Homemade grenadine and champagne cocktails
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- +cooling
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 4 pomegranates
- 100g white caster sugar
- 3 brown sugar lumps
- 1 lime, sliced
- 1 bottle Champagne
Method
- STEP 1
Juice the pomegranates by pressing them in a citrus press, using a citrus juicer or by releasing all the flesh from the membrane and pulsing it in a blender before sieving out the pips.
- STEP 2
Dissolve the caster sugar in 2 tbsp water and then simmer it until you have a very thick, sticky syrup, then stir in the pomegranate juice to make fresh grenadine. Cool, then cover with clingfilm. This will keep in the fridge for up to 5 days.
- STEP 3
Crack the sugar lumps in half (or into large pieces). Drop a piece each into 6 champagne glasses, then add a measure of grenadine and a slice of lime to each one. Top up with champagne (it will fizz up quite a lot because of the sugar) and serve.
