Mojito (cocktail Cuba)

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Ingredients

For 1 glass:

• 3 1/3 tbsp (5 cl) rum ideally añejo (3 year old Havana Club)
• 1 tsp cane sugar
• Juice of ½ lime
• 4 peppermint, mint leaves ("hierba buena"),
• Seltzer water or soda water
• Ice
• Angostura

Preparation

• Crush mint leaves in mortar
• Place crushed mint leaves in glass
• Add lemon, sugar and a few drops of angostura and stir.
• Fill glass halfway with crushed ice
• Add rum and mix
• Top off glass with seltzer water
• Serve in tall glass with a tiny mint leaf for decoration

Suggestion

• Some barmen blend the ice glaze and mint in the blender for a finer texture. The cane sugar can also be partially replaced with golden syrup but not all of it, because I find the charm of this cocktail comes from crunching on those little sugar crystals.
• There's a version where you replace the seltzer water with champagne.
• The world of cocktails is very rich, leading you to the far corners of the world. Let me invite you on a little trip into the world of cocktails.
  Learn about an easy version from Mojito on the papilles et pupilles blog (tasting and seeing blog)
• Watch this video on comme1chef.com which gives step by step directions for preparing your Mojito