Champagne rhubarb cocktail

  • Portion size: Makes 8 cocktails
  • Hands on time 5 mins, 10-15 mins cooking time, plus cooling
  • Difficulty: easy

This delicious cocktail recipe is made with homemade rhubarb syrup, orange juice, gin and chilled sparkling wine.

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Ingredients

  • 750g forced rhubarb (see tip), trimmed and cut into 5cm lengths
  • 150g caster sugar
  • Grated zest and juice of 1 orange
  • 150-200ml gin
  • Chilled sparkling wine
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Method

  1. To make the rhubarb syrup, put the rhubarb in a pan with the sugar, orange zest and juice and a small splash of water. Bring to the boil, then simmer gently, uncovered, for 10-15 minutes until the rhubarb is very soft.
  2. Strain the syrup through a fine sieve into a jug, pressing the rhubarb to extract all the juice. Allow to cool.
  3. Pour a little rhubarb syrup into each glass, divide the gin among them and top with chilled sparkling wine.
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Nutrition

  • 197.5kcals Calories
  • None Fat
  • 1.2g Protein
  • 22.8g (21.7g sugars) Carbs
  • Trace salt Salt

Per glass

Quick wins & tips

Forced rhubarb – also known as champagne rhubarb – has a pale colour and a sweet flavour. You’ll have more rhubarb syrup than you need for 6-8 cocktails, but you can keep it in sterilised jars in the fridge for up to a month.

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HelenaFogel

I love this recipe because it’s a wonderful grown up way of using rhubarb from my allotment, after exhausting all the pies, cakes & crumbles on delicious!!

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