If the purchased mustard is not to your taste, and you would like to cook it yourself, but how to make a delicious mustard at home you do not know, then our advice is just for you.
How to make homemade mustard on a brine?
Mustard on cucumber brine
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons mustard powder;
- 1 cup brine (marinade) from cucumbers;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation:
Mix the dry mustard with the pickled cucumber, and add a drop of vegetable oil. Note that the pickle should be from pickled cucumbers, because it already has salt, sugar and vinegar, and in the same cucumbers that are salted in barrels, slightly different ingredients are used. If you do not pick yourself cucumbers, then you can use pickle from purchased pickled gherkins.
Mustard on cabbage brine
Ingredients:
- 40 g of mustard powder;
- 180 ml of cabbage brine;
- a little vegetable oil.
Preparation:
Strain the cabbage brine, mix it with dry mustard, and let it brew for about 2-3 hours in a warm place. After that, you need to add a tablespoon of any vegetable oil, and the mustard is ready for use.
How to make French mustard?
Ingredients:
- 180 g of mustard seed;
- 250 ml of wine vinegar;
- 180 g of sugar-sand;
- Spices (cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, black pepper, lemon peel, nutmeg).
Preparation:
Boil the wine vinegar, lightly sprinkle mustard seeds in a mortar, and pour in them boiling wine vinegar. Put the resulting mixture in a warm place and leave for 10-12 hours. Then add sugar and spices, stir again and leave in a warm place. After 2 hours, the French mustard is ready for use.
How to make sweet mustard?
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons dry mustard;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of flour or starch;
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil;
- 3 tablespoons of wine vinegar;
- 50-60 g of water (lemon juice, white wine or apple cider);
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
Mix mustard with flour, add water (or the ingredient replacing it) and leave for 15-20 minutes. Then add sugar, wine vinegar, salt and vegetable oil and put in a warm place for 2 hours.
How to make Dijon mustard?
Ingredients:
- 50-60 g of dry mustard powder;
- 1 cup of dry white wine;
- 1 tablespoon of honey;
- 1 onion;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- sauce "tabasco".
Preparation:
In the vessel you need to put chopped onions and garlic, wine and honey. Then the resulting mixture bring to a boil and simmer 5-7 minutes. Strain and cool mixture. When it has cooled, add the mustard powder and mix. Add vegetable oil, a couple drops of "Tabasco" sauce (can be replaced with tomato paste), salt. Mix again, and put on fire. Cook the mixture until its consistency becomes like sour cream. After this, let the mustard cool down, pour it into the storage tank and refrigerate for 2 days.
How to make a sharp mustard at home?
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons dry mustard;
- 6 tablespoons of water;
- 0.5 teaspoon of salt;
- 3 teaspoons of sugar;
- 1 tablespoon of vinegar;
- 1.5 tablespoons vegetable oil.
Preparation:
Boil the water and allow it to cool slightly. Add the mustard powder to the bowl and add 2 tablespoons of water. Mix to a homogeneous mass, and then add the remaining water (about 4 spoonfuls, the consistency should look like a thick porridge). Carefully pour the resulting mush with boiling water (you need to do this so that the mustard does not mix with the boiling water). After 5-10 minutes, drain the water, add the spices: salt, sugar, vegetable oil and vinegar, and mix. Then transfer the mustard into the storage container and leave it for a day in a warm place.