Non-alcoholic mojito - a recipe with luxurious variations. How to make homemade mojito

We present you a lesson on making a Mojito cocktail under the guidance of a bartender with five years of experience Antonov Vladimir.
Mojito today is one of the most popular cocktails, not only among girls, but also among the strong half of humanity. In any bar and restaurant you can order a refreshing Mojito. Is it possible to make this cocktail yourself in at home? Vladimir assures that it is possible. It only takes a little skill, and your "homemade" Mojito will come out no worse than ordered at the bar. So, Vladimir shows us how to make a Mojito cocktail.

To prepare a cocktail you will need:

Fresh mint - 10 gr
Cane sugar - 10 gr
Lime - 1 pc.
Lemon - 1 pc.
Rum light - 40 ml
Tonic (sprite, carbonated water) - 80 ml

Let's start cooking "Mojito":

	Get everything ready to start necessary ingredients: Wash and dry the mint leaves, wash and halve the lime and lemon.
	Put mint (10-15 leaves) on the bottom of a tall glass, crush it so that the juice comes out. In this case, you need to keep the leaves intact.
	Sprinkle a layer of cane sugar (1-2 teaspoons) on top of the mint.
	Then take half a lemon and squeeze the juice out of it into a glass. It is advisable to squeeze the juice so that the bones do not get into the glass.
	We cut the lime, cut off several slices from it.
	Put the lime wedges into the glass.
	Then you need to make crushed ice. For this you will need an ice crusher. If you don't have one, wrap the ice cubes in a tea towel and crush the ice with a rolling pin.
	Pour crushed ice into a glass, filling it to the top.
	Add 40 ml of rum to the glass.
	Top up with 80 ml of sprite, sparkling water or tonic. We added a sprite to make the cocktail sweeter.
	Stir the contents of the glass thoroughly with a spoon so that the mint and lime slices are distributed throughout the glass.
	From above we add more crushed ice, with a slide. When serving, garnish the cocktail with a lime or lemon wedge and a mint leaf. Your Mojito is ready!

Several Yet useful tips how to cook "Mojito" deliciously, see the video recipe:

To make a mojito cocktail, an alcoholic recipe can be easily changed to a non-alcoholic one by simply removing the alcohol-containing ingredients. The taste of the drink changes insensibly. You can cook it immediately for the whole family and enjoy its pleasant refreshing taste and wonderful aroma together.

1 Making a cocktail

The appearance of mojitos was first noted in Cuban bars after the Second World War. The popularity among tourists was the reason that the cocktail quickly became famous all over the world. It can be described as a long drink - one that is drunk for a long time.

Mojito cocktail is prepared in tall, slightly widened glasses at the top. To prepare a classic drink, you will need a special pestle, an ice mill and a cocktail spoon of sufficient length. It is served garnished with a sprig of mint and drunk through a straw.

Most often, the preparation of the drink is performed as follows. The necessary ingredients are prepared: half a lime, several sprigs of mint, 30-40 ml of rum, a teaspoon of sugar. Grind a sprig of mint with sugar with a pestle. Then half a lime is squeezed into a glass, the remaining peel is put in the same place and rubbed. Another option - the rest of the squeezed lime is cut into slices and rubbed with a pestle in a glass.

The glass is filled crushed ice pouring rum. Everything is mixed, while the glass should fog up. Fill it to the brim with soda. Garnish with mint and insert a straw. Now you can serve the drink on the table.

If you're going to make mojitos at home, it's helpful to know a few things about the ingredients. So, for example, lime must certainly be used with the peel - when rubbed, the aromatic oils contained there are released.

Rum choose light varieties. In classic recipes, mainly varieties from the Antilles are used. Soda water is sometimes replaced with Sprite, but you should know that in Cuban cuisine such a replacement will be considered bad manners.

Making a mojito at home is not worse in quality than in a good bar, it is not difficult at all, it is enough to observe some little things. Add more ice. A classic drink should be refreshing and quench your thirst well. Sugar choose cane, brown.

As for the various additives to the main composition, they must be chosen according to your own taste. For example, you can add some mint liqueur, Agnostura - herbal tincture with a specific bitter taste. It should not be added more than two drops, this is quite enough to enhance the herbal flavor.

