Hello dear readers. Each berry has its own ripening season, but it happens only once a year, and you really want to enjoy it even in winter. In general, no one says that this is impossible, but the point here is completely different. Taste qualities can persist even after prolonged heat treatment, but whether the vitamins for which we eat this berry will remain is another question. Everyone has probably tried lingonberries, but only a few have become attached to her soul. Although many use this berry only to maintain their health, because it actually contains great amount vitamins, without which winter simply can not do. It is not necessary to immediately cook jam from such fragrant berries cranberries. Why not try to keep them fresh on long time?
This task may seem impossible at first, but it won't last long. We have prepared several ways to keep lingonberries fresh, as well as the vitamins they contain.
You can not only close the berry without cooking, but also simply store it in the refrigerator, covered with sugar. In addition, lingonberries can even be frozen, if you can’t find time for conservation at all.
Lingonberries for the winter - recipes without cooking
This method will greatly facilitate the life of many housewives who simply have no time to cook jam several times in a row.
You also need to constantly monitor it, stir it so that it does not burn, otherwise you can ruin a whole batch of delicious jam. And who will reimburse the money spent on kilograms of sugar?
After all, there is always an alternative, and in many ways it even surpasses the way we are used to making jam. Canning lingonberries without cooking has a number of advantages that any busy housewife will definitely pay attention to:
✔ Save time. You do not have to stand at the stove for hours, stirring the jam, which, due to the high sugar content, can easily burn;
✔ Preservation of all vitamins. Some recipes involve a short heat treatment, but it has little effect on vitamin composition cranberries;
✔ Possibility long-term storage even in the fridge. Such recipes do not require canning, so you have constant access to the contents of the jar.
By the way, just such a berry is endowed with benzoic acid, which helps it maintain its freshness and nutrients for a sufficiently long period.
Thus, you can enjoy fresh berries even when there is a snowstorm outside the window. In addition, the whole set of vitamins in the cold season will definitely come in handy for you.
The recipe for the correct freezing of lingonberries
If you have just been in the garden and returned with a whole basket of lingonberries, then you need to urgently make a decision about what to do with such wealth? Of course, you can immediately start cooking jam, but this will take a lot of time and effort.
Or maybe you are determined not to gain extra pounds this winter that you are even ready to give up delicious jam? It is for such a case that there is a freezing of fresh berries, during which the cold will retain all their useful substances.
First of all, we must rid the main composition of the berries from damaged specimens. They obviously won't fit into the picture of a healthy jam.
After that, you need to thoroughly rinse the selected berries, and give them a little time to dry.
Remember that any product must be dry before freezing. After all, if some amount of moisture still remains on the surface of the berries, then they will simply freeze to each other, and it will not be easy to separate them.
And so, you will have each berry separately, and you can take as many frozen berries as you need.
We lay out the dried lingonberries on a special flat surface (tray, board) so that each of them freezes.
After ten minutes, we take out our crystal berries and arrange them in bags with a tightly closed clasp.
Thus, you can eat absolutely at any time of the year. fresh berries lingonberries and add them to your favorite dishes.
Cowberry beads in sugar
We can fall asleep with sugar whole berries, and frayed. Which method you want to choose depends only on the purpose of such sugar berries.
For example, if you want to decorate a cake or use red beads as a garnish when serving a roasted bird, then it is best to prepare the largest berries in advance.
And if you need to use lingonberry puree as an addition to ice cream, then grated berries are perfect for this role.
In general, the technique itself is not so important here, but the fact that both methods will help to save beneficial features this berry, you can be sure.
Regardless of the method, you will need the same amount of ingredients:
- 1 kg fresh cranberries
- the same amount of sugar
Instructions for sequentially performing the steps for preparing lingonberries with sugar:
1. We select high-quality berries and wash them with plain clean water, after which we place them in a colander so that excess water is glassed.
2. We lay out slightly wet berries on a newspaper or some kind of cloth.
3. We distribute a small part of the prepared berries into already sterilized jars, which we immediately “cover” with a layer of snow-white sugar, after which we put the berries again.
