some kind of cocktail. Irish whiskey for St. Pat's day and tequila because you can't have a margarita without it.

I decided to use gold sugar crystals around the rim as a nod to any leprechauns that might be lurking around . I need all the good luck I can get.

🧾 Ingredients

It's the combination of liquids in this drink that give it the vibrant color. To maintain the color don't make any changes.

• Reposado tequila - this is the darker tequila not the "white"
• Irish whiskey ( I use Jameson)
• Blue curacao
• Peach schnapps
• Aperol
• Pineapple juice
• Lime juice
• Shaved ice - you can just run the ice through your blender
• Lime
• Gold sugar crystals
• Corn syrup - helps the sugar to stick

🔪 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

1. Carefully spread corn syrup on the rims of 2 margarita glasses
2. Pour the gold sugar crystals out on a plate.
3. Run the rims of the glasses through the sugar crystals to coat.
4. Use a big cookie scoop add a rounded scoop of crushed ice to each of the glasses.
5. Add the tequila, curacao, schnapps, whiskey, Aperol, and juices to a shaker filled with ice.
6. Shake for a few seconds.
7. Strain half into each glass.
8. Garnish with a round of lime.

💭 Things to know

• Tequila doesn't freeze so keep it in the freezer. Margaritas are best very cold.
• Shake vigorously in an ice filled shaker for about a minute. The more air bubbles you add to the drink the better it will taste.
• Fresh lime juice is much more flavorful than bottled.
• Use colored sugar crystals mixed with lime zest to make the rims extra special.

📚 Related recipes

Here are some more of my favorite St. Patrick's Day recipes.

• The Irish Temper is made with cream, spiced rum, and espresso topped with whipped cream, and garnished with a little cinnamon. It's a delicious way to linger over brunch or contemplate life at the end of the day.
• Hammered Hulk is another bright green drink with melon and coconut flavors.
• Irish Redhead is a sparkly pinkish drink that is light and refreshing made with lemon, lime, grenadine, and Irish whiskey.

Equipment

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Margarita glasses are so pretty! They've even got a green tint.

Nearly everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day! It's a fun little holiday that probably gets the most of its American attention because it's an excuse to drink. Not sure how that works considering St. Patrick is a saint and all but I'm willing to go along with it.

I'm guessing St Patrick's day is one of the main reasons many people don't give up alcohol for Lent.

I think this is such a festive cocktail with the gold sugar crystal rim! You might also like my Irish Temper Cocktail - it's like Irish Coffee's wild cousin.

If you're into tropical flavored cocktails you'll love this green cocktail. The pineapple gives a nice softness to the tequila and Irish whiskey and blends in with the coconutty blue curacao and the peach.

Aperol can be bitter but all of the sweetness from the juice keeps this cocktail well balanced and delicious.

Originally published March 10, 2017. Last updated January 2021 for enhanced reader experience.