Pink Grapefruit Mimosas

I am just going to go out on a limb here and say that this recipe might be the easiest and most un-recipe recipe that The Gourmet Gourmand has thus posted.

Are you capable of fresh-squeezing citrus juice?  Are you capable of handing a bottle of chilled champagne to your significant other for opening? (because, let’s be real, that popping noise is highly startling, and certainly would result in an abruptly dropped and very messy state of affairs were I in charge of the uncorking).

If the answers to both of these questions is a resounding yes! read no further.  All I ask is that you begin alcohol consumption immediately.If you need a little more information about how to make Pink Grapefruit Mimosas, read on.

I know brunching and Sunday Funday is all the rage right now.   And you really can’t have a Sunday Funday without a mimosa in hand.  But the traditional orange mimosas are just getting a little boring these days, and, in my opinion, boredom is the fuel of innovation.  (Ahem, that’s probably not at all true).  But let’s just get a bunch of pink grapefruits and move on…

(I just love pink cocktails, don’t you?)I also included rosé sparkling wine in this recipe (as dry as you can find), but you certainly could just use regular sparking wine/ champagne.  It doesn’t significantly alter the taste.

For the grapefruit juice, I definitely recommend squeezing your own.  And then make sure to taste it before adding the champagne.  Depending on the season and the variety of grapefruit you might need to add just a little sugar or honey to cut the bitterness.

Next- grab champagne glasses, your friends, your wives, your husbands, or let’s be real- all you need is yourself and a good novel- and commence with the most festive of day-drinking cocktails.

Cheers!

Pink Grapefruit Mimosas

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Ingredients

  

• 2 cups freshly squeezed pink grapefuit juice juice of about 4 large pink grapefruits
• 1-2 teaspoons sugar or honey to taste
• 1 bottle 750mL Brut Rose Sparkling Wine
• Additional wedges of grapefruit for garnish optional.

Instructions

 

• Squeeze grapefruit juice through a fine mesh strainer, into a small pitcher or liquid measuring cup. Feel free to add back in some of the pulp, to taste, but please discard the seeds.
• Taste juice and add sugar (or honey) as desired. Some grapefruits are sweeter than others and won't need additional sugar.
• Pour champagne flutes about ½ way with grapefruit juice. Top with chilled sparkling wine.
• Garnish glasses with a wedge of grapefruit (optional).