Pomegranate Cocktail Recipe

Prep: easy

Fat & Cal: average

These cocktails can be made with freshly squeezed pomegranate juice but I don't even want to go there - they bottle the stuff these days. Seriously good and good for you!

Pink Angel

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Pomegranate Juice

• 1 1/2 oz. ABSOLUT® KURANT

• 1 oz. Cointreau®

• 1/4 oz. fresh lime juice (or squeeze 2 lime wedges into the shaker and drop them in)

• Orange peel for garnish

Directions:

1. Shake the first four ingredients well with ice. 2. Strain into a chilled martini glass. 3. Garnish with an orange peel twisted over the top of the drink.

POM Cherry Caipirinha

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. POM™ Cherry or Pomegranate juice

• 2 oz. Cachaça, or Rum, or Vodka

• 1/2 oz. brown sugar syrup (1 tsp. of brown sugar mixed with 1 tsp. water)

• 1/2 lime, quartered

Directions:

1. Place lime quarters in the bottom of mixing glass. 2. Add the syrup and muddle extracting the juice and the oil in the skin from the lime quarters. 3. Add Cachaqa and POM Cherry to the mixture in the mixing glass. 4. Fill a rocks glass with ice and dump the ice into the mixing glass. 5. Shake well and pour the entire contents of the mixing glass back into the rocks glass and serve.

Pomegranate Mimosa

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz. freshly squeezed pomegranate juice

• 1 glass of dry champagne

• 1/2 oz. Cointreau®

Directions: 1. Pour champagne into a champagne flute. 2. Add pomegranate juice and float the Cointreau® on top. 3. Toss in a few pomegranate arils for garnish.

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