Wonderfully refreshing cocktail. I use pink lemonade for the rim and swap sweet and sour w/the prickly pear amounts. 2oz pear and 1oz sweet and sour. Serve is chilled over crushed ice! MY NEW FAV and Go-to cocktail choice of the summer season.
This is really good! Great job getting the secret!
I still remember the first time I tried a prickly pear margarita at a trendy restaurant in Las Vegas. It was deep purple and served in a tall fluted glass. Thank goodness I had a plane to catch or I would have sipped on one after the other. This is a great recreation of that memorable drink. It's not the same color as I remember but it tastes the same. If you like different flavored margaritas and can find prickly pear syrup this one is definitely worth a try.
I also had this fabulous drink at the bar at the Tucson Airport and asked the bartender for this recipe. This is exactly correct except the bartender put a sugar rim vs. salt rim.
I just made one of these and boy is it good!! (It's not noon yet but hey it's five o' clock somewhere!) I followed the recipe exactly and wouldn't change a thing! I had to order the pear syrup online because I couldn't find any. I bought Cheri's All Natural Prickly Pear Cactus Syrup. These are great and the cactus syrup gives a nice reddish color! Gracias!
Very tasty. I make my own sweet and sour mix using Splenda. Love the fuchsia color! Worth trying!
this tastes good no matter what you do! i gathered prickly pear fruit from my yard here in tucson and cut the skin off (after soaking in water for a bit to soften) and just cooked it down for for 30 min strained it and used the juice. i did not add triple sec or sugar cuz i can't have sugar but the tequila makes up for that! new fave drink!
Searched google and found this as the first recipe. Made my drink exactly as per the recipe. It's a good margarita, the prickly pear syrup is mostly just decoration in my opinion. The lime just fights to overpower what little flavor the cactus brings to the mix. It's a very good margarita though, I'll do it again and again because my cactus gave me a lot of prickly pears....
This recipe is amazing. To our surprise we found prickly pears in our local farmers market (in Delaware!) and bought 3 having no idea how many we would need. As it turned out cooking down all 3 provided the right amount of juice to make 4 margaritas. I followed the advice of another reviewer and cut back a bit on the lime juice. I used almost the amount of triple sec in the recipe but not quite -- I trusted the recipe but we tend to prefer a bit less sweetness in our drinks. Needless to say the drinks were a hit and I will contact the market first thing tomorrow to see if they regularly carry prickly pears!
