Dam Good Mojito Recipe for Six

[Peasie]

This is what brings people to my house each weekend in the Summer. Enjoy ... no substitutes!

3 cups fresh mint leaves
9 tablespoons sugar
1.5 cups rum (I use Cana de Flor aged white rum from Nicaragua)
0.5 cup fresh lime juice (juice from about 4 juicy limes)
crushed ice
club soda (to your taste. I find about half and half work well)

Reserve 6 mint leaves for garnish. Cut up 6 lime quarters for garnish.

Place remaining mint leaves in a large bowl. Add sugar. Using a pestle or wooden spoon, muddle the mint with the sugar until mint is aromatic and oils are released.

Add rum and lime juice and stir until sugar is dissolved. Strain into a pitcher. (Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Refridgerate.)

Fill each glass with ice. Add mojito mixture to half glass. Then add enough club soda to fill glass.

ENJOY! [Edited because spelling is atrocious when consuming Mojito]

[kia027]

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thank you gungo will definitely try for the summer afternoons

[halfwaytree]

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I basically have the same recipe except I use white Havana Club rum and Perier water instead of club soda. But regardless, I love the my mojitos. Perfect summer drink!!!

[Suesumba]

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can i substitute essence du menthe?

[Gen]

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fi the mint leaf ? try it and tell we how it taste. but the mint leaf better.


gwine try this gungo fi one likkle get together

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SueSumba</div><div class="ubbcode-body">can i substitute essence du menthe? </div></div>

[tsophra]

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[Nylah]

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*bump*

for when I need to pick up ingredients tomorrow

just had some mint from my garden in a chickpea salad tonight, and lord have mercy, the mint is so strong and nice

so I am gonna use up some more tomorrow in some mojitos

[Peasie]

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[Nylah]

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man I tell you, this here board has made me part with so much of my hard earned money due to boardite recommendations that it isnt even funny

[Marielle]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Curmudgeon_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I basically have the same recipe except I use white Havana Club rum and Perier water instead of club soda. But regardless, I love the my mojitos. Perfect summer drink!!! </div></div>



yea, the real McCoy....(tho I think in Cuba they just use &quot;ordinary&quot; water....sure nothing fancy like Perrier there!).