In order to expand the assortment, many bars may offer berries - raspberries, currants, strawberries. They should be put at the very beginning of cooking, in mint mashed with sugar. The taste is fixed with the appropriate syrup, before serving, it is decorated with a few more berries on top.

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2 non-alcoholic cocktails

Alcoholic variants of the drink exist in a large variety, but you may also encounter the fact that not all guests at your party want to drink alcohol. How not to lose the taste? Here is a very simple version that uses almost the same ingredients. 10 g of fresh mint, lime to taste, 150 g of sprite, a few pieces of ice, a spoonful of cane sugar - these are its components.

Lime is cut into thin slices and placed on the bottom of the glass. Put mint, sugar there, knead everything properly. Pour crushed ice into a glass. Now it would be nice to shake the mixture in a shaker, but in its absence, you can just mix everything properly with a long spoon. Pour the mixed mixture in the glass with the sprite. Garnish with a lime wedge, mint sprig and serve.

If you don’t know how to make a non-alcoholic mojito at home, take any of his recipes and simply exclude rum from the composition.

3 Alcoholic cocktails

To classic recipe you can add a wide variety of ingredients that you like, and thus get more and more new cocktail options.

Since the classic mojito includes the obligatory lime, mint, and rum for alcoholic varieties, it is undesirable to change these components. Without them, it will be a completely different drink, perhaps with a similar taste and refreshing effect, but still not quite the same.

However, no one forbids you to experiment on your own and look for new amazing tastes. At any party, a mojito recipe in classic version will serve you well.

But the Brazilian version of the cocktail is a slightly more explosive mixture. When using it, you should be more careful, especially if you did not count in addition to good taste get slightly drunk. The composition of the drink intended for one person includes the following ingredients: a few stalks of fresh mint, lime, sprite or soda - to taste, two tablespoons of sugar, 30 ml of white rum, 30 ml of Bacardi Lemon rum, a little dry champagne.

If the set of ingredients did not scare you, start cooking. Put the lime, cut into slices, sugar and mint into a tall glass. Everything should be slightly crushed until juice is formed. Rum pour into a glass - both types. Add champagne, sprite, mix, then garnish with mint. This is how alcoholic mojito is prepared at home. You can add ice to the glasses or put them in the refrigerator to cool.

If you like spicy drinks, try making a pepper shake. For 4 servings you will need: vodka - 60 ml, sugar syrup- 20 ml, one lemon, soda to taste, lime juice - 30 ml, one Green pepper, one red capsicum, fresh mint - a few sprigs. Shake lime juice, vodka and syrup in a shaker. Cut the lemon and pepper into quarters, put in a shaker, put the mint in the same place and shake. Pour in some soda. Pour into glasses, garnish with mint and serve.

Finally, lovers of preparing cocktails can give a few tips. Any alcohol recipe needs careful selection of ingredients, especially when it comes to home cooking. Keep track of the quality of the products and the proportional ratio.

If you don’t know how to make sugar syrup, but you don’t have one ready at hand, use next recipe. Pour sugar into a saucepan - 3 teaspoons, add the same amount of water. Put on fire and wait until it boils. Sugar should be completely dissolved. After that, the syrup must be quickly cooled - place the pan with it in a bowl with cold water or on ice.

Those who prefer to add not sugar syrup, but sugar itself, should pour a small amount of sparkling water along with it and wait until it dissolves completely. You can use both white and brown sugar depending on taste. But it should be borne in mind that when brown is added, the drink acquires a barely noticeable aftertaste of caramel.

To crush ice in the absence of a special mill, do this. Put the ice in a tight plastic bag, wrap it in a towel. Now tap the bundle with a hammer or rolling pin until the ice crumbles as it should.

When stirring the cocktail with a spoon, try to grab the ingredients at the bottom of the glass.

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Compound:
- 50 ml white rum
- 1/2 lime (lemon)
- 6 sprigs of fresh mint
- 150 ml soda (sprite)
- 2 tsp brown cane sugar

Recipe:
1. Squeeze mint leaves in a glass of sugar.
2. Cut the lime into 4 slices, squeeze, throw the pieces into the glass too.
3. Put ice in a glass, pour rum, top up with soda.
4. When cooking at home, soda and sugar can be replaced with sprite.

Non-alcoholic and alcoholic cocktail mojito
The world-famous Cuban long drink.

