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Recipe

Greengrass

One-Eyed Jax · Cocktail

PAF Page 130
Dish Cocktail
Diet Vegetarian
Serves 2

Ingredients

  • ½ cup fresh cilantro
  • 2 limes, cut into wedges
  • 4 teaspoons sugar
  • Roughly cracked or small ice cubes
  • 3 ounces cachaca
  • 1 ounce falernum
  • Club soda or sparkling water, for topping off

Equipment

  • 2 Highball or Collins glasses

Instructions

  1. In the bottom of each of two highball glasses, place half of the cilantro and half of the limes. Add 2 teaspoons of sugar to each glass. Using a muddler, work the sugar into the limes and cilantro until the juices and aromas are released. Fill the glasses three-quarters of the way with ice. Divide the cachaca and falernum evenly between the two glasses. Top each glass with soda water and stir gently to combine. Serve at once.

Cook's Notes

Cachaca is known for its distinctive grassy and vegetal flavor profile. Though somewhat similar in taste to light rum, cachaca can only be produced from fermented sugarcane juice; rum often uses sugarcane by-products, such as molasses. This results in a greener, grassier finish that you wouldn't typically find in its counterpart.

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