1
StepRoll the lime firmly under your palm on the worktop to loosen the juice, then top and tail it and cut it lengthways into quarters. Slice away the white pithy ridge running down the centre of each wedge.
Drinks
Caipirinha
Cachaca, lime and sugar built directly in the glass so the fruit oils and the sugar do the work of a syrup. Muddled properly it is sharp and grassy rather than sweet. One glass, one lime, nothing else.
5 min
Prep: 5 / Cook: 0
1
servings
Easy
Difficulty
4.7
7 Ratings
Ingredients
- 1 piece lime
- 2 tsp caster sugar
- 60 ml cachaca
- 8 pieces ice cube
Preparation
4 Steps
2
StepDrop the wedges into a heavy tumbler, add the sugar and press down with a muddler six or seven times, twisting slightly. Stop as soon as the sugar has dissolved into the juice; do not shred the skins.
3
StepPour in the cachaca and stir so the sugar at the bottom comes up off the glass.
4
StepFill the glass to the brim with ice cubes, then stir again for 15 seconds until the outside of the glass frosts. Taste and add a little more sugar only if your limes were very sharp.
Chef's Tip
Cut out the white pith core of the lime before muddling, and press rather than grind, because crushed peel turns the drink bitter within a minute. Use coarse ice cubes, not crushed, if you want it to survive more than ten minutes.
Comments (4)
big cubes over crushed ice makes a real difference on a hot evening
no cachaca here. does white rum change it much?
then it is a caipirissima, and it is fine, just softer. cachaca has a grassy edge rum does not.
two teaspoons is much less sugar than most recipes and it is far better for it
cutting out the pith core fixed the bitterness i always got before