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Website: De thuiskok - NRC

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3rd July 2011 (edited: 9th September 2012)

Vruchtenbowl

Brilliant drink. It's fairly unusual (with cucumber, grapes, melon and ginger, amongst others), but these ingredients combine surprisingly well.

You might find it a little on the sweet side, in which case you could use a very dry sparkling wine, or replace it with white rum and sparkling water altogether (white rum might be a good idea either way). Don't use Ginger Ale for the alcohol-free version, much too sweet; rather use sparkling water.

Add the mint early on in the process, so that its flavours are absorbed into the drink as well - such a shame to use it only as decoration. Basil would work perfectly well, too.

The recipe is actually a punch - but why not serve it as a kind of white sangria, by adding more liquid in proportion to fruit? One of the reasons I really enjoyed it is that I can see it as a drink on a lazy afternoon on the balcony just as well as served during a flashy garden party. And with all its green ingredients it definitely is an eye-catcher!

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