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Two glasses of yellow passion fruit cocktail with salted rims, garnished with passion fruit halves, sit on a white board next to lime slices. A bowl and halved passion fruit are in the background.

Passion Fruit Margarita

Elien Lewis
A tart, tropical passion fruit margarita with tequila blanco, fresh lime juice, and passion fruit pulp. Shaken and served over ice with a salted rim.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course Cocktails
Cuisine American
Servings 1 drink
Calories 222 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

For the rim

  • 1 tsp sea salt or sugar for a sweeter rim
  • lime wedge to moisten the rim

For the drink

  • 2 oz tequila blanco
  • 1 oz lime juice fresh
  • pulp of 2 fresh passion fruits or 1 oz passionfruit puree
  • 0.5 oz triple sec
  • 0.5 oz simple syrup adjust to taste depending on the passion fruit
  • ice

To garnish

  • half a fresh passion fruit

Instructions
 

  • Run a lime wedge around the rim of a rocks glass, then dip the rim in the flaky salt to coat.
  • Scoop the pulp from the passion fruits into a cocktail shaker, or measure in the purée.
  • Add the tequila, lime juice, triple sec, and simple syrup.
  • Fill the shaker with ice and shake hard for 15 seconds, until the shaker is frosty on the outside.
  • Strain into the rimmed glass filled with fresh ice.
  • Balance half a fresh passion fruit on the rim to garnish. Serve immediately.

Notes

Purée or fresh fruit: Commercial passion fruit purée is usually sweetened and fresh pulp is not. If using fresh, keep the full 0.5 oz (15ml) simple syrup. If using a sweetened purée, taste before adding the syrup and cut it back if you need to.
How much fruit: Two ripe passion fruits give roughly 1 oz (30ml) of pulp. Look for wrinkled skin, which means ripe. Smooth skin means underripe and much more sour.
Seeds: Straining through a standard cocktail strainer leaves most of the seeds in the drink. For a clean drink, double strain through a fine mesh strainer.
Rim: Salt is traditional and it makes the tropical fruit taste rounder. Sugar works if you want something sweeter.
Fresh lime: Use freshly squeezed lime juice. Bottled juice will flatten the drink.
Mocktail: Leave out the tequila and triple sec, use 1 oz (30ml) passion fruit and 0.5 oz (15ml) lime juice, and top with soda water.

Nutrition

Serving: 1serveCalories: 222kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 0.1gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.02gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gSodium: 2335mgPotassium: 47mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 15gVitamin A: 14IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 7mgIron: 1mg
Keyword fresh passion fruit cocktail, passion fruit margarita, passionfruit margarita, tequila passion fruit, tropical margarita
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