Mulled Wine
Perfect for a wintry day, or whenever you'd appreciate a warm little pick-me-up.
Ingredients
- 2 navel oranges
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 6 whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 whole nutmeg for grating
- 1 vanilla bean split lengthwise
- 2 star anise
- 2 bottles of red wine (good options are a Syrah, Malbec, or Shiraz)
Instructions
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Remove peels from your selected citrus, trying to avoid taking too much of the pith with them.
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Combine the sugar, the juice of one orange, your peels and vanilla bean in a pot over medium heat.
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Add just enough wine to cover the sugar, grate in some of the nutmeg, then add the remaining spices or mulling spice mix. Stir occasionally and continue to cook down until the mixture becomes syrupy, around 3 – 5 minutes.
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Add the remaining wine and whisk together with the syrup, then reduce heat to medium-low until wine is heated through, around 5 minutes. You don’t want it hitting a boil, so keep an eye on it.
Recipe Notes
If you have a favourite mulling spice mix, you can use 4 tbsp (2 per bottle) in a sachet in place of the cloves and cinnamon above.