Fresh Raspberry Mimosa

To up your cocktail game, try experimenting with flavors at home using freshly-squeezed fruit juices.

For fruits with larger seeds such as raspberries or blackberries, it’s helpful to puree the contents with a bit of fruit juice before passing them through a fine mesh strainer a few times. The resulting smooth puree makes for a fantastic flavor and color accent to add to cocktails, or even desserts!

In the version described below, fresh raspberries are blended with juice of one ripe orange, to create a fresh raspberry-orange liquid puree to mix with the champagne.

The following recipe makes one cocktail.

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Fresh Raspberry Mimosa

To up your cocktail game, try experimenting with flavors at home using freshly-squeezed fruit juices.

For fruits with larger seeds such as raspberries or blackberries, it’s helpful to puree the contents with a bit of fruit juice before passing them through a fine mesh strainer a few times. The resulting smooth puree makes for a fantastic flavor and color accent to add to cocktails, or even desserts!

In the version described below, fresh raspberries are blended with juice of one ripe orange, to create a fresh raspberry-orange liquid puree to mix with the champagne.

The following recipe makes one cocktail.

Ingredients

• Juice from 1 ripe orange
• 12 fresh raspberries (reserving the most beautiful one to use as a garnish)
• 3 oz champagne or sparkling dry white wine (chilled)

Instructions 

• Chill your champagne glass.
• In the bottom of a narrow container meant for an immersion blender, combine the juice from one ripe orange with eleven of the twelve raspberries (save one raspberry as a garnish).
• Blend the freshly-squeezed orange juice with the fresh raspberries, until the mixture is smooth.
• Strain the contents through a fish mesh strainer, to red rid of the pulp, and reserve the liquid.
• *I use a fine mesh tea strainer. You could also use several layers of fine cheesecloth. Sometimes I strain the contents twice, cleaning the strainer in between, to get an even smoother final puree.
• Add the chilled champagne to the bottom of the chilled champagne glass.
• Add the fruit juice mixture that you strained earlier to the glass.
• Mix very gently to combine.
• Garnish with a fresh raspberry, and serve.