Yeah, yeah, I know. Technically alcohol isn’t keto. And technically we’re also grown-ass humans who enjoy having a drink from time to time. My family is Brazilian by origin, and I LOVE Brazilian food. I’ve had to give up feijoada since going keto, but I sure as hell am not giving up my delicious Brazilian hooch.
Cachaça is essentially the national alcohol of Brazil, and the caipirinha is the most popular drink made from it. It involves limes muddled with sugar at the bottom of a rocks glass, then ice is added, the cachaça is poured over, and the whole thing is stirred to distribute the lime juice. If you can’t find cachaça at your local liquor store, you can substitute white or gold rum (NOT spiced or flavored), but it won’t be as good. Both are derived from sugar cane, but cachaça tastes different and I’m not sure why.
To make two drinks, start out with one lime. Cut it into 8 chunks, and put 4 on the bottom of each rocks glass. Add a teaspoon of granular Swerve to each glass. Swerve is a naturally-derived sugar alcohol that can be used as a 1-to-1 substitute for sugar in any recipe, and it’s the best low-carb sugar substitute I’ve found so far. After you add the Swerve, use a cocktail muddler to mash it all together until the limes release their juices and the Swerve is dissolved. I only got a cocktail muddler recently. Before that, I’d use the handle of a clean (obviously, but I’m sure someone will read this and try it with something they just used to pound out chicken if I don’t say clean) meat tenderizer mallet handle.
Top the lime juice with ice and pour a large shot (2.5 ounces) of cachaça over the top. Stir, serve, and dream of Carnaval!
Caipirinha
Ingredients
- 1 lime
- 2 tsp Swerve Granular variety
- 5 ounces cachaça
Instructions
- Cut a lime lengthwise, then crosswise, then cut each segment in half so you end up with 8 equal chunks of lime. Put 4 lime segments in the bottom of 2 rocks glasses.
- Sprinkle 1 teaspoon of Swerve over the limes in each glass. Muddle the limes until they've released their juices and the Swerve is mostly dissolved.
- Add ice to the top of the glasses, then pour 2.5 ounces of the cachaça over the ice in each glass and stir.
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