How to cook a mulled wine - fragrant, tart, warming

What brewed mulled wine

Mulled wine - it warmed red wine with sugar and spices. This is the foundation. And it is possible to experiment. The main thing - do not forget a few rules.

Without which it is impossible to do

Most commonly used dry or semi-dry wine. Such mulled obtained more astringent and sharp. But semisweet gives the drink a smooth taste.

The sugar can be replaced, if desired, honey. He gave a slight characteristic aroma of the drink.

Of spices in mulled wine usually put cinnamon, cloves, ginger, star anise and citrus peel - mostly lemon.

What can be added

For the sake of a richer taste and aroma of mulled wine to add nutmeg, cardamom, allspice and black pepper, and even a bay leaf.

Quite often, the beverage production use pieces of fruit: apples, Lemon and orange. You can also put the raisins, dried barberries, cranberries and nuts.

Another common ingredient is juice. Usually take orange, apple, cranberry or cherry. Lovers of experiments can pour in mulled wine coffee, black tea, brandy or rum.

What combination of ingredients exactly like

Layfhaker prepared a wonderful mulled wine from these products:

• 2 tablespoons sugar;
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon;
• ½ lemon;
• 1 apple;
• 2-3 cm root ginger;
• 750 ml of red wine semisweet;
• 250 mL apple juice;
• 2-3 cinnamon sticks;
• 2-3 grain of cardamom;
• 1-2 cloves bud;
• 3 pea allspice.

How to cook a mulled wine

Pour sugar into a small bowl and mix with cinnamon. If you use honey, leave it for later. Honey is added to the pot at the end of cooking or in glasses already spilled drink.

With lemon, remove the peel and the flesh cut into circles.

Mytoe apple also shred large pieces.

Peel the ginger root. Faster and easier to do it with a teaspoon, scrape her skin. Cut the ginger into thin slices.

In a saucepan, pour red wine and apple juice.

Put on low heat and add the lemon pulp, citrus peel and apple.

Put the mixture of sugar and ground cinnamon (or just cinnamon, if using honey), ginger, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cloves and allspice.

Heat the wine to 70-80 ° C: over a saucepan steam appear, and you'll hear something like gurgling.

Mulled wine can not be boiled, otherwise the taste of the wine has evaporated with the liquid.

Cover the drink lid and remove from heat. To heat lasts longer, you can wrap the pot with a towel. Insist 10-15 minutes or a little longer.

Currently, mulled wine, strain through a sieve or cheesecloth.

By the way, there is another way of cooking. The pan is adjusted to 150-200 ml of boiling water, spices and lay boiled for 10 minutes. Thereafter, water is added to the flavored fruit, juice and wine.

How to apply mulled

This drink is a hot drink. Ideally, it is necessary to pour into high glasses glass of thick glass. In a pot of mulled wine will cool down slowly.

Before serving the drink can be decorated. For example, you put a cinnamon stick, star anise asterisk, a slice of lemon or orange berries. Or stick a clove in a circle citrus and put it on the edge of the glass.