Mulled wine is classified as a warming alcoholic beverage. Most reputable establishments delight their customers with its taste, while you can choose both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options. But you don't have to go to a restaurant to enjoy a fragrant hot drink.
Non-alcoholic homemade mulled wine can be successfully prepared independently, at home.
The composition of non-alcoholic mulled wine for 10-12 persons:
- 1 orange;
- 1 lemon;
- 10 apples;
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of ground cinnamon;
- 1 small piece of peeled and chopped ginger
- 12 carnation buds;
- 1 teaspoon vanillin
- ¾ cups of brown sugar.
Making non-alcoholic mulled wine
- Remove the zest from the orange and lemon. Leave some zest of both fruits for a bitter taste. The bones do not need to be removed, since in the next stages the mulled wine will be filtered. Cut the orange and lemon into pieces.
- Cut the apples into quarters without peeling or pitting them.
- Put slices of orange, lemon, a little zest in a large saucepan, add apples, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, vanillin and sugar.
- Pour all the ingredients with enough water to cover the contents of the pan.
- Cover the pot with a lid and cook mulled wine for 3 hours over low heat.
- After that, knead the fruit with a crush and continue to cook for 30-60 minutes.
- After cooking, strain the resulting puree through a sieve into a large jug. Serve the finished drink immediately.
Advice! Fruit growers often coat them with wax or polymers to keep them looking good, so soak the fruit for 2-3 minutes in warm water before cooking. This will get rid of wax and polymers.
Ready homemade mulled wine can be cooled and refrigerated. Subsequently, it can be heated in a saucepan and served. However, it is worth noting that heated mulled wine loses its aroma and taste, so it is better to cook this drink in small portions, pour it into beautiful New Year's mugs and drink it right away.
Those who still prefer to add alcohol to fruit mulled wine can dilute the ready-made drink with red wine or rum.
