Benny’s Margarita cocktail recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Ingredients

• Orange wedge, for rubbing
• Ice cubes, to serve
• 60 ml mezcal, such as Nuestra Soledad mezcal
• 3 tsp lime juice
• 4 dashes of orange bitters, to serve
• Spicy-orange salt rim
• 1 large dried orange peel slice (see note), coarsely chopped
• ¼ dried habanero chilli (see note), crushed
• 60 gm sea salt flakes
• Benny’s cordial
• 160 ml orange juice
• 160 gm caster sugar
• Finely grated zest of ½ orange
• 1 large dried ancho chilli (see note)
• 5 gm ginger (about 1cm), finely grated
• 3 cloves