4. It is on this principle that banks will be filled. Please note that the top layer should consist of sugar.
5. To save space, from time to time we will need to shake the jar (this is the only way the contents will be distributed as densely as possible).
6. We close our container with a tight lid and place it on the most inconspicuous shelf of the refrigerator, since leaving such a yummy in a conspicuous place is quite dangerous (they can kill it at once).
Grated cranberries with sugar for the winter
Compared with the previous method, the option of grinding berries will not be so simple, but you can use such puree as an additive for various desserts.
And in general, you can just eat ready-made berry puree with a spoon or even use it as a base for compote.
You don’t have to cook such a mixture, which means that at least some of the time will be saved. Even grated berries will be able to retain all their beneficial substances.
The berries themselves will need a standard amount - 1 kg, but the amount of sugar can vary from one to two kilograms, but we will deal with this a little later.
The process of preparing grated lingonberries with sugar will consist of the following steps:
1. The most attractive berries must be washed several times, then placed in a colander so that excess water leaves the berries immediately.
2. After that, put the entire contents of the colander on a paper towel folded in three. It immediately absorbs all the moisture, so that the berries dry out faster.
3. We put the berries in a large bowl and cover with sugar. But how much of this sweet sand you need, you decide for yourself. The thing is that the berry itself is a little bitter, and it is sugar that will help eliminate this bitterness.
But if you have a perverse taste, then you can get by with one kilogram of sugar, which will also retain all the vitamins of lingonberries.
4. Berries can be ground both manually and with a blender, this is how you like it best. Of course, a blender will do the job in less than a minute.
But if you do not want to get a homogeneous red mass, but strive to preserve some kind of crushed berry, then it is better to do everything yourself.
5. We mix the lingonberries together with sugar, and leave this whole mixture for a while so that the sugar dissolves as best as possible.
We regularly mix our puree with a wooden spoon, because the metal, when interacting with some vitamins, contributes to their destruction.
6. As soon as you stop noticing transparent crystals in the scarlet puree, this means that the sugar has nevertheless dissolved and you can proceed to the final stage of preparation - distributing the mixture into glass jars (they should be sterilized in advance).
Having received several full cans with this beautiful berry dessert, it is necessary to close each of them with a dense plastic cover
We put our goodness in the refrigerator, preferably not in the most visible place.
We are waiting until winter, when there will be not so many sources of vitamins, then we can try. But who are we kidding? On the same evening, one bank will be emptied in an instant. So, not a single jar will survive until the winter, so it is better to make a larger supply, especially if you have a large family.
This method of cooking is suitable for those who have their own basement, in which all conservation will be stored.
The fact is that it is necessary to soak such a berry in a sufficiently large vessel, or at least in three-liter jars.
Previously, any berries were soaked in huge wooden barrels, and they stood idle until spring.
Now some also use the same barrels, but many still prefer the three-liter jars that are familiar to us.
The main thing here is that there should not be too large temperature drops, both in one direction and in the other. Too much frost may not have the best effect on lingonberries.
After all, it can first freeze through, and then also sharply defrost, which can cause the loss of most of the vitamins.
Soaked lingonberries will be an excellent basis for making jelly or compote, you can even make fruit drinks from them.
Due to the fact that we will close the whole berries, you can use them as a filling and decoration for the pie.
There are a lot of recipes for soaked lingonberries, but we have chosen the most popular ones.
1. Rustic way
First you need to prepare all the ingredients, including lingonberries. To prepare the syrup, we need half a glass of sugar, a liter of purified water and half a teaspoon of salt.
The cooking process will be carried out in several stages:
- we wash the selected berries, and place them in any dish that can be made of both wood and glass. An enamel pan is also suitable, but the main thing is not to use metal products, as it will adversely affect chemical composition berries;
- then we prepare the syrup: dissolve the prescribed amount of sugar and salt in boiled water, then boil until they are completely dissolved. If you want to achieve spicy taste you can also add a few cinnamon sticks. We leave our liquid for a while so that it cools down;
- distribute in equal number our berries in pre-sterilized vessels, after which we fill them with already warm syrup. We cover each jar with gauze;
- after a few days, you can cover all the vessels with tight plastic lids, after which we lower them into a cool basement, where they will wait for their time.
