This year vivoglutenfree is welcoming the New Year with pomegranate! One of the oldest Greek customs for the New Year is breaking a pomegranate for good luck...
Clean the pomegranates. It is the most time-consuming and boring process of this whole recipe. A quick and easy way is to cut its peel in a circle around the stem, then cut it into wide strips about halfway down, like you cut an orange. Then we open it enough, but not completely, and turn it over. We hit it with a spoon and the seeds fall out by themselves. For greater convenience make it directly in the pot. Also wear an apron or clothes that you won't mind getting splashed and stained by the pomegranates.
Put the sugar, tsipouro, cinnamon and cloves in the pot where we put the pomegranates and put them on a medium to high heat.
Boil for 3 minutes only, until the sugar melts and not more because we want to have this lively color.
Turn off the heat, cover it with its lid and leave it there for 24 hours.
The next day, press the seeds a little with a spoon or with the potato masher tool.
Strain it and divide it into bottles. We can pass it through a sieve with a turban (piece of cloth) to squeeze it more to get more juice from the pomegranate. Alternatively, strain with a coffee filter. I passed it through 2 very fine sieves/strainers that I have.