11 Super-Easy to Make Tequila Cocktails

Got a bottle of tequila and not much else? Don’t know what you can possibly mix it with?

We collected 11 super easy tequila recipes that don’t require strange and hard to find ingredients. So if you’re not much for shooting that tequila straight, hopefully you’ve got the right stuff to make at least one of the drinks below:

1) Tequila Sunrise

Ingredients: Orange juice, Grenadine, ice

A classic - Place the Orange Juice and about two shots of tequila in a cocktail mixer with crushed ice. Shake thoroughly, and pour into a glass with 2 ice cubes already in it. Next, add the grenadine slowly, allowing for it to rise. Stir it all up really well for the best taste.

2) Tequila Slamer

Ingredients: Fizzy lemonade (best is canned because it fizzes more), or champagne

Pour the tequila and lemonade into a shot glass, leaving about a fifth of the glass unfilled. Cover the top of the glass with your bare palm, grabbing it, and raising the shot glass above the table. Now “slam” the glass down (don’t break it). This mixes up the two ingredients, making the drink fizz. Now try to down it in one gulp.

Note: If you’re using champagne as an alternative to lemonade, this is called a “Slammer Royale.”

3) The Bull

Ingredients: Light beer (Mexican beer is best), lemonade

Pour the tequila, about half a glass of light beer, and the lemonade in a glass and enjoy. The colder this drink is, the better.

4) Mexican Mouthwash

Ingredients: Peppermint liquor

Pour equal amounts of tequila and peppermint liquor in a shot glass. Gently swirl. Drink as a shot.

5) The Giraffe

Ingredients: Grapefruit juice, ice

Pour tequila in a tall glass and add ice. Swirl the two around for a second. Then add grapefruit juice to taste.

6) The Cockroach

Ingredients: Kahlua

Pour the tequila and the Kahlua into a glass and drink. Good alone or as an after dinner liqueur.

7) Turbo

Ingredients: Vodka, fruit juice (your choice), ice

Pour tequila, vodka, and some fruit juice (to dilute/ taste) into a cocktail mixer. Add crushed ice and shake hard. Pour into a tall glass and serve immediately.

8) Mexicola

Ingredients: Cola, lime juice (squeezed from one average-sized lime), ice

Pour the tequila into a tall glass, followed by the fresh squeezed lime juice. Add ice and swirl. Add cola to taste.

9) Navy Seal

Ingredients: Jagermeister

Pour equal amounts of tequila and Jager into a glass with ice and serve.

10) Gold Driver

Ingredients: Orange juice, lime wedge (optional)

Put about two shots of tequila in a glass full of ice and fill the rest up with orange juice. Squeeze in the juice from a lime wedge if you have one, and serve. It’s like a Screwdriver, but with tequila.

11) Tequila Furnace

Ingredients: Tabasco sauce, lime, salt.

Pour the tequila into a shot glass and add about 3-6 drops of Tabasco. Stir gently, and then take it like a normal tequila shot (lick the salt first, do the shot, then bite the lime). You’re gonna be breathing fire after this one…

Got any more?

Did we miss one of your favorites? Let everyone know about it in the comments!

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