Anne's Lip Smackin' Sangria

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 lemon
• 2 bananas
• 2 oranges
• 2 (750 ml) bottles red wine
• ice
• sliced fruit, to garnish (oranges, limes lemons etc.) (optional)

Recipe

• 1 boil water, sugar and the cinnamon stick over medium-high for 5 minutes.
• 2 let syrup cool with cinnamon stick in mixture.
• 3 slice lemon and orange.
• 4 peel and slice bananas.
• 5 remove cinnamon stick, add lemon, orange, and banana slices to cooled syrup.
• 6 cover and chill several hours.
• 7 put ice in punch bowl, add sliced fruit (optional), the cinnamon/fruit syrup, and wine.(you may need to half this into 2 pitchers if you don't have a punch bowl). stir thoroughly, mashing the fruit slightly.
• 8 serve sangria in chilled glasses.
• 9 (if you only make one pitcher additional sangria syrup may be saved in the refrigerator for 1 month).
• 10 optional: to make a sangria use a chablis or chardonney for the red wine.
• 11 (fresh fruit can be substituted for frozen concentrates using a tablespoon at a time of orange juice concentrate and limeade concentrate to cinnamon syrup until the desired flavor is reached.).