TOP-4 recipes with photos of making liquor at home. Culinary tips and secrets. Video recipes.
Liqueur is a noble drink with subtle spicy notes, rich and intense taste. He was at all times very popular, especially among true connoisseurs and gourmets, because the drink has absorbed many years of experience of the best European traditions. How to make homemade liqueur, we'll talk further.
Culinary tips and secrets
- Despite its sweet taste, the liqueur belongs to the category of spirits.
- Homemade liqueurs are often used as an ingredient in low alcohol cocktails.
- Liqueurs are fruit and berry, milk, chocolate, coffee, egg, etc.
- Fruits and berries for the drink should be ripe, but not overripe. And in no case sour.
- Fruit liqueurs are made by pressing and squeezing, or by infusion with vodka or alcohol. For the first method, the juice is fermented, clarified, and then sugar and vodka are added. The second way - the fruits are crushed, placed in a bottle and poured with alcohol or vodka, adding sugar. The mixture is kept for 4-6 weeks.
- On average, the following proportions are observed for liqueur. For 1 liter of boiled water, 1 kg of sugar is used, and the quality of alcohol depends on the desired strength of the liquor. Although these additives are used to your liking.
Cherry liqueur
Homemade cherry liqueur turns out to be tasty and aromatic. If desired, it can be used to soak cakes, rolls, biscuits and other baked goods. The main thing is to use good quality vodka, because its taste will also prevail in the drink. If desired, vodka can be replaced with whiskey or cognac.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 239 kcal.
- Servings - 1 L
- Cooking time - 5-6 weeks
Ingredients:
- Cherries - 1 kg
- Cinnamon - 1 stick
- Vodka - 700 ml
- Cherry leaves - 10 pcs.
- Carnation - 5 pcs.
- Sugar - 700 g
Cherry liqueur preparation:
- Wash the cherries, cut off the branches, remove the seeds and put in a jar.
- Sprinkle sugar on top, put a cinnamon stick, clove buds and washed cherry leaves.
- Cover the jar with gauze and leave to infuse in the sun for 10 days.
- Pour vodka into the resulting mixture and leave for another 4 weeks.
- After a while, strain the cherry liqueur and pour into a convenient bowl.
Chocolate liqueur
The recipe uses milk chocolate. But if you want a richer chocolate liqueur flavor, substitute dark chocolate for milk.
Ingredients:
- Egg yolks - 4 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g
- Vanilla sugar - 5 g
- Milk chocolate - 40 g
- Cognac - 200 ml
- Cream 10-20% - 200 g
Making Baileys Chocolate Liqueur:
- Add sugar to the yolks with vanilla sugar and beat with a mixer to break the sugar grains.
- Add cream to the yolks, stir and place in a steam bath so that the bowl does not touch the boiling water. Heat the mass to 60 ° C.
- Melt the chocolate in the microwave, but do not bring it to a boil. Send it to the egg-creamy mass and continue to heat up to 60 ° C.
- Pour cognac into the mass, stir and heat for 2-3 minutes to 65-70 ° C.
- Strain the resulting liquor through fine filtration, pour into a jar and leave to cool.
Irish liqueur Baileys
The taste of the drink directly depends on the quality of the ingredients. Therefore, make sure that the whiskey is of high quality and the coffee is aromatic. The vanilla pod favorably emphasizes the coffee taste of the liqueur, and to make it even more aromatic, use brown sugar.
Ingredients:
- Whiskey - 300 ml
- Low fat cream - 400 g
- Condensed milk - 1 can
- Sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Honey - 2 tsp
- Vanilla pod - 1 pc.
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Instant coffee - 2 tsp
- Ginger root - 1 cm
- Cinnamon - 1 stick
- Water - 300 ml
Preparation of Baileys Irish Liqueur:
- Mix honey, cinnamon, vanilla pod, peeled ginger root and whiskey and refrigerate for 5 days, tightly closing the jar.
- Shake the tincture periodically, and after 5 days strain it several times through fine filtration.
- Dissolve coffee in water and mix with sugar, condensed milk, egg yolks and cream. Beat the food with a blender until smooth.
- Combine the two masses and beat everything again with a blender. Remove the cinnamon stick, vanilla pod and ginger root from the tincture.
- Pour the finished liquor into bottles and refrigerate.
Liqueur "Coffee in Lemon"
Saturated, appetizing, aromatic and with a pleasant sourness - the Coffee in Lemon liqueur. Be sure to do it, especially if you like citrus liqueurs. The drink will delight you on the eve of family and New Year holidays.
Ingredients:
- Natural coffee (roasted, beans) - 2 tbsp.
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Water - 300 ml
- Cane sugar - 200 g
- Vodka - 500 ml
Preparation of Coffee in Lemon liqueur:
- Wash the lemon, dry it and cut several small holes with a knife into which you stuff the coffee beans, pressing them into the depth.
- Put a coffee lemon in a jar, add sugar and pour in vodka. Close the container with a lid and place in a dark place for 10 days. Stir the contents daily to dissolve the sugar.
- After 10 days, take out the lemon, pour boiling water (300 g) and stand until it cools completely.
- Strain the resulting lemon broth and mix with vodka infused with lemon.
Coffee liqueur
There is nothing difficult in making homemade coffee liqueur. The finished elixir can be drunk on its own, added to cocktails, hot drinks, pastries and desserts.
Ingredients:
- Finely ground coffee - 1/4 tbsp.
- Water - 2, 5 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Vanillin - 1 pod
- Light rum - 0.5 tbsp.
Making coffee liqueur:
- Pour coffee into a glass container, pour in cold water (1, 5 tbsp.), Close the lid, shake and leave in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
- Strain the drink through cheesecloth and cover.
- For the sugar syrup, in a saucepan, combine the sugar and water (1 tbsp) and bring to a boil. Remove the pan from heat and cool to room temperature.
- Pour the rum syrup and vanilla into a jar of coffee.
- Stir and leave to infuse for 3 days, then remove the vanilla pod from the jar. Pour the liquor into a serving bottle.
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