How To Easily Flavor Your Homemade Vinegar?
Have you made your own homemade vinegar, but want to add a little extra to it by flavoring it with one or more ingredients of your choice?
Well it is possible, and not very complicated. I'll explain everything to you!
Following my recently published tip that explains how to make your own homemade vinegar, I guess the temptation is to go further and flavor it with various flavors.
I show you how to go about scenting your vinegar easily.
The choice of aromas
It depends of course on the taste of each one: you can use aromatic herbs, fruits, vegetables but also flowers.
Whichever you choose, your ingredients should be washed thoroughly, drained well, and wiped dry.
Essential rules
Several rules must be followed to successfully flavor your vinegar:
- do not carry out this operation in the vinegar bowl itself but in another container, otherwise you risk killing the mother of the vinegar and stopping the process,
- the ingredients chosen must be entirely covered by vinegar,
- the container must be stoppered during the maceration time (between 15 days and 1 month),
- boil your container to clean it well before the operation,
- once your flavored vinegar is finished, store it in a corked bottle.
3 examples of recipes
You can imagine many possibilities for flavoring your vinegar, and the processes are pretty much the same. Here are 3 recipe ideas that you can adapt to your choices.
Mint vinegar
- Put 1 branch of mint in 1 liter of vinegar.
- Leave to macerate for 3 weeks.
- Filter the vinegar (with a coffee filter for example) by pressing the mint leaves well to extract the substances.
To be enjoyed with a tabbouleh!
Lavender vinegar
- Put 100 g of fresh flowers in your vinegar.
- Leave to macerate for 1 month.
- Filter as above.
To be used in salads and raw vegetables for a subtle flavor ...
Raspberry vinegar
- Take 500 g of raspberries from which the stalk is removed and put them in 1 liter of vinegar.
- Leave to macerate for 10 days.
- Filter as before.
Add to poultry or red meat.
Bonus tips
- The more fragile the chosen ingredient, the shorter the maceration: the time will be shorter for the flower petals than for the branches of thyme, for example.
- You can keep 1 year your flavored vinegar.
- It is also quite possible to mix ingredients between them during maceration: thyme and garlic, mint and orange peels, ginger and mango ...
It's up to you to experiment: to do this, work on small amounts of vinegar (1/2 liter) and let your imagination run wild!
Your turn...
Have you tried any recipes you liked? Thank you for telling us in the comments! We can't wait to hear from you!
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