Blood Orange Passionfruit Champagne Sangria
Just in time for Valentine’s Day; wonderfully citrusy, festive, and easy-to-make Blood Orange Passionfruit Champagne Sangria!
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 2 hours 20 mins
- Total Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 servings 1x
Ingredients
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Rosemary Simple Syrup Things!
- 1 3-4″ sprig of rosemary
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
Sangria Things!
- 2 cups passionfruit juice
- 2 ripe passionfruits
- 1 blood orange (also called Moro), sliced in rounds or halves of rounds
- 1 tart apple (e.g. Granny Smith)
- 1 750 mL bottle of Prosecco (I told you I hated Champagne…so I went with the tastier Italian version. You can use champers if you want though.)
Instructions
Rosemary Simple Syrup:
- Dissolve the sugar in the water in a small pot and add the rosemary sprig.
- Bring mixture to a boil for ~2 mins.
- Turn heat off, but leave the pot on the burner for 15-20 mins; allowing the flavours to meld.
- Remove the rosemary sprig.
Sangria Time!
- Slice your fruits, scoop your passionfruits, and put them together in the bottom of a pitcher.
- Add your rosemary simple syrup, passionfruit juice, and prosecco/champagne.
- Refrigerate for 2 hours.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Inspired by: Champagne Sangria | http://theblondcook.com/champagne-sangria/
- Optional/Alternative Prep Method: If you want your fruit flavours to really infuse, you can mix everything together EXCEPT the prosecco/champagne the night before, cover, refrigerate, and then add the bubbly 2 hours before you want to serve your Sangria.
- Make sure the passionfruit juice you get is mostly passionfruit juice. Any passionfruit juice will have sugar added to it (even if you get it from a juice bar), but you want to make sure there isn’t so much added that it no longer has the tartness of passionfruits. The times I’ve found it, it was in the juice section of the supermarket (or, the store that has everything if you’re in the basement of the St. Lawrence Market) in a(n often purple) tetra pak. Whatever you do, avoid anything called Passionfruit DRINK. That has more sugar than anything else and doesn’t remotely taste like a passionfruit.
- If you really can’t find the passionfruit juice, I imagine this recipe would taste awesome with Mango juice!