Dandelion Wine

Name: Dandelion Wine
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters dandelion flowers; 1 Meyer lemon, thinly sliced; 1 orange, thinly sliced; 591 milliliters sugar; 1 liters boiling water

You can never have too many beverage recipes, so give Dandelion Wine a try. Watching your figure? This gluten free, fodmap friendly, and vegan recipe has 252 calories, 0g of protein, and 0g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 8. Head to the store and pick up water, meyer lemon, orange, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Place dandelion flowers in a large heatproof container.

Pour boiling water over top. Cover and let steep for at least 4 hours and up to 24 hours. When making dandelion wine, cleanliness is key. Make sure your kitchen counters, hands, and all utensils are sterile.

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Water

Wine

Pour the resulting tea through a fine-mesh strainer into a large pot or saucepan, pressing the petals to extract as much flavor as possible. Discard blossoms and bring tea to a boil.

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Extract

Tea

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Sieve

Sauce Pan

Pot

Place sugar in a heatproof 1-gallon jar.

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Sugar

Pour boiling dandelion tea into jar and stir to dissolve.

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Tea

Add lemon and orange slices. Cover jar and let liquid stand for 2 weeks at room temperature, shaking every couple days.

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Orange Slices

Lemon

Pour dandelion wine through a fine-mesh strainer lined with a coffee filter into a clean container.

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Coffee

Wine

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Sieve

Serve or cover and store refrigerated for up to 3 weeks.

Fermenting Flower Wines

Some of the flowers that make lovely flower wines include pink (dianthus), lilac, lavender, daylily, elderflower, violet, tulip, herb flowers, roses, and pansies. Swap in equal amounts of whatever flowers you like, except for lavender; because it has a particularly strong flavor, lavender should always be used in slightly smaller amounts.

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Elderflower

Fresh Lavender

Reprinted with permission from Cooking with Flowers: Sweet and Savory Recipes with Rose Petals, Lilacs, Lavender, and Other Edible Flowers by Miche Bacher; photography by Miana Jun. Copyright © 2013 by Miche Bacher; photographs © 2013 by Quirk Productions, Inc. Published by Quirk Books.

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Edible Flowers