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Blueberry Basil Margaritas

Ingredients

  • 1 can 12 ounces frozen limeade concentrate (+2.5 cans of water)
  • 1 cup blueberries rinsed
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 8 basil leaves
  • 2 to 2 ½ cups tequila gold or silver (or vodka if you prefer)
  • lime for garnish

Instructions

  1. 1. Place rinsed blueberries in bowl and top with sugar. Use potato masher or muddler to mash the berries with the sugar until well mashed. Pour blueberry mixture into the pitcher (or you could strain if you don't like a lot of fruit bits in your drinks, personally I don't mind).
  2. 2. Empty the limeade concentrate into a pitcher. Add 2 ½ cans of water. Add 16-20 ounces (your preference), or 2 ¼ cups cans of tequila
  3. 3. Crumple the basil a little in your hands or muddle it a bit (this will help the basil flavor release into the drink) and add it to the pitcher, too.
  4. 4.Place the pitcher, covered, in the fridge for at least 2 hours. Serve in glasses garnished with lime and basil if desired.

Recipe Notes

These drinks do end up having lots of fruit bits in them. Personally I like it, but I know some people might not. You could avoid this by straining the blueberry mixture before you pour it into the pitcher. If you do that, I would put some additional whole blueberries into the pitcher before putting it into the fridge.
Also, you can use vodka in the recipe instead of tequila if you desire.