Summer time makes us come up with more and more recipes for cooling drinks. Today, such a recipe will be the preparation of non-alcoholic mojito. This Cuban drink has an unusual taste and will definitely quench your thirst.
Ingredients:
- A bottle of Sprite carbonated drink;
- Pieces of ice;
- Lime (can be substituted with lemon);
- Fresh mint leaves.
Preparation:
- Grind in a blender or grind pieces of ice with a part of mint leaves in a mortar so that there is a mint-ice heterogeneous mass and put it on the bottom of the glass.
- Then completely fill the glass with ice, complementing it with layers of mint leaves and thin lemon slices. Remove all seeds from the lemon in advance, as they can give an unpleasant bitter taste.
- Pour chilled Sprite into a glass and gently stir the resulting cocktail.
There are a huge number of variations on the theme of this cocktail, both with the addition of alcohol and without it. Rum is always present in the alcoholic version.
In one recipe for a non-alcoholic version, it is recommended to add cane sugar to the cocktail, in another, mojito is prepared based on plain soda water, in the third, peach puree, pineapple, sage or raspberry are added to the mixture. All of these ingredients alter the main flavor of the mojito in their own way, giving it a hint of their own flavor.
Also, many cocktail lovers experiment with adding honey to mojito instead of sugar and get a sweet-tasting and golden-looking drink. Instead of one lime, you can also add a mixture of the pulp of different citrus fruits: tangerine, lemon, orange, and even grapefruit. In Cuba, this drink has long become a classic drink in the heat on the beach, and the alcoholic version is great at discos and evenings. In Russia, he also became a regular on bar menus in nightlife and summer cafes and coastal restaurants.
It is customary to serve this cocktail in a tall cocktail glass, or a cognac glass is suitable.
