Inspiring vegetarian recipes
Try our vibrant veggie dishes, from meat-free lasagne to vegetable curry and vegetarian chilli
Basil grapefruit cooler
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- plus infusing time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- t 6 pink or yellow grapefrui
- 300ml vodka
- a small bunch basil
- 200g caster sugar
Method
- STEP 1
Using a vegetable peeler remove the zest from 3 of the grapefruit and put the zest in a jar. Pour over the vodka and leave to infuse for at least 24 hours.
- STEP 2
Cut all the grapefruit in half and juice – if making ahead of time, freeze the juice until it’s needed.
- STEP 3
Pick the leaves from the basil and add the stalks to a small saucepan with the sugar and 200ml of water. Gently heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved, then cool, strain and chill until needed.
- STEP 4
Put half the basil leaves in a jug, pour over the vodka, 300ml of basil stock syrup and the pink grapefruit juice and stir.
- STEP 5
Fill 6 glasses with ice, the remaining basil and a little pink grapefruit zest (use the stuff from the vodka), and fill with cocktail mix.
