Mulled Wine

An easy mulled wine recipe for the festive season. ------------------------------------- The warming spices of cinnamon, cloves and tangy zest of orange brighten up a plain red wine and put you in the mood for celebrating Christmas. ---------------------------------- There are hundreds of recipes for mulled wine (or Glühwein) and everyone has their own secret ingredient. The important thing is to get the amount of sugar right. Too much sugar makes it too sickly, too little and the tartness loses much of the comfort factor that makes mulled wine so warming and festive. So the golden rule is to add less sugar than you think you’ll need, then taste the wine once it is warmed through and add more sugar just until it tastes right for you. Each wine will be different and individual tastes vary, so bask in the heady warmth of wine and spices and stand over your mulled wine tasting little sips until it is just right! ---------------- Choosing a wine to mull is another important consideration. You don’t want to use total plonk, but it is a waste to use a well aged bottle of prize wine. My favourites are Chianti or Merlot. --------------------------- Mulled Wine Recipe --------------------------- Ingredients ---------------------------------- 1 bottle of red wine, ------------------------- sugar to taste, ------------------------------ 2-3 cinnamon sticks --------------------------- 5 cloves -------------------------------------- 1 orange, sliced (use an organic grown orange because you use it with its skin) ------------- Amaretto Pour the wine into a large saucepan and warm over a medium heat. Add the sugar, spices and the sliced orange. Keep an eye on the wine and turn the heat to very low as soon as it gets close to simmering. You don’t want it to boil or it will lose its alcohol content! Taste for sugar and add more until it tastes right for you. Keep it steaming over a low heat for a while to allow the spices to infuse. Pour 2-4cl of Amaretto into a glass or mug (depending on size) and add the warm wine and breathe in the spicy aroma and enjoy!!!! Some people prefer Brandy or Rum to Amaretto

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