Cocktail Friday: a Caipirinha
The most famous cocktail from Brasil for Cocktail Friday, the Caipirinha. With Cachaca, sugar cane and lemon.
Ingredients
- 50 ml cachaça
- 2 tbsp Cane sugar
- Lemon
- Crushed ice
- Slice of lemon for decoration
Instructions
- First wash the lemon and roll it a little bit to loosen the juice. Cut the lemon into 4 parts and put them into a glass.
- Add the cane sugar over the lemon and crush the pieces and the sugar with a muddler. Not too much otherwise it will be much too sour.
- Now put the crushed ice into the glass until the glass is full.
- You pour the cachaça over the crushed ice and stirr everything into a mix.
- For decoration put a slice of lemon on the edge of the glass.