Mulled Wine with Digestive Chinese Herbs Recipe
You can skip the chen pi and shan zha, if you can't get these ingredients. It should still taste great, and it will still have some digestive power.
Ingredients
- 1 bottle red wine or you can use leftover wine if you've got at least a couple of cups
- 1/2 apple diced
- 1 orange juiced
- 10 g chen pi dried tangerine peel or zest the orange (you can do both)
- 10 g shan zha dried hawthorn berries
- 2 pods cardamom sha ren, as a Chinese herb
- 3-4 whole cloves ding xiang, as a Chinese herb
- 1 star of anise
- 1 stick cinnamon rou gui, as a Chinese herb
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup grade B
- 1-2 shots brandy or cognac you can skip this if you want, but apparently it probably just won't taste nearly as good
Instructions
- With the flat side of a knife, firmly press the cardamom pods to "bruise" them.
- Add all your ingredients to a saucepan and simmer on low heat for about 30 minutes.
- Strain and serve hot.