Champagne Fruit Puree

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 kg caster sugar
• 1 liter water
• 500 g tinned peaches (825g tin, drained)
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 300 ml sugar syrup
• 250 g raspberries or 250 g strawberries
• 100 ml orange juice
• 200 ml sugar syrup
• champagne or sparkling wine, to serve

Recipe

• 1 to make sugar syrup (which must be made in advance and allowed to cool before adding puree mixture).
• 2 place sugar and water in a saucepan. stir to dissolve sugar and then bring to the boil. remove from the heat and allow to cool. store in a container in the fridge (it will keep at least a month).
• 3 for a peach champagne fruit puree ~
• 4 puree peaches, lemon juice and sugar syrup until smooth, pass through a fine sieve. pour a little puree into the bottom of a glass and top with your favourite champagne or sparkling wine.
• 5 raspberry champagne fruit puree ~.
• 6 puree raspberries or strawberries, orange juice and sugar syrup until smooth then pass through a fine sieve. pour sparkling wine into a glass until it is two-thirds full. add about 30ml of puree to each glass and top with a little more wine before serving.