Best Caipirinha Recipes

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• In a large rocks glass squeeze and drop in 2 eighths of lime. Add sugar, crush and mix with a spoon. Pour in the cachaca and plenty of ice. Stir well.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Put the lime wedges in a large jug with the sugar, then use a muddler or the end of a rolling pin to break them down. Release as much juice from the wedges as possible, and let it mix with the sugar to create a syrup - you can also do this with a large pestle and mortar. Discard the lime peel.
• Divide the syrup and cachaça between four glasses, then top with the crushed ice. Serve garnished with lime wedges, if you like.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Cut lime into 6 wedges. Squeeze the wedges into an old-fashioned glass, then add wedges. Add cachaça and sugar; use a spoon to muddle. Fill glass with ice, then stir well to chill.

CAIPIRINHA (BRAZILIAN COCKTAIL)

Steps:

• Place lime and sugar in bottom of cocktail shaker. Muddle lime to release all the citrus juice.
• Add crushed ice and cachaca to the shaker, and shake well.
• Pour shaken cocktail into an old-fashioned glass, and serve with a garnish of fresh lime wedge.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• *Cachaça is a Brazilian brandy made from sugar cane.
• Cut up a lime into 8 wedges. Muddle the wedges in a rocks glass with sugar. Add Cachaça and top with ice. Stir and serve.

CAIPIRINHA DE LIMO TRADICIONAL (CLASSIC BRAZILIAN COCKTAIL)

Steps:

• Cut off the lime ends with a sharp knife; discard. Slice lime in half; remove white pith from the center. Slice into 6 wedges.
• Place lime wedges skin side down into a glass; add sugar. Mash with a cocktail muddler, bruising the skin slightly. Stir in ice and cachaca.

VIRGIN CAIPIRINHA (NON-ALCOHOLIC)

Steps:

• Place the fruit in the bottom of a mixing glass.
• Add the sugar cube and a dash of ginger beer.
• Muddle to release the juices.
• Strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice.
• Top with ginger beer.
• Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint on top of the drink if desired.
• Serve with a straw.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place all but 1 lime wedge in bottom of an old-fashioned glass with a little bit of crushed ice and simple syrup. Muddle all ingredients together until well blended. Fill the glass with crushed ice; pour in the Cachaca, the remaining simple syrup and the passion fruit puree. Shake vigorously and serve with a straw and the remaining lime wedge.

STRAWBERRY KIWI CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place strawberries, kiwi, and sugar into a glass; mash well with a cocktail muddler. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Pour in cachaca; stir.

CAIPIRINHA (BRAZIL)

Steps:

• Cut the limes in half, and then cut each half into 8 pieces. Place 12 pieces of lime in each of 4 double old-fashioned glasses (or other 12-ounce glasses.) Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of sugar into each glass. Using a muddler or the butt end of a large wooden spoon, mash the limes into the base of the glass. Try to dissolve the sugar as you do this, and stir occasionally. Fill each glass with 1 1/2 cups of ice and 1/4 cup of cachaca. Pour the contents of the glass into a shaker, and invert the glass into the shaker to act as a lid. Shake the glass and shaker to combine the sugar and cachaca for several seconds. Lift the glass from the shaker, and pour the contents back into the glass. Repeat the process with the remaining 3 glasses.

CAIPIRINHA COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Crush sugar and lime wedges in bottom of glass. Add ice cubes then top off with Cachaca and a dash of club soda.

FRESH PASSION-FRUIT CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Scoop out flesh and seeds of passion fruit and transfer to a mixing glass or cocktail shaker along with sugar, and cachaca.
• Shake over ice and pour into an 8-ounce glass. Garnish with sugar cane stick.

PASSION-FRUIT CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place lime rind in a heavy 12-ounce rocks glass; sprinkle with sugar. Add lime juice, cachaca, and passion-fruit juice; let stand 5 minutes. Fill glass with ice and stir until well combined. Garnish with lime wheel; serve immediately.

PASSIONFRUIT CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• In a pitcher, combine powdered sugar, limes, passionfruit, and cachaca. Muddle all ingredients together. Add ice. Strain into rocks glasses over fresh ice, topping with a little club soda. Serve garnished with lime wedges.

GINGER CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Add lime quarters, sugar, ginger, and ice to a mixing glass or cocktail shaker; muddle well.
• Fill an 8-ounce glass 3/4 full with crushed ice. Add the cachaca.
• Pour the muddled mixture into glass with cachaca. Stir well to make sure sugar dissolves completely. Garnish with sugar cane stick.

BROWN SUGAR CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Combine lime wedges and brown sugar in a lowball cocktail glass; mash with a cocktail muddler to release lime juice. Top glass with ice. Pour in cachaca and stir.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Cut the lime in quarters then cut them crosswise.
• Put lime and sugar in a tall glass and mash with a pestle (or a wood spoon, rolling pin, etc).
• Add the same amount of liquor on the lime juice and stirr.
• Add ice and stirr again.
• Here in Brazil, the guys that sell it at the beach put another glass upside down over it, hold both with one hand and shake.
• Great trick at parties.

CAIPIRINHA COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Place limes and simple syrup in a large pitcher and muddle until limes begin to break down. Add cachaca, ice, and cold water to pitcher. Stir well and serve.

TROPICAL CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• In a mixing glass, gently muddle fruits with sugar. Add ice and cachaca and shake vigorously. Pour into an old-fashioned glass and serve.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place lime and sugar into an old fashioned glass and muddle the two together.
• Fill the glass with crushed ice and add the cachaça.
• Garnish with sugar cane.