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The perfect mix
of sweet and sour, aromatic and alcohol. From the first sip you can
feel summer sunshine approaching (we hope!).
One of the
easiest cocktails to make at home as there is no need for fancy
shakers or expensive liqueurs and you can pick up most of the
ingredients in the supermarket! A perfect party cocktail, blend in a
jug and serve in ice filled glasses, or create individual servings.
What you'll need
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Fresh
mint (if you're going to be making them for a lot of people, get
a whole bunch.)
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Limes
(one per drink)
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Clear
rum (Havana Club 3 yr, Bacardi or Bacardi Limone is delicious in
a Mojito)
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Club
Soda
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Pure
granulated sugar, simple syrup (sugar/water mixture), or guarapo
(sugar cane juice)
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Lots of
ice.
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Highball
glasses.
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Straws.
Step by Step
1.
Crush sugar to a powder add a tablespoon to each glass.
2.
Squeeze and drop one lime onto the sugar and muddle until sugar is
dissolved.
3.
Add at least 6 good mint leaves and muddled on top of the limes.
4.
fill glass with ice.
5.
Add a double measure of rum
6.
Add dash of sugar syrup.
7.
Give it a good stir, ensuring that limes and mint are brought up the
glass. (so you don’t get mint leaves stuck in your straw!)
8.
Top with just a dash of soda water
Recipe adapted
from www.wikihow.com
Where to fine
the best Mojitos:
Our Ed is
somewhat of a Mojito expert, so we asked her (overly!) informed
opinion on where to sip the best Cuban cocktail.
“In Belfast,
it has to be The Apartment - their Mojito is hard to beat. The
Merchant do a fabulous Mojito but they use crushed ice so you can end
up making terribly rude sucking noises trying to get ice melted to
get another luscious sip,” says Katrina. “The best Mojito on the
planet, however, is served at Space bar in Ibiza Town, on the white
Isle of Ibiza. Maybe it’s the holiday atmosphere, maybe it the
chat from Dominic, the cockney waiter who hails from Belfast, or
maybe it’s the added Fruits of the Forest that the bars mixologist
swaps for the sugar…it is fabulous!”
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