Strawberry Caipiroska
Strawberry, lime, pure fun.
A Caipiroska enriched with fresh strawberries muddled with lime and sugar, then lengthened with vodka and crushed ice. Bright, fruity and easygoing, it is one of the best-loved summer twists in Italy.
- Aperitif
- Muddled
- Glass
- Rocks glass
- Method
- Muddled
- Strength
- Medium
- Time
- 4 min
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Ice
- Crushed
Ingredients
Measures for 1 serving
-
Lime
½
-
White cane sugar
3 tsp
-
Fresh strawberries
4
-
Vodka
50 ml
Garnish
- Fresh strawberry
Proportions
How to make
- Put the lime chunks in the glass.
- Add the sugar.
- Muddle the lime and sugar.
- Add the chopped strawberries.
- Muddle the strawberries to a purée.
- Pour the vodka.
- Fill the glass with crushed ice.
- Stir briefly.
- Garnish with a strawberry on the rim.
- Serve at once with short straws.
The story
Origins
LegendA story passed down, not confirmed by the sources.
The Strawberry Caipiroska comes from a chain of substitutions. It starts with Brazil's Caipirinha, made with cachaça, lime and sugar; swapping cachaça for vodka gives the Caipiroska, originally also called caipivodka, which some sources say spread across South America as the big vodka brands arrived. Adding fresh muddled fruit was the next step: in Italy the strawberry version became hugely popular in 1990s nightclubs, to the point that many know it better than the original. There is no known inventor and no documented first printed recipe: it is a collective creation of nightclub mixing.
Sources (4)
Taste profile
- Fruity
- 4 out of 5
- Sweet
- 3 out of 5
- Citrus
- 3 out of 5
- Fresh
- 3 out of 5
