The bubbles help mix the fruit juice as well
Punch up your melons with floral notes. Yes, that sentence made us laugh too. Any bubbly will do, but using a light cava or prosecco will help the juice stand out more. A clover honey is preferable.
Watermelon Mimosas
- 1 750 ml bottle prosecco (or other bubbly)
- 4 cups chopped watermelon
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 ounce St. Germain elderflower liqueur (optional)
- 3/4 tsp rosewater
Puree watermelon and pour through a sieve to strain out any pulp. You should have about three cups of liquid. Whisk in honey, liqueur and rosewater. Pour desired amount into champagne flutes or wine glass or mason jars and top with prosecco. We use a roughly one to one ration, but two to one or three to one is fine. If you have leftover juice, you can mix it with vodka or just drink it over ice. If you have leftover bubbly, well shame on you.
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Wonderful combination of ingredients!
My kind of drink! Gorgeous to look at and even better to taste!
I have both prosecco and watermelon in my fridge. It is almost Friday here in HK
Beautiful!!
This is exactly what I needed. 🙂
Leftover champagne makes fantastic sorbet — it doesn’t matter if it has gone flat — add a little sugar syrup and freeze — yum!
Looks like a venturi tube on a hot rod but cooler:)
Very pretty, I like any drinks with bubbles
I can imagine the smell from the bubbles at the top as they burst 🙂
Ohhhh! and so pretty too! I love the tall glass, very sex-in-the-city. Watermelon this time of year sounds great in just about anything, but particularly a cocktail. You guys sure stock a lot, and I mean A. LOT. of different types of booze. Would love to see a pic of your liquor cabinet!
sign me up! Beautiful.
What a gorgeous drink!
Fabulous!
This looks perfect!
So pretty! Is it still blisteringly hot over there? If so, I’m sure this would be the perfect drink…
I’ve got the St. Germain, please send round the other ingredients – it’s very hot here 😉
Yum!
Looks very healthy and tall dringk. I like to sing Ma ma ma mama mamosa
Very pink and bubbly!
I’d like to punch this right in my face! Wait. In my mouth? Wait! Okay. You know what I mean. Looks tasty!
Dude, that was even funnier since for a second I didn’t know what the hell you were referring to.
Your drink recipes are always so amazing looking- even at 8am!
I always try not to punch up my melons in public. 😉
Now that I’m home and can comment again, I had to come back to this one. It just looks so very good!
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