The Garden Variety Margarita

Name: The Garden Variety Margarita
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: makes 1 Cocktail
Ingredients: 1 cup ginger juice; 1 ⁄ 2 cup kale juice; 2 oz. blanco tequila; 1 oz. lime juice; 3 ⁄ 4 oz. agave nectar; 1 ⁄ 2 oz. ginger-kale juice; Salt, for rimming the glass

Serves
makes 1 Cocktail

MATT TAYLOR-GROSS

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.