The origin of the mojito cocktail is covered in legends. The most romantic of them says that the drink has been known almost since the 17th century; then it was called El Draque - in honor of Sir Francis Drake. In those distant times, when modern ingredients simply did not exist, the drink was prepared from a mixture of "fire water" (aguardiente) and mint, lime and sugar. The latter were used, rather, to beat off the sharpness of the taste of tafia (tafia), this "wild" ancestor of rum. As soon as rum became available to the British (circa 1650), rum was added to the mix.

There are also different opinions about the name of the cocktail. Someone elevates it to the Cuban mojo lime seasoning; others see it as derived from mojadito, Spanish for "slightly damp", or from mojado ("raw").

Mojito is one of Ernest Hemingway's favorite cocktails, which even glorified the bar where he usually enjoyed this drink: "My Mojito at La Bodeguita, my Daiquiri at El Floridita." Today, this line, handwritten by the author of The Snows of Kilimanjaro, flaunts on the wall of that same bar.

Mojito: recipe. Mojito glasses
This cocktail is made with rum. There is an alcoholic and non-alcoholic version of the drink. Served in a highball glass.

Alcoholic mojito: composition
The mojito recipe traditionally includes 5 ingredients: white rum, sugar (originally - juice sugar cane), lime juice, sparkling water and mint. In Cuba, the so-called mint is considered optimal. yerba buena, which grows in abundance on Liberty Island. The sweet and sour combination of lime, sugar and soda, coupled with the freshness of mint, is designed to smooth out and complement the powerful aroma and astringency of the rum. Properly prepared, this cocktail is the perfect thirst quencher on a hot summer day.

non-alcoholic mojito
Non-alcoholic mojito cocktail, i.e. mojito without the addition of rum, is called "Nojito" (Nojito), made up of no ("no") and "mojito", or "Virgin Mojito" (Virgin Mojito).

Non-alcoholic mojito recipe
How to make a non-alcoholic mojito? The recipe, in principle, is not very tricky: do not add rum to the drink and put more ice.

How to make mojito at home
It is quite difficult to observe all the subtleties included in the Mojito recipe at home. Recently, a special mix for the Mojito cocktail, produced by Bacardi, has appeared in Russian stores - it makes the task easier.

If you are still determined to try your hand and want to learn more about how to make a mojito at home, here are some tips. During the preparation, lime juice is poured into sugar or sugar syrup and mint leaves. Then the mixture is gently and gently rubbed with a special pestle-madler. Attention: mint leaves need only be slightly mashed to release menthol oil; no need to tear the mint into small pieces. After that, rum is poured in, the mixture is slightly mixed so that the sugar dissolves and the mint floats to the surface (this will make the serving more beautiful). Finally, ice in cubes is poured into the drink from above and soda is added. Mint leaves and a lime cut into quarters serve as a cocktail garnish.

Mojito is an extremely popular drink in Cuba. Perhaps he comes from Cuban patriots. Initially, it was a low-alcohol drink based on rum, lime and mint. They drank it very chilled. In the heat, he is called upon to quench his thirst. Such a drink was prepared in the morning for the whole day, put in the refrigerator and sipped throughout the day. The drink is bright, refreshing, very pleasant to taste. The recipe below is prepared for those who love mojito for its freshness and special taste, in a non-alcoholic version and with alcohol in the drink.

non-alcoholic mojito

To prepare a mojito without an alcoholic degree, you will need a number of such products:

Sparkling water (2 liters);
3 lime fruits;
fresh mint (50-70 grams), can be replaced with lemon balm;
sugar (preferably honey);
the pulp of any citrus fruit (finely chopped);
ice.

Limes need to be washed, cut into circles. Peppermint also pour cool water in a colander, separate the leaves from the stem. In a tall decanter, put mint, sugar or honey, lime, cut into circles, let it soak in honey.

Next, pour water, mix the contents, let it brew in the cold for at least 2-3 hours. Before serving in tall glasses, put the chopped citrus peel, then the infused drink, put a slice of lime, fresh mint leaves, a couple of ice cubes, insert a straw. Mojito without a single drop of alcohol is ready! Refreshing!

