How to make a Mojito Cocktail | Jamie Oliver

Okay lovely people, I'm going to show you how to make the best classic mojito, the most popular cocktail on the planet. Very refreshing, very beautiful and very very simple to make. So first up, lime. Give it a little roll just to loosen the oils in the skin. You can start to smell it and also those little capsules of lime juice inside. Take the end off the lime like that. Take a nice, just over a centimetre thick like this and then cut it into four. That goes in to our glass. I want about seven or eight nice leaves of mint. Try and go for the smaller ones. They're obviously younger, they're more delicate and more perfumed. Look at that, beautiful. What we can do, give it a nice little spank. Everything in life is better with a little spank. That goes into the glass. About one dessert spoon level of sugar. If it's a little sour, add a little bit more sugar. Now I haven't got a muddler, I'm just going to use the end of a whisk but you could use a rolling pin or anything sort of that's flat like that and what I want to do is eight nice little squashes. I've been in some not so good bars where you see the bartender's going... It makes the white bitter part of the lime extract and it makes the bitterness also come out of the leaves. Okay, next up we want 50 mils of white rum. I'm just using a little digestive glass like this. Let's say 15 ice cubes is good. I'm just gonna get my little tea towel like this, grab in the little corners, smash it up. You can use a rolling pin if you want. You can get all your aggression out. Think of your bank manager or the estate agent and the taxes you pay every year but it's going to be all right because we're going to have a beautiful mojito. Come and have a look. This kind of blend is nice. I like that, I like it a lot. So I'm only going to fill that glass three quarters okay and then I'm just going to top it up with a little soda water. Just a little splash like that, no more and then we use our spoon and we just almost like cooking when you're folding things through egg whites and cream. Just fold it and then top up with the ice. Garnish with a little mint and also give it another spank. A very important Italian barman told me how to do that. Always spank your mint. So there you go guys. I hope you like that beautiful cocktail and don't forget you can be creative with this, of course you can. It's really nice with different types of mint. I've done it with a lemon thyme before which was really interesting. You can also do it with basil, beautiful little basil leaves. Purple basil, green basil. If you like it, like it. If you want to share it on your social media, put it everywhere. We want people making their own fresh cocktails just like we want them cooking. Also don't forget go and have a look at Food Tube if you want to see some food to go with this lovely recipe but I hope you like that. Until next time, cheers.