On Mojitos

With blueberries!

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Since we’ve had relentless heat and humidity over the past week, I’ve given up on cooking and am leaning into day drinking and, more specifically, day drinking this blueberry mojito. I love a good mojito, but I can’t take the intensity of the simple syrup in most recipes. My solution: cut it out completely and let the sweetened blueberry juice here do the hard work for you. Oh, and add a pinch of salt. Trust me, it works.

A mojito is traditionally made with rum, but I go back and forth between rum and gin. I love the sharpness of the gin against the berries and mint. You can opt for whatever you like here, and you'll end up with a delicious drink.

This recipe batches easily: just triple the ingredients for everything but the sparkling water and add it to a pitcher. Throw some ice on the pitcher, then set the pitcher out with sparkling water on the side for people to add their own. That, my friends, is the life.

Blueberry Mojitos