Caipirinha Recipe A Delicious Recipe to Taste with Brazilian Food!
Caipirinha is Brazil's national cocktail, made with cachaça (sugar cane rum), sugar and lime.
There are many ways of preparing a delicious caipirinha. This caipirinha recipe gives you an idea of the Brazilian way...
Watch this video and try it on your own!
Ingredients
1/2 Tahiti lemon, quartered
1 teaspoon white sugar
2 1/2 fluid ounces cachaça (preferably the artesanal cachaça, not the industrial one.)
1 cup of ice cubes
Directions
1.In a large rocks glass squeeze and drop in 2 eighths of lemon.
Add sugar, crush and mix with a spoon. Pour in the cachaca and plenty of ice. Stir well.
As a Brazilian myself, I prepare Caipirinha in a slightly different way: the ingredients are still the same (although you can substitute the cachaça for dark rum - it will then be called "Caipiríssima"). You should crush the sliced lime (unpeeled, please!) and the sugar in a glass, mix in the cachaça (or rum) and a few ice cubes. As for the comments on using either limes or lemons, I can assure you that what is sold in the US as lime is exactly what Brazilians call "limão Tahiti". So, go with the lime!