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Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Flag Cocktails

Source of Recipe

by Millie, from BH&G Mexican cookbook


Recipe Introduction

The skewered fruits represent the green, white & red of the Mexican flag. If you can’t get Jicama, use apple or banana piece dipped in lemon juice.

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List of Ingredients

1 Sml Jicama
6 seedless green grapes
6 maraschino cherries
¼ C sugar
¼ C lime juice
1 C tequila {8oz)
crushed ice


Recipe

Using a melon baller, cut 6 balls from the jicama. Skewer one grape, one jicama ball, and one cherry on each of 6 toothpicks.

Stir together sugar & lime juice. Add tequila; mix well. Pour over crushed ice in 6 cocktail glasses; garnish the skewered fruits.

Serves 6