Top Margarita recipes and how to make them

Sour, salty and sweet, a Margarita is one of the world’s best-loved cocktails for good reason. Find out how to make a Margarita using three key ingredients with our step-by-step guide, then shake things up with our favourite Margarita recipes, whether you’re going spicy, tropical, fruity or frozen.

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Heather Taylor

What goes in a Margarita?

A classic Margarita is made with just three ingredients: tequila, fresh lime juice and triple sec (a clear, orange-flavoured spirit). Ice is important to keep everything cool, while garnishes – such as salt for the rim and more fresh lime wedges – add a final flourish.

Go for good-quality ingredients, such as our M&S Distilled Silver Tequila, which is distilled in Mexico using blue agave, and has delicious grassy notes.

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What does a Margarita taste like?

It’s beautifully balanced. There’s depth and fragrance from the tequila, that’s a zesty sourness from the lime, and sweetness from the triple sec.

How to make a classic Margarita

First make a salt rim. Sprinkle our oak-smoked Anglesey sea salt onto a saucer, and rub a tumbler with a wedge of lime. Dip into the salt to cover the rim.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add 50ml tequila, 20ml triple sec and 35ml fresh lime juice.
Shake until the cocktail shaker feels cold.
Fill the tumbler with ice, and strain the Margarita mix into the class.
Garnish with a lime wedge.

Classic Margarita recipe

The best pre-made Margarita

If you’ve got a crowd coming, pour a bottle of our ready-to-pour, bar-quality The Marksologist Verdita Margarita, which has a hint of fiery jalapeno and coriander for an extra layer of fragrant flavour.

Garnish with a chilli and salt rim, fresh red chillies and a lime wedge for a bar-quality spicy marg at home.

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The best Margarita in a can

Don’t fancy shaking one up yourself? We’ve got you. Try our zesty pre-mixed Margarita cocktail tinnie, tangy The Marksologist Blood Orange Margarita or our new The Marxologist Spicy Mezcal Margarita can, which has a wonderfully smoky flavour.

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Bring on the Margs!

Top 5 Margarita recipes

For twists on the classic flavour combination, try one of these fresh and zingy Margarita recipes.

Hot honey mezcal Margarita

Using mezcal gives this hot honey Margarita recipe a deliciously complex, smoky flavour. Serve with spicy roasted nuts for the ultimate cocktail hour combo.

Hot honey Margarita recipe

Frozen limoncello Margarita

Swap the tequila for our zingy Italian limoncello in this fruity frozen Margarita – guaranteed to keep you cool all summer long.

Mango and lime Margarita

Bring an extra burst of tropical flavours to your usual Margarita with this sunshine-hued mango and lime version, which has a subtle heat from chilli flakes.

Mango and lime Margarita recipe

Super zesty Margarita

Adding a little bit of lemon curd to your Margarita is a genius move that makes it extra sweet and lemony. This twist on the classic is finished with fragrant fresh thyme leaves – summer in a glass.

Lemon curd Margarita recipe

Camomile Margarita

Create a camomile infusion to bring a floral flavour to this unusual Margarita – the flavours contrast beautifully with the heady tequila and lemon juice.

Camomile Margarita recipe

Published 6.12.2025