Prickly Pear Margaritas

Total Time: 11 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 ounce premium tequila
• 1/2 ounce grand marnier
• 2 1/2 ounces peeled and pureed prickly pears, chilled
• 2 1/2 ounces prepared sweet-and-sour mix
• lime wedge
• coarse salt
• 1 cup ice cube

Recipe

• 1 prepare margarita glass rim by dipping into lime juice, and then coarse salt.
• 2 put ice into a shaker.
• 3 add tequila, grand marnier, fruit and sweet and sour.
• 4 shake vigorously and pour into prepared margarita glass.
• 5 garnish with a wedge of lime.
• 6 *use very ripe uncooked fruit, cleaned and peeled.
• 7 you can just slice off the stickers, if the store didn't do it for you.
• 8 you peel a prickly pear fruit by very carefully slicing down one side of the fruit, then, using the knife, pulling back the peel until you come all the way around the fruit.
• 9 then puree it with either a food processor or blender, and chill.