Grilled Citrus & Grape Sangria

I would really recommend grilling fruit, it tastes great and is easy to make. However, I wasn't too crazy about putting it in a drink. It wasn't bad, but I didn't think it added much to the flavor of the wine and triple sec mix, except that some of the grill pieces were in the drink. We cleaned the grill really well before we did this, but I think it is still hard to get everything off. I think maybe if you did this on a george forman type grill it would work better because it would much cleaner.

This recipe comes from Food and Wine.

Ingredients:

-1 cup grapes
-1 orange
-1 lemon
-1 bottle pink wine
-4 oz agave syrup
-4 oz Triple Sec
-Ice

Grill the slices of lemon and orange for 6 minutes.

Grill the grapes in a basket for 6 minutes.

Grill the fruit until marks form.

Mix the grilled fruit with the alcohol and let sit for at least an hour before serving.

Red, White and Blue Sangria

I always look forward to the summer holidays, because they mean lots of picnics and barbecues, and I always love an excuse to eat outside. Its are also a good chance to make patriotic food and drinks. This is the kind of drink that is great to make for a crowd, and could be made for Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, or really any nice summer day.

This recipe and other holiday themed drinks are on punchbowl.

Ingredients:
-Strawberries, sliced
-Blueberries
-Pineapple, cut into star shapes
-2 bottles dry white wine
-1 cup Triple Sec
-1/2 cup cherry rum
-1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
-1/2 cup agave syrup

Use a cookie cutter or a template to cut the pineapple into stars

Mix all ingredients together.

  

Chill for at least four hours to let the fruit infuse into the sangria and to allow the fruit to soak up the liquid.

We made this over the weekend at Becky's lake house and left it to sit in the fridge for over 12 hours throughout the day. I think this one gets better with time and can probably be made up to 24 hours ahead of time. This made about 10-12 servings and was a hit with everyone at the party.

Blood Orange Sangria

At Vegetarian & Cooking we're obsessed with blood oranges, this is a fun way to jazz up traditional cocktails. Other Blood Orange Recipes: Blood Orange Tequila Drink with Lime and Blood Orange Margaritas.

This recipe is adapted How Sweet Eats.


Ingredients:

-6 blood oranges

-1 bottles of Moscato

-1 cup club soda

-1/2 cup tequila

-12 ounces of strawberries, sliced

-1 pint of blueberries

-1 apple, chopped

-1/2 cup sugar, for glass rimming

Juice your blood oranges.

Prep the fruit and place it in the bowl.

At in all of the liquid ingredients. 

Top with some orange slices if desired. 

Using an orange or some water wet the rim of the glass and dip into sugar.
Add ice to the glasses/jars.

Fill with sangria. 

Drink the sangria.

Then enjoy all of the fruit.

This sangria was really good, Becky and I agreed that this was probably one of the best cocktail recipes that we've made. Both of us had several glasses of sangria, just be careful because it will sneak up on you! I think the flavors went really well together because they were really light, there was no overwhelming flavor of any of the alcohols. The original recipe called for two bottles of wine, but we were just making this for three people so feel free to adjust the recipe as needed.