I love the flavor of fresh pear in cocktails. It is difficult however to find pears that are perfectly ripe. So I often use Asian pears for my cocktails because I can find ripe ones at local Asian markets. Here’s one of my favorite sparkling pear cocktail recipes:
Sparkling Pear Prosecco Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup peeled and cored ripe pear, finely chopped or Asian pear
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup (2 ounces) pear liqueur
- 6 thin pear slices (or Asian pear)
- 1 750-millimeter bottle chilled Prosecco
Instructions
- To make pear simple syrup: Combine water, chopped pear and sugar in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to stand 10 minutes.
- Pour syrup through a fine mesh sieve into a small bowl; discard solids. Stir liqueur into syrup. Place pear slices (to be used as garnish) in syrup to keep them from turning brown.
- Divide syrup evenly between 6 champagne flutes. Place 1 pear slice in each flute and top with prosecco.
