A strawberry mojito is a light-weight, refreshing cocktail that’s perfect for warm summer days. With fresh strawberries, mint, lime juice, and bubbly club soda. Enjoy it with or without white rum – it’s incredible either way!
🍓 What Makes This Recipe So Good
- Making a strawberry mojito from scratch is so quick and simple! Some cocktails are fairly involved, but with mojitos, you get a number of flavor with little or no effort. The dream!
- The flavors are incredible! Club soda keeps things light and fizzy, and fresh lime juice gives the sweet rum & easy syrup a pleasant, tart counterbalance – then there’s the cool mint and the sweet-and-sour fruitiness of the strawberries. Literally the perfect of world.
- It’s super easy to make an alcohol-free version of this drink for any non-drinkers in your group! Since there’s so many components to a strawberry mojito besides the alcohol, you’ll be able to easily leave it out for a convincingly similar mocktail. No substitutions needed!
🥃 What Rum is Best for Mojitos?
White or silver rums are best for mojitos – they keep the drink visually light and don’t add any flavor that overwhelms the mint and strawberries. I like to recommend choosing a nicer rum because you’re not mixing it with every other alcohols on this drink.
If you’re not a fan of rum, you need to use vodka for a vodka strawberry mojito, or you’ll be able to skip the alcohol entirely for a virgin strawberry mojito mocktail!
👩🏼🍳 Chef’s Tips
- Don’t over-muddle the mint leaves and strawberries! You really only need to use enough pressure to softly crush the ingredients to release their oils and juices. If the mint leaves get too muddled, they’ll be bitter.
- For the perfect, most flavorful, perfectly ripe strawberries, search for vibrant red strawberries with vibrant green leaves. Smaller strawberries are literally normally juicier than larger ones, too, for the reason that larger ones contain a number of water. If you’d like a lighter strawberry flavor to your strawberry mojito, though, you may prefer the larger ones!
- If you’re making several strawberry mojitos for a bunch, flippantly pulse the strawberries and mint leaves in a food processor or high speed blender until they’re roughly chopped. So much easier than muddling a drinks’ price over and once more!
- Instead of ice, add just a few frozen diced strawberries to the glass on top of your muddled fresh strawberries. They’ll keep your drink ice cold without watering it down, plus they add one other interesting visual element!
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Strawberry Mojito
A light-weight, refreshing cocktail that is perfect for warm summer days!
Ingredients
For the Strawberry Mojitos
Serving Suggestions (All Optional)
Instructions
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Place 1 ounce easy syrup, 5-6 medium fresh mint leavesand 3-4 small strawberries to empty highball glass. Use muddler or handle of picket spoon to softly muddle strawberries and mint leaves, being careful to not over-muddle ingredients.
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Once strawberries and mint leaves are muddled, add 1 ounce fresh lime juice and 1 ½ ounces white rum to glass, layering liquids on top of muddled mixture. Do not stir.
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Fill remainder of highball glass with crushed ice. Pour club soda over crushed ice, filling glass to rim.
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Garnish glass with fresh mint leaves, strawberriesor lime wedges if desired. Serve mojito immediately and revel in!
Notes
- As written, this recipe yields a single mojito. To serve a bunch, use the servings calculator at the highest of the recipe card to extend the ingredients amounts as needed.
- Simple Syrup Alternatives: Make your personal (see below) or stir ½ ounce honey into ½ ounce hot water, whisking until very smooth.
- Make it Lower Carb: Make your personal easy syrup out of a powdered erythritol or allulose.
Make Your Own Simple Syrup
- Put equal parts sugar (or powdered erythritol, or allulose) and water into heatproof glass container.
- Microwave on high just until mixture barely starts to boil, normally around 1 minute or so. It’s wonderful if it boils for just a few moments.
- Remove from microwave and stir to dissolve sugar.
Nutrition Information
Serving Size: 1mojito, Calories: 211cal, Protein: 1g, Fat: 0.3g, Saturated Fat: 0.02g, Sodium: 56mg, Potassium: 207mg, Total Carbs: 30g, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 25g, Net Carbs: 28g, Vitamin A: 236IU, Vitamin C: 58mg, Calcium: 46mg, Iron: 2mg