Name: Cantaloupe Wine Slushie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 h
Total time: 2 h 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Cocktails
Ingredients: 1 cup pureed cantaloupe (to make juice); 1 cup white wine, preferable Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc plus a splash to blend

Cool off with a cantaloupe wine slushie. It’s hot but that’s summer in Florida. Every summer, I might add but that’s OK. I love it here but I’m always looking for refreshing ways to cool off. I’ve been seeing a lot of wine slushies and when I needed to use up some cantaloupe recently I thought it might be fun to try making one. I also had part of a bottle of chardonnay. I thought they would work well together and I was right.

Never before have I tried juice fruit, other than citrus. I cut the cantaloupe into chunks and pureed it in my blender. Then I strained it through a fine mesh strainer to remove the pulp and get just the glorious juice. They were really easy to make and turned out better than I imagined. Cool and delicious. Perfect for an end of the week refresher or sipping poolside.

Cantaloupe Wine Slushie

Yield: 2 servings

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Freezing Time: 2 hours

Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes

Cool off on a hot day with a refreshing wine slush.

Ingredients

1 cup pureed cantaloupe (to make juice)
1 cup white wine, preferable Pinot Grigio, Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc plus a splash to blend

Instructions

To puree cantaloupe: Add cantaloupe chunks to a blender. Puree then strain into a measuring cup for juice.
Freeze cantaloupe juice in ice cube tray. Freeze wine in ice cube tray.
To make wine slushie: In blender add equal number of wine cubes and cantaloupe cubes with just a splash of wine. Blend until slushie. Taste and add more cubes as necessary according to taste.