Tag: drink

Recipe: agua buena, fabulous summer beverage

(Version française)

Bottle of water with slices of lemon and leaves of mint. A small glass is full of the beverage, next to a lime cut in two and a few leaves of mint.
  • Lemon(s) (or lime)
  • Cane sugar syrup
  • Mint in branches

My favourite beverage

A long time ago after a trip to southern Spain, I brought back with me the recipe of the agua buena (good water) which is really good, particularly in summer.

  • Squeeze the lemon or lime juice and pour in a bottle
  • Pour as much cane sugar syrup
  • Add water
  • Insert branches of mint in the bottle (tip: cut branches as tall as your bottle and put them upside down so that you can fish them out easily)
  • Sample and adjust to your taste
  • Put in the fridge at least an hour
  • Tada!

Recette : agua buena, boisson fabuleuse de l’été

(English version)

Bottle of water with slices of lemon and leaves of mint. A small glass is full of the beverage, next to a lime cut in two and a few leaves of mint.
  • Citron(s) (jaune ou vert)
  • Sirop de sucre de canne
  • Menthe en branches

Ma boisson préférée

Ramenée il y a longtemps d’un voyage au sud de l’Espagne, voici la recette de l’agua buena (eau bonne) qui est vraiment bonne, particulièrement en été.

  • Presser le(s) citron(s) et verser dans une bouteille
  • Verser autant de sirop de sucre que de citron
  • Verser de l’eau
  • Glisser les branches de menthe dans la bouteille (astuce : couper la même longueur de branche que la hauteur de la bouteille et glisser les branches tête en bas vous permettra de récupérer vos branches facilement)
  • Goûter et ajuster selon votre goût
  • Mettre au frais au moins une heure
  • Tada !

Recipe: Mojito

Yummy mojito!

Follow my recipe for yummy mojitos (for 2 big glasses of ~33 cl each):

Ingredients:

  • Fresh mint (the more, the better)
  • Sugarcane juice
  • 1 lime
  • White rum
  • Crushed ice
  • Iced soda water
  • 2 sprigs of mint

Preparation:

  1. Use scissors to shred 20 to 40 rinsed leaves of fresh mint in a bowl.
  2. Transfer equally in each glass.
  3. Pour 30 ml sugarcane juice in each glass.
  4. Muddle mint and sugarcane juice. If you add a spoonful of powdered sugar in each glass, it may help extracting further oil from the mint.
  5. Pour 30 ml white rum in each glass.
  6. Squeeze one lime, pour equally in each glass. That’s about 30 ml per glass. Add pulp (unless you’d rather not bother or don’t care for pulp.)
  7. Add 6 ice cube per glass, or crushed ice.
  8. Fill up with iced soda water.
  9. Cheers!