📋Homemade Orange Liqueur Curacao Style

This homemade orange liqueur is very similar to limoncello, it can be served cold at the end of a meal or used in recipes or cocktails that call for Curacao, Triple Sec or Cointreau.

Course Drinks

Cuisine Italian

Keyword curacao, orange liquor, triplesec

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 2

Total Time 22

Servings wine bottles

Calories 5855kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

10 to 12 orange peels bitter orange - Seville
4 cups 95% alcohol or vodka
1 teaspoon cinnamon
7 cloves
2 lb caster sugar
4 cups fresh water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Infusing the alcohol

Peel the oranges very thinly using a vegetable peeler, ensuring you remove only the colored zest.
Avoid the white pith entirely, as it contains bitter tannins that will ruin the smoothness of the liqueur.
Place the orange peels, cinnamon, and cloves into a large glass jar with a wide neck.
Pour the alcohol over the peels and spices, ensuring they are completely submerged.
Seal the jar and let it rest for 10 days in a cool, dark place, shaking it gently every second day to aid extraction.

Making the syrup

After the infusion period, dissolve the sugar in the water by boiling it in a pot to create a syrup.
Remove the syrup from the heat and let it cool down completely before combining it with the alcohol.
Filter the infused alcohol through a fine-mesh strainer to remove the peels and spices, then discard the solids.

Making the liqueur

Pour the filtered alcohol into a clean glass bottle.
Add the cold syrup to the alcohol and seal the bottle.
Shake the bottle well to combine the syrup and the alcohol.
Let the liqueur rest for another 10 days in a dark place to allow the flavors to settle before serving.

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Notes

Use bitter orange peels to give a nice contrast with the sugar and a depth of flavour
Let it rest for 10 days each time, no more is necessary
Keep in a dry dark place, it will last for years
Put it in a fancy bottle to give as a gift to friends
Add on the label a link to Elain's cocktail recipes:
- https://dishesdelish.com/lemon-drop-martini-cocktail/
- https://dishesdelish.com/awesome-ruby-red-grapefruit-cosmopolitan-cocktail/
- https://dishesdelish.com/ultimate-cadillac-margarita/

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