Best 20 Mojitos Recipes

MOJITOS BY THE PITCHER

Steps:

• Muddle sugar and mint leaves together in pitcher until leaves are well broken down. Add limes and muddle until limes are juiced. Stir rum into sugar mixture; add club soda and stir until sugar is dissolved.

EASY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place mint leaves, lime slice, and sugar in bottom of a glass and muddle with a spoon until mint is crushed. Fill glass with ice cubes. Pour rum and soda over the ice; stir.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place cubed watermelon in a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a bowl through a mesh strainer to remove pulp. Measure out 2 cups of strained watermelon juice and set aside.
• Place mint leaves in the bottom of a pitcher. Pour in 1/2 the watermelon juice; muddle mint leaves with a muddler or the bottom of a wooden spoon.
• Pour remaining watermelon juice, lime juice, rum, and simple syrup into the pitcher. Fill with ice and top with club soda. Serve.

REFRESHING MOJITO BY THE PITCHER MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place lime juice, mint and sugar into a pitcher.
• Using a muddle stick mash to release mint oils, and dissolve sugar into juice.
• Add rum and lots of ice topped with club soda. Adding more club soda to glasses if a lighter drink is desired.
• Garnish with fresh mint and lime slices.

MANGO-PASSIONFRUIT MOJITOS

Steps:

• In each of 4 sturdy glasses, muddle 5 mint leaves until they start to break down, a few seconds. In a blender, purée mango, passion-fruit juice, simple syrup, lime juice, and 1/2 cup water. Stir in both rums.
• Fill glasses with ice; top with cocktail. Garnish each glass with passion-fruit seeds (if using) and a mint sprig. Sprinkle ice cubes with a pinch of sea salt; serve.

BLENDED CHERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place the frozen cherries, crushed ice, mint leaves, lime juice, rum, and simple syrup in a blender. Blend until smooth.
• Pour the mixture into chilled glasses and top with crushed ice. Garnish with lime wedges and cherries.
• Lime Simple Syrup
• In a small saucepan, combine the sugar, water, and lime zest over medium heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the syrup to cool for 20 minutes. Strain before using.
• Yield: 1 2/3 cups

EASY MOJITOS FOR A CROWD

Steps:

• Place the mint leaves, limeade, and 2 cups of water into a blender. Pulse-blend the mixture until the mint leaves are in small pieces, but not completely pulverized. Strain the mixture into a 1 gallon container. Stir in the rum and remaining 2 1/2 quarts of water.
• To serve, fill tall glasses with ice cubes, pour in the limeade mixture, and garnish each glass with a lime wedge.

MANGO MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place mint leaves in a large drinking glass. Add 1 lime wedge; crush together with a muddler to extract juices. Add 1 more lime wedge and sugar; mix with the muddler until sugar is dissolved. Remove lime peels from the glass.
• Stir lemon-lime soda, club soda, and mango-flavored rum together in a measuring cup. Pour soda mixture over the mint mixture in the glass. Mix in ice. Garnish with 1 lime wedge.

LIME AND COCONUT MOJITOS

Steps:

• Combine the sugar, lime zest and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring a few times until the sugar is dissolved. Chill completely before making the mojitos.
• Add the mint and 1/4 cup of the chilled lime syrup to a pitcher; muddle with a wooden spoon to bruise the mint. Add the coconut water, lime juice, white rum and coconut rum and stir to combine. Refrigerate, covered, for at least 30 minutes to let the flavors meld.
• Fill four glasses with ice, then fill by three-quarters with the rum mixture. Top off with lime club soda. Garnish with torn mint and serve.

BLENDED MOJITOS

Steps:

• Layer mint leaves, lime juice, rum, sugar, and ice in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour drink into two 16-ounce glasses and top each with seltzer water. Place a lime wedge on each glass and add a fresh mint sprig to each.

BING CHERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Bring sugar and 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat; let cool completely. (Makes about 2 cups syrup.) Syrup can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 1 month.
• Put lime juice into a medium nonreactive bowl. Halve and pit cherries; add to lime juice. Stir in syrup. Refrigerate at least 1 hour (up to overnight).
• Stir cherry mixture and vodka in a large serving bowl. Fill 12 glasses with ice. Spoon 1/2 cup cherry-vodka mixture into each glass. Top off with sparkling water. Serve immediately.

