How long will this keep in the fridge?

Hi Elise - I just cane across your blog, love the recipes and the photos, the molasses sure looks like liquid rubies, radiant and deep red!

I love pomegranate juice. For those who don't want to spend the dough on the POM juices, Trader Joe's now has 100 percent pomegranate juice, as well as tasty blends (pom and blueberry, pom and cherry are my favorites).

I love the versatility of pomegranate juice. I found that they sell the molasses/glaze at Trader Joes though the last time I was there they were sold out. Surfas, here in L.A. also has a pomegranate glaze/molasses which is wonderful. Add some to BBQ sauce for a nice fruity flavor plus heightened red color.

Lemon juice when heated up tastes bitter. Do you think we should add it later to the molasses?

Do you think this would be good on vanilla ice cream? I like boysenberry syrup on ice cream

I had just begun searching for a pomegranate molasses recipe and yours popped on my reader. How simple can a recipe be for such a wonderful product?
Thanks Elise!

How cool is this? I was just looking for recipes for Thanksgiving appetizers and found one for Muhammara in Cooks' Illustrated. It gave a substitute for pomegranate molasses since it's so hard to find. While we do have middle eastern groceries here, I probably would have saved the time of looking for it. And now a recipe for the real deal just shows up in my email!

Hi Elise,

A lot of Malaysian food requires the use of artificial colorings, but I hate to go chemical with my food.

I don't know much about Pomegranate, but could I use it as a coloring agent? (It sure looks very red and natural to me!)

Kindly let me know. Thanks in advance. :)

I wonder if this could be bottled (or canned) and stored in a cellar... I want to try this now though, it would make a really unique holiday gift for my friends.

Elisa

Truly amazing are the recipes you post. I too think this would be a good recipe for gift giving this season. What a WOW factor it has!

Thanks all the goodies

Linda

I just reduce the juice and don't add suger or syrup. It is delicious.

A little late here, but I wanted to pop in and say that I used this as a glaze for my Thanksgiving Cornish hens and it was fantastic. It added just the right touch of sweetness without being too much and it browned up nicely on their skins.

My Mom and I made Pomegranate jelly and didn't want to waist the remainer of the pulp on the seeds. So we put seeds and more of the cleaned pomegranate seeds into a blender, poured into a culander and to our amasement We got the pulp and made Jam too. The blender dosen't chop up the seeds, but just removes the fruit from the seed. Try it, Irma

Elise - I made pomegranate molasses recently myself, by simply slowly boiling a litre of good-quality pomegranate juice (from Azerbaijan), until there was just under 200 ml of thick, sweet-n-sour juice left. No sugar, no lemon (NB! the juice itself had no added sugar either!) Very nice, and I've been successfully using it in recipes asking for pomegranate molasses.

Thanks for this recipe. But what can I do with the molasses? I received a bottle of it, last Christmas, but had no idea, what to do with it.
I eventually made something with it, but not sure what, right now.

I took 5 chicken breasts and breaded them in bread crumbs then put grilled onions on top of them and added pineapple juice and pomegrate molasses. It was good, gave the chicken a new flavor.

Thanks so much everyone for all of the tips. I have been looking for pomegranate molasses and thought I saw it at Trader Joe's but couldn't remember for sure. I went to a cooking class at Hip Cooks and we used some to glaze a pork tendorloin. I am also glad to know that they carry it at Surfas. Does anyone know if Whole Foods carries it? I will definately try to make it myself with Pomegranate juice from Trader Joes.

I made this today - only I cooked it for a little less time - and it turned out wonderfully - I could eat it with a spoon. :) Duck would be good with it too.

If you want to recommend anything for juicing pomegranates, THIS IS THE TOOL!

It is an antique/vintage Wear-Ever aluminum press. You can find them on E-Bay for around $5.00 to $10.00. Any other way to juice a quantity of pomegranates is just TOO hard. I can do about 3 Gallons per hour with this. After I collect the juice, I refrigerate and then carefully decant/strain through coffee filters. Wonderfully clear juice to make jelly, etc.

Jeff Denno

Note from Elise: Hi Jeff, we use a Wear-Ever press also, when we don't want to do the extra effort of deseeding the poms by hand. Great device.

Pommegranites have only just recently hit our
shelves here, I love the sharp/sweet taste and
just recently we were visiting Turkey where in a
lot of places we were served tomato halves,
sprinkled with a little sugar and then just before serving them they would drizzle over a
bit of the pommegranite sauce. My daughter said
they use it a lot over there, and I have now
managed to source some here in New Zealand.
I have also sprinkled some of the seeds over
shredded lamb along with chopped mint, a
Nigella Lawson recipe but lovely all the same.