This classic mojito cocktail recipe is the ultimate summer cocktail. Made with a refreshing combination of rum, mint, lime, and simple syrup, this mint mojito is the perfect way to cool off on a hot day.
Add the mint, lime juice and simple syrup in a shaker. Take your muddler and muddle until you can smell the mint
15 mint leaves, 2 ounce simple syrup, 2 ounce lime juice
Add white rum and gold rum along with ice. Cap shaker and shake for at least 30 seconds
2 ounce white rum, 3 ounces gold rum
Add ice to the glasses and strain contents of shaker in them, leaving an inch for the club soda
Add club soda and give it a few stirs
4 ounces club soda
Fish som mint leaves out and place them in each glass. Squeeze a ledge of lime in each glass and drop the lime in as well
2 lime wedges
Sip
Enjoy the pretty fireworks
Smile
Enjoy
Notes
Helpful tips
Use really fresh mint. I luckily now have a mint plant and I use it a lot.
If you don’t have a cocktail muddler, you can use the back of a wooden spoon. It takes longer but will still work.
Use good quality rums like Barcardi which is a solid rum.
You can make this with water and sugar, but I don't like to taste the granulars and prefer simple syrup since the sugar is already melted.
Make your own simple syrup instead of buying it – 1 cup white sugar to 1 cup water, boil for 5 minutes, let cool before using it in a cocktail.
Wash the limes before juicing them or garnishing the glass. Here’s how: squirt some unscented, natural soap in your palm and rub your hands over the limes. Then take a vegetable brush and brush the skin. Run cold water over the limes, making sure to rinse off the soap.
Always use freshly squeezed lime.
Do NOT use bottle lime juice as it is too sweet and acidic.
If you don't have both white and gold rums, you can use one or the other but do NOT use spiced rum.
Some people like crushed ice in their mojito but I find the ice melts quickly and dilutes the cocktail.