A spicy ginger kick and the subtle, unmistakably grassy sweetness of kale elevates this vegetal variation on the margarita, from the New York City bar The Wayland.
Ingredients
For the Ginger-Kale Juice
- 1 cup ginger juice
- 1⁄2 cup kale juice
For the Cocktail
- 2 oz. blanco tequila
- 1 oz. lime juice
- 3⁄4 oz. agave nectar
- 1⁄2 oz. ginger-kale juice
- Salt, for rimming the glass
Instructions
Step 1
- Rim a rocks glass with salt, set aside. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour in ½ oz. ginger-kale juice, tequila, lime juice and agave nectar. Shake well, and pour over ice into your salt-rimmed glass.
Note: Fresh ginger and kale juices are available for takeaway at some juice bars. To make kale juice at home, wash, stem, and roughly chop kale, and liquefy in a blender at high speed, straining out solids if desired. To make ginger juice at home, finely grate knobs of peeled ginger over cheesecloth; squeeze cheesecloth to strain out ginger juice.
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