LIMONCELLO RECIPE Nonna making the best limoncello in the world Italian Homemade Recipe For more great Instant Pot recipes, please visit InstantPotEasy.com …
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1 liter (4 cups) of pure alcohol 95° which is equivalent to 1 liter of Everclear (190-proof) or you can use a 100-proof Vodka For making Homemade Limoncello Recipe it’s necessary to have some simple but really useful kitchen tools. Let’s see which ones. First of all, a peeler, preferably ceramic, to finely peel the lemons and remove only the zest.
This homemade Limoncello is all natural, low calorie, refined sugar free, fat free, gluten free, dairy free, and vegan too. It sounds like I’m describing broccoli, but no, I’m talking about this DAMN GOOD lemon liqueur. The only downside to this recipe is that it takes 20 days to make.
Fresh made Limoncello reaches its perfection in a few days after bottling. Quantities when using 1 liter (1000 ml) bottle: 1800 ml (about 7 ½ cups) sugar syrup made with 730 grams (3 ⅓ cup) sugar + 1440 grams water (6 cups). This recipe makes about 2.8 liters of Limoncello or 94 fluid ounces.
Keep in mind though that it takes longer to strain through a coffee filter so if you’d like to do this it’s best to strain Limoncello BEFORE adding sugar syrup. Slowly start adding the sugar syrup to the lemon infused alcohol. Lemon Liquor mixed with sugar syrup – notice how it became cloudy (that’s how it should be!)