Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, purple basil vinegar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Learn how to make Purple Basil Vinegar. Purple basil is a lovely thing: a deep, dark, almost black purple, with that familiar basil flavor Rinse basil, stems and all, and shake off excess water. Add to vinegar in a quart jar, tupperware, or bowl.

Purple basil vinegar is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Purple basil vinegar is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have purple basil vinegar using 3 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Purple basil vinegar:

1. Prepare 1 bunch fresh purple basil(washed)
2. Take 2 cup White wine vinegar(I used less cause of smaller jars)
3. Prepare 1 cup White vinegar( I used less cause of smaller jars)

Basil is a warm-weather, fragrant herb that tastes great in many dishes—including the beloved Purple basil, to add some nice color to your garden (when steeped in white vinegar, it creates a. Fill jar with cider or red wine vinegar; add several cloves of garlic and a hot pepper. Purple basil has a striking dark burgundy color that provides excellent contrast in the herb garden. Highly aromatic, purple basil can be steeped in vinegar or oil to add beautiful color to your dishes.

Steps to make Purple basil vinegar:

1. Rinse basil, stems and all, and shake off excess water. Add to vinegar in a quart jar, tupperware, or bowl with a cover (avoid metal). Let sit, shaking once every couple of days or so, for 4 ? 6 weeks to allow the basil flavor to infuse the vinegar.
2. Taste, and when the vinegar tastes good to you, strain the basil through a jelly bag or colander lined with cheesecloth. Funnel the vinegar into lovely, sterilized bottles, label and store (you can water-bath can this into jars if you like, but I think it is overkill. It is vinegar, after all…..Yields about 2 and 3/4 cups vinegar.
3. It helps to use a vinegar that you like the taste of, initially (I would have used 3 cups of white wine vinegar had I not run out, but the resulting basil vinegar was quite tasty). Red wine vinegar would give an interesting flavor, I think, but would obscure the beautiful color of the purple basil.  Homemade vinegar, infused with homegrown basil, would make an especially wonderful gift.
4. This works fine with frozen basil as well (although it might get a bit mushy and need careful straining at the end), in case, in the height of August, you stuffed an entire sack of basil into the freezer because you couldn’t muster the engery forone more batch of pesto. Not that I would ever do such a thing.Green basil, of course, works just as well, as do many other herbs.  It’s a great way to finish out the herb garden and have some interesting vinegars to cook with over the coming year.
5. STOREAt cool room temperature, preferably protected from light, indefinitely.

With its purple color, Purple Ruffles basil has additional uses as an attractive garnish and in herb vinegar. The large, purple foliage also makes a nice contrast with green-leaf cultivars in the garden. When the light is right and soil conditions have been just so, you can see Need I mention that purple basils excel in their traditional use for flavor and color in herb vinegar? Sweet basil, including "Purple Ruffles" and "Dark Opal Purple" varieties, is a warm-weather plant The colorful purple varieties work well as garnishes. You can also infuse it into vinegar, which lends.

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