ho ho ho and a big Christmas welcome to Steves kitchen I absolutely love Christmas
time because it's when I get to have
Christmas pudding I've got one here I made this on my channel before the video's
up there get across you still have time
to make a wonderful homemade Christmas pudding but the other thing I love
are mince meat mince pies now
Why is it called mincemeat traditionally mince meat was made
with meat inside it and we still actually put suet in there which is
actually a beef
fat you don't have to use the suet I think because today I am making a
luxury mincemeat
I am going to use to it but you can leave it out
if you prefer fully vegetarian so come on let's get on and make the most
delicious
luxury mincemeat
now at last year I made a budget mincemeat which was very simple
and just as delicious to make but this time we're making a luxury one there's a lot
more ingredients going in
so I put them up on the screen now pause now
take a note of everything you'll need and let's get on and make
our luxury mincemeat now in a very simplest of terms what we're looking for
is about a kilo or two pounds
of dried fruits I'm using these dry
tart cherries about two hundred grams and seven ounces
the same again of beautiful cranberries something that I think is really
essential
are currants beautiful black sweet currants like that
again 200 grams 7 ounces sultanas
and I've got these soft figs
these are just going to need to be chopped up a little bit before we use them
so in those fruits alone we've got about a kilo
two pounds and a little extra we're going to use about a hundred grams
three-and-a-half ounces
of dried apricots which I'm just going to chop up
and I'm putting some crystallized ginger again about 50 grams thats a couple of
ounces
of crystallized ginger and I'm just going to chop that up as well
the last luxury ingredients is about 100 grams or three and a half
ounces of slivered almonds and this
is going to make the most delicious mincemeat with the right spices we're going to
be putting
ginger a little bit of cloves some fresh cinnamon
whoops and some fresh nutmeg
as well of course mincemeat would not be complete without some
Alcohol in there I'm using brandy look if you don't want to use Alcohol you could
replace this with a little bit of fruit juice
and we are going to be using as I said before my suet we're going to use about 125
grams four
ounces of beef suet and our fruits two oranges
two lemons zest and juice of these two fruits
and I've got three granny smith apples which we're just going to slice up
and they go in as well so to start with let's get
all these dried fruits into a mixing bowl those beautiful black currants are
going in there
I absolutely love currants at christmas time the same amount of raisins or
sultanas
now I'm just going to chop up my figs and my apricots
and my ginger there and then come back and join me
right come over here let me show you what I've done I've got my apples the Granny
Smiths they're just iced up into little cubes and I leave the skin on by the
way
we're just going to pop those in with the rest of the fruit the figs
diced up nice and small our wonderful crystallized ginger
pop that in there as well in go the
apricots they're nice and finely diced our bowl is getting you imagine how much
sweet mincemeat we're going to be making with this now over here that is the beef suet
is optional but I think it gives a wonderful flavor
it looks a little bit like almond meal
we're just going to pour that over the top and talking of almond meal
I've got my slivered almonds here pop those in as well
now we've got to sweeten this and I've got 250 grams of
soft brown sugar that works out about eight ounces
pop that in there as well and we are starting to run out of space
which is absolutely perfect as we very nearly there
now over here I've got all that wonderful zest from my
oranges both the oranges and two lemons
pop the zest in there all the juice
from the lemons and the oranges pour that over the top
and now we want to get our spice into there
you want about 4 teaspoons of spice I'm going to use a teaspoon of cinnamon
probably about a teaspoon and a half of powdered ginger
about half a teaspoon of minced cloves and also
I'm going to grind some fresh nutmeg in there as well
last thing the brandy but that's not going in till
after we've cooked our mincemeat just come down here again
get in there now and the best you can coat
all this fruit over with the sauce and the juice thats in there
now if you really want to do this properly you've got to get your hand in
there and turn all this beautiful fruit
over now if that isn't the smell of Christmas
I don't know what is ideally leave this to soak for at least three or four hours
and let the fruit absorb some of those juices and then come back I'll show you
what to do next
now when the fruit has all plumped up and absorbed some of that liquid take a look at
this now
what I'm going to do is give you a couple of options either take that fruit pop it
into a big saucepan
a Cup of apple juice in there and just simmer it for about an
hour-and-a-half on a very low heat or you can do what I do
get your oven on 110 degree Celsius thats 225 fahrenheit
and then what we going to do is take all of this fruit
pop it into a baking tray like this flatten it down nice and evenly the across the tray
and then we're just going to take some silver foil
seal the top of that pop that
into the oven you're going to leave it for a couple hours on that nice low
temperature
and this is going to make the most delicious mincemeat
now whilst thats on give this video the thumbs up
get across and make yourself some eggnog or a lovely mince pie smoothie
from my channel and join me back here as soon as this comes out
and the smell in your house is going to be Christmas
number one
so there you have it now that's been in for a couple of hours
just pop it down there get my oven gloves off
now if I peel this back probably a little bit warm not too hot though
see the steam coming out of there now now look
at that beautiful stewed fruit
now that's had time for all that fruit to get lovely and soft
and caramelized just give that a good stir through
now it's at this point I'm going to add brandy if you don't want to add Brandy in to
this you can leave this step out but
ready this luxury mincemeat should have now I'm going to put about
4 tablespoons of brandy into the mincemeat
you could just eyeball it if you like then we're going to mix the brandy through
now the smell coming off of that is
absolutely delicious so I've mixed the brandy through there now
whilst it's nice and hot I've got some Kilna jars you could even use regular
jam jars and just recycle them what we want to do is sterilize these with some
hot water
then I'm going to take my sweet mincemeat or my mincemeat
as I would call it and start to pop it into the Jars
and there it is a beautiful luxury jar of mincemeat
smells fantastic its going to taste delicious
now if you join me in the next episode I'm going to take this mincemeat
and make some wonderful mince pies I hope you give this a try and please comment
below
share the love give the thumbs up and of course if you want to make a more simple
mincemeat there's plenty of other recipes on my channel everybody out
there be good have a fantastic Christmas
love to you all take care and see you next time
now I've got my Christmas hat on today but it's a scorching hot day here in
Australia
but the smell of this mincemeat is bringing Christmas on I'm going to have a little try
just to let you know it's very young at the moment but I bet it still tastes
fantastic
that
is Christmas I'll leave some links up here to some other videos
please get across and watch them and comment down below
if you make this mincemeat or you make the mince pies share across some pictures to me
share the video out to your friends have a fantastic time
see you next time