Bruncharitas!

OK, so how many versions of a margarita can I make? I'm not done finding out!

 

Strap in for yet another one of vorace.'s margarita recipes! This time, perfect for serving at brunch. Love!

 

I had been planning a get together with a couple of friends and their babies (otherwise known as a Baby Convention) and had promised brunch fare. When no Saturdays or Sundays were available in the near future between the three of our schedules, we decided to convene on a Friday after work - happy hour time! Every once in a while I get off the wagon to enjoy a drink for a special occasion, and my first happy hour at home in ages counted as a special occasion. I promised to still serve brunch food (what's better than breakfast for dinner?!), but one of the ladies had a request for margaritas. I still wanted brunch so I took on the challenge, made it work, and the Bruncharita was born!

 

I hit Pinterest and found some stellar Mexican-inspired brunch ideas - churro French toast and egg muffins topped with the sauce from this post, and decided to whip up some of my own homemade guac. For the focus on the evening, the drinks of course, I decided to do a traditional margarita, vorace. style, and top it off with sparkling wine. Kind of like a mimosa. A sup'ed up, awesome mimosa!

 

I got my bar cart set up the day before 

- B is for brunch! -

so I was ready to go once happy hour rolled around.

 

A couple notes before we get started: I made the citrus juice using my centrifugal juicer. If you don't have a juicer, follow this recipe for the base of your margaritas and do it in a more made-to-order way as opposed to making a pitcher. Skip the spice in the agave and just add it as is (unless you want a smoky, spicy bruncharita!). Just leave a little room at the top so you can pour in the sparkling wine.

 

Lastly, you will notice in the pics that our drinks were not super bubbly. Pay that no mind. We had an issue with a petrified cork in our prosecco bottle. It broke off inside the mouth of the bottle and we had to use a nail to hammer a hole into it so we could pour the wine out. Kind of made for an anti-climactic pour, but hey - it did the job! Hopefully this won't happen for you and your drinks will be sparkling and bubbling with the best of them!

 

OK, let's get brunching! 

 

Bruncharitas!

Servings: 8

Prep time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: n/a

 



Ingredients:
1/4 cup margarita salt or kosher sea salt
1/4 teaspoon orange zest
9-11 limes  - 8-10 cut into quarters, 1 sliced into wedges for garnish
1 orange, cut into eighths
18 oz gold tequila
1/2 cup agave nectar
1 bottle sparkling wine (I used Cupcake prosecco)

Let's start by doing some prep work:

1. Set up the drink making station. Place the margarita salt on a small plate and sprinkle in the orange zest. Use a fork to mix the salt with the zest.

Cut a slit through the flesh in the middle of each lime wedge (don't go through the rind). Place all of the lime wedges in a small bowl.

Place two handfuls of ice in your drink shaker.

Arrange your serving glasses (I used traditional margarita glasses as well as champagne flutes) in the same area as the salt, limes, and shaker.


2. Rim your glasses. Place the slit of a lime wedge on the rim of your serving glass and wipe it around the entire circumference of the glass rim.

Turn your glass upside down, placing the rim into the salt/zest mixture. Give it a twirl to ensure that the rim is coated in salt.

Repeat this with each glass and then set them aside to wait for the drink to be ready.

 

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Now to make some bruncharitas!

Bring all of your sliced fruit to your juicer. Turn on the juicer.

Start by putting through the lime slices. Do this until you have about 20 ounces of juice. (Use as many limes as needed.)

Next, put through the orange slices. This should bring you to about 24 ounces of juice.

Pour the juice into your serving pitcher (I used a large mason jar), then add the tequila and agave. Stir.

"Alright everyone, gird your loins," (name that movie!) and pop open your sparkling wine. Set aside.

Fill your drink shaker with some of the citrus/tequila mixture.

Shake like crazy for a good ten seconds (or hit the 'on' button if you have an auto shaker like I do!).

 

Pour the margarita mixture from the shaker into your salt-rimmed serving glasses, leaving a little room at the top.

Top with sparkling wine! Just pour from the bottle into your glasses until you reach the rim. Garnish with a lime wedge.

Salute!