Interestingly, the berry, even with room temperature does not grow moldy, but the fact is that its composition contains bactericidal substances, which, in fact, prevent possible fermentation.
2. Spicy cranberries with syrup
In general, you will need all the same ingredients as for the first recipe, only some of them will be used in different proportions:
- Two tablespoons of sugar
- Two teaspoons of salt
We will also need various spices, which you can combine depending on your taste preferences.
But our recipe involves the simultaneous use of cinnamon in in kind(sticks), vanillin, ground black pepper, cloves.
If you like all the spices, then you can safely stick to the recipe, as the taste will be simply unforgettable.
But if you don't like excessive spiciness, then you can exclude ground pepper, for example.
The next steps will be:
- we sort out the berries, immediately wash them all at once, after which we wait until they dry from moisture. After that, we should arrange the berries in several jars;
We prepare the syrup according to the same principle: boil water and add all the ingredients to it. When the sugar dissolves and the aromas of cinnamon and vanillin scatter around the house, you can immediately turn off our filling. We wait until its temperature equals room temperature;
- fill the berries with warm filling and leave to brew for two days, while covering each jar with gauze. After two days, we cover the banks nylon lids and put in a cool place (it can even be a pantry).
Such soaked cranberries should be left for quite a long time, because every day its taste becomes brighter, thanks to the interaction with our spicy syrup.
Every day the syrup will become redder, which means that the exchange of substances between the syrup and the berries is still in progress.
By the way, you can safely drink the syrup, because it is somewhat reminiscent of a cool summer compote Yes, even with spices. If you are a fan of sweet drinks, then the amount of sugar for such a volume of syrup can be adjusted.
Soaked lingonberries for the winter - recipes
In general, we will really preserve one part of the berries in the juice that we get from other berries. Thus, the concentration of vitamins in one jar of such a drink with berries will go off scale.
So, let's take a step-by-step look at the process of this type of canning, for which we need a fairly large number of berries, therefore, it is better to immediately make a decent supply.
- In total, we need two kilograms of berries, which must be immediately cleaned of twigs, leaves and other debris. Already peeled berries must be moved to a colander in order to get rid of excess liquid.
- We divide our berries equally: we immediately distribute one kilogram into half-liter jars, which we, of course, sterilized in advance. And the other part is waiting for the juicer test in order to get clean and healthy juice. By the way, it is best to use smaller berries for juice, but large ones should just show off in a jar.
- Dissolve about 200 g of sugar in the resulting lingonberry juice. You can squeeze all the juices out of the berries using a juicer, but if you don’t have one, you can simply grind the berries, and then squeeze the juice out of the resulting puree. And this is done with a simple gauze.
- Cowberry juice must be boiled for ten minutes, then immediately pour our red lingonberry beads into it. We close each jar with a lid and voila, lingonberries in own juice ready.
If we move a little away from the traditional types of lingonberry preservation for the winter, we can see that harvesting such a berry is not so difficult.
In addition, we have a huge selection of a variety of recipes, each of which is good in its own way. Moreover, you do not have to stand at the stove all day and wait for this jam to be ready.
It is possible to prepare dietary preservation from lingonberries with a minimum addition of sugar, and thus we will be able to preserve all its useful substances.
After all, the recipes we have proposed do not imply heat treatment. So, we can even saturate our body in winter useful vitamins, and, moreover, do not gain extra pounds.
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Delicious preparations for you! Cook with pleasure!
Harvesting lingonberries for the winter occurs with 2 purposes: medicinal, culinary. To eliminate various pathological processes, wild berry able to compete with the garden. It contains the maximum amount of vitamins, micro and macro elements. It perfectly copes with lowering high body temperature, removes toxic compounds from the body and has a bright diuretic effect.
