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homemade tropical liqueur

Homemade Tropical Liqueur

Karon Grieve
if you like Malibu then you'll adore this homemade tropical liqueur with coconut, rum, pineapple, banana and spices and its so easy to make too
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Drinks
Cuisine Caribbean
Servings 16 shots
Calories 145 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 2 bananas
  • 150 g pineapple Tinned Pineapple
  • 50 g sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 100 g desiccated coconut
  • 500 ml white rum
Metric - US Customary

Instructions
 

  • Gently heat the juice from the tin of pineapple along with the sugar till dissolved and mash in the bananas
  • Add this to a large jar along with all the other ingredients and press some clingfilm over the surface to stop air getting to the bananas if they float to the top then pop on a lid and leave for a week in a cupboard
  • Pour into a sieve over a jug and press with wooden spoon to get all liquid through. Then line a plastic sieve with 2 layers of kitchen roll and pour the resulting liquid through this to filter out all fibres and bits
  • Pour your tropical liqueur into a sterilised bottle

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Notes

Your homemade tropical liqueur will keep for up to a year.
Serve as a shot either chilled, over ice or frozen. Add a mixer like lemonade, soda or ginger ale. Or serve as part of a cocktail like a tropical martini or Tropical Sunset.
Calories given are per shot and we average it at 16 shots per 500ml of liqueur.
You can use the strained out solids to make homemade tropical ice-cream.

Nutrition

Calories: 145kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 1gFat: 4gSaturated Fat: 4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.1gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.2gSodium: 3mgPotassium: 98mgFiber: 2gSugar: 6gVitamin A: 15IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 4mgIron: 0.3mg
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