Naturally Sweetened Lemonade Margaritas

By cindyandmojo

Ingredients

• 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
• 7 cups cold water
• Tequila
• Naturally Sweetened Lemonade
• Lemon wedges

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 5mins
Cooking time 5mins
Adapted from theroastedroot.net

Preparation

Step 1

By now, you know I’m not a huge fan of cane sugar and tend to replace it with natural sweeteners whenever possible. So in honor of my dire need for lemonade, I whipped up a batch using pure maple syrup in place of cane sugar. It hit the sweet spot.

My favorite part about the lemonade, other than it breathing life back into my dried-up veins, was the fact that I didn’t have to dissolve sugar on the stove and wait for it to cool down. You simply pour everything into a pitcher and stir it right up.

If you want to get real genius, you can add some herb infusion to the lemonade by chopping up fresh herbs and heating them up with the lemon juice and maple syrup to create a mock herb-y simple syrup. Basil, thyme, parsley, lavender, sage…pretty much any herb goes well in lemonade and also adds a unique element to a margarita. Adding fruit is permissible, too.

Make the Naturally Sweetened Lemonade:

Mix all of the ingredients for the lemonade together in a large pitcher.

Make the Lemonade Margaritas:

Rim glasses with salt, then fill them with ice. Add about 1 to 2 shots (1.5 to 3 ounces) of tequila to each glass and fill the rest of the way with lemonade. Stir, squeeze a wedge of lemon into each glass, and serve. (You can also shake the drink in a tumbler before serving).

We had the same idea for Monday. Add booze. Make it better.

I seriously can’t wait to make this one tonight, it looks incredible!!

Gorgeous photos my dear! Loving all the tequila going on around here recently. You can pour one of these for me any time you’d like!

I love that you added tequila to this. And I also love that you made it with maple syrup

Mondays should always come with a side of booze. I decided to run at noon today–the peak of heat. What was my brain thinking? I am always down for a naturally sweetened, and spiked, beverage.

Running in the heat after a night of hitting the wine sounds like absolute torture! I feel like I need a drink just thinking about how horrible that would be! I’ve been trying to use less refined sugars too lately and I love that you used maple syrup in these! I’m now craving a margarita and a huge basket of chips and salsa

Heat always have me craving lemonade. Made with a lil gin. Looks great!

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