Almond Flavored Tequila Liqueur
Almond Flavored Tequila Liqueur, a liquor recipe with simple ingredients and a clear step-by-step method. Home cooking from the Soumac recipe library.
Almond Flavored Tequila Liqueur
Ingredients
- 8 oz Unpeeled almonds; dark
Method
- . roasted (see note) 1/2 Vanilla bean; split 1 Stick cinnamon; 3 inch 1 Bottle gold tequila 2 tb Spicy piloncillo syrup; see . other recipe 1/4 ts Pure almond extract ? ‘h teaspoon pure almond extract Note: Place nuts on baking sheet in 325-degree preheated oven and toast until dark brown, turning occasionally.
- When done, remove from pan to prevent overcooking.
- Coarsely chop nuts.
- Place in jar along with the vanilla bean and cinnamon stick.
- Coverwith tequila and steep for 2 weeks in cool, dark place, shaking gently occasionally (a murky sediment is natural).
- Strain several times through paper coffee filters.
- Add syrup and almond extract in small increments, tasting after each addition, until satisfied with flavor.
- Pour into sterilized dark-colored jar: allow to set for 2 weeks, adding more syrup if needed.
- Pour into pretty decorative jars for gifts.
- Serve either poured into hot coffee or served over ice in brandy snifters with a twist of lemon .
- Nutritlional analsis per ounce: 106 calories, 4 grams fat, 3 grams carbohydrates, 0 cholesterol, 1 milligram sodium, 35 percent of calories from fat .
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