Caipirinhas with pineapple



Though traditionally made with limes, the national cocktail of Brazil can also be made with pineapple or passion fruit

Ingredients


  • 1 small pineapple
  • juice 4 limes
  • bunch fresh mint
  • 8 tbsp golden caster sugar
  • 400ml cachaça liqueur, or light rum
  • crushed ice for 8 glasses
  • 800ml pineapple

  • juice

Preparation

  1. Core the pineapple and cut into 3cm chunks. Place 8 small handfuls of pineapple, the lime juice, half the mint and the sugar into a pitcher and mash up with the end of a rolling pin or a fat wooden spoon.
  2. Pour in the cachaça and a little crushed ice, then pour into 8 glasses, and add more crushed ice. Pour the pineapple juice over, filling to the rim. Garnish the glasses with extra mint sprigs and cocktail sticks with pieces of pineapple threaded on.

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