Recipe: Mucho's Fresas Mojito | Seattle Times Newspaper

Makes 1 drink

3 to 4 lime wedges, to taste

1 to 2 strawberries, to taste

10 mint leaves

1 ounce simple syrup

1 ounce light rum, preferably Bacardi Superior

Soda water

1. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the lime wedges, strawberries, mint leaves and simple syrup. Add the rum and shake with ice. Pour into a glass and top with soda water. Serve immediately.

Note: Simple syrup is equal parts sugar and water heated until the sugar dissolves to form a syrup.

Adapted from Mucho Ultima Mexicana Restaurant in Manhattan Beach, Calif., as published by Noelle Carter in the Los Angeles Times