Fresh strawberries blended in, with a touch of lime acidity to balance.
Bench-tested by the Will It Slush? team · Last revised July 20, 2026
Ingredients
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- Blanco Tequila235 ml
- Triple Sec90 ml
- Strawberry Purée (2:1)175 ml
- Fresh Lime Juice120 ml
- Water715 ml
Method
- 1.Blend 1 lb strawberries with ¾ cup 2:1 syrup; strain.
- 2.Combine all in Slushi, run 60 min.
- 3.Garnish with strawberry slice.
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Notes from our testing
Frozen strawberries carry their own sugar and water — subtract both from the syrup and the fill.
Fruit purée is the ingredient people forget to count. A cup of frozen strawberries blended smooth is roughly 90% water and about 7 Brix on its own, so if you build a normal margarita and then add purée, you have quietly moved both numbers and usually landed too sweet and too thin at the same time.
Our batch uses the purée as the bulk of the non-alcoholic volume rather than as an addition. Tequila stays at 4 oz, triple sec drops to 1 oz because the fruit is already carrying sweetness, and simple syrup comes down to about a half ounce. That lands near 10.5% ABV and 12.5 Brix, which slushes on every Ninja model we have tested.
Strain the purée. Strawberry seeds are small enough to pass the auger but they collect in the dispensing valve, and after two batches you get a slow pour and a drip that will not stop. A fine mesh sieve and thirty seconds of pushing solves it permanently.
Frozen strawberries beat fresh here, and not for cost reasons — they are picked riper, so the sugar is more consistent batch to batch. Fresh supermarket strawberries in winter can be half the Brix of summer fruit, which is exactly the kind of invisible variation that turns a working recipe into a brick.