Bonfire Night drinks recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has red wine, apple juice, caster sugar, cinnamon stick, star anise, cointreau, fruit and apple.
Appleberry mulled wine
Course: Bonfire Night drinks
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Red Wine: 2 x 75cl bottles red wine (such as Merlot; better quality wine makes all the difference)
- Apple: 3 small red-skinned apples, sliced into rings
- Caster Sugar: 115g caster sugar
- Fruit: a handful or so (about 100g/4oz) frozen mulled fruit or fruits of the forest or Black Forest fruits
- Cinnamon Stick: 1 long cinnamon stick, snapped in half
- Apple Juice: 1l good-quality cloudy apple juice
- Star Anise: 2 star anise
- Cointreau: 3 tbsp orange Curacao or Cointreau
Directions
- Pour the wine and apple juice into a large saucepan and add the sugar, cinnamon stick and star anise. Heat gently, stirring once or twice, until the sugar has dissolved, then continue heating gently for another 15 minutes.
- Just before serving, swirl in the Curacao or Cointreau, throw in the frozen fruits and add the apple slices.
