Cooking Lesson #1003: The Coronarita Cocktail

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

How you doin’? It’s the first Friday of Lent, and it’s Fish Fry Day! YAY! So, what’s the best cocktail to drink on Happy Hour Friday and Fish Fry Day? A big bottle of Corona or a margarita? What’s it going to be?
 
Let me save you from making a difficult decision of what to drink this Happy Hour. Instead of choosing between a Margarita or a Corona, you can have both, all mixed together in a blissful combination of tequila, triple sec, lime juice and Corona.
 
This Coronarita recipe is so easy to make. You simply take a classic Margarita cocktail and dunk an open 7 oz bottle of Corona beer (called a Coronita) into your glass before you drink it. This creates the wonderful sight of a bottle of Corona perched upside down in your schooner glass with the beer still inside of it. Instead of your glass overflowing when you place the bottle inside, the pressure holds the beer in and it only trickles out as you sip your cocktail. It’s either magic or science!
 
Prep time:  5 minutes
Yield: 1 cocktail
 
Ingredients 
Glass rimming salt
2 ounces tequila
3/4 ounce triple sec
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1/2 ounce agave syrup (the secret ingredient)
Corona Beer / a mini 7 ounce Coronita bottle
2 lime wedges
 
Directions

1. Prepare the schooner glass by rimming with salt.
2. Add tequila, triple sec, lime juice and agave syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake for 30 seconds.
3. Pour into the schooner glass and then tip an open Coronita bottle into the glass. Add a cocktail straw.
4. Garnish with squeezed lime wedges.

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ChefSecret:  A schooner glass is one of my pieces of bar ware—I love the feel of the heft in my hand. It’s the perfect glass to hold up to a bottle of Corona.

Quip of the Day:  Q. What’s a Margarita’s favorite type of music?  A. Salsa, of course!
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