CUBAN MOJITOS

Steps:

• Place sugar and mint in a tall glass and using a muddler or back of a spoon mash mint leaves into the sugar.
• Add rum, lime juice and finish with a splash of club soda. Add ice and serve.

BLACKBERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• 1. Add the mint leaves, blackberries, and agave syrup to a cocktail shaker. Using a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon, muddle the ingredients until the mint is fragrant. Add the ice cubes, rum, and lime juice. Cover and shake vigorously to chill.
• 2. Fill 2 rocks or highball glasses with crushed ice and strain the liquid into the glasses. Top with club soda and garnish each with a slice of lime.

FREEZER MOJITOS SLUSH

Steps:

• Place sugar and 1 cup water in saucepan, bring to a boil and stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool.
• Place mint leaves in a bowl with the juice of 1 lime and a sprinkling of sugar and using a muddler or the end of a wooden spoon/rolling pin/etc mash the leaves up until they are all mushed up.
• Combine the sugar syrup, limeade, remaining water, mashed mint leaves/lime juice, the juice form the other lime and the rum in large bowl. Cut up the limes and toss into the mixture.
• Pour the mixture into a resealable gallon size freezer bag and allow to freeze.
• When ready to serve use a ratio of 1:1 of slush and club soda. You can add ice cubes to help it stay cool --
• **Use the limeade can to measure out the rum**.

BLUEBERRY MOJITOS

Steps:

• Add blueberries and mint leaves to a tall glass; muddle with the back of a wooden spoon. Fill the glass with ice cubes; add rum, lime juice and simple syrup. Top glass with club soda; mix well. Garnish with lime slice, mint and blueberries if desired.

WATERMELON MOJITOS

Steps:

• For each drink, muddle 2 watermelon chunks with the juice of 1 lime and 2 teaspoons sugar in a glass. Stir in a handful of mint leaves, then add 2 ounces white rum and ice to each glass. Top each drink with ginger ale and garnish with more mint.

TRADITIONAL MOJITOS

Steps:

• In each of 2 highball glasses, muddle (crush together) about 1 tablespoon mint leaves with juice squeezed from 2 lime wedges. Add lime wedges to glasses; muddle. Stir 1/4 cup of the rum and 2 tablespoons sugar into each glass. Mix well to dissolve sugar. Add about 3/4 cup ice to each.
• Pour 1/4 cup club soda into each glass; stir well. Garnish with mint.

BLENDER MOJITOS

Steps:

• Throw the mint leaves and the sugar into a pitcher. Smoosh it around a bit with a spoon to get a bit of the mint oil out of the leaves. Roll the limes on the counter to help release the juice, slice them in half, and squeeze into the pitcher. You can even press a spoon into the lime halves to eke out every last bit of juice, if you want.
• Now the most important step: ADD THE RUM! :)
• Next: If you're camping and your guy is waiting outside with the awesome hand-crank blender at the ready, take the pitcher outside for the next step. Or you can do this with your blender inside, too.
• Fill the blender with 4-5 cups of ice cubes. Pour half the mojito mixture in, and blend on a low speed for 5-10 seconds, just until the mint has been chopped and the ice is a little smaller.
• Divide the mixture between two large glasses, top with club soda to taste. Pour the second half in the blender, and do it again.
• Now just drop straws in, pass 'em out, and let the party begin!

SPARKLING MOJITOS BY THE PITCHER

Steps:

• Combine sugar and mint leaves in a pitcher; mash well with a cocktail muddler. Stir in lime juice and rum until sugar is dissolved. Stir in sparkling water.

TEQUILA MOJITOS

Steps:

• Add half the mint leaves to the simple syrup. Set aside to infuse, 10 to 30 minutes.
• Add the tequila to a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice. Add the simple syrup, lime juice and the remaining mint leaves. Cover and shake well.
• Fill 2 to 4 glasses with ice. Squeeze a lime wedge into each glass and run it around the rim. Add the squeezed lime wedge to each glass and strain in the cocktail mixture. Add a mint sprig to each drink. Serve and enjoy!