Salt is the star of this Margarita variation. Khan recommends enjoying this cocktail clockwise — starting with the sea salt section of the rim (the most delicate salt), moving to the grasshopper salt, and ending with the worm salt (the most robustly flavored salt).
Ingredients
40 milliliters blanco tequila
15 milliliters Cointreau
22 milliliters freshly pressed lime juice
5 milliliters Crawley’s agave syrup
Sea Salt
Grasshopper salt
Worm salt
Directions
Rim a chilled Nick and Nora glass with equal sections of sea salt, grasshopper salt, and worm salt.
Shake all other ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
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