Mojito La Bodeguita del Medio

Name: Mojito La Bodeguita del Medio (Mojito from La Bodeguita del Medio)
Yield: Serves 1
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: Soda water; 2 ice cubes; 1½ ounces white rum; 2 fresh mint sprigs; Juice of ½ lime; 1½ teaspoons sugar

Mojito from La Bodeguita del Medio

Preparation info

Serves
1

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Eating Cuban

By Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs

Published 2006

About

Though it has turned into a bit of a tourist trap, La Bodeguita del Medio is worth at least one visit. It was here that Ernest Hemingway stopped in each day he was in Havana to drink a mojito. This is the famous bar’s official recipe.

Ingredients

1½ teaspoons sugar
Juice of ½ lime
2 fresh mint sprigs
1½

Americas
Cuba
Havana
Vegan
Drinks
Gluten-free
Caribbean

Method

Put the sugar and lime juice in a highball glass. Add one mint sprig and use the back of a stirring spoon to crush it into the sugar and lime juice. Add the rum and ice. Fill the glass with soda water. Stir and serve, garnished with the remaining sprig of mint.