Vanilla Extract Recipe | How To Make Vanilla Extract | Homemade Vanilla Extract

Vanilla Extract Recipe is easy and made with vanilla beans and ethanol. For giving flavors to recipes Extract is used, mostly for baked recipes. Homemade Vanilla Extract is much pure than one, which we get from market.

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Vanilla Extract is a solution made by macerating vanilla beans in ethanol and this solution is used as flavouring agent in desserts, especially for baked products and shakes.
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Total time : 5 minutes
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vanilla extract recipe

Vanilla Extract is easily available in market, so we never thought of making it at home. But the purity and taste is highly affected. For purchased one, we neither know what kind of ingredients it contains nor we have any idea about it’s adverse affect on our heath.

Homemade Vanilla Extract

It’s very easy to make this extract at home, neither it takes more than two ingredients nor your much time. Believe me, I had tried both the extract one which I purchased and the other which is homemade. There is big difference in both the taste. Furthermore, homemade extract anyway cost you less as compared to the one purchased from market. Best thing is you can make it as per your needed quantity.

Ingredients In Pure Vanilla Extract

Vanilla extract Recipe is very easy and vanilla extract ingredients needed are very few

  1. Vanilla Beans.
  2. Alcohol like Vodka, Rum or Brandy.

Here the question, How To Make The Best Homemade Vanilla Extract totally depends on the quality of vanilla beans, used to make the extract. I recommend you to use beans called Gourmet or Grade A vanilla beans.

After soaking it for minimum 1 month, extract is ready to use. Moreover, the longer you keep the beans immersed in alcohol the better flavor you get. Don’t remove the beans even after you start using the extract because it continue to flavor the extract. This way you can get better vanilla extract.

Recipes you can cook with Vanilla extract

vanilla extract recipe

Vanilla Extract

Vanilla Extract is a solution made by macerating vanilla beans in ethanol and this solution is used as flavouring agent in desserts, especially for baked products and shakes.
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Course: Condiment
Cuisine: World
Keyword: homemade vanilla extract, How to make vanilla extract, Vanilla extract, vanilla extract alcohol
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 1 small bottle
Calories: 437kcal

Equipment Required

Ingredients

Ingredients required for making Vanilla Extract

  • 4 – 5 strands Vanilla Beans
  • ¾ cup Vodka (187 ml or 6.4 ounce)

Instructions

Steps for making Vanilla Extract

  • Collect all the required ingredients and equipment like 4 to 5 vanilla beans, ¾ cup vodka and jar or bottle.
  • Cut the vanilla beans vertically from middle using knife or chop them into smaller pieces.
  • Take a jar/bottle add the vanilla beans and pour the vodka, stir lightly with stirrer.
  • Make sure beans are completely immersed into the vodka.
  • Now store the jar/bottle at cool and dry place.
  • Stir the beans once a week and allow beans to steep in vodka for at least a month.
  • After completion of period, you can notice the changes in color from transparent to dark brown.
    How To Make Vanilla Extract

Notes

Just remember the longer you keep the better and potent flavour you get.
With the remaining beans from extract, allow the beans to pat dry and you can add to sugar jar to get vanilla flavoured sugar.
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Steps of Vanilla Extract Recipe

  • Firstly, collect all the required ingredients and equipment like 4 to 5 vanilla beans, 3/4 cup vodka and jar or bottle.
  • Cut the vanilla beans vertically from middle using knife or chop them into smaller pieces.

Beans

  • Furthermore, take a jar/bottle add the pieces of vanilla beans and pour the vodka, stir lightly with stirrer.
  • Make sure beans are completely immersed into the vodka.

How To Make Vanilla Extract

  • Now store the jar/bottle at cool and dry place.
  • Lastly, stir the beans once a week and allow beans to steep in vodka for at least a month.

Vanilla

  • After completion of period, you can notice the changes in color from transparent to dark brown.

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