Winter is coming in a few months 😉😋 and I would like to suggest you a cocktail with tea, fruity, fresh, ideal for an aperitif: winter tea sangria. It takes a couple of days to make it well because it needs to be flavored and flavored but the recipe is simple.
It is based on the principle of iced tea prepared by cold brewing i.e. soaking the leaves or bag in cold or room temperature water for several hours. Read more about it here
In this case, I substituted the water with a bottle of prosecco, by the way a symbol of the holiday season. Yes, because this recipe could be a great cocktail for aperiTEAvo with friends or an accompaniment for Christmas or New Year’s appetizers, perhaps with salmon.
Are you curious to try a tea cocktail? Discover the recipe and get to work.
Recipe: Winter Tea Sangria
(ingredients for 8 people)
- 4 tablespoons of green tea flavored with lemon
- 0.75 liters of dry prosecco
- 2 ripe golden apples
- 2 oranges
- 1 ripe Williams pear
- 1 pomegranate
To make a winter tea sangria, take a large pitcher. Place the tea leaves and add the cold or room temperature sparkling wine.
At this point insert the fruit pieces. You can leave the peel on or not as you like but wash the apples, pear and oranges well and cut everything into chunks. Hull the pomegranate and add the kernels (on New Year’s Eve brought in well…).
All that remains is to add the sugar and leave the pitcher with our sangria in the refrigerator for at least 12 hours. Cold infusion of the tea allows our cocktail to remain fragrant, but not bitter as opposed to what happens a hot infusion. At dinner time, serve the winter tea sangria after straining the tea.