Homemade rose water (Cold or Hot water infusion)
Making your own rose water is very easy with fresh rose petals. You can choose to make cold or hot water infusion. Use rose water for cooking, baking or making drinks.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh rose petals
- 2 cups water about 500 ml
Instructions
Rose water - cold process
- Leave the rose petals in cold water to infuse overnight.
- Remove the rose petals from the water and pour the water to a saucepan with a lid where you remove the lid handle on the top. It usually leaves a hole.
- Place a heat proof bowl inside the saucepan, close it with the lid upside down and switch on a low simmer. The water will start to evaporate and gather on the top of the lid, but because it's upside down the evaporated water will drip into the bowl inside.
- Keep simmering the water until it goes dry, making sure that you stop at that point.
Rose water - Hot water process
- Place the rose petals into a medium size pan and cover with the water
- Cover with a lid to make sure the water doesn't evaporate
- Simmer over fairly low heat to make sure you don't burn the rose pettals
- Stop when about 1/2 of the water has evaporated
- Leave to cool down in the saucepan
- Pour out over a fine sieve to catch the remaining rose petals into another bowl
Bottle & Keep your rose water
- Keep in sealed glass bottle (or plastic container)
- Keep in the fridge and use within a few weeks
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