Urban Junkies | Eat | UJ Caipirinha Recipe

Ingredients:
60ml cachaça
2tsps granulated sugar
1 lime, cored and sliced/cubed

1. Pop the lime and sugar into a heavy-based tumbler glass and muddle, crushing them smoothly and briefly together with a muddler or rolling pin.
2. Add cachaça.
3. Fill with crushed or cracked ice and stir.

If there's no crushed ice to hand, muddle the lime and sugar in a shaker tin, then add the cachaça and cubed ice, and shake hard and fast before emptying entire contents into your tumbler.

Variations:
Instead of granulated sugar, try using demerera, muscovado, or even vanilla sugar.

Cachaça, like most spirits, can be flavoured by adding an ingredient (e.g. cinnamon quill, vanilla pod) and leaving for 2-3 days. This can be accelerated by popping the sealed bottle into the dishwasher on a short cycle.

Instead of muddling, add all the ingredients into a blender, together with some fresh fruit (e.g. strawberries, melon) and a little ice, to make a 'batida'.

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by AC