Cuisine Explorer
Christmas special: Mulled wine
Difficulty Level : Easy
Serves: 6 people
Cooking Time: 10 mins
Ingredients
750ml bottle of red wine
1 sliced clementine
1 cinnamon stick
1 star anise
3 dried figs
4 cloves
3 black peppercorns
50ml brandy
Instructions
- Pour the red wine into a large saucepan. Add the clementine, cinnamon stick, star anise, dried figs, cloves and black peppercorns. Heat very gently until simmering, then turn off the heat.
- Fish out the whole spices and peppercorns with a spoon, then stir in the brandy. Ladle into mugs, or heatproof glasses to serve. You could drop in a slice of clementine to each.
