Purim is a holiday filled with customs and traditions – from hearing the megilla, to dressing up as your favorite villain or hero in the Purim story, giving shalach Manot, feasting and drinking! And not just drinking – but until you don’t know the difference between Haman and Mordechai.
So I took some inspiration from the setting of the Purim story – Persia – and I made some jeweled sangria! Inspired by Persian jeweled rice, this sangria is spiked with orange liquor and apricot brandy, with the addition of apricot jam simple syrup, pomegranate juice, and dry red wine.
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Jeweled Sangria
1 bottle dry Israeli wine
1 pomegranate, seeded
1 orange, sliced
2 cinnamon sticks
Juice of 1 orange
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
1/2 cup orange liquor
1/4 cup apricot brandy
3 tbsp good quality apricot jam dissolved in 2 tbsp boiling water
Method:
Mix and refrigerate overnight.
To serve, dip the rim of your glasses in orange blossom water and then chopped pistachios mixed with edible rose petals.
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