Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, last-minute christmas mincemeat. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook last-minute christmas mincemeat using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- Take 400 g dried fruit, I used raisins and sultanas only but you could also add dried cranberries, cherries, mixed peel etc
- Make ready 1 eating apple, peeled
- Make ready 100 g marzipan, grated
- Make ready 50 g butter
- Get 50 g chopped almonds or cashew nuts
- Make ready 75 g soft muscovado sugar
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- Make ready 1 tsp mixed spice
- Get finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
- Get 200 ml brandy, rum or whiskey
Put the peeled and grated Bramley apples, light muscovado sugar and the zest and juice of the orange and lemon into a large bowl with the ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, allspice, mixed dried fruit and brandy. Stir in the grated unsalted butter or shredded suet and ground almonds. Sticky, sweet, sour and with a spicy kick from the ginger ale its packed full of festive flavours making it a great alternative to the traditional mincemeat. For those of us who have to avoid some or all citrus fruits, Christmas can be an interesting time of year. (I challenge you.
Steps to make Last-minute Christmas Mincemeat:
- Mix the dried fruit together. Weigh the nuts and break them up gently with the end of a rolling pin or chop roughly with a knife.
- Grate the marzipan and the apple. Put in a pan together with the dried fruit, nuts and butter.
- Add the sugar and spices and grate in the lemon zest, then squeeze the lemon and add the juice to the pan. Cover and heat gently, stirring as the butter and marzipan melt so everything mixes together.
- Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool. When completely cool add and stir in the rum, whiskey or brandy.
- I left it to stand for a while longer as it looked too liquid, and in about an hour or two the rum had been absorbed into the fruit. I then transferred it to jars (two of them) left them to stand overnight, then used the mincemeat to make mince pies the next day, see separate recipe.
Sticky, sweet, sour and with a spicy kick from the ginger ale its packed full of festive flavours making it a great alternative to the traditional mincemeat. For those of us who have to avoid some or all citrus fruits, Christmas can be an interesting time of year. (I challenge you. The suet melts in the oven and helps to preserve the mincemeat, and gives it lots of flavor. Quick Stir-fried Spiced Red Cabbage with Apples. Spiced Turkey in a Creamed Coconut Sauce.
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