Holiday Spirit #2: Christmas Drink

If you're still looking for ideas for Christmas dinner, here's a great Christmas cocktail! It's made of rasberry purée (original recipe says cranberries but I didn't have them at home so I replaced them with raspberries), clementine juice and vodka. It's delicious and so festive! I think it would make a great drink for New year's eve too.

Recipe (from the book on the third photo):

1 ½ parts raspberry puree (originally cranberry puree)
1 ½ parts vodka
1 part clementine juice
3/4 Cointreau (didn't have it, didn't use it)

For the purée: put 300g raspberries, 200ml water and 100g sugar (I didn't measure anything, I took a little bit of everything so it made a thick and smooth mixture). Put the ingredients in a saucepan on a medium heat. Bring to boil, then turn down and simmer for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat, allow the mixture to cool slightly and then blitz to purée using a hand blender or a food processor. Strain the purée through a fine-mesh sieve into a jug to remove the seeds.

When you've prepared the purée, put all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with lots of ice, shake until mixed, serve very cold.

Here's a playlist of my favourite Christmas songs, made especially for you guys (thanks Alexandra for suggesting it in the comment section of my previous post!). Click here to listen to it on 8tracks.