Blood oranges are in season!! Every year when the time comes, I make sure to pick up some of these amazing looking oranges. This year being no exception, I got myself a bag, unsure of what I might do with them, but knowing they needed to find their way on the blog somehow (they are too awesome looking not to be featured!). Given that I had a bunch of mint leftover from the Radish Raita I made, I thought this would be the perfect opportunity for mojitos! Not only would they taste great in this delicious cocktail, I knew it would be a great opportunity to show off how great these things look!
Blood Orange Mojito
A fresh twist on the classic mojito, using these beautiful seasonal blood oranges.
Ingredients
- 8-10 fresh mint leaves
- 1/2 lime
- 1 blood orange
- 1-2 tbsp sugar to taste
- 1-2 ounce white rum to taste
- 1/2 cup club soda
- 1/2 cup crushed ice
Instructions
- Cut blood orange in half, cut off one slice to save for garnish, using the rest for juice.
- In a cocktail mixer, add mint leaves, sugar, and juice of half a lime. Muddle several times to release flavour from mint leaves.
- Add juice from blood orange, rum, crushed ice and finish with soda.
- Garnish with wedge from blood orange and a mint leaf.
Bottoms up!
Bob
What do you mean when you say to “muddle” the mint, lime and sugar? do you just mean shake it or is this some other technique? I can’t pretend to be any expert at making cocktails with a shaker so if you could let me know what you mean I’d be grateful. I’ll still have a crack at it anyway – would be pretty hard to get wrong I’d imagine 🙂
Muddling is basically just mashing the ingredients. Just search “muddling a cocktail” on Youtube, and there should be plenty of how-to videos!