Speaking about cooking, the berry is allowed to be consumed fresh, soaked, pickled, dried, pickled. In addition, delicious fruit drinks, sauces, marinades, jams can be prepared from it, used as a simple treat or for filling in pastries. Vitamin preparation helps support immune system person, to diversify the usual menu. Recipes for making lingonberries for the winter will help you quickly find out which preparations are needed for the cold weather.
Pickled berry with fruit
Marinated lingonberries, it turns out very tasty. By adding slices of apples and pears, the workpiece acquires a more refined taste and aroma. Having opened a jar with contents in winter, you can enjoy a bright assortment, remember the sunny summer and strengthen your immune system. Consider how to prepare a berry for the winter without cooking.
Products:
- lingonberries - 1.5 kg;
- pears - 750 g;
- apples - 750 g;
- filtered water - 900 ml;
- vinegar 9% - 190 ml;
- granulated sugar - 370 g;
- salt - 0.5 tsp;
- allspice peas to taste;
- cloves, cinnamon to taste.
The procedure is as follows:
- Sort the berries, rinse thoroughly. Rinse the fruit, dry and cut into 4 equal slices. Put in boiling water and cook apples - up to 3 minutes, and pears up to 5. Throw on a sieve and rinse ice water wait for excess moisture to drain.
- Rinse and dry the jars in the oven. Lay out berries, apples and pears in layers. Cover, put.
- We proceed to the preparation of the marinade. To do this, combine water with sugar, salt, fragrant spices. Bring to a boil and cook until the dry ingredients are completely dissolved. Remove from the stove, pour in the acid, cover and leave on the table until completely cooled.
- Fill with prepared marinade glass jars. Cover with lids and sterilize. The warm-up time directly depends on the volume of the container: 2 l - up to 25 minutes, 1 l - 15 minutes, and 0.5 l - 10 minutes.
- Roll up hermetically. Turn over and cool under a warm blanket. Put away for storage in the cellar or refrigerator.
Lingonberries without sugar
Preserving useful properties and vitamins in the berry is easy. It is enough to prepare preservation without the use of granulated sugar. Lingonberries in their own juice are obtained with a tart, sour taste. It can be used by people with high content blood sugar, obesity or overweight. AT winter period preservation is served at the table in several variations. For example, combine with honey or use as a component for baking, decorating cakes and pastries.
Sort out the main ingredient carefully. For conservation, it is recommended to use even and not rumpled fruits. Of the rest, in addition to rotten ones, it is necessary to make freshly squeezed juice.
Place lingonberries in a cooking pot, pour in ready-made juice in the ratio: 3 parts (juice) to 7 parts (lingonberries). Set on a hot burner and, at the first sign of boiling, quickly pour into sterile jars. Cover with lids and sterilize. In time, 1 liter - 10 minutes, 3 liters - 20 minutes. Roll up, cool and store in the cellar.
Sweet jam without cooking
For lovers of sweets, we suggest considering a recipe for making lingonberries with sugar for the winter without cooking . If the technology is observed, the dish is not candied and stands perfectly all winter, but in a cool room.
Products:
- lingonberries - 1.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1.5 kg.
Then we do this:
- Sort the berries, remove spoiled fruits, debris and twigs. Put in a saucepan, rinse in several waters. Drain in a colander and wait for excess moisture to drain. Spread out on a clean cloth, dry for 10-15 minutes.
- Put the prepared component in the blender bowl and grind until uniform consistency. You can also wipe it with a sieve with small cells, or through a food processor or meat grinder.
- Combine the mass with sugar. Mix thoroughly using a wooden spoon. Cover with a cloth and leave the mixture in this form in a cool place for 10-12 hours. For better dissolution of grains of sugar.
- After the time has elapsed, wash the jars with soap and dry in the oven. Pour lingonberries with sugar, close with a screw or silicone lid and put in a cool place for further storage.
B cranberry soaked for the winter
The urination process is perfect even for those housewives who live in apartments. The preparation is very tasty, with a lot of useful compounds. It can be added when preparing marinades for meat, make a tonic juice, or use it as a filling for pancakes, pancakes or pies.
