Old Cuban Cocktail Recipe: How to Prepare the Modern Classic

aged rum

🥗Healthier: light rum

💰Cheaper: white rum

Light rum is lower in calories and more affordable.

champagne

🥗Healthier: sparkling water

💰Cheaper: prosecco

Sparkling water reduces calories, while prosecco is a budget-friendly bubbly.

Pull fresh mint leaves from the stem, keeping the top for decoration.

Measure 50 ml of aged rum (Bacardi 8).

Squeeze 20 ml of fresh lime juice using a Mexican Elbow.

Add 10 ml of simple syrup to the shaker.

Bruise the mint leaves in the shaker to release essential oils.

Shake the mixture long and hard.

Double strain the mixture into a coupette glass.

Top with champagne (Roederer).

Garnish with a mint twig secured with a golden clothespin.

Cooking Techniques

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