Easy Mojitos recipe

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Ingredients

12 leaves mint
2 lime slices
1 teaspoon white sugar, or more to taste
¼ cup ice cubes, or as needed
1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger rum (such as Bacardi®)
4 ½ ounces diet lemon-lime soda (such as Diet Sprite®)

Nutrition Info

121.3 calories
carbohydrate: 7.1 g
cholesterol: : -
fat: 0.1 g
fiber: 0.7 g
protein: 0.2 g
saturatedFat: : -
servingSize: -
sodium: 13.3 mg
sugar: 4.6 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Place mint leaves, lime slice, and sugar in bottom of a glass and muddle with a spoon until mint is crushed. Fill glass with ice cubes. Pour rum and soda over the ice, stir.

Recipe Yield

1 cocktail

Recipe Note

It's hard to find mojitos at any of the restaurants in the small town I'm stationed in, and when I tried to make my own using club soda, they never seemed to turn out right. Using lemon-lime soda also cuts down on the amount of sugar usually used.

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