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.
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
- Vanilla Beans.
- 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
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.
Notes
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- After completion of period, you can notice the changes in color from transparent to dark brown.
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