Honeydew Mojito's

Out of the Ord - Honeydew

I thought it was about time that I create a wet season (summer, for the southerners) cocktail, and seeing as honeydew was this weeks crop for Out of the Ord it was meant to be.

​This is inspired from my bartender days and an amazing watermelon cocktail I enjoyed at Eco Beach, south of Broome earlier this year.

​I made a couple of different versions using all the Hoochery Rum in our cupboard - the Black Wax Premium Rum, the Kimberley Moon White Rum and the new 5 Rivers Spiced Rum and can recommend that Kimberley Moon white rum makes the best tasting Honeydew Mojito.

​Yes - I know, that is a lot of rum choice in our cupboard- what can I say, we're fans!

I hope you enjoy the cocktail, Matt and I had this as a pre-drink to baking a freshly caught barramundi in an Asian glaze.

​A refreshing cocktail made with farm fresh honeydew melon.
Serves 2
I worked on a standard nip - 30ml - per person
 
Ingredients:

• Half a ripe honeydew, seeded
  
• 1 lime, cut into wedges
  
• 1 tsp. brown sugar
  
• A bunch of mint leaves
  
• 2 measures (60ml) of white rum
  
• Soda water to taste

 
Instructions:

1. Remove the seeds from the Honeydew.
   
2. Using a melon-baller, scoop out the flesh of half the melon, keep to the side*
   
3. Chop up the remaining flesh and process with a hand mixer till smooth.
   
4. In a cocktail shaker, place lime, sugar and approx. 4 torn mint leaves then muddle**
   
5. Pour in 2 measures of rum (60 ml), add ice and shake well***
   
6. Pour the contents of the shaker into a tumbler, add the previously blended honeydew juice and soda water to taste (I used 2 measures of honeydew juice and 1 measure of soda.
   
7. Garnish with honeydew melon balls and mint.
   
8. Drink the deliciousness!

 
Notes:
* If you don’t have a melon-baller, because let’s face it that’s a specialty item…. You can try a teaspoon, I used a tea2 teaspoon which worked good enough… You could also make this part ahead and freeze some melon balls to replace the ice used in the recipe.
** If you don’t have a cocktail shaker and muddling stick, a big plastic cup and a rolling pin will work…
*** As previously mentioned you can use frozen honeydew melon balls instead off ice – if you’re well prepared.