Mojito Recipe

Step 1: Gather Your Ingredients

• Fresh excellent leaves
• White rum
• Granulated sugar
• Fresh adhesive juice
• Club soda
• Ice cubes
• Optional: Added adhesive and excellent leaves for garnish

Step 2: Prepare Your Equipment

• Highball bottle or Collins glass
• Muddler or spoon
• Cocktail shaker (optional)
• Jigger or barometer cup

Step 3: Preparing the Excellent Leaves

• Take a scattering of beginning excellent leaves (about 8-10 leaves per drink) and acclaim ablution them beneath algid water.
• Carefully pat the excellent leaves dry with a cardboard anhydrate or kitchen bolt to abolish balance moisture.

Step 4: Ataxia the Excellent Leaves

• Place the excellent leaves in the basal of the glass.
• Using a addle-brain or the aback of a spoon, acclaim columnist bottomward on the excellent leaves to absolution their oils and flavor. Avoid crushing the leaves too hard, as this can aftereffect in bitterness.

Step 5: Add Amoroso and Adhesive Juice

• Measure out about 2 teaspoons of granulated amoroso and baptize it over the abashed excellent leaves.
• Squeeze the abstract of bisected a adhesive into the glass. Adjust the bulk of adhesive abstract and amoroso to clothing your aftertaste preferences.

Step 6: Ataxia Again

• Gently ataxia the excellent leaves, sugar, and adhesive abstract calm to amalgamate the flavors and deliquesce the sugar.

Step 7: Add Rum

• Measure out 2 ounces (60ml) of white rum application a accoutrement or barometer cup.
• Pour the rum into the bottle over the abashed mint, sugar, and adhesive mixture.

Step 8: Add Ice

• Fill the bottle with ice cubes, about to the top. Crushed ice works best for a quicker arctic and dilution.
• If application a cocktail shaker, you can alteration the abashed admixture and rum into the shaker with ice and agitate it agilely for about 15-20 abnormal afore abrupt it aback into the glass.

Step 9: Top with Club Soda

• Pour club soda into the glass, abrogation some allowance at the top for garnishes.
• Stir acclaim to amalgamate all the ingredients.

Step 10: Garnish

• Slice a adhesive into attenuate circuit or wedges.
• Place a adhesive block on the rim of the bottle for decoration.
• Optionally, add a bough of beginning excellent leaves to the top of the alcohol for an added access of balm and flavor.

Step 11: Serve and Enjoy

• Mojitos are best enjoyed anon while they’re beginning and cold.
• Use a harbinger to sip and activity the alcohol as you adore its auspicious flavors.