Frozen Blood Orange Margaritas

NOTE: I was sent some blood oranges and cara cara oranges from  The Limoneira Company to use in a recipe. All opinions are mine.

It’s pretty obvious that I love citrus, I use the juice and zest of lemons, limes, and oranges in most of my recipes, so I’m excited to share this recipe for Frozen Blood Orange Margaritas.

So when The Limoneira Company contacted me to help spread the word about their new offerings, I jumped at the chance. Limoneira is traditionally known for its lemons, but recently began expanding their orchards to include more specialty citrus, including Cara Cara and Blood Oranges.

Blood Oranges have a slightly less acidic taste than regular oranges, and their bright red color makes for some really beautiful dishes. I wanted to showcase their color, so I decided to make blood orange margaritas.

As much as I am trying to will it to be spring, it is still pretty cold in Philadelphia, so this version has a bit of cinnamon to add a bit of warmth to the flavor.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups ice cubes
• 1 cup blood orange juice (about 6 blood oranges)
• the juice of 2 limes
• 1/4 cup triple sec
• 1/2  cup tequila
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• sugar, for rimming glasses (optional)
• lime wedge, for rimming glasses (optional)
• rosemary sprigs, for garnish

Juice your blood oranges.

 

Add ice to a blender. Add in the blood orange juice, lime juice, triple sec, tequila, and cinnamon.

Blend until smooth.

Prep your glasses. Pour sugar onto a plate. Rub a lime wedge along the rim of a glass and dip glasses upside down to sugar the rim. You may have to rotate the glass around a bit to evenly coat the rim.

Pour the frozen margarita into your prepared glasses. Garnish with fresh rosemary sprigs and serve.

The berry undertones of the blood oranges really come through nicely in this recipe; I think the cinnamon brought it out a bit which was so tasty!

I love that its a touch sweeter without the need to add any sweeteners.

And isn’t the color beautiful?