Serves: 6/ Prep time: 5 minutes/ Cook time: 1 hour/ Difficulty: Easy
From mulled wine to hot toddys, Christmas wouldn’t be complete without festive drinks, of which Caribbean sorrel punch is undoubtedly one of the most delicious! Made with Tropical Sun Food’s dried sorrel, its unmistakable vibrant magenta colour gives it a Christmassy glow and its tart and tangy flavour perfectly compliments the dark rum that warms you up from the inside out. Perfect hot or over ice, served with a slice of Caribbean Christmas Rum Cake!
Ingredients
1.5 litre of water
100g of Tropical Sun dried sorrel
4 whole cloves
1 cinnamon stick
100ml of dark rum 1
100ml of maple syrup
The juice of 1 orange
The juice of 2 clementines
1 tsp of lemon juice
Clementine or orange slices for garnish
Method
- Bring the water to boil in a large pan. Remove it from the heat and add Tropical Sun dried sorrel, cloves and cinnamon stick. Cover and let it steep for 1 hour.
- Pour the mixture through a strainer and discard the sorrel and spices. Add the rum, maple syrup, orange, lemon and clementine juice.
- Either warm it for few seconds and serve warm or serve over ice.