2021 Homemade hot drinks at home : Christmas mulled wine

Christmas mulled wine, a warm winter drink that can be made at home.

Mulled wine is a traditional hot drink that originated in Europe. As a hot drink added with spices to keep out the cold, it is so romantic! It is carried forward because of Christmas, in the lively Christmas market, almost everyone has a glass of rich mulled wine.

The red wine, fruit, and aniseed ingredients are mixed and boiled on a small fire for 15 minutes. Most of the alcohol and the tannins of the red wine are volatilized, adding a richer layer and flavor to the originally attractive red wine. In such a cold winter, on Christmas in a foreign land, boil mulled red wine, let the passion and warm spice linger around, the sweet and sour fruity flavor adds to the level of red wine, drinking a glass, the whole body is warm.

But remember not to use excessively good red wine to cook mulled red wine. Just like beef stew in red wine or simmered pear in red wine, you can use ordinary, toast-grade red wine.

Ingredients: 2 small apples (or 1 big apple), 1 orange, 1 lemon, 15 cloves, 2 star anise, 2 bay leaves, 2 cinnamon, appropriate amount of rock sugar, 500ml red wine, 2 rosemary .

practice:

1. Wash the skins of oranges and lemons with sea salt, wash apples, and prepare other required materials.

2. Slice the washed oranges and apples, half the lemons, and save half for squeezing juice.

3. Insert the cloves on the skin of the bottom and top of the orange.

4. Put the orange and apple slices into the milk pot, and put a slice of lemon.

5. Squeeze half a lemon juice into the milk pot.

6. Add bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise and rock sugar.

7. Pour in 500ml of red wine and cook on low heat.

8. Keep cooking on low heat for 15 minutes.

9. The cooked mulled wine is ready to start!

Tips :

1. The red wine must be boiled on a low heat, the minimum gear, over-boiling will easily make the red wine and fruits sour, which will affect the taste.

2. The quality of red wine does not need to be too good, the price is expensive, just buy a bottle of average quality and the price is less than 100%.

3. Just put a slice of lemon when cooking the red wine, and the rest can be put into the cup for decoration after cooking.

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