Products:
- cowberry;
- clean water - 1 l;
- granulated sugar - 200 g.
- First of all, it is worth preparing a container in which cooking will take place. They must be washed and warmed up in the oven.
- Sort the berries, remove spoiled and rotten, twigs, debris. Rinse under running water in a colander and wait for excess moisture to drain.
- In the meantime, let's start preparing the filling. To do this, combine water with sugar. Bring to a boil, cook for a few minutes until sweet product will not dissolve completely. Remove from stove, cover and leave to cool.
- In the meantime, fill jars with lingonberries to the very top. Pour chilled sweet water and close the lid. Remove containers with contents in a cool, dark place. That's all vitamin preparation ready.
Fruit and berry treat
According to this recipe, lingonberries in syrup are obtained with a rich taste and spicy aroma. It is perfectly stored not only in a cool place, but also at room temperature.
Products:
- lingonberries - 500 g;
- pure water - 250 ml;
- granulated sugar - 750 g;
- carnation - 3 inflorescences;
- apples - 130 g;
- lemon peel from 1 fruit.
- Sort out the main ingredient, wash and dry. Rinse the apples, remove the seed box and the place of attachment of the stalk. Cut into small pieces.
- Pour the indicated amount of liquid into an enameled pan, add granulated sugar. Bring to a boil, stirring regularly, reduce heat and continue cooking until thick.
- Then add an apple, chopped citrus zest. Stir and continue cooking for another quarter of an hour.
- Add lingonberries to the syrup, mix and heat for 5 minutes. Just before switching off, add cloves.
- Pack in sterile jars, close tightly and store in a cool place after cooling.
Lingonberry liqueur
Products:
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- high-quality vodka - 1 l;
- granulated sugar - 800 g;
- clean water - 6 liters.
Then we follow the instructions:
- Sort out the main component, remove debris and other unsuitable parts for food. Put in a colander and rinse thoroughly under running water, dry.
- Grind to a puree state with a blender or food processor. Put in a clean glass jar, fill with water and vodka. Close and refrigerate for 1 week.
- After the specified time, strain through a sieve and cheesecloth. Pour into an enameled container and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
- Set on the stove, setting the average heating mode. With regular stirring, wait until the sweet ingredient is completely dissolved. When the first bubbles appear on the surface, turn off the fire. You can't boil. Pour into convenient bottles, cool and store in a dark, cool place.
- a fairly common berry in the middle lane, from which you can make blanks for the winter. Grated with sugar, soaked, prepared in its own juice or without cooking - look for these and other recipes in our selection.
What is useful cranberries? Blueberry berries are a powerful antioxidant that slows down aging. In addition, the berries and leaves of lingonberries have a wide range of medicinal properties and are used for the prevention and treatment of many diseases (colds, beriberi, rheumatism).
What to do with cranberries? At home, you can cook a lot of tasty and healthy preparations for the whole family from lingonberries. And at the first sign of malaise or as a prophylactic, regularly open a jar of jam, compote or a bottle of homemade tincture.
You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 1 kg sugar.
Cooking. Sort the berries, wash and dry well. Place the prepared berries in sterilized jars in layers, alternating with sugar. Shake the jar occasionally to compact the layers. The top layer should be a layer of sugar. Close the jars with ordinary nylon lids and store the workpiece in the refrigerator.
In such a blank, all the beneficial properties of lingonberries will be preserved.
You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 1-2 kg sugar.
Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, dry and sprinkle with sugar to taste. Grind the berries with a blender or mash with a potato press. Let the berry mixture stand, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon to dissolve the sugar. Then put the lingonberries in sterilized jars, close the lids and store in a cool dark place.
This fragrant tasty jam will fall in love with the whole family.
You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 1 kg apples, 1.3 kg sugar, 1 glass of water.
