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Avocado Margarita — coupe with creamy sage-green liquid, a black-salt-and-Tajín rim, cilantro sprig

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Avocado Margarita

Avocado adds no flavour: it adds texture. Dose it like an egg white, not a fruit.

Tequila / Mezcal · Avocado · Dry Curaçao · Lemon · Black salt · Tajín

The baseline was honest: the house Margarita as it is — 60 Altos, 30 Dry Curaçao, 30 lemon, 10 sugar — plus half an avocado and a pinch of salt. The balance wasn't touched; fat was simply added to an already-closed balance. And there was the problem: fat coats the tongue and dampens acid and sweet at once. A cocktail that's perfect dry comes out blunt and heavy with that inside.

The trap is to raise the sugar when it reads flat. That's the wrong move: fat isn't corrected with sweet — that cloys — it's corrected with acid and salt. And the avocado isn't there for flavour, it's there for texture: its real role is that of an emulsion, the same as an egg white. Understanding that changes everything: you dose it like a white (25-30 g), not like a fruit.

The dominant constraint is oxidation: avocado browns in minutes and can't be pre-batched. The clock rules, not the palate. If avocado goes in, the egg white comes out and the sugar drops. From there, four directions — and only one, the fat-wash, solves the oxidation instead of dodging it.

Method

The house Margarita recalibrated for fat: less sugar, more acid, salt. Avocado at egg-white dose (25-30 g), short shake, mandatory double strain, coupe, black-salt rim with Tajín. The cilantro is served detachable — when an ingredient divides opinion, serve it detachable.

The directions

One constraint, several exits

  • Direction 2

    Recalibrated

    The control test: the numbers corrected for the fat.

    60 Altos · 20 Dry Curaçao · 35 lemon · 0-5 sugar · 25-30 g avocado · 5 drops saline. Double strain, coupe, black-salt + Tajín rim.

    Make it first — without it you don't know whether the problem was the recipe or the concept.

  • Direction 3

    Seared

    Fire, well placed: the smoke comes from the Mezcalita, not from burnt avocado.

    60 Koch Elemental · 30 seared-pineapple purée · 30 lemon · 25 g raw avocado · no curaçao or sugar · 5 drops saline.

    The seared pineapple replaces curaçao and sugar — it isn't added on top.

  • Direction 4

    Fat-wash

    The only one that solves the oxidation instead of dodging it.

    Avocado-infused tequila, frozen and filtered · Margarita 60/20/30/0 with the washed tequila. Minimum test: 100 ml, 24 h, one filter.

    Transparent, pre-batchable, in seconds. Sister to the Invisible Smash.

  • Direction 5

    Frozen

    The cold stops the oxidation and the texture plays in your favour.

    Blender with ice · clay cup or frozen coupe.

    The highest margin and the fastest to teach the team.

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