Sweet Tea Sangria "Skinny" Mocktail
Sangria is a drink made with red wine, fruit, and sugar and sometimes lemon juice. Sweet Tea Sangria Mocktail is a nonalcholic version of sangria made with raspberry flavored tea bags and 5 calorie cranberry juice, raspberries, cranberries, and pomegranate seeds.
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 5kcal
Cost: 10
Ingredients
- 4 cups cold water
- 4 raspberry-flavored presweetened tea bags
- 1 fresh pomegranate (or 1/3 cup seeds)
- 1 small naval orange
- 1 lime
- 1 6 ounce container raspberries
- 1 1/2 cup fresh cranberries
- 2 cups 5 calorie cranberry juice drink
- 4 fresh rosemary sprigs (optional)
Instructions
- Pour cold water over tea bags in a large measuring pitcher or bowl. Let the tea bags steep for 6 minutes. Discard the tea bags
- Meanwhile, remove the pomegranate seeds by scoring the pomegranate skin in half and breaking it open. With seeds facing down, hit the back of the skin with the back of a wooden spoon and the seeds will fall into a bowl below. You will eventually have to break open the pomegranate half even more to get them all out.
- Slice the orange and lime into thin slices. Wash the raspberries. Place the fruit in a pitcher or carafe or individual glasses.
- Combine the tea and cranberry juice and pour over the fruit. Refrigerate the mixture at least one hour for the fruit to absorb the tea mixture and impart the fruit flavor into the tea mixture. Garnish with a fresh rosemary sprig, if you like.
Notes
How to remove seeds from a pomegranate:
- First, score the pomegranate in half. This means slice it with a sharp knife "to but not through" about 1/4" into the skin.
- Using the back of a heavy wooden spoon, hit the skin side of one of the pomegranate halves hard and the seeds will fall into the bowl below it. Warning. The juice will spatter so I recommend doing this in the kitchen sink.
- You will have to slightly squeeze the skin to help loosen them as you go and eventually break it apart to get all of them but you will be surprised by how many will "fall" out.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cup | Calories: 5kcal