Cooking. Rinse the berries and blanch in boiling water for a couple of minutes. Peel the apples from the skin and seeds, cut into thin slices and also blanch. Then put the berries and apples in a saucepan, pour the syrup prepared from sugar and 1 cup of water and cook, stirring, until tender. Ready jam Arrange in banks, cork and store.
Such jam will be an excellent independent dessert or filling for homemade pies.
You will need: 1 kg of cranberries, 1 kg of pears, 1.5 kg of sugar, 3 cups of water.
Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, pour boiling water for a couple of minutes, then discard in a colander and dry. Peel the pears from the skin and seeds, cut into slices. Boil syrup from sugar and water, place berries and pears in it, mix, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Leave on for at least 2 hours or overnight. Then bring the jam back to a boil, cook for 10 minutes, immediately place in jars and roll up.
This easy-to-prepare preparation of lingonberries is not only tasty, but also useful as a cold prevention.
You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, zest of one lemon, 300 g sugar, 2 tbsp. water.
Cooking. Rinse the selected berries and put them in sterilized jars. From water, sugar and grated lemon peel boil the syrup, cool it and pour over the prepared berries, roll up.
Spicy soaked lingonberries will be an excellent addition to meat dishes.
You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 2 tbsp. sugar, 2 tsp salt, cinnamon sticks, vanilla pods, cloves, peppercorns to taste.
Cooking. Place the selected, washed and dried berries in an enameled or glass container. For the brine, boil water, add sugar, salt and spices, cool and pour over the berries. Cover the container with gauze and leave for several days in a cool, dark place. Then spread the berries along with the brine in jars and cork.
Prepare such a compote and drink at the first sign of a cold.
You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 800 g sugar, 8 liters of water.
Cooking. Sort the berries and wash. Boil the syrup from water and sugar, place the berries in it, bring to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then pour into sterilized jars and roll up.
If you don’t know what to make from lingonberries, grind it with sugar!
You will need: 2 kg cranberries, 2 kg sugar.
Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, pour boiling water over and dry. Then mix them with sugar and puree with a blender. Arrange the berry mass in plastic containers with a lid or jars from under drinking yogurt and store in the freezer.
The best preparation for the winter from lingonberries is jam.
You will need: 1 kg cranberries, 800 g sugar, 1 glass of water.
Cooking. Place the selected and washed berries in a deep enameled saucepan, pour in water and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add sugar, stir and cook for another 40 minutes. Arrange the finished jam in jars, cork, cool and store in a cool dark place.
A quick way to make delicious jam from lingonberries.
You will need: 3 kg of berries, 2 kg of sugar.
Cooking. Pour the washed berries with boiling water, place in a saucepan, sprinkle with sugar and let stand for 1 hour. Then put the pan over medium heat, stirring, bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Cool the finished jam, put it in jars and close the lids.
Orange will give the lingonberry preparation a pleasant citrus aroma and additional vitamins.
You will need: 1 kg lingonberries, 1 kg oranges, 1 kg sugar.
Cooking. Sort the berries, rinse, dry and place in a saucepan. Sprinkle with sugar and set to boil slow fire. Dip the oranges in boiling water for a couple of minutes, dry, cut into slices and, removing the seeds, twist into a meat grinder along with the zest. As soon as the berries with sugar boil, boil them for 15 minutes and add the crushed orange mass. Boil the jam for another 30 minutes, then immediately spread it into jars, close the lids and cool. Store the workpiece in the cellar.
Classical lingonberry sauce – the perfect complement to game dishes.
You will need: 2 cups cranberries, 0.5 cup sugar, 0.5 cup apple cider vinegar, 1 cinnamon stick, 5 clove buds, 1 sprig of thyme, salt to taste.
Cooking. Combine all ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil over low heat. Cook, stirring, for about half an hour. Remove the spices from the sauce, transfer it to a sterilized jar, cork and store in the refrigerator.
Cowberry berries can be used to make delicious jelly with pleasant taste and unique aroma.
You will need: 8 cups lingonberries, 4 cups sugar, 50 g gelatin, 3 cups water.
