Cocktails: Five best types to have along with a piece of lemon

By now it is pretty clear that cocktails are here to stay. The classic bestselling cocktails have always been the ones that are paired with a piece of lemon. Here are the recipes for the top five cocktails that are best suited with lemon.

Classic Mojito

Ingredients

• 2 oz. white rum.
• 0.5 oz. lime juice (squeezed fresh).
• 1 tsp. superfine sugar.
• 3 mint leaves
• club soda or seltzer

Directions

• In a small glass, mix lime juice with 1/2 to 1 tsp. superfine sugar.
• Add the mint leaves, mushing them against the side of the glass.
• Fill glass 2/3 with cracked ice and pour in the rum.
• Pitch in a wedge of lime and top off with club soda or seltzer.

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Classic Margarita

Ingredients

• 2 oz. silver tequila
• 1 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. lime juice
• coarse salt

Directions

• Chill a cocktail glass
• Then rub its rim with lime juice and dip it in coarse salt.
• Add tequila, Cointreau, lime juice, and ice together in a cocktail shaker.
• Shake and then strain into the glass over ice.

Daiquiri

Ingredients

• 2 oz. white rum
• 1/2 tsp. superfine sugar
• 1/2 oz. lime juice

Directions

• Squeeze the lime into your shaker, stir in the sugar, and then add the rum.
• Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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Basil Gimlet

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Botanist gin
• 0.75 oz. fresh lime juice
• 0.5 oz. simple syrup
• 3-5 fresh basil leaves

Directions

• Add ingredients into a shaker with ice.
• Shake, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Garnish with a basil leaf.

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Malacca Flip

Ingredients

• 1.75 oz. Tanqueray Malacca gin
• 1.5 oz. hibiscus syrup
• 0.25 oz. Maraschino liqueur
• 0.75 oz. sweet vermouth
• 1 fresh lemon wedge
• mint leaves
• 1 egg white
• 3 dashes orange bitters

Directions

• Muddle mint and fresh lemon wedge, then add all other liquid ingredients.
• Dry shake.
• Add ice, hard shake. Rinse a cocktail martini couped with orange bitters.
• Double strain into the cocktail martini coupe.
• Garnish with mint leaf.

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