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Everytime we go for Caribbean foods in town, I always ask for a bottle of sorrel drink. I just love the flavour and colour; a rich natural maroon colour with a hint of spices.

I have been planning to make this drink one day once I can get either fresh or dried sorrel. Luckily, the Caribbean/Indian store that I usually go for spices grocery was brought fresh sorrel for Christmas season. However, I forgot to buy it, then I decided to come back the next week and the fresh ones have been disappeared. Well, I still found the dried one which was only $2.99 per package (125 g).

Sorrel drink is a Caribbean favourite during the Christmas season. When you visit a Caribbean family or friend’s house at that time, you will get to taste this sorrel drink. The beverage has acidic taste with sweet and spice added.

Special for this holiday edition, I want to share an easy Sorrel Drink recipe with an Indonesian twist. Most recipes call for brown sugar or sugar. I substituted for coconut sugar (gula kelapa/gula merah/gula jawa) which has a lighter colour compare to palm sugar (gula aren/gula palem) and common to be used in Indonesian cooking.

Sorrel or roselle is a Hibiscus sabdariffa and very healthy due to the high contents of vitamin C and anthocyanins. In Indonesia, we call rosella and this plant is still a family of Bunga sepatu (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.)

As I don’t consume any alcohol beverage, I omit the rum and/or wine addition. So feel free to add with wine, vodka or make it Jamaican with rum! This recipe goes to Masbar event “Celebrate”.

Caribbean Sorrel Drink

Ingredients:
8 cups (2 L) water
1 cup dried sorrel petals
2 – 4 oz (57 – 113 g) ginger, grated or sliced*
8 pimentos (allspice)
12 cloves
1 piece fresh orange peel (can be substituted for dried one)
coconut sugar syrup [1 cup (237 mL) water + 1 lb (454 g) coconut sugar boiled together]

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Sorrel Drink Ingredients

Methods:
1. Boil water.
2. Once water is boiling, add sorrel, orange peel and cloves.
3. Boil for 30 minutes.
4. Cover tightly and steep overnight.
5. Strain and add coconut sugar syrup to taste. At this time, you always add any spirits that you like.
6. Chill and serve.

Cook’s Note:
To have strong gingery flavour, you can grate the ginger. But, if you don’t like it too strong, just slice them up.

Store well in the refrigerator. You can also use half the water and then fill up the glass when serving with club soda or Perrier for a fizzy drink.

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  1. Jessica A December 25, 2010 At 1:00 AMKalo di Indo, namanya rosella kah? Or beda ma rosella ?__?Reply
  2. Indonesia Eats December 25, 2010 At 1:03 AMyups bener banget itu diatas tersebut keterangannya:)Reply
  3. sweet&spicy December 26, 2010 At 1:43 AMcakep botolnya pep, love the pic too ^_^Reply
  4. Cooking Gallery December 26, 2010 At 12:15 PMHey, wishing you Happy Holiday! Beautiful photography as always :)!Reply
  5. Annapet December 26, 2010 At 5:18 PMPepy, thank you! I learned a new plant today. A totally different kind of sorrel, the roselle plant.Reply
  6. Cardamom Hills December 27, 2010 At 2:54 AMThat looks so vibrant and fresh! thanks for sharing!Reply
  7. Joanne December 27, 2010 At 7:07 AMI've never had or heard of this before but it sounds delicious! Happy holidays!Reply
  8. Katerina December 27, 2010 At 8:27 AMThis is a beautiful drink and I love the color too.Reply
  9. WizzyTheStick December 27, 2010 At 11:28 AMOoooh good job on the styling. So beautiful and of course perfect for the holidays. It is quite common to omit the rum for the kids:-)Reply
  10. Little Corner of Mine December 27, 2010 At 2:14 PMBeautiful in red and I would love to have a taste!Reply
  11. Tiffany December 28, 2010 At 5:33 PMOh, I love Hibiscus tea! Thank you for sharing!Reply
  12. noobcook December 28, 2010 At 8:56 PMThis is something new to me, so pretty and festive looking! Happy new year Pepy!Reply
  13. MaryMoh December 28, 2010 At 9:20 PMMmmm…this drink looks so healthy and refreshing! Love it. Happy Holidays!Reply
  14. mycookinghut December 29, 2010 At 1:48 PMLove the colour of this!Reply
  15. Chow and Chatter December 29, 2010 At 8:22 PMlooks wonderful will try your version for sure so pleased I found the petals lovely to make tea withHappy New YearRebeccaReply
  16. Xiaolu @ 6 Bittersweets December 30, 2010 At 10:07 AMHaha I admit I totally thought you meant mushrooms when you mentioned a sorrel drink earlier. I love the rich color of this drink and bet the test is splendid as well. Happy New Year, Pepy!Reply
  17. Sweet Artichoke January 3, 2011 At 6:13 AMBest wishes for a happy New Year!This drink sounds and looks delicious! I love hibiscus/karkadé/sorrel and have never tried with ginger and spices! Will surely try soon!Reply
  18. Cynthia November 16, 2011 At 9:54 AMWith Christmas just around the corner, sorrel will be coming in to season soon. It is a must-have in every home in the Caribbean during Christmas. Have you ever had it made with the fresh sorrel? Sublime.Reply
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