Ingredients to make homemade Galician Queimada:
- 1 lemon
- 1 liter brandy
- 150 grams of sugar
How to make homemade Galician Queimada:
- Place the sugar and two pieces of lemon rind in a proper container for queimada or in a porcelain or iron pan.
- Reserve two tablespoons of sugar and put them in the ladle. Pour the brandy, put a little in the ladle and set it on fire, incorporating it burning into the rest of the queimada.
- Do a few laps without touching the bottom too much. Take the sugar from the bottom.
- Drain the brandy and let it burn with the fire. The caramel thus formed gives it a toasted color. We can let it burn for as long as we want, that’s up to taste.
- The less it burns, the stronger it is. It is turned off by blowing hard or with a lid.
- There are those who incorporate it into the queimada when starting to make it with a few pieces and the juice of a lemon. Others add a few coffee beans and extinguish it with red wine.
- The ingredients that we indicate are the fundamental ones. The rest are variations that are introduced depending on who makes the burn.
- To make the caramel we can reserve a little of the sugar and not soak it in the brandy, being dry it browns more easily.
