Blood Orange Margarita co*cktail Recipe with Fresh Blood Orange Juice (2024)

Here’s a blood orange margarita co*cktail recipe version with bitters. Give it a try, it’s worth every sip if you can get your hands on some fresh blood oranges.

Blood Orange margarita co*cktail

Just as Diane has her prop collecting obsession, I have my own vice. I am mildly bedeviled by making co*cktails.There is something exquisitely alluring in what has become a combination of ritual and swagger. A little James Bond, a dash of Esquire, and a jigger of Hemingway done up over ice. It may be a vice, but it is a savvy one for a man to have.

As far as my own style and ritual to co*cktails, I aim to take care of the details without getting crazy about it. I don’t care much about the newest and funkiest co*cktail creations. Give me the classics added with a few sensible modern twists. At home I’m not going to infuse a batch of simple syrup with lavender or smoke for a co*cktail I may make when the full moon happens to land on a Tuesday. But I do want someone to have one of our margaritas, sours or paper planes, take a sip without any sense of great expectations, and then stop and stare in appreciation.

I want you to have one of my co*cktails and be ruined for life knowing that unless you are somewhere that truly cares about its co*cktails, you’ll never have another co*cktail of that kind quite as good. Sometimes, nowhere near as good.There is nothing secret or special about how I make co*cktails, particularly this Blood Orange Margarita co*cktail. Just take care of the details. Never being fully satisfied or full of my own knowledge, I am always learning or trying to be better at the things I love. Years ago, I thought I made a mean blood orange margarita, as any guest to the house would concur, but compared to what I make today, they are not even in the same league. How is it better? The little details.

Why Use Bitters in co*cktails ?

My biggest leap in co*cktail making came after reading the book, Bitters. Once I started using bitters regularly in co*cktails, so many co*cktails made without them seemed to lack depth. Combine that with using garden fresh citrus, now we’ve got a co*cktail to light up the eyes.The garden fresh citrus isn’t just for the romantic notion that homegrown it better. ‘Cause face it, sometimes homegrown is better, and other times “not so much”. But for citrus it is all about the oils in the rind. There are amazing flavor in those oils, however it unfortunately doesn’t take long after picking for those oils in the zest to be lost forever. But if you can taste the fruit just after being plucked from the tree… Baby! After squeezing them, the oils release to the surface and completely saturate the outside of the rind. It is just one of those little details.

Other little details I do? Freezing my glasses. There is a shelf in our freezer solely dedicated to chilling a variety of co*cktail glasses. A great co*cktail should be very well chilled, and a frosty glass is ever so helpful. And I’m a little nutty about my ice. Between the different sized and shaped ice cube molds, japanese ice pick, and the f*^&-ing swankest thing ever, a tray that makes clear ice, I am obsessive with my ice. Its sexy and is has a star role in a good co*cktail. Forget the swirly garnish to be tossed out of the way, give me a crackin’ piece of ice.

Finally, finish the Blood Orange Margarita co*cktailin a glass that has some character. Whether that is from an old-fashioned glass made from recycled glass to a throwback champagne bowl, serve up that proper co*cktail in a glass worthy. While Diane is scrounging the thrift shops and antique stores for bowls and boards, I’m hunting for cool co*cktail glasses. Don’t tell Diane but I’m hunting for the boards too, they’re swank.

That’s it. A little obsessive, but hopefully haven’t crossed the line to crazy. Bitters, good fruit, ice, and glass. The details to a great co*cktail without pushing the line into becoming a “mixologist”.

Here’s my re-make on our previous blood orange margarita after discovering the magic of bitters. We use a homemade tangerine bitter, but just about any orange bitters on the market are a great addition the the co*cktail shaker’s concoctions. Hope you enjoy thisBlood Orange Margarita co*cktail !

-Todd

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This recipe was originally published in 2013 and re-published in 2020 with updated photos.