Alcoholic mojito

In fact, mojito recipes are somewhat different from each other. For example, there is such a well-known and common version of alcoholic mojito. For him you will need (serving for 1 tall glass):

50 ml of rum (white);
half a lemon or lime;
5-6 large mint leaves or 3-4 short branches;
150 ml soda water;
cane sugar or brown (1 small spoon);
ice.

We will prepare the drink as follows. Mint leaves should be put in a glass, pour sugar into it and ceiling in it. Cut a lime or lemon into slices, squeeze the juice from the fruit and put the rest in the glass as well. The turn of ice came, then rum, then pour soda water in a trickle. If there is no soda water - advice - replace the serving of sugar in the glass and soda water with 150 ml of Sprite drink. You get a similar taste. Alcoholic mojito is drunk exclusively cold.

Mojito is considered alcoholic drink with the main component in the form of rum, mint and lime. This recipe does not contain alcohol. This drink should refresh, quench thirst in the summer heat, please with its bright taste. It can be prepared for the whole day and put in the refrigerator, pouring an ice-cold mojito into a glass throughout the day. All the ingredients are perfectly combined, this bright and fresh drink is well drunk in the summer season.

• Mojito - a drink that is very popular in Cuba. It is drunk in the summer, but it contains rum. In order for the drink to bring only coolness and freshness in the summer heat, it is proposed to refuse alcohol in this recipe. It won't affect at all taste qualities, and will bring great benefits to your body. in cooked non-alcoholic mojito at home, you can add crushed ice, or you can, for an amateur, add a mixture of citrus pulp. This drink is perfect to quench a strong thirst and cool off in a hot summer. I also like to drink mojitos in the car, only now I have a small problem with the car with painting and I need to solve it. Fortunately, there is a good site where you can order the right solution to this problem, and by and large everything will be fine. After all, if you like a delicious mojito, then of course you need to drink it in a good and well-maintained car.

Making mojito at home not so much difficult process as it might seem at first glance. All the ingredients needed to make a homemade mojito are easy to find at any grocery store (though finding mint can be a hassle), supermarket, or market. And the cooking process itself will not cause any difficulties. Convince yourself of this by trying to cook a non-alcoholic refreshing mojito yourself, at home.

Refreshing non-alcoholic mojito at home

Required for cooking (based on 5 servings):

• 2 liters sparkling water;
• 3 lime;
• 70 grams ;
• sugar or honey to taste (honey is preferable, it makes the mojito taste softer and richer);
• crushed ice optional;
• finely chopped citrus pulp (orange, tangerine, sweetie - the best combination of citruses with mojito) at will.

Cooking:

1. Wash the lime. Without peeling, cut the citrus into circles or thin slices.
2. Rinse the mint, select fresh and whole leaves, separate the leaves from the stem.
3. Take a tall and wide carafe, put honey on the bottom, or pour sugar.
4. Add lime wedges and mint leaves. Stir, crush a little so that the juice begins to stand out (you can even leave it to lie in sugar for a while).
5. Pour carbonated water into the decanter, stir until honey (sugar) dissolves.
6. Let it brew in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
7. When serving in a tall glass, put a little citrus pulp on the bottom, pour over the drink, garnish with colored straws, a lime wedge and mint.

Total cooking time for homemade mojito: 3 hours 30 minutes

Cuban non-alcoholic mojito

If you want to get more intense, true Cuban taste homemade non-alcoholic mojito, the sequence of actions will be slightly different:

1. Cut the limes into slices or cubes, separate the mint leaves from the stem.
2. Take a bowl (better if you have a mortar and pestle on hand) and put lime and mint in it. Mix.
3. Now it will be necessary to crush the lime and mint to get a juicy odorous porridge (until the zest is intact, and the mint leaves and lime pulp are ground into a gruel).
4. Pour sugar or honey into the carafe (150–300 grams, depending on whether you want a mojito with or without sourness) and pour a small amount, about 50 grams, of boiled water (if you use honey, there is no need to pour boiled water).
5. Put the lime and mint porridge in a decanter and mix well with syrup or honey.
6. Pour everything with ice mineral water, or sparkling water.
7. Pour into glasses, put on ice, garnish with fresh lime wedges and mint leaves.
8. Enjoy your refreshing homemade non-alcoholic mojito.

Total Cooking Time for Cuban Mojito: 30 minutes Refreshing drink ready.

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