mojito

Mojito is a traditional Cuban highball. The cocktail often consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, soda water, and mint. Its combination of sweetness, citrus, and herbaceous mint flavours is intended to complement the rum, and has made the mojito a popular summer drink.

Photo of mojito by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden

Photo by Ralph (Ravi) Kayden, licensed under the Unsplash License

Ingredients

  • 4 cl white rum
  • 3 cl lime juice
  • 6 sprigs mint
  • 2 tsp sugar

Garnish: sprig of mint, slice of lime

Recipe

  1. muddle mint leaves with sugar and lime juice.

  2. add a splash of soda water and fill the glass with cracked ice.

  3. pour the rum and top with soda water

  4. garnish with sprig of mint leaves and lemon slice.