Food & Wine Mai Tai
Food & Wine Mai Tai
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Ingredients
- 1 dash Pernod
- 1 cup Cracked ice
- 1 1/2 oz Dark rum
- 1/2 oz Orange curacao
- 3/4 oz Fresh lime juice
- 1 oz White rum
- 2 dashes Angostura
- Pineapple wedge
- 1 Maraschino cherry
- 1 Mint sprig
Tools
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Shaker
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Hawthorne strainer
How to Mix
- Fill a shaker with ice cubes
- Add 1 oz of the dark rum
- Add white rum, lime juice, curacao, bitters and Pernod
- Shake well and strain into rocks glass
- Float the remaining dark rum on top
- Garnish with the pineapple, cherry and mint spring
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