Pomegranate Cocktails

POM Wonderful Collaboration- Pomegranate Cocktails.

Guest feature by Sarah James:

I was set a challenge to make some cocktails using POM, and enjoy some delicious pistachio nuts at the same time.  I hesitated for a nano second…

I had heard about pomegranates being a new ‘superfood’ and have used pomegranate molasses in cooking Persian dishes, and the actual fruit from time-to-time in salads – although it always seems a lot of effort to get to the good bit.  So a juice seems the perfect way to get the goodness without all the effort.

We set to and came up with 3 cocktails.  Whilst we were making them, we open the Wonderful Pistachios in sweet chilli flavour, which were delicious.

So channelling our inner Tom Cruise/Brian Brown’s we set to. Our first cocktail was the “POM Royale”.  This was a twist on a classic and we used about 50/50 ratio of POM to Champagne.

Our second cocktail was a “POM Margarita”;

made as follows:

• Lime wedge, plus more for garnish
• Salt (I used Maldon, try not to use ‘table salt’)
• Ice
• 125ml tequila
• 60ml Triple Sec
• 120ml pomegranate juice
• 1 lime, juiced (optional)

How to make POM Margarita

1) Pour the salt onto a plate or shallow dish. With a lime wedge, rub the rim of each glass. Dip the glasses upside down into the salt, to salt the rims. Fill the glasses with ice.

2) In a cocktail shaker with ice, place the tequila, triple sec, pomegranate juice and lime juice. Pour the liquid into the salt-rimmed glasses.

3) Garnish each glass with a lime wedge, if desired.

4) Drink!

This was my favourite of the evening.

Our third cocktail was a “POM Mohito”

• handful  mint leaves
• 2 teaspoons Sugar
• 120 ml Light rum
• 240 ml Pomegranate juice
• Club Soda
• 1/2 Lime (cut in 1/4 inch rounds)

How to make POM Mohito

1)      Muddle Sugar, Mint & 2 Lime Wheels in the bottom of a cocktail shaker.

2)      Add Rum & Pomegranate Juice, shake vigorously & pour over ice in a highball glass.

3)      Top with Club Soda & garnish with Mint.

4)      Drink!

At the risk of sounding very alcoholic, I think we added too much soda – I would have preferred it stronger!

It was fun to be given the chance to get creative with the cocktail shaker, and I feel inspired to try some more next weekend.  There is a version of POM which also contains apple, and I’m thinking that this would be very good with Bison Grass vodka, or a citrus flavoured vodka.

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