Delicious mulled wine recipe
With these tips you can easily make mulled wine at home
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We reveal the best mulled wine recipe and helpful tips so that you can make mulled wine yourself. So it will be better than at the Christmas market.
Mulled wine recipe: This is how you can make mulled wine yourself
Ingredients for 4 cups
- 1 bottle of red wine (0.7 l)
- 100 ml orange juice
- 75 grams of candy sugar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 2 star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 6 cloves
- 4 mini oranges (kumquats)
preparation
- In a large saucepan, heat red wine, orange juice, sugar, vanilla sugar and spices over low heat for about 10 minutes. Then leave it on the lowest level for about 50 minutes.
- Then rinse the mini oranges in hot water, cut into slices and divide into four glasses.
- Pour the mulled wine through a sieve into the glasses and serve immediately.
Tip: Place the spices in a tea bag or tea infuser and cook with them, then remove. This way you don’t have to laboriously remove the spices later.
Which wine is suitable for mulled wine?
Mulled wine with red wine
If you want to use a classic red mulled wine recipe, you should look for a perfect balance of acidity, sweetness and fruitiness semi-dry to dry red wines put. Because the sweetness of sugar and fruit juice is perfectly balanced by a slightly tart note in the wine.
These wines are good choices:
- Italian Merlot
- spanish tinto
- German Dornfelder
- German trollinger
- Pinot Noir
Mulled wine with white wine
It’s no wonder that white mulled wine is also becoming increasingly popular in this country. It offers a light, fresh alternative to the classic. Its fruity aroma and higher acidity provide a welcome change.
Semi-dry to dry wines are also perfectly suited here, such as:
- Müller-Thurgau
- Sylvaner
- Pinot Blanc
- Riesling
- Pinot Grigio
Which spices for mulled wine?
Opinions differ when it comes to spices: While some prefer a strong spicy aroma in the mulled wine recipe, others leave it at a subtle note.
Classic, as in our mulled wine recipe, the mulled wine is served with Cloves, cinnamon sticks, star anise and cardamom seasoned. Other popular condiments for the hot wine are:
- pimento
- vanilla beans
- Ginger
- nutmeg
- coriander (seed)
- juniper berries
But you can also experiment with fennel seeds, bay leaves, red pepper berries and mace.
Sweeten mulled wine
When refining your mulled wine recipe with citrus fruits, the mulled wine can become bitter if the wine already has a certain acidity and the spices provide a strong aroma. Then sweeten him Cane sugar, honey or agave syrup after. Or give it a try for a change Jam (e.g. orange marmalade) or juices. Also port wine can give the drink a pleasant sweetness, but increases the alcohol content.
Make mulled wine spice yourself
If you want to make mulled wine yourself more often or need a homemade gift, you can also make your own mulled wine spices and fill them into small glasses.
All you need are the following ingredients:
- 10 pieces of cardamom pods
- 8 pieces of star anise
- 15 pieces of carnations
- 10 pieces of allspice corns
- 1 cinnamon stick
- ½ tsp nutmeg (ground)
- 1 tbsp whole cane sugar
The rest of the instructions are in the recipe.
Why not boil mulled wine?
If you make mulled wine yourself, you should make sure that the mulled wine never heated above 80 °C or is boiled. Then from 78°C the alcohol begins to evaporate. In addition, the heat has a negative effect on the spices from the mulled wine recipe and can change the aroma.
How long does mulled wine have to steep?
The longer infuses your mulled wine with the spices in the pot, the more intense the aromas spread and the typical Christmas flavor can unfold. However, you should let it steep for at least an hour.
Mulled wine with a shot: Which alcohol goes well with mulled wine?
At the Christmas market it is usually part of the mulled wine: the “shot”. It means that the mulled wine is mixed with various spirits. You take care of one special aroma in hot wine and make it even stronger. Strictly speaking, a mulled wine with a shot is a punch. But where exactly the differences lie, we explain below.
This “shot” goes with your mulled wine recipe:
- Sweet Liqueur (Cointreau, Amaretto)
- grain
- vodka
- brown rum
- grappa
Difference: mulled wine, punch, Glögg & Co.
gloggthe Scandinavian hot drink in winter, contains red wine and spices as well grain or vodka. grog turn will be off hot water, sugar and rum prepared.
Punch meanwhile, is rounded off with arrack, a spirit from Southeast Asia. It also contains lemon, sugar and spices. Tea or water is used as the basis for this hot drink. But hot mulled wine mixed with high-proof alcohol or tea with juice and Christmas aromas is also called punch.
Make your own non-alcoholic mulled wine
The so-called children’s punch is prepared from tea, fruit juice and pieces of fruit. Here, too, spices such as cinnamon sticks and cloves are essential. Children’s punch is not only a delicious drink for the little ones, but is also ideal if you want to do without alcohol.
Here you can experiment with different types of tea and fruit juices to your heart’s content: They are delicious Various types of fruit tea, apple juice and cherry juice. For a non-alcoholic mulled wine recipe, simply replace the wine in our recipe with elderberry or cherry juice for dark punch or try our recipe for apple punch!
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