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How are your Christmas preparations coming up? Have you made any wine or baked your Christmas cake yet? I plan to bake my fruitcake tomorrow... Today’s recipe Nellikka / Gooseberry wine is very familiar to most Keralites.... It is a very common wine like Grape wine back home.... Like my earlier Grape Wine, this is also a “No Yeast” wine.... so it is very mild.... if you desire you can add 1 teaspoon of yeast to make it strong..... However since gooseberry has a lot of medicinal value I prefer to avoid using yeast... I made this just before Christmas last year.... so it’s got a really nice colour with age.... Do try it if you get hold of gooseberries.....
Homemade Nellikka Wine Recipe / Amla Wine / Indian Gooseberry Wine Recipe {without yeast}
Ingredients:
Nellikka / Amla / Indian Gooseberries - 100 nos.
Water - 3 liter
Sugar - 1 1/4 kg
Method:
- Wash the gooseberries & remove/wipe water and put it in a big clean sterilized bharani / bottle .
- Boil sugar & water and add boiled water to the Gooseberry.
- When it become cool tie the bottle with a clean cloth or close with lid little loose.
- Stir this mixture every day. After 20 days strain the mixture strain the mixture through a cheese/ muslin cloth in to a clean dry vessel.
- Pour it in to clean dry bottles and use.
my father in law make the nellika wine...well captured!! Love it
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures !!
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Beautiful clicks and wine...
ReplyDeleteYou're amazing! If I tried to make my own wine, I'd probably end up seriously injuring somebody...
ReplyDeleteGorgeous photo! Buzzed :)
simply GORGEOUS Swapna!How did you take it? Mirror? or is it an effect?
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and Gorgeous photo.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures and wine as well :)
ReplyDeleteWow wat a beautiful captures,amla wine is quite new for me.
ReplyDeleteawesome recipe..I have never made wine at home..you have made perfectly..Thanks for sharing..
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wow!! wonderful picture...and ur wine looks very much welcoming too :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful picture!! I wonder if we get the gooseberry here!
ReplyDeleteWow perfecto.. some for me..
ReplyDeleteLove the pics!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly deserve a round of applause for your post and more specifically, your blog in general. Very high quality material.
ReplyDeleteThe amla wine is a bit cloudy and quite sour-is it possible to sweeten it? Any tips for the cloudiness? Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteHi Gita,
DeleteIf it is not sweet enough you can add more sugar.... Filtered wine will look cloudy first... it will take few weeks for the sediments to settle down...Thanks for tryin g the wine :)
Hi Swapna, thanks! To add more sugar I shall first dissolve it or just add? And thanks for the good news that it will settle after a few weeks. Pineapple is waiting its turn and so is grape but beetroot came out the best. Your blog is such a blessing!
ReplyDeleteGita, just add sugar and mix well. wow that's a great collection of wines you have made:).. I too made beetroot wine last month.. thanks a lot for the lovely words :)
DeleteThe amla wine is now superb-there were 6 bottles so I made sugar syrup and added (some 6 tbsp sugar). It is still not too sweet-just perfect. The problem is to find bottle caps -my husband had quite an adventure locating a cork factory and then resizing the corks :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for trying Gita and glad you liked the wine!
Deleteyour wine looks great and sounds easy. i have a few questions -
ReplyDelete1. can i use the smaller variety (star gooseberry) as i have an abundance of those...
2. if i do want to add yeast, how and at what stage do i add it?
thanks
div
Hi div,
DeleteI have never seen or tasted star gooseberries. But think you can make wine with it and I suggest to give it a try with it :).... and please do let me know the outcome:)
If you want to add yeast, add it on the first day when the boiled water in the bottle cools down to lukewarm.