Mojito Mojito is the fashionable drink having unique taste which can enjoy in house conditions. All process of preparation will take you no more than 10 minutes.
It is required to you
- - 1 lime;
- - 5-6 small stalks of mint;
- - 20 ml of a sugar syrup or 1.5 tablespoons of sugar;
- - sparkling water;
- - 30 ml of white rum;
- - ice cubes.
Instruction
1. Cut a lime on 2 parts. From one half squeeze out juice in a glass. This procedure it is better to run hands, but not by means of the juice extractor, otherwise drink will turn out hazy that not in the best way will affect appearance of cocktail.
2. Now add a sugar syrup or sugar. To prepare a sugar syrup, pour 3 teaspoons of sugar into a small pan and pour in 3 teaspoons of water. Bring to the boil and sugar remeltings. As soon as sugar is dissolved, remove syrup from fire and cool. If instead of a sugar syrup you add to a glass with lime juice sugar, add a little sparkling water and stir slowly until sugar completely isn't dissolved.
3. Well pound previously cut mint leaves by means of a wooden beater or a usual spoon and add to a glass. Fill a glass with chipped ice cubes, add rum and sparkling water, having filled up to the top a glass. To crush ice, put it in a dense plastic bag, inwrap in a towel and knock on it with a rolling pin or the hammer for chops.
4. Now decorate a glass with drink the whole leaves of mint and segments of the remained lime. And, of course, add to cocktail a special tubule without which will difficult enjoy this Cuban drink as, most likely, the crushed mint will disturb.