Fernando Farah

Lime and cachaça cocktail

Caipirinha

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food and Cooking of Brazil
The Food and Cooking of Brazil

By Fernando Farah

Published 2011

  • About

No home barbecue or party in Brazil is complete without caipirinhas. The cocktails, made as individual servings, are a simple blend of sugar, lime juice and cachaca - a distilled alcohol made from sugar cane. Serve with lots of ice.

Ingredients

  • ½ lime
  • 30 ml/2 tbsp caster (superfine) sugar

Method

1 Cut the lime into wedges and place in the glass, together with the sugar.

2 Use a cocktail muddler, or small rolling pin, to crush the lime and sugar together, releasing the oils from the lime skin and dissolving the sugar in the lime juice.

3 Top up the glass wi