Name: Mojito (Cuban-style)
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 10 fresh Mint leaves; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 10 ml Sugar syrup 'rich' (2:1); 2 dash Saline solution 4:1; 60 ml Light white rum; 50 ml Soda water

Ingredients

10 fresh

Mint leaves

³⁄₄ fl oz

Lime juice (freshly squeezed)

¹⁄₃ fl oz

Sugar syrup 'rich' (2 sugar to 1 water) 65.0°Brix

2 dash

Saline solution (20g sea salt to 80g water) or merest pinch of s (optional)

2 fl oz

Light white rum (charcoal-filtered 1-4 years old)

1 ²⁄₃ fl oz

Thomas Henry Soda Water (chilled)

How to make

Glass

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a COLLINS GLASS.

Prepare garnish of dash of aromatic bitters, mint sprig bouquet and wooden lollypop stick stirrer..

Method

Gently MUDDLE mint in base of chilled glass (just to bruise).

ADD next 4 ingredients (all but soda) and briefly stir to combine and lift mint with spoon.

FILL glass with cubed ice (not crushed or pebble ice, which are too fine). If using large cubes, crack some with an ice-tapper or the back of an aluminium ice scoop.

TOP with soda water and briefly stir.

Garnish

Garnish a dash of aromatic bitters, mint sprigs bouquet and wooden lollypop stick stirrer.

Flavour Profile

No alcohol

Medium

Boozy

Sweet

Medium

Dry/sour

Health & Nutrition

Alcohol content:

We don't have enough information to calculate the alc./vol., but based on known ingredients, this recipe contains at least:

18.9 grams of pure alcohol

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Comments & Discussion

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John KM Premium Member 7w

Delicious. Now my preferred mojito recipe

Jochum Elsinga 1y

Definitely the best way to make a Mojito, and indeed more like the way they make it in Cuba itself than other recipes on Difford's guide (as I remember it at least)

Simon Sedgley Premium Member 1y

To us the Mojito Cocktail recipe has a more "Cuban-style" than this one...less fussy...we struggle to imagine the average, working class Cuban Mojito lover adding "2 dash Saline solution 4:1". On the other hand, we've never been to Cuba...so who knows? Still, a wonderful, if slightly pedantic, variant. We certainly enjoyed it.

Calvin Grant Premium Member 1y

Very refreshing. I used a generous dash of Angostura and got that lovely orange color on top. Seems about right.

Mel 1y

I found honey to be used instead of sugar in most of the mojitos I drank in Cuba.
(I was astounded by the number of plastic bottles of honey I saw around the country.)

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Mojito (Cuban-style)