Blood Orange Mojito

Submitted by Boomette

"I created this blood orange mojito when I wanted to do a pomagranate mojito and my juice was not good. I had to substitute with another juice and I chose Blood orange juice. Then it was too sweet. I had to reduce the quantity of sugar."

 

• Ready In: 2mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 1

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon icing sugar
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice or 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 12 mint leaves
• 6 tablespoons white rum
• 1⁄4 cup blood orange juice
• 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 fluid ounce ginger ale or 1/8-1/4 fluid ounce club soda

directions

1. Combine the sugar, lemon juice and mint leaves in a tall glass; mash with the back of a spoon.
2. Mix in the rum and blood orange juice.
3. Fill glass with ice.
4. Top with a splash of ginger ale.

Reviews

[NorthwestGal]

I used ginger ale, to see how it would blend with orange juice, and I really liked it (though it was more golden in color than Club Soda, and sort of washed out the orange juice--but that didn't effect the taste). But I thought the rum was a little overpowering in this drink and drown out some of the other fantastic taste sensations. So I would cut the rum to perhaps 4 Tbsp so the other interesting flavors had a chance in the spotlight. But it was a very good drink. Thanks, Boomette.