Frozen Margarita Recipe 5 Ingredients

Published 4/14/2022 • Updated 3/22/2024 With just 5 basic ingredients you can whip up the best blended margarita recipe in under 10 minutes. Let’s get started! Frozen margaritas are a summer staple and now you can make them in your own home! Like our Spicy Grapefruit Margarita, these frozen margaritas are made with a few simple ingredients and lots of flavor. We love this cocktail recipe because we’re huge fans of the tequila + lime combination. It’s smoky, full of citrus, and an absolute dream. This frozen margarita recipe calls for all of the classic margarita ingredients plus the addition of ice…because after all, this recipe is blended!

What You Need to Make a Frozen Margarita

Tequila – our favorite is Contigo. Orange liqueur – triple sec or Cointreau both work. Lime juice – the fresher the better! Agave nectar – you can also use honey! Ice

We chose to sweeten our frozen margarita with agave nectar because it’s more traditional, but we’ve also made this recipe with homemade simple syrup or honey, so the option is yours! We recommend using freshly squeezed lime juice for the best results because, well, the fresher the better!

What can I use instead of orange liqueur?

If you don’t have orange liqueur, try using a splash of fresh orange juice! Orange is really the flavor you’re looking for.

How to Make a Frozen Margarita in a Blender

In order to really make this frozen margarita perfect, we recommend using a high-speed blender such as a Vitamix. You want to make sure that you use something that is strong enough to pulverize the ice into a slushy so that you get that classic frozen margarita consistency.

How to Salt a Rim for Margaritas

To put the cherry on top of this frozen margarita recipe, we love salting the rim of the glass before pouring in your frozen margarita concoction. Here’s what you need: Blender

coarse sea salt water

All you need to do is moisten the rims of the margarita glasses you want to use with water. We do this by pouring water onto a small plate and then dipping the rim of the glass into the water. From there, dip the rim onto a small plate of coarse sea salt. The water will allow the sea salt to stick to the glass.

Variations

Love a frozen margarita, but want to mix it up? Here are some simple variations! Mango: try our frozen mango margarita by adding some frozen mango into the mix! Strawberry: you’ll love our strawberry margarita. Strawberries add a bit of tartness and a gorgeous red color to this classic cocktail. Watermelon: we recently tried frozen watermelon chunks in this recipe and it was NEXT LEVEL good.