Healthy Homemade Grenadine Syrup
Have you ever had Grenadine before? It’s a pomegranate syrup used in Shirley Temples and quite a few cocktail recipes. It’s bright red, very sweet and slightly tart. That being said, it usually has a ton of artificial red food dye, high-fructose corn syrup and preservatives. Too bad there isn’t a healthy version because it’s darn delicious… JUST KIDDING! Because I made that healthy version 🙂
This Healthy Homemade Grenadine Syrup is sweet, flavorful and syrupy, yet it’s made without the white sugar, corn syrup and artificial ingredients!
This is the ingredient list of storebought Grenadine:
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Citric Acid, Sodium Citrate, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Red #40, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Blue #1.
Hmmm… no thank you! All I can see in that list is:
Sugar, Preservatives, Artificial Food Dye, Artificial Flavors.
YUM! (That was sarcasm)
This flavorful Healthy Homemade Grenadine Syrup is incredibly versatile — it’s perfect mixed into cocktails and Shirley Temples, and it’s delicious swirled into yogurt and drizzled over Vanilla Bean Frozen Yogurt!
Healthy Homemade Grenadine Syrup
Ingredients
- 1 liter 100% Pomegranate Juice
- ¼ cup Truvia Spoonable
- Natural Red Food Coloring (optional)
- 15 drops Orange Flavor
- 15 drops Lemon Flavor
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan, whisk together the pomegranate juice and Truvia. Place over medium/medium-low heat and simmer uncovered for 3 hours, whisking occasionally, until the mixture has reduced and thickened slightly.
- Remove from the heat and whisk in the natural food coloring, orange flavor and lemon flavor.
Typical Grenadine recipes call for artificial ingredients and way too much sugar. Like, cups and cups of sugar 🙁
I wasn’t planning on making the recipe any time soon, but as I walked down the grocery store aisle I saw a liter of organic 100% pomegranate juice for only $2.49… that was how much a tiny bottle of POM costed. I grabbed the bottle and put it into my shopping cart, no thinking involved. Then I rushed home to make this recipe. It suffices to say that I’m super frugal and get really excited over deals like this.
Enjoy!
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
I am wondering how long this can be stored?
Slowe1-
I’m not sure of the exact length that this can be stored since I used it fairly quickly with recipe testing and drinks, in about 1 week. I’d say it lasts about 1-2 weeks. Since it doesn’t have any added sugar, which works as a preservative, it won’t last as long as the typical storebought grenadines.
Hope this helps!
-Jess
I’ve never made my own grenadine syrup before! This is totally something that I need to try.. thanks for the idea.
Woah! I didn’t even know it was possible to make homemade grenadine syrup. I think I’ll be making this tomorrow! Thank you for sharing!
I’ve been making this for a couple years (my own recipe, but its very similar). I simmer my pomegranite juice until it’s about 1/2 the volume then add in some stevia leaves (for sweet) and hibiscus flowers (for an extra tang). Let it steep for about an hour, strain off the solids and add stevia drops if it needs a touch more sweet.