Papaya Smash
Muddled papaya and island rum
Recipe
Papaya Smash
Serves 1
Ingredients
- •2 oz aged rum
- •¼ cup ripe papaya, diced
- •6 fresh mint leaves
- •¾ oz fresh lime juice
- •½ oz honey syrup
- •Ice
- •Papaya slice and mint sprig, to garnish
Directions
- 1.Muddle papaya, mint, and honey syrup gently in a shaker.
- 2.Add rum, lime juice, and ice; shake hard.
- 3.Pour over fresh ice in a short tumbler.
- 4.Garnish with papaya and mint.
Papaya trees produce fruit year-round in Hawaiʻi; the sunrise variety is sweetest when the skin is mostly yellow.