If you want to warm up or recover from a cold in the winter and cold season, then mulled wine with fruit will help you with this most beneficially.
Content:
- The benefits of mulled wine
- Secrets of making mulled wine
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
What is mulled wine? This is a hot alcoholic drink prepared on the basis of red or white wine with spices and spices. For its preparation, young light dry wine with an alcohol content of about 8, 5-12, 5% is usually used. You should not cook mulled wine from aged, old and expensive wines. Since the use of expensive brands of wine for the preparation of mulled wine is considered a sign of bad taste.
The benefits of mulled wine with fruits
Despite the fact that this drink is alcoholic, it can be very useful. For example, mulled wine is recommended for hypothermia, mental and physical fatigue, runny nose and cough, insomnia and depression. And some scientists are confident that mulled wine can help in the treatment of colds and flu, as a powerful preventive measure, and can also strengthen immunity.
In addition, this drink has bactericidal properties, from which it is recommended to restore health after suffering infectious diseases.
Secrets of making mulled wine with fruits
- Be sure to use fruit. These are mainly citrus fruits, peaches, apples and apricots. Sometimes exotic recipes are added: bananas, pineapple and kiwi. In addition, mulled wine can include juices (orange, apple, lemon), dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes) and berries (cranberries, blueberries, black currants).
- Condiments and spices. It is advisable to use them not ground, because dissolving, they will spoil the taste and create a cloudy film. The following spices are most often used: cinnamon (preferably a stick), ginger, nutmeg, cloves, allspice, cardamom. True gourmets add to enhance the taste: bay leaves, star anise, saffron, coriander, anise, Jamaican pepper, barberry and medicinal herbs.
- Never bring mulled wine to a boil. The heating temperature of the wine should be no more than 70 ° C.
- Use thick glasses to keep the drink warm longer. Special glasses are produced for this drink.
- You can infuse the drink in a thermos, then it will begin to play with new tastes. But in this case, be sure to remove the lemon, because mulled wine can taste bitter.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 132 kcal.
- Servings - 1 liter
- Cooking time - 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Dry red wine - 1 l (white can be used)
- Lemon - 1 pc.
- Orange - 1 pc.
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Cinnamon - 1 stick
- Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Green tea - 1 tsp
- Carnation - 2-3 buds
- Allspice peas - 5-6 pcs.
- Sugar or honey - to taste and as desired
Making mulled wine with fruits
1. Wash the apple, lemon and orange under running water and dry with a paper or cotton towel. Then cut half of the apple into slices, cut 4 slices from the lemon, and two slices of the orange.
2. Brew green tea with boiling water and leave to infuse for 10 minutes.
3. Pour wine into an enamel or stainless steel saucepan. Add the brewed and infused green tea and strain through cheesecloth or a sieve. Also add cinnamon (stick and ground), allspice peas and clove buds.
4. Dip the fruit into the wine and place the wine on the stove to heat up. Heat it until the white foam disappears on the surface. Then turn off the heat and leave the prepared mulled wine to infuse for 40 minutes. However, you can drink it immediately after preparation. Cakes, fruits and cheeses are served with mulled wine.
Watch the video recipe for making homemade mulled wine:
