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Enjoy this low-calorie Skinny Margarita with everything you love from the classic without the extra calories or sugar.

With a few easy ingredient substitutions, you can enjoy a tasty and refreshing Skinny Margarita cocktail completely guilt-free!

skinny margarita in a glass with a slated rim and a lime wedge

What Is a Skinny Margarita?

"Skinny" is a term that often refers to a lower-calorie version of an original. In this Skinny Margarita recipe, I include all the delicious flavors of a classic Orange Margarita, but I omit the sugar-rich triple sec or Cointreau and add a little orange juice instead. By doing that, this cocktail has 100 calories per drink, while a classic margarita has about 230.

Ingredients

To make his guilt-free cocktail, you'll need tequila, freshly squeezed lime juice, orange juice (a substitute for the orange liquor that reduces the calories and alcohol vol % of this cocktail), and a zero-calorie sweetener (a granulated sugar alternative like Truvia, stevia, monk fruit, or Erythritol). Using regular simple syrup will add calories.

How to Make a Skinny Margarita

Prep the glass if a rimmed glass is your jam.
Shake all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker until the sides are frosted.
Fill the glass with ice, add the margarita mixture, and garnish with a lime wedge.

More Skinny Margarita Recipes

You can mix in other delicious flavors as I did in this epic Skinny Strawberry Margarita, Skinny Spicy Margarita, a sweet Skinny Mango Margarita, and my Skinny Blackberry Margarita.

Skinny Margarita Recipe (Just as Good!)

Servings: 1

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Enjoy this low-calorie Skinny Margarita with everything you love from the classic without the extra calories or sugar.

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Watch How It's Made

Ingredients

1 ounce tequila
1 ounce lime juice, about 1 lime
1 ounce orange juice
1 packet Stevia or 2 teaspoons of zero-calorie sweetener
Salt, optional for rimming

Instructions

Prep:

If you enjoy a salted glass, prep the rim of your glass by rubbing a lime wedge along the rim. Dip in tequila salt, and set aside.

Make the marg:

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add tequila, lime juice, and orange juice. Add one stevia packet and shake well until the sides are fully frosted.

Serve:

Pour the skinny margarita into the prepared glass and garnish with a wedge of lime.

Notes

Serving a crowd? See how to make a pitcher of skinny margaritas here!
I enjoy making this skinny margarita from scratch for better control of the ingredients, but you could use a skinny margarita mix for convenience. Use 4 ounces of margarita mix with 1 ½ ounces of tequila!