Best Mojitos Recipes

MOJITOS BY THE PITCHER

Steps:

• Muddle sugar and mint leaves together in pitcher until leaves are well broken down. Add limes and muddle until limes are juiced. Stir rum into sugar mixture; add club soda and stir until sugar is dissolved.

EASY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place mint leaves, lime slice, and sugar in bottom of a glass and muddle with a spoon until mint is crushed. Fill glass with ice cubes. Pour rum and soda over the ice; stir.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place cubed watermelon in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a bowl through a mesh strainer to remove pulp. Measure out 2 cups of strained watermelon juice and set aside.
• Place mint leaves in the bottom of a pitcher. Pour in 1/2 the watermelon juice; muddle mint leaves with a muddler or the bottom of a wooden spoon.
• Pour remaining watermelon juice, lime juice, rum, and simple syrup into the pitcher. Fill with ice and top with club soda. Serve.

REFRESHING MOJITO BY THE PITCHER MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place lime juice, mint and sugar into a pitcher.
• Using a muddle stick mash to release mint oils, and dissolve sugar into juice.
• Add rum and lots of ice topped with club soda. Adding more club soda to glasses if a lighter drink is desired.
• Garnish with fresh mint and lime slices.

EASY MOJITOS FOR A CROWD

Steps:

• Place the mint leaves, limeade, and 2 cups of water into a blender. Pulse-blend the mixture until the mint leaves are in small pieces, but not completely pulverized. Strain the mixture into a 1 gallon container. Stir in the rum and remaining 2 1/2 quarts of water.
• To serve, fill tall glasses with ice cubes, pour in the limeade mixture, and garnish each glass with a lime wedge.

BLENDED CHERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place the frozen cherries, crushed ice, mint leaves, lime juice, rum, and simple syrup in a blender. Blend until smooth.
• Pour the mixture into chilled glasses and top with crushed ice. Garnish with lime wedges and cherries.
• Lime Simple Syrup
• In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, water, and lime zest over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the syrup to cool for 20 minutes. Strain before using.
• Yield: 1 2/3 cups

MANGO-PASSIONFRUIT MOJITOS

Steps:

• In each of 4 sturdy glasses, muddle 5 mint leaves until they start to break down, a few seconds. In a blender, purée mango, passion-fruit juice, simple syrup, lime juice, and 1/2 cup water. Stir in both rums.
• Fill glasses with ice; top with cocktail. Garnish each glass with passion-fruit seeds (if using) and a mint sprig. Sprinkle ice cubes with a pinch of sea salt; serve.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• Use a mortar and pestle to mash the mint leaves. Remove and discard the rind and seeds of the watermelon. Put the fruit into a food processor fitted with the steel blade and puree. Put the mashed mint into a large pitcher with 2 cups of pureed watermelon, the rum, simple syrup, and lime juice and stir to combine. Pour the mixture into a pitcher for serving.
• Place ice cubes in 6 glasses and pour the mojito mixture into the glasses. Garnish with sprigs of fresh mint and spears of watermelon. Serve ice cold.

LIME AND COCONUT MOJITOS

Steps:

• Combine the sugar, lime zest and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring a few times until the sugar is dissolved. Chill completely before making the mojitos.
• Add the mint and 1/4 cup of the chilled lime syrup to a pitcher; muddle with a wooden spoon to bruise the mint. Add the coconut water, lime juice, white rum and coconut rum and stir to combine. Refrigerate, covered, for at least 30 minutes to let the flavors meld.
• Fill four glasses with ice, then fill by three-quarters with the rum mixture. Top off with lime club soda. Garnish with torn mint and serve.

STRAWBERRY-BASIL MOJITOS

Steps:

• For the strawberry-basil puree: To make the simple syrup, heat the sugar and 2 cups water in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring as needed, until the sugar has completely dissolved. Set aside and allow to cool completely.
• Add half of the strawberries, lime juice and basil to the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until you reach a consistency that makes you happy. I do 10 to 15 pulses, which leaves a good bit of texture. Transfer to a pitcher or container. Repeat with the other half and add to the same container. Pour in the room temperature simple syrup, mix and chill for at least 30 minutes.
• For the strawberry-basil mojitos: Pour 1/2 cup of the strawberry basil puree into each glass. Top with 2 ounces of your favorite light rum, add ice and stir gently to combine. Top off each glass with a splash of soda. Garnish each drink with a stalk of basil and a lime wedge.

