Recipes
Cranberry spritz with spiced bitters
10 minutes Preparation time
30 minutes Cooking time
Makes ½ cup bitters of your choice and 1 cocktail Serves
Ingredients
Spiced bitters
125 ml (½ cup) vodka
3 tsp native pepper, such as
Horopito in New Zealand or
pepperberry in Australia
6 cloves
1 star anise
1 tsp coriander seeds
½ cinnamon stick
8 cardamom, lightly crushed
2 oranges, zested in strips
Saffron and chilli bitters
125 ml (½ cup) vodka
Large pinch saffron threads
1 tsp Aleppo chilli flakes
2 oranges, zested in strips
Cranberry spritz
Ice cubes
125 ml (½ cup) cranberry juice
125 ml (½ cup) sparkling water
½ tsp (3 ml) bitters of your choice
Dehydrated citrus slices, homemade or store-bought
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Method
Spiced bitters or saffron and chilli bitters
- Combine all of the ingredients and place into a vacuum sealing bag. Place into the vacuum sealing drawer and Vacuum on level 3 and Seal on level 3.
- Place into the steam oven and Steam at 80⁰C for 30 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature.
- Strain through a sieve to remove the solids and pour the liquid into a sterilised glass bottle.
Cranberry spritz
- Fill a wine glass three quarters full of ice and pour over the cranberry juice and sparkling water.
- Drizzle the bitters around the top of the drink and finish with a dried citrus slice.
Hints and tips
- The bitters can also be made without a steam oven by leaving to infuse in a sterilised bottle for 3 weeks.
- Dehydrate your own citrus slices by using the Drying function on your oven at 50⁰C for 5 hours.
- Sterilise the glass bottle using the ‘disinfect items’ function on Miele steam ovens. Alternatively, steam the bottles
upside down for 10 minutes at 100°C. - The bitters can be stored at room temperature indefinitely.
Applicance Functions
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