December 2006 
  Last Updated January 2011 
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Blood Orange Recipes
Cocktails, Mains & Desserts
  
			
  
 
   
 
 
While the blood orange season runs from October through May, you can enjoy blood orange year-round with delicious Italian Volcano blood orange juice (read our review) or blood orange purée from Perfect Purée of Napa Valley (read our review). 
Cocktails
  
    
        - Blood Orange Cocktail: In a mixing glass combine 1 ounce gin or other white spirit with 3/4 ounce blood orange purée,* 1/2 teaspoon simple syrup. Shake over ice, strain into a glass and garnish with a sprig of mint and a lime wheel.
 
        - Bloody Screwdriver: Make this classic drink with blood orange juice instead of conventional juice. Per cocktail, mix 1.5 ounces vodka and 6 ounces blood orange juice. Serve in a collins glass with ice. 
 
        - Bloody Mimosa:  To make this popular sparkler, combine 1/2 ounce triple sec or other orange liqueur with 1-1/2 ounces blood orange juice and 3-1/2 ounces of chilled Champagne or other sparkling wine. Make twists from the orange peel for garnish.
 
        - Frozen Cocktail: Make your favorite frozen drink with blood orange juice. 
 
        - Saké Cocktail: Make Blood Orange-Infused Saké.
 
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        Blood orange juice makes a delicious frozen drink. Photo courtesy The Rose Group.  | 
 
 
  
    Salads & Mains
      Add blood orange segments to salads, and reserve the juice for vinaigrettes and sauces. 
      
      
      Desserts
      
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        Blood orange juice perks up almost any sauce. Above, Lamb Loin With Blood Orange Sauce. Photo courtesy of Meat and Livestock Australia. | 
 
 
    
      Favorite Blood Orange Products
        Blood Orange-Infused Olive Oil  
      We absolutely love the blood orange-infused olive oil from Sonoma Farm and Stella Cadente. No matter where you use it, it adds magic. 
        Blood Orange Marmalade & Syrup 
  Robert Lambert makes a delectable blood orange syrup, easy to use in anything from tea to pound cake to sorbet; as well as a marvelous blood orange marmalade. 
          
        Have a bloody good time digging in to these bloody-orange-good foods. 
         
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          Robert Lambert’s blood orange marmalade. Photo by Naheed Choudhry | THE NIBBLE. | 
   
   
  
			  
  
                  
                
  
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