Easy Limoncello Cocktail with Tequila: Perfect Lemon Drink
Whether you are a fan of tequila cocktails or are into lemony drinks, you will certainly love this limoncello cocktail. It is so simple to make, light, citrusy and refreshing and perfect as beach cocktails, brunch cocktails, for girls night, after work fun and summer get togethers.
The cocktail has a great balance of sweet and mildly tangy lemon flavor, without a strong alcohol taste. The recipe here is for one cocktail so be sure to scale up to make enough for a fun time for everyone.
If you’ve never heard of limoncello, it’s a lemony, citrusy liqueur made by infusing lemon peels in alcohol. It’s bright and fun!
For more cocktails, be sure to check out these pineapple margarita and salty dog drinks.
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Ingredients for limoncello cocktail
Equipment
You don’t really need anything special to make this recipe, though I did use a strainer when squeezing the lemons and my fun cocktail set for measuring the ingredients and shaking the drink with ice.
How to make this limoncello cocktail
Prep
If you are making your own simple syrup, add equal parts of sugar and water to a small saucepan on medium heat. Stir occasionally until the sugar dissolves fully and allow to boil for about 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and leave to cool down before using in the cocktail.
As I mentioned before, I made syrup with 1/3 cup each of water and white sugar and it made about 3 cocktails.
Besides the syrup, I also washed, sliced and juiced the lemon and strained the juice.
I rubbed the lemon on the rim of the cocktail glass before dipping it in salt. You can use sugar too. Oh, and I sliced another lemon for the garnish but this is all optional.
That’s pretty much it for prep.
Make the cocktail
I added the lemon juice, syrup, tequila and limoncello to my cocktail shaker with ice. After giving it a good shake, I poured it into a prepped martini glass and served immediately.
You can scale up the recipe to make more cocktails for brunch, girls night in, or get togethers. It stays in the fridge really well for 2 days or so.
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Ingredients
- 1 oz limoncello
- 1 oz lemon juice (1 lemon)
- ½ oz silver tequila
- ½ oz simple syrup (+ 1 tsp for sweeter cocktail)
- ice
- garnish like lemon peel, mint, salt, sugar
Equipment
- strainer
- cocktail shaker
Instructions
- Make simple syrup (see within post for instructions).
- Wash, slice, and juice the lemon.
- Strain the juice.
- Run the lemon on the rim of the cocktail glass. Coat with salt or sugar.
- Add limoncello, lemon juice, tequila, syrup and ice to cocktail shaker. Shake.
- Pour into prepped glass.
- Serve cold with your choice of garnish.
- Or store in the fridge for 2 to 3 days.
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