Lowcarb Margarita Mix
List of Ingredients
From: Kasparcat
1 1/2 cups lime juice (bottled is fine)
1/2 cup lemon juice (ditto)
1 1/2 cups Splenda
2 cups water
1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon orange extract (I get very good orange extract from my
health food store; if you're using the grocery store kind, use the larger
quantity.)
Recipe
Just put everything through the blender for a minute, and pour into a clean liter/quart sized bottle. Refrigerate until use. To make a margarita, combine 2 ounces tequila with about 6-8 ounces margarita mix, and either put it through the blender with lots of ice, or simply serve it on the rocks.
This whole recipe has about 54 grams of carb; it's about a quart (32 ounces), so figure about 10 grams for a 6 ounce serving of the mix. You can cut the carb content a bit by using liquid sucralose or Splenda tablets -- both of these products are lower carb than the Splenda table sweetener, because they lack the malto-dextrin used to bulk it up to the same volume as sugar.
I made this mix using 72 Splenda tablets, and figure I saved a good 6-7 grams off the carb count of the whole batch, or a little over a gram per serving.
From Jep Rooster's Newsletter #149
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