ALCOHOL-FREE MOJITOS

Steps:

• Combine 2 cups water and the sugar in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave on High for 5 minutes. Stir the mint into the water; let stand for 5 minutes. Strain and discard the mint leaves from the syrup; set aside.
• Stir the lime sherbet, lime juice, and 1 cup water together in a large pitcher until well combined. Pour the mint-infused syrup into the mixture. Add club soda and stir. Serve over ice. Garnish with lime slices.

BING CHERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Bring sugar and 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat; let cool completely. (Makes about 2 cups syrup.) Syrup can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 1 month.
• Put lime juice into a medium nonreactive bowl. Halve and pit cherries; add to lime juice. Stir in syrup. Refrigerate at least 1 hour (up to overnight).
• Stir cherry mixture and vodka in a large serving bowl. Fill 12 glasses with ice. Spoon 1/2 cup cherry-vodka mixture into each glass. Top off with sparkling water. Serve immediately.

CUBAN MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place sugar and mint in a tall glass and using a muddler or back of a spoon mash mint leaves into the sugar.
• Add rum, lime juice and finish with a splash of club soda. Add ice and serve.

BLENDED MOJITOS

Steps:

• Layer mint leaves, lime juice, rum, sugar, and ice in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour drink into two 16-ounce glasses and top each with seltzer water. Place a lime wedge on each glass and add a fresh mint sprig to each.

BLACKBERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• 1. Add the mint leaves, blackberries, and agave syrup to a cocktail shaker. Using a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon, muddle the ingredients until the mint is fragrant. Add the ice cubes, rum, and lime juice. Cover and shake vigorously to chill.
• 2. Fill 2 rocks or highball glasses with crushed ice and strain the liquid into the glasses. Top with club soda and garnish each with a slice of lime.

FREEZER MOJITOS SLUSH

Steps:

• Place sugar and 1 cup water in saucepan, bring to a boil and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.
• Place mint leaves in a bowl with the juice of 1 lime and a sprinkling of sugar and using a muddler or the end of a wooden spoon/rolling pin/etc mash the leaves up until they are all mushed up.
• Combine the sugar syrup, limeade, remaining water, mashed mint leaves/lime juice, the juice form the other lime and the rum in large bowl. Cut up the limes and toss into the mixture.
• Pour the mixture into a resealable gallon size freezer bag and allow to freeze.
• When ready to serve use a ratio of 1:1 of slush and club soda. You can add ice cubes to help it stay cool --
• **Use the limeade can to measure out the rum**.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• For each drink, muddle 2 watermelon chunks with the juice of 1 lime and 2 teaspoons sugar in a glass. Stir in a handful of mint leaves, then add 2 ounces white rum and ice to each glass. Top each drink with ginger ale and garnish with more mint.

MANGO MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place mint leaves in a large drinking glass. Add 1 lime wedge; crush together with a muddler to extract juices. Add 1 more lime wedge and sugar; mix with the muddler until sugar is dissolved. Remove lime peels from the glass.
• Stir lemon-lime soda, club soda, and mango-flavored rum together in a measuring cup. Pour soda mixture over the mint mixture in the glass. Mix in ice. Garnish with 1 lime wedge.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• In a blender, in batches, puree watermelon. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a liquid-measuring cup, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible (about 3 cups); discard solids.
• In a large container, combine mint, sugar, and lime. With the back of a wooden spoon, crush mint and lime until sugar is dissolved. Add watermelon juice and rum, fill container with ice, and stir to combine. Serve over more ice with mint sprigs.

SPARKLING MOJITOS BY THE PITCHER

Steps:

• Combine sugar and mint leaves in a pitcher; mash well with a cocktail muddler. Stir in lime juice and rum until sugar is dissolved. Stir in sparkling water.