Caipirinha
makes 1 drink
Like rum, cachaça is made from unrefined sugar, but it's sharper and more tart. Muddled with lime and sugar, it makes a down-to-earth drink that requires no ostentation.
This recipe comes from Rob Chirico's Hair of the Dog. For more of Rob's great cocktails, buy his Field Guide to Cocktails.
4 key limes, halved and seeded (or 1 small, juicy lime, quartered)
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
2 ounces cachaça
Ice
prep: 5 minutes
total: 5 minutes
cocktail shaker
rocks glass
Sprinkle sugar over limes and muddle them in a cocktail shaker until the sugar is dissolved and the lime juice is released. Add the cachaça and a rocks glass full of cracked ice and shake to incorporate. Return all the contents to the rocks glass.
