christmas cocktail

This week I will show you the Christmas meal that our friend Àngels Pallàs prepared in our showroom, We Love Cooking. It is a delicious meal designed with great detail, so a cocktail cannot be missing to receive our guests. Throughout the week I will post the other dishes :)

A classic Anglo-Saxon-inspired cocktail, ideal to break the ice and begin to introduce the festive spirit of Christmas to our guests.

Ingredients:

2 cups of red berries (you can buy frozen in bags at the supermarket or frozen stores)

150cc maple syrup (found in the alcoholic beverage section of many supermarkets)

2 cups of red wine

1 cup brown sugar

1 vanilla pod split in half

The skin of half a lemon

1 tablespoon peppercorns (we will crush the grains by pressing them with the flat blade of a knife)

Salt

2 cups of sparkling water (Seltz or siphon type) very cold

2 cups of very cold pineapple juice

1 bottle of semi-chilled cava Ice (large cubes)

Preparation:

About three or four hours before the meal, we put the berries, the maple syrup, the sugar, the vanilla, the lemon peel, the pepper and the salt in a saucepan. We bring it to a boil for about 3 or 4 minutes and reserve it in the punch bowl.

Just before serving the cocktail, add the cava, pineapple juice, sparkling water and ice. Even better if we make a giant cube using a lunch box or a large container so that it does not dissolve so easily in the cocktail.