Acerola Cocktail [Video+Recipe] Cocktail de Limonada de Cereza Dominicana
Learn how to make a summer-friendly, heat-busting acerola cocktail with cerezas dominicanas, and feel like you are on a tropical beach wherever you are.
Servings 6 glasses
Calories 473kcal
Ingredients
- 4 cups acerola (Barbados cherries) washed
- ¼ cup sugar (white, granulated) or to taste
- Juice of 4 limes
- 2 cups Dominican white rum [50 Centiliters]
- Ice
Instructions
1. Blend
- Combine acerola and 2 cups [50 Centiliters] of water in the blender, and blend until the pulp is slightly broken down, leaving the seeds as whole as possible.Sieve with a medium-mesh sieve, pressing with a spoon to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids.
2. Mix
- Add ¼ cup of sugar and stir to dissolve. Add the lime juice and check again for sweetness, adding more sugar to taste (it must be a bit too sweet because the rum will lower the sweetness again).Add the rum and stir to combine.
3. Serve
- Add the ice and either serve right away, or blend it to make it into a frappe.
Video
Notes
Nutrition facts are a rough approximation based on regular cherries, acerola cherries are not included in the nutritional database.
Nutrition
Calories: 473kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 0.2g | Saturated Fat: 0.01g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.04g | Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g | Sodium: 22mg | Potassium: 474mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 34IU | Vitamin C: 19mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 2mg
