Ingredients:
(Servings for about 4 or 1 in my case)
- 1 Bottle nigori sake
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup Fresh ginger, chopped (about six inches)
- 3 tangerines (more, for garnish)
- ⅓ cup Fresh mint (more, for garnish)
Directions:
1. Bring 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of water to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Of course, if you want to make other ginger-flavored beverages throughout the week, then go ahead and double this recipe. It is great in lemonade, tea or over ice cream.
2. Add 1/2 cup of fresh, chopped ginger. Remove from heat, and let steep 30 minutes.
3. Pour syrup through a fine sieve into a heat resistant container; discard ginger. Chill in the refrigerator. If you made extra, just store it in an airtight container for up to a week.
4. Thinly slice 3 tangerines and add them to the pitcher.
5. Add 1/3 cup of fresh mint leaves to a glass with barely enough sake to cover and mull them.
6. Add the mulled mint and the remaining sake to the pitcher.
7. Add the chilled ginger syrup to the pitcher and mix well. (Add some more mint for color.)
8. For each glass you are going to serve the sangria in, sugar coat the rim. Just pour about 1/4 cup of granulated sugar into a shallow plate. Wipe the rim of the glass with a tangerine slice and then twist the wet rimmed glass in the sugar.
Pretty and (might I add) Pretty Good, Too!
MMM!!!