On a cold winter evening, the fragrant home mulled wine will perfectly warm and give a feeling of comfort. For children, you can cook it non-alcoholic version. To repeat the classic mulled wine recipe at home is quite simple. About it further.

Classic mulled wine at home

Ingredients: 2 standard bottles of good dry wine (certainly red!), A teaspoon of black pepper (peas), cloves, a glass of water, 120 ml of port, orange, 3 whole cinnamon sticks, 130 g of granulated sugar.

  1. The zest is carefully removed from the fruit and placed in a pan.
  2. All spices pour out on top, filtered water pours out. The mass is simmering for 12-14 minutes. During this time, the cinnamon aroma will fully reveal.
  3. Sand is added to the mixture. The mass is left on fire until all the grains have dissolved.
  4. It remains to pour port, and after 5-6 minutes - wine.
  5. When white foam appears on the surface of the liquid, the drink is removed from the fire and left to infuse for half an hour.

You can serve the drink with natural bee honey.

Soft drink

Ingredients: 1 liter of grape juice, 220 ml of cranberry juice or any other sour, 2 stars star anise, cloves to taste, 1/3 tsp. cinnamon and cardamom, nutmeg on the tip of a knife.

  1. First all seasonings are combined.
  2. Juice is heated on fire. In no case should you pour it into an aluminum pan.
  3. Juice does not boil. It is enough to wait for the appearance of small bubbles.
  4. Mixed seasonings are sent to the liquid.
  5. After stirring, the fire turns off. The drink is left to infuse for 12-15 minutes.

Sugar is added to the finished mulled wine. After that, he is thoroughly filtered.Otherwise, ground spices can ruin its taste.

Red wine recipe with apples

Ingredients: 730 g of good red wine, 220 g of apples, a glass of granulated sugar, 22-24 pcs. peas of black pepper, 15 g ground cinnamon, lemon, 1 pc. carnations.

  1. Red wine in a suitable container is sent to the fire. All spices and sand immediately fall into it.
  2. Apples with peel are cut into small cubes and also added to the pan.
  3. When the mass boils, the container is removed from the stove and left to infuse under the lid for 12-14 minutes. It remains only to carefully strain it.

A pair of slices of fresh lemon is added to each glass of drink when served.

Tasty recipe: mulled wine - a home-made recipe

With the addition of white wine

Ingredients: 730 ml of dry white wine (of high quality), whole lemon, cloves and cinnamon to taste, half a glass of sugar, 140 ml of filtered water.

  1. To make mulled wine according to this recipe, the first thing you need to do is put the granulated sugar in a suitable dish. It should not be aluminum. The amount of sugar can be adjusted to your taste. Usually taken from half to a full glass of sand. It is allowed to replace it with natural bee honey.
  2. Cloves, ground cinnamon are added to sugar. This component is better to take in sticks and grind yourself. In this case, the spices will be more fragrant.
  3. It remains to add lemon to the bowl, together with the skin, cut into small slices.
  4. At the end, liquid ingredients are sent to the pan. First is filtered water. When the mixture boils, it is filtered and returned to the pan. After that, you can pour dry white wine into the container.
  5. The drink is heated again, and then filtered if desired.

Ready-made fragrant mulled wine is served hot to the table. You can decorate it with orange or lemon slices.

How to cook in a slow cooker?

Ingredients: half a liter of good red wine (semisweet), a tablespoon of liquid bee honey, half a lemon and an orange, half a cinnamon stick, 2 clove inflorescences, star anise anise, cardamom to taste, a pinch of ground coriander, 1 cm of fresh ginger root, 3 -5 peas of black pepper.

  1. Smart Casserole perfectly copes not only with a variety of dishes, but also with some drinks. It turns out perfectly to cook mulled wine in it. First of all, citrus fruits are cut into thin circles along with the skin.
  2. Orange and lemon are placed in the bowl of the device. The amount of spices recommended in the recipe spills out on top of slices of citrus. You can adjust their quantity to your liking. Or to completely exclude any components. Ginger is peeled and rubbed on the smallest grater.
  3. Honey is added to the container. Instead, you can also take white or brown sugar.
  4. The selected wine is poured into the bowl. It is necessary to mix all the components in the container.
  5. From the device’s modes, “Grains”, “Soup” and any others that heat the liquid, but do not allow it to boil, are suitable. It is necessary in the process to constantly monitor that this does not happen.
  6. Already finished mulled wine is left heated for 12-14 minutes.

A drink is served to the table after straining.

Fruit mulled wine at home

Ingredients: half a liter of good red wine (you can not save on alcohol for mulled wine), half a liter of grape juice, 2 large tablespoons of granulated sugar, lemon, orange, apple, 3 each. cardamom, peas of allspice, cloves, cinnamon sticks and star anise, 1-1.5 cm ginger root.

  1. Liquids are immediately sent to a small pot. Instead of grape juice, you can use apple, peach or any other that is at hand.
  2. All declared spices are poured to wine and juice. Pre-grinding them is not required. It is only necessary to cut ginger without skin into slices.
  3. From lemon and orange only zest will be used. It is added to the container with a whole spiral.
  4. The apple with the skin is cut into small pieces and also sent to all other ingredients.
  5. It is necessary to bring the drink to a boil over medium heat, and then immediately turn it off and leave to stand under the closed lid for 6-7 minutes.
  6. It remains to strain the liquid. A fine sieve or gauze can be used for this.

Cups with mulled wine are decorated with slices of citrus. If you want to make the taste of the drink more piquant, you can sprinkle it with a pinch of ground black pepper when serving.

With honey - an old Russian recipe

Ingredients: 1.5 l of filtered water, 1.5 cm of fresh ginger root, 320 g of natural bee honey, 8-9 pcs. cloves, a pinch of dried hypericum, 6-7 peas of black pepper, 2 small spoons of ground cinnamon.

  1. Cinnamon sticks are ground. Ginger root is peeled and crushed using a grater with the smallest divisions. The remaining spices do not need to be ground.
  2. Bee honey dissolves in half the water. The liquid is sent to a fire and brought to a boil. In the process, you need to constantly remove the emerging foam from it.
  3. All herbs and spices are tied in cheesecloth. It is immersed in the remaining water, the liquid is brought to a boil and left to infuse for half an hour.
  4. The gauze is removed, and the honey mixture and aromatic water combine. The use of gauze allows you to refuse further filtering the drink.

Before serving, the mulled wine is heated in Russian.