Mojito Recipe
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This minty-lime refreshing beverage will be the highlight of your cookout, or of any other day.
Serve with: your favorite Cuban dishes.
Course: ,
Beverage
Cocktail
Cuisine:
Cuban
Makes:
Servings: cocktails
Takes:
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 6 mint leaves
- 2 whole mint leaves or sprigs for garnish
- 1 lime
- 3 ounces light rum
- 1/2 cup of ice cubes
- 1 cup soda water
Notes:
Options. Substitute lime soda water for the soda water, lime rum for the light rum, lime syrup or brown sugar for the sugar.
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Method
- Prep. Remove the stems and central vein from the 6 mint leaves then cut them in half.
- Place the cut mint and sugar in a martini shaker or sturdy glass. Use a muddler (looks like a small wooden baseball bat) or the handle of a wooden spoon to bruise the mint by gently grinding it against the shaker bottom and the sugar for about 10 seconds.
- Squeeze both halves of the lime into the glass and use a juicer to get it all out. Add the lime hulls and rum, and fill half way with ice cubes. Shake vigorously.
- Serve. Add the soda water, stir just to mix in the soda water, but not enough to make it go flat. Pour through the martini shaker's strainer into martini glasses, and garnish the beverages with a mint leaf or sprig.