Icebreaker Mojitos

Submitted by Chuck Hughes

"Recipe courtesy Chuck Hughes"

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Yields: 2 cocktails

ingredients

• fresh mint sprig, plus more for garnish
• 1⁄4 cup seedless watermelon, cubes (1/2 inch)
• 1⁄4 cup pineapple chunk (1/2 inch)
• 1 lime, quartered into wedges, plus more wedges for garnish
• ice cube, as needed
• 3 ounces or 3 shots white rum
• 1⁄2 cup pineapple juice
• 1 dash sugar cane syrup or simple syrup

directions

1. Using a mortar and pestle, crush or muddle some fresh mint.
2. Spoon in the watermelon and pineapple cubes, and crush them bit by bit. Toss in the lime quarters, and continue mashing.
3. Then, in a cocktail shaker, add 1/2 cup ice cubes, all of the fruit and mint mojito mixture, then add the rum, pineapple juice, and finally, a dash of sugar cane syrup. Shake well to combine.
4. Divide between 2 hefty glasses garnished with lime wedges and mint sprigs.