Strawberry Caipirinha

Ingredients to make Strawberry Caipirinha:

1. 3 lemons
2. 2 tablespoons of Sugar
3. 120 milliliters of Cachaça or white rum
4. 8 strawberries
5. Mint leaves
6. Crushed ice

How to make Strawberry Caipirinha:

• To make this famous variation of the Brazilian caipirinha we will start by chopping the lemons. Wash them very well and cut them into quarters, place a lemon and a half in each glass.
• To make these strawberry caipirinhas we will use a couple of short glasses, the typical glasses of water or whiskey.
• Add sugar to each glass and gently crush with a mortar until the lemons and sugar are completely macerated. You will see that the lemon pieces are much flattened and the juice mixes with the sugar forming a paste.
• You can add less or more sugar to taste to make your cocktail.
• Next, wash and cut the strawberries. In this case, after washing them, we remove the green stem and cut them in half. If we have small strawberries, it will not be necessary to cut them.
• Divide the strawberries to place the same amount in each glass. When you have it, mash everything again but very gently, since we don’t want the strawberries to turn into puree, we just want to crush them slightly so that they release color and flavor.
• Fill each glass with crushed ice, pressing down to place as much ice as possible. Then add all the cachucha into the glasses, use a mixing spoon to whisk the contents of the glasses, making all the fruit rise to the top.
• Cachaça is an alcoholic beverage, obtained from the distillation of sugarcane juice, it is typical of Brazil and the main ingredient of the famous caipirinha cocktail.
• Serve the strawberry caipirinha and decorate each of the glasses with some mint leaves. Like other cocktails such as the Cuban mojito, the caipirinha is ideal for hot days as it is an extremely refreshing drink.