Cooking. Pour boiling water over the selected berries, discard in a colander and rub with a potato press. Then squeeze the resulting berry mass through gauze. Add sugar to the resulting juice and cook over low heat, stirring until it dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil, add gelatin, stir and cook for a couple more minutes. Arrange the finished jelly in jars, sterilize and roll up.
You will need: cowberry berries.
Cooking. Sort the berries and divide into two parts. Squeeze the juice from one part, mix with the other part of the berries and bring to a boil. Immediately spread the berries along with the juice in jars, cork, cool and store in a dark, cool place.
After reviewing our selection of recipes, you will definitely know how to save lingonberries for the winter. Add the material to your bookmarks and cook with pleasure!
Treatment with cowberry berries has been proving its high efficiency for several centuries in a row.
Long ago it was called the berry that grants immortality thanks to its healing properties and a wide range of therapeutic effects on the body.
Lingonberries contain organic acids, pectins, natural sugars and even mineral salts, not to mention the full spectrum of vitamins. Due to these vitamins, lingonberry strengthens human immunity.
Thanks to the rest of the substances they contain, berries are extremely useful for manifestations of neurosis, hypertension, rheumatism, low acidity with gastritis, as well as other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Lingonberries reduce high temperatures and have a beneficial effect on vision.
Eat lingonberries in in large numbers is unlikely to be possible, since its taste is very specific.
Undoubtedly, fresh cranberries most useful in terms of conservation useful substances, but its bitterness leaves a not very pleasant aftertaste. Therefore, it is customary to prepare it with the addition of sugar. Only in this way does it become a useful delicacy that can be stored for a long time.
Lingonberries are good because they do not require special time and labor costs in cooking. Missing sophisticated technology, so inherent in relation to other berries. There are no preservatives either - granulated sugar acts instead. BUT heat treatment may be minimal or non-existent.
In winter, grated lingonberries can be used not only for the treatment of diseases, but also as delicious jam, concentrate for, and, of course, the filling in the pie.
Lingonberries mashed with sugar: recipe
There are several ways to harvest miracle berries, but the most popular is rubbing lingonberries with granulated sugar.
To do this, sort out each berry and remove the branches with leaves. If there is at least one spoiled one, then very soon you will have to throw everything away, such lingonberries will not be stored for a long time.
Rinse under running water cold water and leave to dry. Additionally, you can dry the berries by blotting with a towel.
Then we pass them through a meat grinder or blender. You can use rubbing through a sieve or colander, but this process is longer in time. The fastest way is to use an immersion blender.
We add sugar to the pureed berries, based on the ratio of 1 to 1. If desired, sugar can be added less than the specified volume.
Leave the pureed berries for 2 hours in enamel saucepan or in a plastic bowl, stirring occasionally with a wooden spatula. Perhaps the berries will infuse for more than two hours - it is important that the sugar is completely dissolved. If you do not achieve its complete dissolution, then when it is subsequently put into a jar of berries, it will settle to the bottom and crystallize.
The consistency of grated lingonberries with sugar will turn out to be quite thick. The result is placed in glass jars and closed with a lid.
We store lingonberries mashed with sugar in the refrigerator, since the berries were not subjected to high temperature treatment.
In the event that the goal is to treat mashed lingonberries in the winter period of the year, then the mass can be heated. Having almost brought it to the boiling point (95 degrees is enough), we pour it into sterilized jars.
Additionally, we sterilize the puree directly in the jars for about 5-7 minutes. This will allow you to store lingonberries for a sufficiently long period of time.
Lingonberries are among the leaders in the content of vitamins, so they are often used not only for culinary purposes, but also for medicinal purposes. A berry that has not undergone heat treatment is especially useful. Lingonberries mashed with sugar are made for the winter for two reasons: firstly, it is very tasty, since sugar neutralizes the bitter taste of this berry, and secondly, it is useful, because all the valuable properties of lingonberries are preserved in this delicacy. It will be easy to store it if you follow the preparation technology and storage rules.
