Brazil’s national cocktail, made with cachaça. You can use vodka if you don’t want to buy a bottle. The only reason I don’t make it more often is crushing the ice – but trust me, it needs crushed ice.
Ingredients
Serves 2
- 1 lime, cut into 8 pieces
- 2 tbsp demerara or soft brown sugar
- 100ml cachaça (or vodka)
- About 10 ice cubes, crushed
Method
- Crush the ice by wrapping it in a tea towel and bashing it, then tip into a jug.
- Put the lime pieces and sugar in a jug and muddle hard to get all the juice out and dissolve the sugar into a strong syrup.
- Add the cachaça and stir.
- Fill two glasses with crushed ice and strain the cocktail over it.
Jules’s tip
It smells really strong of alcohol but doesn’t taste it when you drink it. So beware.
Cheers! – Jules x