Caipirinha à la chef

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 6 cl cachaça (sugar cane liquor)
• 4 tsp, heaped cane sugar, white or brown (ground)
• 1 lime(s)
• Ice

Instructions

Working time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 10 minutes

The timeless summer hit

You shouldn’t necessarily use green, hard limes; instead, use ones that have been refrigerated for a few days and have already acquired a light yellow hue. These will be less sour and juicier. Rinse limes with hot water before use, as the zest will end up in the cocktail! To make it easier to squeeze the juice out of the lime later, gently roll the lime back and forth on a work surface. Now, cut the lime into eighths or slices, removing the white part in the middle. Place them in a glass and add the ground cane sugar. (Ground cane sugar is quite difficult to find here, but can now be found in some supermarkets (albeit at quite high prices). In Switzerland, on the other hand, ground cane sugar is nothing special and is therefore available everywhere. Tip: Please do not use coarse brown sugar, as it does not dissolve well and you will end up with a sour caipirinha on top and too sweet on the bottom, and you will also be constantly chewing on the coarse sugar. If ground cane sugar is not available, you can also finely grind the coarse brown sugar!) Mash the sugared limes thoroughly with a muddler to get all the juice out of the lime pieces and mix the sugar in the process. Now fill the glass up to three-quarters full with crushed ice and pour on the room-temperature cachaça (brand of your choice), ensuring that the ice and cachaça are at the same level. If you don’t like your Caipirinha too strong, you should first add around 5 cl of cachaça and then add another 1 cl at the end if needed. If you use less cachaça, then only use 3 teaspoons of sugar, otherwise the mixture will be off! To ensure that the sugar cane schnapps and ice mix well with the lime and sugar, pour the contents into another glass and then return it to the original glass. To ensure everything is really well mixed, you can repeat the pouring process a few more times. Now fill the glass again with crushed ice until the glass is full. If you like, you can decorate the glass with a slice of lime, add two straws and you’re done! Saude! Tip: Try varying your Caipirinha with other fruits, such as passion fruit! A Caipi for drivers also tastes delicious non-alcoholic; instead of cachaça, simply top it up with ginger ale or Bionade!