Papaya Smash

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.