Sparkling grapefruit mocktail with rosemary
How do you prepare a sparkling grapefruit mocktail - a non-alcoholic drink that you can serve at a baby shower (also because of the beautiful color), Mother's Day, and your next summer BBQ. It's one of the easiest mocktails to prepare, with a bit of rosemary syrup, grapefruit juice, and sparkling water.
Ingredients
Rosemary sugar syrup
- 250 ml water
- 200 grams sugar
- 3 sprigs rosemary fresh
Sparkling grapefruit mocktail with rosemary
- 500 ml Grapefruit juice
- 4 tablespoons rosemary sugar syrup (above)
- 1000 ml sparkling water
Garnish
- 1 grapefruit sliced
- 100 grams ice cubes
- 3 sprigs rosemary fresh
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Instructions
Preparation
- If you don't have store-bought grapefruit juice, start with juicing them. You'll need about 6 grapefruits.
Rosemary sugar syrup
- In a saucepan add water and sugar and bring to the boil, while stirring.
- Let it boil until the sugar is dissolved. Turn the heat off.
- Put the sprigs of rosemary into the sugar syrup and let it marinate for 30 minutes.
- Hang a sieve in a bowl and sieve the sugar water. You can use a coarse sieve.
- Pour the sugar water into a clean bottle or jar and let it cool further in the refrigerator.
Sparkling grapefruit mocktail with rosemary
- Take a jar and add 2 cups of grapefruit juice.
- Add ¼ cup (60 ml) rosemary syrup to the jar.
- Fill the jar with sparkling water.
- Put in the refrigerator until use.
Serving time
- Add rosemary sprigs, slices of grapefruit, and ice cubes to the jar.
- Serve immediately.
NOTES
- The redder the grapefruit, the sweeter the taste. I use pink grapefruit juice for this mocktail because the color is so beautiful. But if you prefer a slightly sweeter cocktail, you can also use red grapefruits.
- This mocktail is delicious with sparkling water, but you can also use tap water.
- If you do prefer to serve this as an alcoholic cocktail? Replace ⅓ cup of water with ⅓ cup of rum.
- To make it look even more beautiful make a sugar rim. First, dip the glasses in water and then in some sugar. Let that air dry for 15 minutes.
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