Caipirinha Original Or With Fruit Food

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.

CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place the lime pieces, pulp side up, in the bottom of an old fashioned glass or heavy tumbler. Add sugar to taste and crush the lime and sugar together with a pestle or the end of a wooden spoon (be sure to crush the pieces pulp side up or too much bitter lime oil will be released from the zest). Add the cachaca, stir to mix and add the ice cubes. Stir again and serve.

CAIPIRINHA ORIGINAL OR WITH FRUIT

Steps:

• Place the lime pieces, pulp side up, in the bottom of an old fashioned glass or heavy tumbler.
• Add sugar to taste and crush the lime and sugar together with a pestle or the end of a wooden spoon (be sure to crush the pieces pulp side up or too much bitter lime oil will be released from the zest).
• Add the cachaca, stir to mix and add lots of ice cubes.
• Stir well again and serve.
• Optional: Shake all ingredients in a shaker till very well chilled.
• Optional: Add your choice of fruit to the lime to be muddled or in the shaker.

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.

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.

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 (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:

• 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.