Chilli Margarita

 

Ingredients

For the chilli tequila:

• About two thirds of a bottle of silver tequila (I used Espolòn Tequila Blanco) i.e. 50ml
• 10 long guajilla chillis
• Two birds eye chillis

For the cocktail:

• 1 measure chilli tequila
• 1 measure cointreau
• Juice of 1 lime
• 1 measure pineapple juice

To make the chilli tequila, "remove" one third of a bottle of tequila to a safe place (stomachs are a good suggestion). Drop the two birds eye chillis into the bottle (containing two thirds of the tequila), and stuff in as many guajilla chillis as you can (I used about ten). Leave for a week. As you can see from the picture below, it goes a deep brownish red.

To make the cocktail, shake all the ingredients over ice and pour into a coupé glass. If you are the kind of person that likes salt on the rim of the glass, then wipe the rim first with some lime getting roughly 5mm of depth of the outside of the glass wet, then roll in a salt or a mixture of salt and sugar. I am not that kind of person so I didn't do that here.