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A glass holding a skinny margarita on a table with a lime and orange wedge garnish.

Best Skinny Margarita Recipe

This Skinny Margarita recipe is super easy and lower in calorie than a classic recipe. It’s the perfect refreshing alternative when you’re looking for a margarita but want to drink something with less calories and sugar. 
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 1 cocktail
Calories 182 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ounces blanco tequila
  • 1 ounce lime juice
  • 1 ounce orange juice
  • 1 tsp agave syrup (to taste)
  • lime wedge and Kosher salt to rim glass, optional

Instructions
 

Rim the margarita glass

  • Run a lime wedge along the rim of your glass, then dip it into a plate of coarse salt to create a salted rim. Set aside.

Make the Skinny Margarita

  • To a cocktail shaker, add the tequila, lime juice, orange juice, and agave syrup. 
  • Add ice and give it a vigorous shake for about 20 seconds.
  • Strain the mixture into your salt-rimmed glass (or plain glass), filled with fresh ice cubes. 

Notes

  •  Adjust the sweetness to your liking by adding more or less agave syrup. If you are really trying to watch your calories, start with only a little bit and add a tiny bit more as needed to make it drinkable. I’ve learned to drink them without adding any agave and just use the sweetness from the fresh orange juice.
  • If you are missing some of the flavor of the original, try adding a splash of club soda for some pizzaz.
  • I prefer to make my skinny margaritas with fresh ingredients instead of margarita mix or sweet and sour. Sour mix can be full of sugar so we definitely don’t recommend for a simple skinny margarita. And a diet mix taste awful to me.
  • For a frostier skinny margarita, blend all the ingredients with ice cubes instead of shaking them. A frozen margarita is so refreshing and the dilution will help to mellow out the tequila taste if you don’t love it.
  • You can use less tequila to decrease the number of calories even more.

Nutrition

Serving: 1drinkCalories: 182kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 0.3gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.01gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.01gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 91mgFiber: 0.2gSugar: 10gVitamin A: 71IUVitamin C: 24mgCalcium: 7mgIron: 0.1mg
Keyword margarita, tequila cocktail
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