December 2006
Last Updated January 2011
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Blood Orange Recipes
Cocktails, Mains & Desserts
While the blood orange season runs from October through May, you can enjoy blood orange year-round with delicious Italian Volcano blood orange juice (read our review) or blood orange purée from Perfect Purée of Napa Valley (read our review).
Cocktails
- Blood Orange Cocktail: In a mixing glass combine 1 ounce gin or other white spirit with 3/4 ounce blood orange purée,* 1/2 teaspoon simple syrup. Shake over ice, strain into a glass and garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime wheel.
- Bloody Screwdriver: Make this classic drink with blood orange juice instead of conventional juice. Per cocktail, mix 1.5 ounces vodka and 6 ounces blood orange juice. Serve in a collins glass with ice.
- Bloody Mimosa: To make this popular sparkler, combine 1/2 ounce triple sec or other orange liqueur with 1-1/2 ounces blood orange juice and 3-1/2 ounces of chilled Champagne or other sparkling wine. Make twists from the orange peel for garnish.
- Frozen Cocktail: Make your favorite frozen drink with blood orange juice.
- Saké Cocktail: Make Blood Orange-Infused Saké.
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Blood orange juice makes a delicious frozen drink. Photo courtesy The Rose Group. |
Salads & Mains
Add blood orange segments to salads, and reserve the juice for vinaigrettes and sauces.
Desserts
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Blood orange juice perks up almost any sauce. Above, Lamb Loin With Blood Orange Sauce. Photo courtesy of Meat and Livestock Australia. |
Favorite Blood Orange Products
Blood Orange-Infused Olive Oil
We absolutely love the blood orange-infused olive oil from Sonoma Farm and Stella Cadente. No matter where you use it, it adds magic.
Blood Orange Marmalade & Syrup
Robert Lambert makes a delectable blood orange syrup, easy to use in anything from tea to pound cake to sorbet; as well as a marvelous blood orange marmalade.
Have a bloody good time digging in to these bloody-orange-good foods.
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Robert Lambert’s blood orange marmalade. Photo by Naheed Choudhry | THE NIBBLE. |
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