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.