Christmas Spiced Gin Recipe

Open the bottle of vodka and add the juniper berries orange peel cloves and cinnamon.

Christmas spiced gin recipe. Add your botanicals 4og juniper berries 10g coriander seeds cinnamon stick liquorice root 2 cardamom pods. Heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to a gentle boil then take off the heat and leave to cool. Serve with tonic and a couple of the orange segments in each glass.

Homemade christmas spiced gin one 70cl bottle london dry gin peel of one orange 200g caster sugar 4 cloves 1 cinnamon stick 1 star anise 1 centimetre square of fresh ginger skin on 1 nutmeg cracked add all your. Add the segments and the zest strips to the gin along with the sugar ginger and bay leaves. Add the pomegranate seeds and gin and decant into a large glass container or several glass bottles. Step 4 leave to infuse for 3 days then decant into smaller bottles or 1 big bottle.

Christmas eve is traditionally a day spent in the kitchen in my family but i will take a short break to deliver a little christmas treat. Reserve the gin bottles. One week of infusion will be adequate to produce a flavourful spiced gin but if you want a more intense flavour simply leave the ingredients to infuse for longer. Infuse for 24 hours in a cool dark place.

Sterilise 1 litre jar with boiling water and add 70cl vodka. L et s get some mulled gin in our lives. Add sugar and cinnamon stick and pour in gin. Have a taste the juniper flavour should be developing.

This spiced gin recipe is incredibly simply to make and has the added benefit of allowing you to easily control the level of spice and heat in the gin. 25ml homemade clementine gin liqueur 100ml prosecco sprinkle of edible gold stars such as these from lakeland chill a wine glass or champagne flute. If you prefer a stronger flavour bruise the juniper berries using a pestle and mortar first put the lid back on the bottle and leave in a cool dark place for 12 24 hrs but no more or the flavours may become imbalanced. Add your gin liqueur 25ml does make it quite sweet so you can start with.