Name: Strawberry and Basil Caipirinha
Total time: 4 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1&frasl;2 fresh Lime (fresh); 3 barspoon Powdered sugar; 3 fresh; 3 fresh Basil leaves; 60 ml Cachaça (unaged)

Ingredients

¹⁄₂ fresh

Lime (fresh) (chopped)

3 barspoon

Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle)

3 fresh

Strawberries (hulled, small & ripe)

3 fresh

Basil leaves

2 fl oz

Cachaça (unaged) (from freezer)

How to make

Glassware

Prepare

Select and pre-chill a HIGHBALL (MAX 10OZ/300ML) GLASS.

Prepare garnish of stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane).

Method

CUT lime in half (from pole to pole) and then slice one of the halves into eight 3-4mm thick half-moon shaped segments and drop into the base of a robust rocks glass.

Add 3 bar spoons powdered sugar [or 15ml (½oz) sugar syrup 2:1] and MUDDLE.

Add strawberries and basil, and MUDDLE some more.

When sure fruit juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, transfer the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass).

POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the rocks glass (used to muddle) and swirl to rinse glass before pouring cachaça into serving glass. STIR to combine all ingredients.

Fill glass with ice. (If using large ice cubes, crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes using an ICE TAPPER and drop into serving glass.)

STIR before topping with more ice.

Garnish

Garnish with stirrer and serve without a straw.

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

Comments & Discussion

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Ekaterina Alexandrou 2y

Tried this with blueberry gin instead of cachaca and blackcurrant syrup instead of sugar. So good! Thanks!

John Byrne 2y

This is a superb drink and elevates a regular caipirinha into something else. I used cachaca 51 which is pretty rough but the basil and strawberry really stand up to it. Try it

David Porter 4y

Yep but now thinking 10ml Framboise rather than 15:)
Complicated business this cocktail making

David Porter 4y

You (Difford) would probably stick with the full 60ml of Cachaça?

David Porter 4y

Strangely was experimenting with a Strawberry caipirinha before I saw this recipe. I used 4 Strawberries which I agree is probably too much, however substituted 15ml of framboise for 10ml of the cachaça; to balance this I put in 2 or three spots of good balsamic vinegar (like you do with bitters). Worked well as just gave a sweet but sour edge. Think it would work WITH the basil as well. Give it a go and tell me what you think?

Simon Difford Verified User Premium Member 4y

So perhaps a “Strawberry Basil Caipirinha”. Just to check, your recipe? ½ fresh Lime, 3 fresh Strawberries, 3 fresh Basil leaves, 15ml Framboise, 1.25ml Balsamic vinegar, 60ml Cachaça

Florian Ruf Premium Member 4y

By making this nice summerly cocktail I had an interesting experience. Doing two cocktails side by side one of them was significantly better than the other. It seems that slight deviations can make a big difference