Cooking features
The lingonberry contains a natural preservative - benzoic acid, due to which it is stored for a long time, even if it is not subjected to heat treatment, salt, sugar, vinegar and other preservatives are not added to it. However, it can also deteriorate if some rules are not followed.
- Before preparing lingonberries mashed with sugar for the winter, it must be sorted out well, removing every single spoiled berry. If they get into cold jam, they will spoil it.
- The berries are washed by dipping them in a colander repeatedly into the water and letting it drain. This allows you to keep the shape of the berries, not to damage them when washing.
- It is important to carefully dry the berries before grinding them. This increases the safety of the finished jam.
- Banks must be used only sterilized. It is up to you to decide which lids to close them, metal or nylon, the main thing is not to forget to boil them.
- You can store lingonberries mashed with sugar only at a low temperature, that is, in a refrigerator or cellar. If necessary, keep it at a higher temperature, for example, in an unheated pantry, the jam must be heated to 95 degrees, but not boiled, and only then laid out in jars. In this case, the jars must be closed hermetically with metal lids. The lingonberries that have undergone such processing in the refrigerator can be stored for two years, just in a cool room (up to 16 degrees) - up to two months.
Recipes may indicate different amount Sahara. In fact, if the dessert does not include other berries or fruits (the exception is irga), the amount of sugar will not affect its safety. In this case, you need to navigate only to your taste: the less sugar, the more noticeable the bitterness characteristic of lingonberries will be. In this regard, usually less than 1 kg of sugar per 1 kg of berries is not used, but it also makes no sense to add more than 2 kg of granulated sugar per 1 kg of lingonberries.
Classic recipe for lingonberries mashed with sugar
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - from 1 to 2 kg.
Cooking method:
- Sort through the berries, simultaneously clearing them of forest debris and adhering leaves.
- Rinse the lingonberries and dry them on a cloth or kitchen towel.
- Grind lingonberries in the way that seems most convenient to you: using a blender, meat grinder or manually, pushing the berries through a metal sieve with a wooden spoon. The easiest way is to crush the berries with a wooden masher, which is usually used to make mashed potatoes.
- Sprinkle the mashed lingonberries with sugar.
- Cover the container with lingonberries with a thin cloth so that insects do not get into it, and leave it overnight.
- Sterilize small jars in the morning.
- Stir the lingonberries and arrange them in prepared containers, seal and store in the cold for winter storage.
This option for preparing lingonberries mashed with sugar is the most common, but there is another way, even simpler.
A simple recipe for mashed lingonberries for the winter
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1-2 kg.
Cooking method:
- Sterilize jars and lids.
- Rinse the lingonberries, having cleaned it of debris beforehand and throwing away all spoiled berries.
- Place the lingonberries on a towel to drain the water and wait until the berries are completely dry.
- Scroll lingonberries through a meat grinder or chop in any other way.
- Pour a couple of tablespoons of sugar into the bottom of each jar, then lingonberries. The berry layer should not exceed 2 cm.
- Sprinkle the berry with sugar and lay out its second layer. Continue filling the jar, alternating between layers of berries and granulated sugar. The last layer should be sugar.
- Close the jars and put away for the winter in a cold place.
This technology allows you to prepare lingonberries quickly, but it has a drawback: cold jam prepared according to this recipe can be sugared.
Lingonberries mashed with sugar and orange
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- oranges - 1 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1 kg.
Cooking method:
- Prepare the cranberries by sorting, washing and drying them.
- Wash the oranges, cut them into pieces and remove the seeds.
- Run lingonberries and oranges through a meat grinder (without peeling). At the same time, it is better to alternate the berry and orange: a handful of berries - a few orange slices.
- Pour the fruit and berry mass with sugar and leave for two to three hours, not forgetting to cover the container with jam with gauze.
- Spread out healthy treat on sterilized jars. Close them and put them in the refrigerator.
This dessert is especially useful for the prevention of colds. In addition, he has unique taste- even children will not refuse it.
Lingonberries mashed with sugar can be used to make fruit drinks and desserts. You can also eat it spread on a sandwich, or just spoons with tea.
