How To Make Sangria - Tips and Techniques!


	How To Make Sangria Tips to make your sangrias a smashing success! Want to know how to make sangria taste authentically Italian? You know, taste really good? Like so good you wanna eat all the fruit in it? Here's the NUMBER ONE secret - and MOST bars miss it: LET THEM SIT! Remember, if a young-child-bar-tender makes a sangria in front of you using fruit they sliced an hour ago - that's crap they call a "sangria" to make a profit and look authetically Italian! You can do a million times better yourself. The sangria recipes are listed below. But read this page FIRST! I know, tough when ya wanna get drinking. BUT - an authentic Italian sangria is not a pour-and-mix-at-the-bar-drink. If this wasn't the type of Italian drink you were looking for - scroll below try any of 20+ Italian drinks I make. Thanks for stopping by AND while you are here check out my homepage of Italian Dessert Recipes Lisa YIELD: 1 Smashing Pitcher of Sangria Items Needed: A small bowl A pitcher to serve in The fruit The booze The wine A little sugar How To Make Sangria (The Super Secret) Procedure (To see the list of Sangria Recipes scroll below. This is the "how to make sangria" page.) Press the sugar and booze in the fruit with a wooden spoon. I usually stick the fruit/booze in a Tupperware or something with a sealed lid. Let the sugared fruit and booze sit at least 30 minutes!If you are gonna be longer than that - stick it in the fridge. Add the sugared fruit with wine and put it all in a pitcher. Let the pitcher sit at least a half day!!!!! What makes a bad Sangria? Here's the biggie in my humble half-Italian-girl opinion. NOT LETTING THE DRINK SIT. Most pretender Italian franchise restaurants cut the fruit when you order. That's a "so what". You and I could do that with our eyes close. Sangrias need to "sit" at two separate stages Stage 1 - The booze and fruit stage. Stage 2 - The final stage when the wine is mixed in. If it's so easy why follow a recipe? Even though sangria recipes are basically four ingredients, I'd suggest using a recipe for guidance until you get the hang of ratios and the fruit booze combinations. Here's why: Some fruits don't lend well to sangrias. Too much or too little fruit will make a drink that tastes like a bad wine. Too much or too little booze can make the drink taste like a cocktail that went bad. Too much or too little sugar can make the drink taste sicky sweet or like a bad fruit wine. White Wine Sangria or Red Wine Sangria? BOTH wines are used to make a Sangria! Wine is a personal thing. Like politicians - everyone has their opinion. And no matter what is suggest, this is a conversation like sex and religion. Leave it at home. So I will. However, let's keep two things in mind - if you really want to know how to make Sangria taste good, but not get caught up in the wine choice: You don't need an expensive wine! You can even use a table wine. BUT, *a bad* wine is like an ugly date - even the bag doesn't help! The fruit in these sangria recipes add a fruity flavor. (Hint: A fruity wine may be over the top!) As a traditional Italian (American) family, our dinners had the man of the house seated at the head of the table in charge of the wine. My dad or papa would place the bottle either at his feet or above his dinner plate. Traditionally sangria is made with the leftover wine the head of the table didn't serve. I say "tradition" because we NEVER had leftover wine. Sangria Recipes Berry Sangria Best Sangria Recipe Peach Sangria White Sangria Recipe Take me back to the top of how to make Sangria. All Italian drink recipes on my site Italian Drinks Amaretto Coffee Amaretto Sour Drink Recipe Amaretto Stone Sour Recipe Amaretto Vodka Peach Schnapps Amaretto Tea Arnold Palmer Recipe Basil Martini Bellini Recipe Berry Sangria Best Sangria Recipe Blue Lagoon Drink Blue Martini Recipe Cafe Amaretto Espresso Drink Recipe Espresso Martini Recipe Harvey Wallbanger Recipe How To Make Sangria Kahlua And Cream Recipe Kamikaze Drink Italian Margarita Recipe Limoncello Recipe Liqueur Names Manhattan Drink Recipe Peach Sangria Rob Roy Recipe Soco Amaretto Lime Sour Apple Martini Recipe Watermelon Margarita Recipe Wedding Cake Martini White Chocolate Martini Recipe White Sangria Recipe I love sugar and I eat dessert EVERYDAY! Ok, not MASSIVE amounts. But I do have to finish off the evening meal with a little sweet something. When I was a kid my health conscience mother would ration my Halloween candy. Her mantra was, "white sugar will kill you". But my Italian grandma always told me, "Everybody needs a little bit of sugar." :-) So, to get my October Halloween sugar fix I will make the traditional Italian cookie recipe, Venetian Bones of the Dead. Italians make these for the Day of the Dead on November 2nd. So - hey, our holiday in America - Halloween is the closest. So - while the neighborhood is slamming down a bunch of gross mass produced candy on October 31st, I'll have a real goodie. Oh yeah, I'll have to post it too! (Eventually!) You know how it is. Work. Kids. Clean. Cook. I'll see if Bones Of The Dead is in my grandma's first recipe file she started when she married in 1932. Most of the recipes on my site came from her influence. If they aren't in her file - then I got them from her friends. And the remainder I experimented with adapting her style. I hope she looks down and smiles this Halloween. Lisa Would you like to share this page? You know how to do it! Thanks for sharing the sugar love! 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