Sangria
Serves: turns a bottle of wine into about a bottle and a half.
Prep: 10 min
Rest time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
1 orange sliced and cut into small pieces
1 lime sliced and cut into small pieces
1 punnet of strawberries toped and quarted
1 cup of sugar
1 ½ cup of water
1 cup of orange juice
2/3 cup of brandy
1 bottle of red wine
1. Dissolve sugar into the water and allow to cool. It is important that this cools so that it doesn’t wilt the fruit.
2. Slice up the fruit and place into a bowl.
3. Add the sugar water, orange juice and brandy to the bowl allowing to marinate for 2 hours.
4. Add the red wine just before your guests arrive and serve.
5. Keep a second bottle of wine handy so you can adjust to the sweetness… I enjoyed half of my sangria and then decided I’d prefer it less sweet and added another 1/3 bottle of wine. In the future I might go with 1.5 bottles. It seemed to be quite strong in alcohol effects as it was.
