Dagobah Slug Slinger (Oga’s Cantina Rosemary Ginger Margarita)
Launch yourself to a galaxy far, far away with this Dagobah Slug Slinger, a Star Wars cocktail that's out-of-this-world delicious! This now-discontinued ginger-rosemary margarita from Oga's Cantina features fresh squeezed citrus juices and herbaceous flavors.
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Equipment
- 1 cocktail shaker Boston shaker or standard cocktail shaker
- cocktail glass
- 1 jigger or measuring beakers for precise measurements
- 1 small saucepan for making the syrup
- 1 citrus juicer such a reamer, manual press, or electric juicer
- 1 fine mesh sieve for straining the syrup
- microplane for grapefruit zest
- airtight storage bottle for storing syrup
Ingredients
FOR THE SLUG SYRUP
- 10 g rosemary about 6 small sprigs, use mostly leaves, don't include thick stems in weight
- 7 g ginger 1/2 inch piece, peeled and roughly chopped
- 200 g sugar 1 cup
- 2 g grapefruit zest about 1 tsp, from 1/2 of one large grapefruit
- 237 g water 1 cup
FOR THE COCKTAIL
- 1 oz orange juice freshly squeezed
- ½ oz grapefruit juice freshly squeezed
- ½ oz lime juice freshly squeezed
- 1 oz slug syrup from above recipe
- 2 oz reposado tequila
- ½ tsp blue curaçao about 2 ml
- 3 dashes citrus bitters such as orange or grapefruit
- rosemary salt optional, for garnish
- rosemary sprig for garnish
- dehydrated lime wheel for garnish
- ice crushed, for cocktail and large cube, for shaker
Instructions
FOR THE SLUG SYRUP
- Heat water. Heat water in a small saucepan over medium low heat.237 g water
- Dissolve sugar. Add the granulated sugar and, continue to heat over medium low heat until completely dissolved.200 g sugar
- Add herbs and spices. Add the rosemary and the ginger. Simmer over medium low heat for 10-15 minutes. Be careful not to allow the mixture to boil. A low simmer is fine, but you don’t want a rolling boil.10 g rosemary, 7 g ginger
- Taste + adjust if needed. Give the syrup a taste to see how the flavor is developing. If you prefer to have more rosemary or ginger, you can add it now and continue to gently infuse it over heat for an additional 10-15 minutes.
- Add zest + infuse while cooling. Once the syrup is the flavor you like, remove it from heat and add the grapefruit zest. Allow your syrup to cool and infuse off of heat for at least an hour, and up to three hours.2 g grapefruit zest
- Strain + store. Once the syrup is finished cooling and infusing, strain it through a fine mesh sieve or cheese cloth and pour it into an airtight storage bottle for storage. Store your finished syrup in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
FOR THE COCKTAIL
- Prep glassware. If desired, rim a portion of your glass with lime juice or simple syrup and gently dip it into rosemary salt. Fill each glass with ice to chill the glass.rosemary salt, ice
- Add ingredients to shaker. Add large ice cubes to a cocktail shaker. Pour in the tequila, slug syrup, orange juice, lime juice, grapefruit juice, blue curaçao, and bitters.1 oz orange juice, 1/2 oz grapefruit juice, 1/2 oz lime juice, 1 oz slug syrup, 2 oz reposado tequila, 1/2 tsp blue curaçao about 2 ml, ice, 3 dashes citrus bitters
- Shake to combine. Vigorously shake your cocktail to combine all ingredients well.
- Strain into glassware. Pour into your glass, filling almost to the top, then add more ice to ensure the cup is full top-to-bottom!ice
- Garnish + serve. Garnish each drink with a fresh sprig of rosemary and a dehydrated lime wheel. Serve immediately.rosemary sprig, dehydrated lime wheel
Notes
🧊 fill to the top with ice - filling your cup all the way to the top with ice, even before topping it off, ensures that the cocktail has a LOT of ice to melt into the drink. This keeps the flavor balanced as you sip! The Disney recipe actually included water as an ingredient, but using crushed ice achieves a similar effect.
🌱 more herbaceous - prefer a more herbal drink? You can place a sprig of rosemary into the cocktail shaker as you mix the drinks, to help give an extra boost of herbal flavor.
🫧 bubbly - want a sparkling margarita?! Add a bit of ginger beer to your drinks to cut the strength of the cocktail and add an additional kick of ginger flavor for a margarita-mule mashup!
🚫 mocktail - if you want to make a mocktail version of this drink, you can skip the tequila and use water or a non-alcoholic spirit alternative from brands such as NKD, Free Spirits, or Almave. You can use just a drop of blue food coloring in water, then add a tiny amount of that in, or you can purchase an alcohol free blue curaçao syrup, too!
Nutrition
Calories: 241kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 0.4gFat: 0.2gSaturated Fat: 0.03gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.02gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 102mgFiber: 0.2gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 89IUVitamin C: 22mgCalcium: 9mgIron: 0.2mg
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