Drink
Blackberry and sage shrub
A shrub is fruit, vinegar and time, and the vinegar is the point rather than a compromise — it makes something genuinely sharp to drink where everything else on this list is sweet or creamy.
3gnet carbs
0gfat
1gprotein
16kcal
Per serving40 minServes 4
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Ingredients
For the whole dish · serves 4
- Blackberries5½ oz
- Apple cider vinegar2½ tbsp
- Granulated erythritol¾ oz
- Fresh sagefour leaves
- Sparkling waterto top up
- Icea handful
Method
6 steps · 40 minutes
- Crush the blackberries with the erythritol and leave them 30 minutes. The fruit gives up its juice on its own and no heat is needed.
- Bruise the sage and add it for the last 10 minutes only. Left in from the start it turns the whole thing medicinal.
- Stir the vinegar in at the end rather than the beginning, so it stays sharp instead of cooking into the fruit.
- Strain it through a strainer, pressing the pulp gently. Pressed hard, it goes cloudy.
- This syrup keeps two weeks in a jar in the fridge and gets rounder after a few days.
- Two tablespoons per glass over ice, topped with sparkling water. Start there and adjust — a shrub should make you blink.
Macros are per serving and are estimates worked out from the ingredients. Keto Tracker AI is a food logging tool and does not give medical advice; talk to a doctor before changing your diet.
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