World famous cocktail Mojito Cuban 🇨🇺 ingredients 1 lime juice 1 teaspoon granulated sugar a handful of mint leaves, plus extra sprigs 60 ml white rum soda, tasting method step 1

World-famous cocktail Mojito Cuba 🇨🇺

raw material

1 lime juice

1 tsp. granulated sugar

A handful of mint leaves, plus extra twigs

60 ml white rum

Soda, tasting

method

Step 1

Mix the lime juice, sugar, and mint leaves in a small jar and crush the mint as you walk – you can do this with the end of the rolling pin. Pour into a high glass and add a handful of ice cubes.

Step 2

Pour over the rum and stir with a long-handled spoon. Fill up with soda and garnish with mint to serve.

Cuban Havana is the birthplace of Mojito, although its exact origin is the subject of debate. It was well known that the local South American Indians had medicines to treat various tropical diseases, so a small boarding group came ashore in Cuba and brought back the ingredients of an effective drug. The ingredient is "burning water", a crude rum made from sugar cane) mixed with local tropical ingredients: lime, sugarcane juice and mint. [12] Lime juice itself significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery, and Tafia/rum was soon widely used by the English (circa 1650). Mint, limes and sugar also help hide the pungent taste of this spirit. Another theory is that it was invented by Sir Francis Drake. Cocktails are made with brandy. Although this drink was not called mojito at the time, it was the original combination of these ingredients, and you guys see it, so let's get a drink