Drink
Orange Soda Syrup
PrepPr15 minCookCk10 minTotalTot25 minServesSrv10Ca:PCa:P1:0.3
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp fresh orange zest (from 3-4 oranges)
- 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- Pinch of sea salt (optional)
- 1 squeeze of lemon (optional)
Directions
- Zest oranges with a microplane (skip white pith); juice them and reserve the juice.
- Mix zest and sugar in a bowl; massage hard 1-2 minutes until sugar turns bright orange and wet.
- Add zest-sugar mix and juice to a saucepan; heat medium-low, stir until sugar dissolves and it barely simmers (5-10 min); do not hard-boil.
- Remove from heat and steep 20-30 minutes until cool.
- Strain out zest through fine mesh; cool completely, bottle, and refrigerate (lasts up to 1 month).
- For soda: 2-4 Tbsp syrup + 8-12 oz sparkling water over ice; stir and serve.
Nutrition Facts
Per serving (1 of 10). Does not change when you scale ingredients.
- Calories 51.54
- Total Fat 0.8g
- Saturated Fat 0.1g
- Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1g
- Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g
- Sodium 1 mg
- Carbohydrate 132g
- Fiber 3.4g
- Sugar 105g
- Protein 1.9g
- Calcium 77 mg
- Phosphorus 26 mg
- Ca:P ratio 1:0.3
- Vitamin A 7.1 mcg
- Vitamin C 188.1 mg
- B1 (Thiamin) 0.1 mg
- B2 (Riboflavin) 0.1 mg
- B3 (Niacin) 0.6 mg
- B5 (Pantothenic) 0.3 mg
- B6 0.1 mg
- Folate 61.5 mcg
- Vitamin K 0.2 mcg
- Copper 0.1 mg
- Zinc 0.1 mg
- Selenium 0.2 mcg
