Caipirinha
Citrusy
Fruity
A classic Brazilian cocktail made with fresh lime, sugar, cachaca, and optional chilled water, served over cracked ice in a highball glass.
- Time to make
- 5 min
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Strength
- Strong
Ingredients
1 serving
- Lime0.50 oz
- Cachaca2.00 oz
- Chilled water0.75 oz
- Powdered sugar3.00 oz
Equipement
Serving details
- GlasswareHighball
- Garnish
- IceCrackedIce
- TemperatureChilled
How to make it
- Select and pre-chill a Highball glass.
- Cut a ripe lime in half (from pole to pole) and remove the core from each half by cutting a V-shaped groove. You'll need one-half of the lime per cocktail and this should be chopped into wedges and each wedge chopped in half before dropping the resulting 6 or 8 lime chunks into the base tin of shaker.
- Add 3 bar spoons powdered sugar and muddle.
- If using cubed ice straight from the freezer, add chilled water and muddle some more. If using watery ice then omit some or all of the water.
- When sure the lime's juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, pour the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass.
- Pour cachaca into the shaker tin used to muddle, swirl to rinse the tin and pour cachaca into serving glass. Stir to mix with other ingredients.
- If using cubed ice, crack rather than crush four to five large ice cubes and drop into serving glass.
- Stir before topping with more ice.
- Serve with a stirrer but no straws.
Other details
- CaloriesBetween_200_and_250
- Alcohol volume21.39%
- Not suitable forGluten_Free
Reviews
4.6
(500)
