I am using garlic, Fresh lemon and white wine......how do I reduce it?
2007-01-23 13:37:34 · 32 answers · asked by Tracy K 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Liquid will reduce as you heat it. It evaporates. Usually you bring it to boil and then down to a simmer. Reduce to half would mean you stop when you have half the liquid you started with. What it is doing is making the flavor more intense.
2007-01-23 13:39:32 · answer #1 · answered by BlueSea 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Cook or boil down until you have about 1/2 of what you started with. So far in your ingredients the wine and lemon juice will cook down some.
2007-01-23 13:41:53 · answer #2 · answered by justme 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reduce to 1/2 means to "cook off" or "cook down" to half the liquid volume. Water will turn to steam and evaporate OUT of the recipe, thereby reducing it and concentrating the other ingredients.
2007-01-23 13:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you are heating thew mixture, the liquid will start to evaporate (concentrating the flavors). When it reaches half the level it originally had when you put it in the pan, then it is reduced by half. This should happen pretty quickly with alcohol.
Hope this helps
2007-01-23 13:42:37 · answer #4 · answered by LX V 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Put the ingredients in the pan recommended and put the pan on the stove top at the temperature recommended in the receipt. cook (usually at a very, very slow boil) until you have only 1/2 as much as you started with. This condenses the mixture and intensifies the flavor.
2007-01-23 13:44:13 · answer #5 · answered by lollipop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the garlic is in a bulb simply cut it in half and only put in 1/2 the amount of garlic, same with the lemon, simply cut in half and squeeze fresh lemon juice and if the receipe calls for 1 cup of wine use 1/2 cup. If garlic is measured in 1/2 table spoon you would use 1/4 etc.
2007-01-23 13:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by beetem@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
simmer it in a sauce pan until it is cooked down (or reduced) to about 1/2 of the original amount u put into the pan.
2007-01-23 13:41:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
reducing means that reduce the liquid by waiting for the liquid to evaporate. in your case, you have to wait until it reduces to 1/2. it has to evaporate until it's 1/2.
2007-01-23 13:54:54 · answer #8 · answered by cutie_punkin_pie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to simmer it until the volume is reduced to one half the original volume because of evaporation of the alcohol and water.
2007-01-23 13:41:34 · answer #9 · answered by Peaches 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you heat it upto a rolling boil usually.... it reduces by evaporation. If you started with 1 cup, you boil it down to 1/2 cup total.
2007-01-23 13:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