Honeycrisp & Clementine Sangria

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Honeycrisp Apple and Clementine Sangria

“Is there something special about these apples?”

It was the first time I’d seen honeycrisp apples in… I don’t even know. I eagerly paid too much, too early, for far too many apples. (I’ve never tried to keep my hoarding tendencies a secret.) So much so, that the cashier looked at me like there must have been some kind of a mistake.

But to answer her question: Yes. There is something special about Honeycrisp apples. They are my very, very favorite apples. Sweet, beautifully crispy, and they actually taste like an apple should. Eat them straight from the shopping bag, make chicken salad, applesauce, or bake them into a slab pie. They work everywhere.

Also? Sangria.

Honeycrisp Apple and Clementine Sangria

When my HEB “Ciao Italia” Primo Picks arrived this month celebrating Italian food, I zeroed in on the Clementine Italian Soda. Central Market’s line of Italian sodas are some of my very favorite things in the world to make sangria (and margaritas) with.

The Clementine Soda isn’t very sweet and it’s less carbonated (compared to “regular” soda) so it was perfect to knock the edge off of that bottle of budget, “too-sweet red” that I had stashed in the wine shelf for emergency sangria. And if the sudden need to make sangria for football Sunday with some spendy first-reappearance Honeycrisp Apples doesn’t qualify as an emergency, then I don’t know what does.

Honeycrisp Apple and Clementine Sangria

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Besides Sangria? Carbonara, either traditional or in any of it’s many, many wonderful forms.

Honeycrisp Apple and Clementine Sangria

A fall sangria with sweet honeycrisp apples and clementines.

Ingredients

  • 750ml bottle of any sweet red wine
  • 2 cans of Clementine Soda
  • 1 Honeycrisp apple, cored and very thinly sliced
  • 2 clementines
  • Additional sugar or sweetener, as desired

Instructions

  1. Add the red wine and apple slices to a pitcher.
  2. Using a citrus zester, make a couple of passes over the clementine to pull off a few strands of zest and add to the pitcher.
  3. Peel the clementines, roughly chop the segments, and add to the pitcher.
  4. Just before serving, add the clementine soda and taste to see if you require further sweetening.

Notes

Yields: 6 servings

Source: Confections of a Foodie Bride

Estimated time: 10 minutes

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74 comments… add one
  • Cheryl Newton

    Lasagna!

  • This looks delicious! I can imagine you want to hoard those apples!

  • Lauren

    Manicotti! Hands down. When we make it at home we put grated carrots & zucchini in the cheese filling for a little extra something.

  • Gwyn L

    I love Italian sodas.

  • Summer

    eggplant parmesan…my people don’t eat eggplant, so it’s a treat…oh and tiramisu, yum!

  • kristin

    gnocchi, light, fluffy and delicious!

  • This sangria looks amazing! The color is gorgeous! So perfect for the Holidays.

  • It has to be tiramisu…

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  • Prosecco! I also love the meats and cheese, Parm, Coppacola, Prosciutto etc.

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  • Jen

    I love lasagna!

  • Joanna

    lord, any kind of pasta. i can’t pick, i really can’t.

  • Kelsey

    Pasta carbonara! Or maybe tiramisu? Too hard to decide!

  • Kelsey

    And I follow you on Facebook.

  • Stacey H.

    Chicken Marsala

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  • Amy

    Hands down, it’s Tiramisu.

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  • Kerri

    Honeycrisp is the best! I’m digging that eggplant Parmesan still 🙂

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  • Rachel Tilly

    Fettuccine Alfredo, pizza, lasagna bolognese–I can’t pick just one favorite!

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  • Can I just say “pasta?” With cheese. It must have cheese.

  • Heather

    Chicken piccata! Preferably with the addition of artichokes and prosciutto.

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  • Gnocchi!

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  • Jenny

    Caprese salad with lots of balsamic.

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  • Julie

    Am I allowed to say wine 😉

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  • Stefanie

    I love Butternut Squash Ravioli!

  • Nicole S.

    love love sangria!

  • Edie

    Cheese ravioli and meat sauce. Yum! Sangria looks great, can’t wait to try it.

  • Camille H

    Definitely the different kinds of pasta, with fusilli in a pesto sauce topping the list of favorites.

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  • Lacey

    My favorite Italian is Fettuccine alla Carbonara. Yummy! Thanks for the chance! 🙂

  • Ingrid

    Zucchini carbonara in the summer. In the winter, the heavier and cheesier the better.

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  • Melissa C.

    Lasagna!

  • Emery

    Fried ravioli 🙂

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  • Clarissa

    My mother-in-law’s lasagna is the stuff dreams are made of.

  • Debbie Bray

    I love lasagna.

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  • Taylor

    I don’t eat pasta so my vote is for Sangria and wine.

  • Jennifer P

    Lasagne and Italian Red Wine! A perfect combo – YUM!!!

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  • Lara

    I love pasta and mussels in a red sauce

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  • acmommy

    Italian is so delicious! I enjoy lasagna and italian style salad and tiramisu and gelato of course. 😉

  • derek

    Wine, lots of it

  • Carol

    Baked ziti

  • Natalie

    chicken alfredo with lots of butter and cream

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