Mojito’s refreshing Cuban cocktail is surrounded by many legends. Someone thinks that his distant ancestor was a drink from cheap rum, mint, lime and sugar that appeared in the 16th century, named after Her Majesty's famous pirate Sir Francis Drake. Others They talk about sugarcane pickers who started adding sweet juice to this plant and growing lime and mint in abundance. It is known that mojito was very fond of the writer Ernest Hemingway. On the wall of his favorite bar, he wrote “My Mojito in La Bodeguita.” Bar re La Bodeguita del medio in Havana still welcomes visitors and serves them its signature cocktail.
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- 40 ml white rum;
- 1 medium lime
- from which you will need to get 30 ml of juice;
- 3 sprigs of mint;
- 2 teaspoons of sugar;
- soda;
- ice.
Instruction manual
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Correct glassware for a mojito cocktail - a glass of collins. It is very similar to highball, but higher and narrower. The standard volume of collins is from 10 to 14 ounces (from 300 to 410 milliliters). It is in such glasses that longdrinks are usually served - alcoholic cocktails with lots of ice.
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Take the lime and cut in half. Squeeze the juice from one half and pour it into a glass, add mint and sugar. Bartenders have a special spoon for cocktails, less than a teaspoon and on a very long handle. Using this spoon, they knead mint with sugar and juice. If you do not have such a spoon, then you will have to find something similar. Your task is to get essential oils from mint, but do not tear the leaves to shreds.
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Pour rum into a glass.
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Cut the second half of lime into quarters and also put in a glass.
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Add crushed ice and add soda to the brim.
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Garnish the cocktail with a slice of lime and mint leaves. Drink through a straw.
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Like any popular cocktail, Mojito has many variations. In sunny Havana, in order to dilute the sweetness, a few drops of the angostura tincture are added to the cocktail.
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If you don’t have white rum at hand, but spicy, golden brown, then replacing white sugar with brown and tearing mint into pieces, you will get “Dirty Mojito”.
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In Mexico, there is its own version of "Mojito", of course, with tequila. Instead of sugar, Mexicans pour sweet syrup into a cocktail.
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The English Mojito consists of gin instead of rum, and a sweet sprite replaces the soda and sugar at the same time.
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In American Florida, one hot-tormented bartender came up with a frozen peach Mojito. He poured white rum, peach vodka, lime juice into a blender, added mint and crushed ice and whipped. The result was a cocktail that quickly gained popularity with the local and visiting public.
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If you don’t pour rum or any other alcoholic drink into this cocktail, you will get “Virgin Mojito” or “Nohito”.