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How to make a liqueur with chestnuts – Italian Cuisine


It's not autumn if you don't go to collect chestnuts at least once! To bring them to the table then there are lots of ideas, like this liqueur. Do we want to take a poetic license and call it "Castagnello"?

Autumn, the leaves fall … and even the chestnuts! Going to the woods to collect them is a way to spend an afternoon in contact with nature and to do something different and relaxing. With the loot, once at home, you can then do many recipes including that of an original liquor that we decided to call "castagnello". How you do it? We will explain it to you immediately!

It is not autumn without chestnuts

The chestnut liqueur it is the ideal way to end an autumn dinner, because it is also a digestive and then because it is not autumn if there are no chestnuts at the table, right?
Approaches Saint martin and there are even less than 100 days left for Christmas, so if you want to prepare this liqueur even to give it to friends, this is the right time to do it!
There are two recipes: a more delicious and creamy one and a lighter one.
We offer both of them, but we can already imagine which one will be chosen.

The tasty recipe of liqueur with chestnuts

Ingredients

700 g of chestnuts
400 g of sugar
1 l of alcohol
500 ml of water

Method

Boil the chestnuts until they become soft, then let them cool and peel them well.
Dip them in alcohol and let them macerate tightly for about 20 days.
After this time, prepare a syrup by dissolving the sugar in boiling water.
Let it cool and then add it to the alcohol, after having filtered it.
Chestnuts can be reduced to a puree of the whole or just a part.
Add them to the liqueur to make it very creamy.

How to boil chestnuts

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Classic (and light) chestnut liqueur

To keep the liqueur transparent and amber in color, do not add the blended chestnuts.
Instead, filter the alcohol very well with a thinly woven gauze and then add the syrup.
Chestnuts can be used to prepare a dessert such as a Montebianco, in a slightly alcoholic version, or to garnish a cream or ice cream.

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Fig liqueur, did you think about it? – Italian Cuisine

Fig liqueur, did you think about it?


Such a sweet digestive is really unusual and will surprise you. It is served cold and goes very well with chocolate or dried fruit

With nuts you make the nocino, with the lemon the limoncello… and with figs? How can we call a fig liqueur?
Meanwhile, think about it, let's see how we prepare together.

Only fresh ripe and firm figs

To prepare this liqueur it is important to choose the figs righteous.
I must be mature, but not too much, and soft, but not soft.
As for the variety and color you can do in your own way, the important thing is that they have a nice consistency.

Peel: yes or no?

The peel should be removed, unless it is figs that come from organic production or from the home garden.
Certainly keeping the peel we do not risk to open the figs in the alcohol especially if they are not compact enough, but keeping it or not does not change much the final result.

The fig liqueur recipe

Ingredients

500 g of fresh figs
400 g of cane sugar
500 ml of liquor alcohol
500 ml of water
a cinnamon stick (optional)

Method

First wash the figs well and dry them with kitchen paper.
Peel them without breaking them and then put them together with the cinnamon stick in a large glass container with the cap and cover them with alcohol.
Let them soak in a cool place for about two weeks, shaking the jar from time to time.
After this time, filter everything.
Separately prepare a syrup by dissolving the sugar in boiling water and let it cool.
Mix the two liquids, strain them and pour them into a 1 liter bottle.

Interesting combinations

You can serve the fig liqueur after a meal because it is sweet, delicate and digestive.
It must be cold so we suggest you always keep it in the freezer.
He is very comfortable with the dark chocolate so maybe with a cake or an ice cream and even with the dried fruit then you can serve it as an accompaniment to a rustic tart or a crunchy one.
Try it also in a wet room tiramisu or a cake of sponge cake which you can then fill with mascarpone cream and caramelized figs.

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How to prepare liquorice liqueur – Italian Cuisine

How to prepare liquorice liqueur


A digestive always appreciated, especially in summer dinners. Always keep strictly in the freezer next to the limoncello

The licorice liqueur it's a super digestive very pleasant to sip cold after meals.
Preparing it is very simple. Here is ours recipe.

How to choose the right licorice

First, get yourself some high quality licorice.
In some recipes you will find the powder which, however, is not easy to find on the market, but we suggest the pure liquorice in tablets, sticks or sticks. The roots are not good.
Pure licorice is the dark, hard and very intense taste that you also find packaged or sold in bulk in herbal shops and natural products stores. Many candy stalls in the city markets also have the purest liquorice, but try it before buying it because very often it is not very tasty.

Which alcohol to use

The alcohol for making homemade liqueurs is that 95% which is easily found in all supermarkets.
Always remember that it should be mixed with one sugar-based syrup and then with the basic ingredient.
In many preparations with herbs, fruits and spices the ingredients are left to infuse in alcohol for days to disperse all their flavor.

Liquorice liqueur

Prepare this fresh and digestive drink for you and your friends. The process is really very simple.
Jumbled up 100 g of pure licorice with 600 ml of water and wait for it to melt completely. It will take about 48 hours.
You mix the mixture from time to time.
Then prepare a syrup with 1 kg of sugar and 600 ml of water and melt the sugar keeping the heat very low.
Once cold, mix the syrup with the licorice concentrate and then add 1 liter of 95% alcohol.
Pour the liqueur into the bottles e wait a few weeks before consuming it.
Keep in the fridge or freezer and serve cold.

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