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Cranberry Margarita
Food Ingredients:
Ingredients for Cranberry Puree 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice, about 9 oranges 1 cup sugar 16 ounces package of fresh cranberries 1 Ingredients for drink 1 ounce of your favorite tequila 1/2 ounce of Grand Marnier 2 ounces of cranberry puree Ingredients for Cranberry Swizzle Sticks 10 skewer sticks 16 ounces package of fresh cranberries 1 cup of light Karo syrup 1 cup of granulated sugar
Recipe preparation:
1 In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the sugar in the orange juice. Add the cranberries and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Set aside and let it cool. Blend cranberries in a blender, then strain to make the puree 2 In a shaker add crushed ice, 1 1/2 ounces of tequila, 1/2 ounce of Grand Marnier, 2 ounces of cranberry puree and shake to mix. 3 Skewer several cranberries onto 10 skewer sticks but leave enough skewer exposed on one end. Lightly brush each cranberry skewer with Karo syrup and then sprinkle granulated sugar over the cranberry skewers. Place the cranberry swizzle sticks on wax paper and place in the freezer to set. 4 Pour drink into a sugar rimmed martini glass. Add a cranberry swizzle stick for garnish.
Recipe source: Foodista recipe
