Among the many alcoholic cocktails, drinks with a refreshing taste and invigorating effect are very popular. These include “Mojito”, which is made from rum, tonic carbonated drink and mint. The cocktail created in Cuba turned out to be so festive and pleasant to the taste that it began to be made on all continents. Changes were made to traditional drink recipes. As a result, new versions of “Mojito” appeared, significantly different from the original ones, including non-alcoholic ones.
Cooking Features
In order to prepare the popular cocktail “Mojito”, it is not necessary to have the skills of a bartender. Even an inexperienced housewife can make this drink in her kitchen if she knows a few subtleties.
- The essential ingredient in Mojito is mint. To give the cocktail a fresh taste and aroma, it is carefully kneaded with a spoon. To make it produce more juice, sugar is added to it. Grinding mint in a blender or finely chopping with a knife is a bad idea: pieces of spicy grass will fall into a straw and get stuck in it.
- When cooking “Mojito”, first make a base of mint, sugar and lime juice. Then it is mixed with ice and rum. Lastly add soda or tonic. After adding this ingredient, the cocktail is not stirred or is done very carefully.
- The traditional ratio of components in the alcoholic “Mojito”: one part of rum and soda, one and a half to two parts of mint-lime base and ice. The proportions can be changed depending on how sweet and strong drink you want to get in the end.
- Drinks used to make Mojito are recommended to cool first.
- For the preparation of traditional “Mojito” cane sugar is used. It is permissible to replace it with ordinary or even syrup, but at the same time it is necessary to realize that some flavors of taste will also change.
“Mojito” is served in tall glasses decorated with sprigs of mint. In each glass down a straw. Choose better straight and wide tubes so that they do not clog pieces of mint, berries and fruits.
Classic Mojito recipe
Composition:
- lime - 1 pc .;
- cane sugar - 20 g;
- mint - 20 g;
- white rum - 50 ml;
- soda - 50 ml;
- crushed ice - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Wash and dry the mint, tear off the leaves and place in a mortar.
- Pour two teaspoons of sugar. Catch mint leaves with a pestle.
- Wash lime, blotted with a napkin.
- Cut the fruit in half, squeeze the juice out of it. Add the remaining sugar to the juice, stir to dissolve the sugar in the juice.
- Spread mint in two tall glasses, pour the mixture of sugar and lime juice over them.
- Pour in crushed ice. With him, the highball should be half full. Ice chips are easy to make from ice cubes. To do this, they are placed in a plastic bag and knock on them with a rolling pin. It is even easier to grind ice cubes with a blender.
- Pour rum into each glass.
- Cover the highball, shake it slightly so that the lime-mint base is mixed with alcohol and ice.
- Pour in soda water.
It remains to insert the tubes into the glasses, decorate the edges of the highballs with mint sprigs and serve the legendary cocktail to the guests.
“Mojito” with dark rum
Composition:
- mint - 2 twigs;
- lemon juice - 5 ml;
- brown sugar - 20 g;
- dark rum - 50 ml;
- crushed ice - to taste;
- soda - 150 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Place mint sprigs on the bottom of a spacious highball.
- Add sugar and lemon juice, remember with a spoon.
- Add ice, pour in rum. Shake the highball by covering it with a wider glass. You can mix the ingredients in a shaker.
- Add soda water.
Soda in this recipe can be replaced with Coca-Cola. Then the cocktail will get a more saturated color.
“Mojito” with vodka
Composition:
- mint (leaves) - 10 g;
- vodka - 15 ml;
- “Schweppes”, “Sprite” or another tonic - 15 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- lemon juice - 15 ml;
- crushed ice - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mint leaves, add sugar, make a ceiling, transfer to the shaker tank.
- Add vodka and lemon juice, add crushed ice.
- Shake the shaker for 30 seconds.
- Pour the drink into a glass.
- Add tonic. Stir the drink gently with a bar spoon.
The glass is decorated with a piece of lime or lemon, a sprig of mint. Served with a wide straw. This recipe “Mojito” is adapted to the realities of Russian life. Such a cocktail can make most of our compatriots. Of course, it will be different from the original, but it will be just as easy and pleasant to drink it.
Watermelon Mojito
Composition:
- watermelon pulp - 0, 5 kg;
- mint leaves - 20 g;
- white rum - 50 ml;
- lime or lemon juice - 20 ml;
- pure water - 0, 25 l;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- sparkling water (savory) - to taste;
- ice - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Mix water with sugar, put on fire. Heat, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Cool the syrup. To make a drink from the amount of ingredients specified in the recipe, you will need 1-1,5 tablespoons of the syrup already made, but cooking it with less than a cup of sugar and water is uncomfortable. The remaining sweet product you can use for other purposes.
- Remember mint leaves, put in a shaker tank.
- Break the pulp of watermelon in a blender, put it in a shaker.
- Add rum, a tablespoon of sugar syrup and lemon juice. Put on ice and shake well.
- Spread the resulting mixture into glasses, filling them in about half.
- Add soda water. Stir gently.
The watermelon “Mojito” is significantly different from the traditional one in color and taste, but it is just as refreshing. If you exclude rum from the composition, you will get a no less tasty drink. If you want to cook non-alcoholic “Mojito”, it makes sense to use this recipe.
Mojito is a popular cocktail made from rum, citrus juice, soda and mint leaves. Sometimes rum in its composition is replaced by another type of alcohol. Adding berries to the cocktail allows you to give it a new taste.
