Kiwi Caipirinha Recipes

KIWI CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Combine lime, sugar, and slices from 2 kiwi fruit in a cocktail shaker. Using the handle of a wooden spoon, smash fruit to extract juices. Add about 2 cups ice and the cachaça. Shake to blend well, then divide contents, including ice, between 2 glasses. Garnish with kiwi.
• *Cachaça is a Brazilian sugarcane liquor. Find it at well-stocked liquor stores.
• Note: Nutritional analysis is per serving.

STRAWBERRY KIWI CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• Place strawberries, kiwi, and sugar into a glass; mash well with a cocktail muddler. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Pour in cachaca; stir.

KIWI CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• 1
• Cut lime in half (from pole to pole) and then slice one of the halves into eight 3-4mm thick half-moon shaped segments and drop into the base of a robust rocks glass
• 2
• Add 3 bar spoons caster sugar (or ½oz/15ml sugar syrup 2:1) and MUDDLE
• 3
• Add slices of kiwi and MUDDLE some more
• 4
• When sure fruit juice is fully extracted and the sugar dissolved, transfer the muddled fruit and sugar into serving glass (preferably a 30cl / 10oz highball glass)
• 5
• POUR cachaça (stored in the freezer) into the rocks glass (used to muddle) and swirl to rinse glass before pouring cachaça into serving glass
• STIR to ensure all ingredients are well mixed
• 6
• Crack (rather than crush) four to five large ice cubes and drop into serving glass
• STIR before topping with more ice and serve with a stirrer (but no straws)

FRESH KIWI CAIPIRINHA RECIPE

Steps:

• Muddle the fruit. Combine kiwi, lime, and honey in a cocktail shaker and muddle until everything is well crushed with a muddler or the handle of a wooden spoon.
• Shake. Fill the shaker 2/3 of the way full with ice. Add the cachaça and give a good hard shake until the outside of the shaker is cold and beaded with water, about 20 seconds.
• Serve. Pour into a rocks glass, garnish with a kiwi slice or two and serve.

KIWI CAIPIRINHA

Steps:

• In cocktail shaker, combine the lime pieces and sugar and press with a muddler, to release the juice. Add the kiwifruit and and press with muddler to crush. Fill the shaker with ice. Measure in the cachaca. Cap and shake vigorously. Pour into and old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a slice of kiwifruit.