📋 Homemade Green Walnut Liqueur Nocino Recipe

It is a great liquor to offer after dinner. While a cold Limoncello is great for the summer, the Nocino is perfect for winter.

Course Drinks

Cuisine Italian

Keyword homemade liquor, walnut digestive, walnut liquor

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 5

Total Time 90 20

Servings servings

Calories 83kcal

Cut the walnuts into quarters, using rubber gloves as the walnut stains very badly.
16 green walnuts
Peel the lemon with a potato peeler trying to avoid having too much of the white. Cut the lemon zest into small slices
1 lemon zest
Use a large glass container holding at least 1 gal - 3 litres with a wide bottleneck
Mix all the spices with the alcohol in the bottle and keep them in a dark place for 40 days.
16 cloves, 16 coffee beans, 1 pinch cinnamon, 4 cup 95% alcohol or vodka
Give the bottle a shake every day.
After 40 days, make the syrup by warming up the water and sugar mix until the sugar has dissolved.
2 cup fresh water, 17 oz caster sugar
Wait until the syrup is cold before mixing it with the Nocino.
Filter the mix but do not throw away the walnuts.
Once you have mixed everything together you can pour it into small bottles and store them in your liquor cupboard.
It is best to wait until Christmas to drink it!
You can make Nocino Wine by putting the alcohol soaked walnuts into 3 bottles of wine (red, rose or white). Enjoy !

Use rubber gloves when you cut the walnuts as the walnut stains very badly
Use a large glass container holding at least 1 gal - 3 litres to mix all the ingredients and let them marinate.
Make sure the neck of the container is wide enough otherwise the smaller ingredients may not come out of the container once the liquor has marinated.
Don’t let the neck of the container become a bottleneck!
Peel the lemon with a potato peeler trying to avoid having too much of the white.
Cut the lemon zest into small slices so they can easily be removed from the bottle.
Do not throw away the walnuts