| Verjus "Mojito" Highball |
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| Michelle's adaptation of Cuba's famous beverage. |
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Serves one. Double for two.
Ingredients:
½ tsp sugar
8 mint leaves
thin slice of ginger (about as round as a nickel)
2 oz Venturi-Schulze Verjus
ice
1½ oz rum
ginger ale or ginger beer
5 additional mint leaves
Mix first three ingredients and mash with the back of a spoon. Add the verjus and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Fill a highball glass with ice, strain the mixture into the glass, add the rum and stir. Fill the glass with ginger ale and stir in the 5 whole mint leaves. Delicious!
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