When an ultra powerful 1960’s refrigerator gives you frozen cucumbers what are you to do? Since the cottage came with enough glassware to inebriate a small sorority, the answer is obvious:
Make Margaritas!?
Cointreaury to most margaritas, this recipe does not contain tequila… because we drank all of it.
In my kitchen, no recipe is ever exactly the same.
In fact, most of the time I’m making it up as I go along.
This recipe was inspired by: circumstance, a google search suggesting frozen cucumbers are good in smoothies, and the ingredients on hand
JD’s Tequilaless Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas
“Don’t look at it, just drink it.” – Jodry
Prep Time
0.25 – 25 hours
Cook Time
none
Serves
≧1
Equipment
- 1-2 ice cube trays
- Blending machine of your choice.¹
- Knife for chopping
- Cutting board/surface on which to chop
- Spoon for scooping
- An additional spoon or six for tasting
- Glasses for drinking5
Ingredients
- some chunks of watermelon
- a frozen cucumber or two
- a little sugar
- a pinch of salt
- ice cubes
- lime juice or TRUE Lime
- a few capfuls of cointreau
Are you one of those people who prefer actual measurements? Scroll below.
~8 steps to a delimeful drink!
Preparing to make Tequilaless Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas
1
≧25 hours before you’d like to make Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas, fill the ice cube trays with water and place in your freezer². If you already have ice in your freezer, congratulations! You’re ready for step 2.
2
≧4 hours before you’d like to make Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas, if life has not already gifted you with frozen cucumbers, place your cucumbers in the freezer.³
3
≧0.25 hours before you’d like be drinking Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas:
3.1 – prep your watermelon by chopping it up and removing the rind or scooping it out into satisfying chunks.
3.2 – procure your frozen cucumber(s) and chop them into more blender friendly sized pieces
Ready? – Make those Margs!
4
≧Add your cucumbers and watermelon into the blender and blend until you’ve got a chunky liquid
5
Add in the sugar, a pinch of salt, and your lime juice or True Lime packets and blend again.
Taste and adjust.4 If you want more watermelon, add more. If you want more cucumber, add more. If you want it sweeter, add more sugar. If you want it saltier, add more salt.
6
Add your ice a few cubes at a time, blending between additions. Try not to overflow your blender.
7
Add the cointreau and blend some more.
Repeat until it tastes nice
Taste again and if you want it boozier, add more cointreau and reblend.
Relax with a drink!
8
Pour and enjoy!
- Pour your Tequilaless Cucumber Watermelon Margarita into your margarita glasses
- Don’t look at it
- Sit somewhere nice
- Don’t look at it
- Enjoy!
- 1Today’s blending device is the Braun blender we found in the cupboard
- 2You can also outsource your ice if you’re frozen by freezing
- 3or if you have a really powerful fridge set to a really cold setting, you can leave them in there for the same result! Not recommended.
- 4she chonky. Try not to let the texture bother you – it will get better once you add the ice!
- 5as a bonus, you could add salt, sugar, or tajin to the rim of the glass (or whatever other powder you want, I guess). Rub water or lime juice around the rim and dip the glass in your favored adornment.
Nutritional information:
Exact information will depend on your specific ingredients and quantities.
Constructed with the trifecta of fruit, veg, and (frozen) water, Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas are packed with Vitamins C, K, plus some other letters. With cucumbers’ anti-inflammatory properties and watermelons’ ability to lower blood pressure, this recipe is basically a spa treatment in a glass!
It’s also boozy – traditionally relaxing, but also makes you feel boujie.
So, relax after work with a drink so good for you that you don’t have to think.
Next time on: this recipe…
Tequila! And more watermelong!
When your refrigerator freezers your cucumbers solid what are you to do?
There were a few things you could make out of frozen cucumbers, according to the google search I did. You can put them in water (which I did) you can make cucumber soup (which I also technically did, although I didn’t have most of the ingredients recommended… but cucumber and chives work surprisingly well together!).
Want that gazpacho recipe? Click here!
But blending them up for a smoothie or drink was a popular choice, so I went with that. Besides, I had “new” blenders I wanted to try out and so. much. watermelon.
Query: What even is a margarita?
Margaritas are traditionally made with tequila, triple sec (or Cointreau), lime or lemon juice, and salt. If you’ve followed the recipe as is – you have a tequilaless margarita!
What composes a cointreau?
Pronounced “kwan-troh”, Cointreau was the name of the man who began producing liqueurs in France back in 1849. The original orange-flavored triple sec liqueur was added to the roster 8 years later in 1857. Over the years the recipe was refined, using a blend of fresh and dried sweet and bitter orange peels.
Almost 100 years later (1948) the Margarita was invented, further solidifying Cointreau’s place amongst cocktail connoisseurs.
Recipe Legend
~
about, approximately. If you use a little less or a little more, the end result will not significantly change.
≧
greater than or equal to; before or up to
∓
plus or minus; add or subtract for variance
ml
millilitres
oz
fluid ounces; ~70ml
tsp
teaspoon; ~5ml
tbsp
tablespoon; ~15ml
cup
~250ml, 8 oz
JD’s Tequilaless Cucumber Watermelon Margaritas’ Approximate Measurements
Prep Time
0.25 – 25 hours
“Cook” Time
~10 minutes
Serves
≧1
Ingredients with approximate measurements
- ~1/3 of a medium sized watermelon
- ~1.25 frozen cucumbers
- ~1 tbsp white sugar
- ~1/4 tsp salt (a pinch)
- ~12 standard ice cubes
- ~2 packets Pure Lime
- ~2 oz cointreau
Did you toss this liquid salad back or out? Comment below to let me know.
Credits to: Nightcafe; Healthline.com; Foodfact.info; Cointreau.com