We normally have Martini Fridays here at the Taj Gilbert. However, recent problems with the house supply of vermouth (invaded by fruit flies -- gack) have forced us to venture out to new cocktails. It is nice monsoon weather so a good time as any to try mojitos. Here is the recipe for the Maharajito:
2 tsp powedered sugar
3 oz white Bacardi rum (available, oddly enough, in Bangalore. That is it for good rum in India, unless you care for "Old Monk".)
1 small fistful of pudina (Hindi for spearmint)
Soda water
Half of a lime
.5 oz Rose's Key West lime juice
Crushed ice
1. Muddle the carefully washed mint with powdered sugar and a little bit of soda water in the bottom of a Collins glass with a fork.
2. Add the rum and lime juice. Sqeeze in the lime, cut out the pulp, and drop in the clean shell. Limes in India are really small so you won't get much juice, hence the Rose's.
3. Stir stir stir.
4. Add crushed ice to the top and the soda water. Stir lightly to blend.
5. One dash of rum on the top to remind folks that this is, indeed, Friday.
Serve, enjoy, think of Miami.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Mojito Friday
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