🍓🍍🍹 My Grilled Pineapple Strawberry Lemonade Sangria recipe is EASY, light, refreshing, and perfect for your next warm weather PARTY! Grilling brings out the pineapple’s natural sweetness, and it’s DELISH! You’ll feel like you’re sipping on something from a fancy restaurant.
Easy Sangria Recipe for a Crowd
With the weather getting warmer, this pineapple strawberry lemonade sangria is the perfect thirst quencher, and it goes down very easily. Too easily, but that’s okay. Rather than just adding pineapple, strawberries, and lemons, I first grilled the pineapple.
Grilling brings out the natural sugars in the pineapple in a wonderfully sweet way that works so well in the sangria. The lightly charred flavor is unexpected and wonderful.
The sangria is so refreshing, light, and perfect for your next spring or summer party or event. Even if that means a ‘party’ of just one other gal pal, a cheese board, and lots of fun stories. That’s my idea of a great party.
Love sangrias?
Add to your happy hour with more flavor variations like my sparkling apple cider sangria and peach mango pineapple white sangria! Sweet and fruity, they’re always a hit with family and friends.
Ingredients to Gather
To make the fruit lemonade sangria, you’ll need:
- Fresh pineapple
- Olive oil
- Fresh strawberry slices
- Lemon
- Lemonade – I highly recommend using the best quality lemonade and pineapple juice you can find. You don’t want the pineapple sangria to wind up tasting too sickly sweet, it should still be slightly sour. Of course, adjust to taste
- Pineapple juice
- White wine – A good wine for sangria is a light white wine, such as a sauvignon blanc, riesling, or chardonnay. Or go with something bubbly like a sparkling white, prosecco, or champagne. If going the bubbly route, don’t add it until you plan to serve the sangria because it will lose its carbonation
- Fresh mint (optional)
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Grilled Pineapple Strawberry Lemonade Sangria
I’ve perfected the best sangria recipe, making all the steps simple and quick!
- Clean the pineapple by chopping off the top and the base. Then, stand it up on the base, and slice down vertically to remove all the skin. After the skin has been removed, slice down vertically to create about 5 long wedges, taking care to avoid the tough and fibrous core.
- Grill the wedges until golden and caramelized.
- Once cool enough to handle, dice them into bite-sized pieces.
- Add all the ingredients to a large pitcher and stir to combine. You can also pulse everything in a blender if you prefer a smooth consistency.
- Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours or ideally overnight. This gives the flavors time to come together and for the fruit to soak up some of that alcohol! Pour the drink into a wine glass, and add fresh strawberries and lemon wheels for a pretty appearance.
Storage:
Once you make the strawberry pineapple sangria, you’ll need to enjoy it within 5 days. Keep it stored in the fridge when you’re not drinking it.
Grilled Pineapple Strawberry Lemonade Sangria
Equipment
- 1 Grill or Grill Pan
- 1 Large Pitcher
Ingredients
- 1 fresh pineapple, cleaned (read blog post for cleaning tips) and sliced into long wedges (about 8 inches long by 2 inches thick)
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cups strawberries, trimmed and diced or sliced
- 1 lemon sliced into thin rounds, optional (adds tartness)
- 1 ½ cups lemonade
- 1 ½ cups pineapple juice
- one 750 ml bottle chilled light white wine, sauvignon blanc, reisling, chardonnay, etc or bubbly (sparkling wine, prosecco, champagne, etc.)
- mint sprigs, optional for garnishing
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium-high heat or if using a grillpan, preheat over medium-high heat.
- Lightly brush the pineapple wedges on all sides with olive oil to prevent sticking.
- Grill for about 3 to 4 minutes per side, or as necessary until char marks develop. Remove from the grill, slice into bite-sized pieces, and add pieces to a large pitcher. You may not need all of them; extras are great as garnishes.
- Add the strawberries, optional lemon slices, lemonade, pineapple juice, wine, refrigerate for at least 2 hours (overnight is better), optionally garnish with mint springs, and serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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OMG this drink girlfriend. It would be DANGEROUS!!!
It totally was dangerous! :)
the color of this thing alone has me sold!! i love grilled pineapple so, so much. i haven’t thought of adding it to drinks though, so thank you for the idea!!
Thanks and glad you’re a fan of grilled pineapple too!
I love grilled fruit and fruity alcoholic drinks! A cheese board sounds fantastic with this (fruit and cheese is one of my favorite sweet-savory combinations)!
Fruity drinks and cheese boards are a match made in heaven for me :)