This easy, refreshing mojito recipes comes together quickly.
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Few drinks are quite as transporting and thirst-quenching as the mojito.
Add rum, crushed ice (always crushed!
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), and top with bubbly club soda.
Learn how to make a mojito.
Then, close your eyes, sip, and pretend you’re out of office.
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Like the cocktail itself, the origins of the mojito are a littlewellmuddled.
Competing theories claim competing origins, much like its name.
(He did like theHemingway Daiquirihowever.)
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(1 1/2 oz.
Use a cocktail muddler to thoroughly crush the ingredients and release their oils.
Add rum and club soda:
Add rum to the glass and fill with crushed ice.
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Top with club soda; stir.
Garnish:
Garnish with remaining lime wheel and mint sprig.
The bottom of a wooden spoon or long-handled plastic kitchen tool will work well, too.
Credit:Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
Credit:Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
Credit:Caitlin Bensel; Food Stylist: Torie Cox
