By Debbie Kornberg

Ingredients for Rim

1 tsp. SPICE + LEAF Aleppo

1 tsp. Sugar

½ tsp. SPICE + LEAF Sumac

¼ of a lime

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Instructions:

Mix Aleppo, sugar, and sumac together and place on a small dish. Rim glass with lime and then roll glass in Aleppo spice blend. Set aside.

Ingredients for Margarita:

2 cups seedless watermelon chopped, purify in blender. Measure 6 oz. liquid for margarita.

6 – 8 mint leaves

6-10 Ice cubes

2 oz. Tequila

2 oz. Cointreau

2 oz. freshly squeezed lime juice

Shaker 

Jig for measuring

Optional Garnish: Blueberries on a toothpick

Instructions for Margarita:

Place watermelon and mint into a blender and purify into juice. 

Place ice in shaker. Add 6 oz. watermelon-mint juice into shaker. 

Add tequila, Cointreau, and lime juice. Shake well. Pour drink into spiced rimmed glass. 

Garnish with lime rind, watermelon wedge, or blueberries on a toothpick.

*For a non-alcoholic mocktail, Pour 6 oz. watermelon juice into a glass. Add 2 – 4 oz. of club. Mix well. Add a twist of lime juice.