This pretty pink delicately flavoured cocktail is perfect for sipping on a warm summer’s evening. Make the rhubarb and orange syrup the day before and allow to chill in the fridge.
Recipe: Spiced rhubarb and orange Prosecco cocktail
Prep Time
4 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
14 mins
A delicious rhubarb and orange Bellini. A perfect cocktail for summer evenings. Make the syrup the day before and chill in the fridge overnight.
Servings: 6 glasses
Ingredients
- 200 g new rhubarb – choose the thinner pink stalks – cut into 2cm chunks
- Zest or half an orange
- 75 g sugar
- 50 ml water
- 1 segment of star anise – optional
- 1 bottle Prosecco
Instructions
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Place all the ingredients (apart from the Prosecco) into a saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer over a low heat and cook until the sugar is dissolved and the rhubarb is soft.
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Strain through a fine sieve, return to the pan and simmer until reduced to a thin syrup.
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Chill overnight in the fridge.
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Pour a tablespoon of the syrup into each Champagne glass and top up with Prosecco.
Recipe commissioned by Waitrose Cellar.
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A bramble
Favourite cocktails…. heh, I always liked the ones with the silly names the best, just because they’re fun to order at. crowded bar. I’ll go with “Squashed frog” as the best one (or at least the best I can say in public ;-))
Sex on the beach
Margarita
Black Russian
Margarita x
Deadly Berry :)
Mojito yum
Margarita
Piña colada
porn star martini
Fruity daquiri
Pina Colada
Sex on the Beach
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Sex on the Beach
Margarita
Blue Lagoon :)
Pina Colada
Pina Colada (always transports me back to fab holidays in the Dominican Republic)
Sex on the beach!
I’m a French Martini sort of girl
Long island ice tea :)
strawberry daquari
Mojito
Pimms classic.
strawberry daiquiri
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Blue Lagoon
strawberry mojito
mojito
Sex on the beach
Mojito
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