Pomegranate juice is rapidly becoming a popular drink in Australia, thanks to the importation of POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice from California. Now available in Woolworths, POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice is packed full of antioxidants and has no added sugar or additives. You can drink it straight up, use it in cooking or for making drinks and cocktails.
Try this delicious cocktail, made from Mount Gay rum, pomegranate juice, lime juice and sugar syrup:
Ingredients (for 2):
100ml Mount Gay Rum (or other dark rum)
50ml fresh lime juice
50ml pomegranate juice
30ml sugar syrup (see recipe below)
4 or 5 ice cubes
Method:
Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake until well combined. Strain into 2 chilled martini glasses and enjoy!
For the Sugar Syrup:
Stir 1 cup of caster sugar and 1 cup of water in a saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolved. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Allow to cool, then refrigerate.
Store leftover sugar syrup covered in the refrigerator – it will keep for around 2 weeks.
That cocktail sounds great. Rum and pomegranate…tingling on the taste buds.
It’s lovely and refreshing too. I tried it with cointreau which I thought I would prefer over dark rum (of which I am not usually a big fan) but surprisingly the rum worked a lot better.
We love pomegranate juice, and this looks very refreshing!! Thanks for a great post!
Full of antioxidants too! Nice to find something that tastes so good and is also good for you.
This looks as a real good apéritive! MMMM…..
Hi Sophie, I can definitely recommend it!
WOW good for you and tastes wonderful!
Hi Trudy, it’s an all-round winner!