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The Scandinavian mulled wine is spicy, aromatic, warming and delicious. It is a popular alcoholic drink during the cold season, especially at Christmas. You can easily make glögg at home. Your kitchen will be filled with an irresistible aroma. You can find a detailed glögg recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.
What is glögg?
Glögg is a Scandinavian mulled wine that is drunk during the cold season in Sweden and elsewhere. It is made from red wine with a dash of aquavit, vodka or rum.
The classic spices are fresh ginger, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. Citrus fruits are often added, such as dried orange peel or fresh orange slices. Raisins and peeled almonds are also added to the glögg during preparation or when serving.
Alternatives to Korn
I have prepared the glögg with German Korn. If you want it to be truly Scandinavian, then use aquavit. Alternatively, rum, vodka and brandy are also suitable for the glögg recipe. It is similar with the strawberry liqueur.
Make glögg in advance
You can prepare the Scandinavian mulled wine a few days in advance. After straining, pour it into glass bottles and seal them.
Store the homemade glögg in the fridge. Then pour it into a saucepan and heat it up before serving.
Allow to steep generously
Homemade glögg tastes best when it has been left to infuse for a while. During this time, the spices, fruit and almonds develop their full aroma and flavor and transfer it to the drink. It is similar with the quark stollen and the marzipan stollen.
In my glögg recipe, I have soaked spices, raisins, oranges and almonds in Korn overnight. The next day, it turns into an incredibly fragrant mixture. This makes the Scandinavian mulled wine heavenly aromatic and particularly spicy.
Alternatively, you can also prepare and serve the glögg in one day. In this case, put the spices, raisins, orange slices and almonds in a saucepan with the red wine and sugar and heat while stirring. Then leave the mulled wine to infuse for a few hours in the saucepan with the lid on. Strain it before drinking, add the Korn, rum or vodka and heat it up again.
Homemade Scandinavian mulled wine is
- spicy,
- fruity,
- sweet,
- very tasty,
- aromatic,
- warming,
- easy to prepare,
- delicious hot and cold,
- ideal drink for the Christmas season,
- a change from German mulled wine.
Easy glögg recipe
The glögg recipe that you can find here at the end of the article in the recipe box is totally simple. However, you should give the mulled wine plenty of time to infuse.
Step 1:
The day before, soak raisins, almond slivers, orange slices and spices in Korn, rum, vodka or brandy and leave to infuse overnight.
Step 2:
The next day, add red wine, sugar and the mixture with Korn to a saucepan and heat, stirring until the sugar has dissolved. Under no circumstances should you boil the wine!
Step 3:
Then leave the Scandinavian mulled wine to infuse for a few hours, strain it and reheat it before serving.
How to make glögg: tips and tricks
- You can adjust the amount of sugar to taste.
- Instead of German Korn, you can use aquavit, rum, vodka or brandy.
- It is important that you do not boil the glögg, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate. It must not be heated above 80 degrees.
- You can prepare the Scandinavian mulled wine a few days in advance, fill it into sealable glass bottles and store it in the fridge. Then reheat it before serving.
- Incidentally, the glögg also tastes delicious cold.
Did you make glögg at home using this recipe? I look forward to your results, your star rating and your comment below on how you liked the Scandinavian mulled wine.
Try out these Christmas recipes too:
- How to make marzipan potatoes – recipe for the German Christmas classic
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- Dominosteine recipe – how to make German winter layered praline
Glögg (Scandinavian mulled wine)
Ingredients
- 1 l red wine vegan
- 75 ml Korn
- 80 g brown sugar
- 100 g raisins
- 30 g almond slivers
- 4 organic orange slices
- 10 g fresh organic ginger
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 10 cloves whole
- 1 tsp cardamom seeds coarsely ground
Instructions
- Cut ginger into very thin slices.
- Put raisins, almond slivers, orange slices, the ginger slices, cinnamon sticks, cloves and cardamom in a preserving jar, pour Korn over everything and seal the jar.
- Leave to infuse overnight, shaking the jar occasionally.
- Pour red wine, brown sugar and the pickled mixture with Korn into a saucepan and heat to just under 80 °C (do not boil!) while stirring until the sugar has dissolved.
- Leave the glögg to infuse in the saucepan with the lid on for a few hours.
- Then pour the Scandinavian mulled wine through a sieve and heat it again (do not boil!).
- Serve the glögg warm with raisins, peeled almonds and cinnamon sticks.
- The glögg also tastes delicious cold.
Notes
- You can adjust the amount of sugar to taste.
- Instead of German Korn, you can use aquavit, rum, vodka or brandy.
- Take note of the detailed tips and tricks for making your own glögg at the top of the article.
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