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This delightful alcoholic punch uses hibiscus, cinnamon and cloves in addition to pomegranate juice to spice up this mulled wine.
Photo by Jim Franco
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Create tantalizing vegan holiday dishes with “Vegan Holiday Cooking from Candle Café” by Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos and Jorge Pineda.
Cover courtesy Ten Speed Press
10 to 12 servings SERVINGS
Ingredients
- 1 (750 ml) bottle rum
- 12 ounces (1 1/2 cups) triple sec
- 32 ounces (4 cups) pomegranate juice
- 12 ounces (1 1/2 cups) spicy red wine, such as Malbec or Shiraz
- 1/2 cup hibiscus tea leaves
- 16 ounces (2 cups) hot water
- 16 cinnamon sticks
- 2 teaspoons whole cloves
- 3 lemons, cut into wedges, to garnish
- Ice
Directions
- Combine the rum, triple sec, pomegranate juice, and wine in a punch bowl and stir.
- Steep the hibiscus leaves in the hot water for 5 minutes. Strain the tea into a bowl, pressing the leaves until dry. Pour it into the punch bowl and stir. Put 4 of the cinnamon sticks and ½ teaspoon of the cloves in a piece of cheesecloth and tie tightly. Let it sit in the punch for about an hour, then remove.
- Stud the lemon wedges with the remaining cloves. Pour the punch into cups or small glasses over ice. Garnish each serving with the remaining cinnamon sticks and the lemon wedges and serve.
More Recipes from Vegan Holiday Cooking
• Sweet Potato Latkes Recipe with Almond Crème Fraîche• French Toast Coffee Cake Recipe
This excerpt has been reprinted with permission from Vegan Holiday Cooking from Candle Café by Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos and Jorge Pineda and published by Ten Speed Press, 2014. Purchase this book from our store: Vegan Holiday Cooking.
Try more than 100 extraordinary recipes in Vegan Holiday Cooking (Ten Speed Press, 2014). Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos and Jorge Pineda, from New York’s premiere vegan restaurants, elevate plant-based food to new heights that are sure to please anyone. The following recipe for Christmas pomegranate punch is excerpted from “Menu Nine: Christmas.”
You can purchase this book from the Mother Earth Living store: Vegan Holiday Cooking.
We love to make punch for the holidays. It’s our chance to pull out the big punch bowl that just takes up space the rest of the year. This festive drink blends rum with pomegranate juice and hibiscus tea and resembles a glühwein (German mulled wine), but it is served chilled.
