Traditional Cuban Mojito Cocktail
Here is the real traditional Cuban Mojito Cocktail recipe that a cuban friend showed me, it is very simple to make but two small details are very important and make your mojito taste like a real cuban mojito.
Ingredients
- 2 Branches of fresh mint or Hierba buena
- 1 teaspoon of cane brown sugar or cane sugar sirup
- 1/2 lime
- 5 cl 1,7 oz of Cuban Rum (preferably Bacardi Gold or Havana Club 3 anos)
- Sparkling water
- Ice cubes
- 2 drops of Angostura.
Instructions
- Put 10 mint leaves and the sugar in your glass, crush it with a spoon ( or use a pestle for cocktails if you have one). Crush the mint about 20 times to extract properly the mint aroma.
- Squeeze you lime over the crushed mint and sugar that is in your glass. Then put the lime into the glass.
- Pour the Rum on the whole preparation
- Add two drops of Angostura
- Add some ice cubes (In Cuba the use bif ice cubes, because it is very hot over there, but you can use crushed ice)
- To complete, pour sparkling water.
- Mix the whole preparation during 5 seconds