Name: Watermelon Caipirinha
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 1&frasl;2 fresh Lime (fresh); 3 barspoon Powdered sugar; 1&frasl;2 cupful Watermelon (fresh); 60 ml Cachaça

Watermelon Caipirinha
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Serve in a Highball (max 10oz/300ml)

Ingredients:
¹⁄₂ fresh	Lime (fresh) chopped
3 barspoon	Powdered sugar (white sugar ground in mortar and pestle)
¹⁄₂ cupful	Watermelon (fresh) chopped
2 oz	Cachaça from freezer

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Garnish: Stirrer (spoon, wooden lolly stick or stick cut from sugar cane)

How to make:

1. 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. 2. Add 3 bar spoons caster sugar (or ½oz / 15ml sugar syrup 2:1) and MUDDLE. 3. Add watermelon and MUDDLE some more. 4. When sure fruit juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, transfer the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz hi-ball glass). 5. 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 ensure all ingredients are well mixed. 6. 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 and serve with a stirrer (but no straws).

Cocktail of the day:

3rd August 2025 is National Watermelon Day

Review:

The melon flavours are very subtle in this delicious Caipirinha.

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History:

For information on the history and other variations of the Caipirinha, please see our Caipirinha cocktail page.

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John Hinojos

11th July 2023 at 00:15

Perfect for a warm afternoon or evening. Refreshing with a light watermelon flavour. With the few ingredients, the quality is key. The lime zest in the muddling adds the flvours of the oils as well as the lime juice.

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