Recipes: Rhubarb Blood Orange Shrub Mix

• Prep Time:10 minutes
• Cook Time:30 minutes
• Serves:8

 

Tagged:
blood orange, cocktail, rhubarb, shrub, spring,

This is a great cocktail base that brings out some of the best flavors of early spring. Use it to create a is for sipping or mix it with soda or champagne. Rhubarb Blood Orange Shrub Mix plays off the rise of the shrub cocktail. Shrub cocktails can be bitter, so this adds a touch of sweet to the base and allows you to play with the flavor and make it new again.

 

This recipe is part of our First Harvest series, celebrating the early spring vegetables with new suggestions for bringing them to your table! Check them all out at this link.

 

Foodie Byte

Although this is designed as a concentrate, it can be poured over ice and used as a drinking vinegar.

Ingredients

3 cups chopped rhubarb
2 blood oranges
1 cup sugar
2 cups water
1 cup white wine vinegar
Sliced blood oranges, garnish (optional)

Preparation

Combine chopped rhubarb, sugar and water in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until rhubarb breaks down, approximately 10 minutes.
Peel blood oranges and add to mixture, and drop heat to a simmer, press oranges into the mixture to help break them down, continue to mix together for 5 minutes.
Add in white wine vinegar, and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes.
Remove from heat, strain the liquid from the mixture, and throw the pulp away.
Refrigerate until cool.

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