The recipe
- 1½ tspSugar
- 6 sprigsMint
- 1½Juice of 1½ limes
- Top withSoda water≈ 2 oz
How to make it
- 1Gently muddle the sugar with the mint leaves.
- 2Put a handful of crushed ice into a highball.
- 3Add the lime juice and the mint mixture, then top with soda water.
Garnish: A mint sprig and a lime slice.
Variations: Delish’s NOjito uses 6 oz ginger ale instead of soda and sweetens with maple syrup; olive replaces the rum with apple juice and a dash of almond extract.
BBC Good Food makes two with 1 tbsp sugar, a small bunch of mint and the juice of 3 limes; this is half. The mint is the Mojito’s six sprigs. “Top” is 60 ml on this site.
The ratio
¼ : 1 : 1¼
In parts, a Nojito is ¼ sugar, 1 lime and 1¼ soda. Change one part and you have a cousin; the closest are below.
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