Festive aperitif drink

Drinks

Ingredients
white wine of your choice
fresh rose petals

Preparation

Put some rose petals in a glass of cold dry white wine or prosecco, let it sit for couple of minutes before serving. And you have a delicious fresh festive drink.

 

Rose Petal Preserve

Rose Petal Preserve

Preserving whole fruit or large pieces of fruit by cooking them with sugar syrup is a part of traditional cuisine in the Balkans.

Rose flavoured  sugar

Rose flavoured sugar

Here is another quick and easy recipe. Rose sugar is ideal as sweetener for teas or cakes, since it will give your beverages and sweets a nice rose flavour.

Oriental yogurt dessert with roses and cardamom

Oriental yogurt dessert with roses and cardamom

Mix raspberries with beetroot in a blender. Add cardamom and rose water to it and mix well.

Persian rose tea

Persian rose tea

To dry your own rose petals at home, all you need are freshly picked rose petals, washed and then carefully dried of all remaining water.

Redfish with harissa and rose petals à la Ottolenghi

Redfish with harissa and rose petals à la Ottolenghi

Powder the fish fillets with flour. Heat oil in a frying pan and cook the fillets for 2 minutes on each side.