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This easy, classic Mojito cocktail will quench your thirst on the hottest summer days with mint, rum, and bubbles. So refreshing!
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Recipe ingredients
Ingredient notes
- Sugar: Or substitute agave, honey or simple syrup. Feel free to use more or less to taste.
Step-by-step instructions
- In a medium sturdy glass, add mint leaves, 3 lime wedges, and the sugar. Use a muddler to crush them together, releasing the mint oils and the lime juice.
- Fill the glass with ice. Add rum, top with club soda, and garnish with mint leaves and remaining lime wedge.
Recipe tips and variations
- Yield: This recipe makes 1 cocktail.
- Glassware: This Cuban cocktail is traditionally made in a highball glass, an 8-ounce to 12-ounce glass tumbler such as a Collins glass.
- Big Batch: To make a pitcher of 8 Mojitos, muddle 80 mint leaves (about 4 ounces or 2-3 bunches) with the juice of 4 limes and ½ cup sugar (or more to taste). Add 1 ½ cups (12 ounces) white rum. Add ice and top with club soda.
- No muddler: Use the back of a sturdy kitchen utensil for muddling.
- Havana additions: Many hotels in Havana, Cuba add Angostura bitters or use lemon juice instead of lime juice.
- Nojito: The non-alcoholic Mojito mocktail.
- Cojito: Substitute coconut-flavored rum.
- Mojito Blanco: This Mexican variation uses tequila instead of rum.
- Fruit Mojito: Add fruit juice or puree such as grapefruit, pears, raspberries, strawberries, or oranges.
- South Side: Substitute gin for the rum (add seltzer for a South Side Fizz).
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Mojito
This easy, classic Mojito cocktail will quench your thirst on the hottest summer days with mint, rum, and bubbles. So refreshing!
Ingredients
- 10 fresh mint leaves plus more for garnish
- 1/2 lime cut into 4 wedges, divided
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar or to taste (see note 1)
- 1 cup ice cubes
- 1 1/2 ounces white rum (3 tablespoons)
- 1/2 cup club soda
Instructions
- In a highball glass, add mint leaves, 2 lime wedges, and the sugar. Use a muddler to crush them together, releasing the mint oils and the lime juice.
- Fill the glass with ice. Add rum, top with club soda, and garnish with mint leaves and remaining lime wedges.
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Notes
- Sugar: Or substitute agave, honey, or simple syrup. Feel free to use more or less to taste. (I like 1 tablespoon of simple syrup)
- Yield: This recipe makes 1 cocktail.
- Glassware: This Cuban cocktail is traditionally made in a highball glass, an 8-ounce to 12-ounce glass tumbler such as a Collins glass.
- Big Batch: To make a pitcher of 8 Mojitos, muddle 80 mint leaves (about 4 ounces or 2-3 bunches) with the juice of 4 limes and ½ cup sugar (or more to taste). Add 1 ½ cups (12 ounces) white rum. Add ice and top with club soda.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cocktailCalories: 208kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 41mgPotassium: 95mgFiber: 2gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 442IUVitamin C: 13mgCalcium: 49mgIron: 1mg
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