Summer is in full swing. It gives us a good mood, a tan and a sea of ​​vitamins in berries and fruits. But real hostess you need to be able not only to use homemade vitamins in the season, but also to prepare them for the winter.

Interesting fact: Red currant is popular in many countries of the world. In Germany, for example, this berry is widely used for desserts. And the Scandinavian peoples cook fruit soup from it!

Have you generously disfigured red currants? We offer 10 interesting and simple recipes who will tell you how to prepare this berry for the winter.

You will need:

Jelly

Ingredients:

• Currant 1 kg
• Sugar 1 kg

• Prepare the dishes in which you will cook.
• We wash the currants well, but you should not thoroughly get rid of the ponytails. You will understand why later.
• Pour currants into a bowl for cooking.
• We fall asleep berries with sugar. Now it is worth 10 minutes to stir continuously until the sugar begins to melt.
• We put the container on a large fire, and with a large wooden spoon we interfere with the future jelly for 8 minutes. You need to interfere intensively, without being distracted or interrupting the process.
• After 5 minutes of such manipulations, the brew should bubble strongly, and the berries will begin to burst.
• Now it remains to wipe the mass through a colander and arrange it in jars ().

Do not cover jars with lids. Let it be good currant jelly cool down! A film forms on it, and the mass itself becomes quite thick.

• We roll up the jars with lids and send them to storage. Aroma of currant and pleasant taste remind you winter evening about warm summer days.

Don't be afraid to experiment. Very delicious jelly from red currant is obtained by adding vanillin, apples, nuts. And some housewives even add a banana.

Jelly (for parchment)

Although it is called jelly, gelatin is not needed at all for this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 200 ml
• Sugar 250 g

1. Squeeze juice from carefully sorted and washed currants. This can be done even through a sieve.
2. We combine the juice with sugar and cook over low heat (stirring!) Until all the sugar is dissolved.
3. Pour hot jelly into prepared "evaporated" jars.

Jellies according to this recipe do not require traditional seaming with lids! Banks are covered parchment paper and tied with string/thread.

1. Is the jelly cold? We move the banks for storage in a cool place. Preferably in the refrigerator.

Jam without cooking

Ingredients:

• Currant 1 kg
• Sugar 1 kg

Such jam is also called "cold", because it does not lend itself to heat treatment at all.

1. Red currants must be sorted out, washed and dried well.
2. Now you need to turn the berries into a puree in a convenient way for you. Of course, this is easy to do with a blender or meat grinder.
3. Now we grind the mass through a sieve.
4. Pour sugar into the puree and stir, preferably with a wooden spoon / spatula, until completely dissolved.
5. We distribute the puree in pre-sterilized jars, roll up.

You need to store "cold" jam only in the refrigerator!

Currant-banana jam

This recipe is quite easy to prepare. Yes, and jam with an unusual interesting taste immediately delight family and friends.

Ingredients:

• Red currant juice 1 l
• Sugar 600 g
• Bananas (medium) 5 pcs.

1. We take enamel pan and pour currant juice into it.
2. Mash the bananas in a puree and place it in the same bowl.
3. Sprinkle the mixture with sugar.
4. On medium heat, bring our future jam to a boil. Reduce the heat and cook for another 40-45 minutes.
5. Ready hot jam is packaged in jars (sterilized) and rolled up.

This type of jam can take a surprising place even on the festive table.

frozen jam

Ingredients:

• red currant berries 2 kg
• Sugar 1.2 kg

1. Rinse the red currant berries thoroughly and chop them with what is convenient (blender, combine, meat grinder).
2. We filter the mass and squeeze the juice out of it.
3. We combine the resulting juice and sugar (calculation: 1 liter of juice - 1.2 kg of sugar) and stir until the last ingredient is completely dissolved.
4. Pour the jelly-like mass into prepared containers (250 - 300 g volume) and send it to the freezer for freezing.

Frozen redcurrant jam changes color slightly. It will be a little dark, but it will be tasty - for sure.

Currant jam with oranges

This the recipe will do housewives who like to experiment in the kitchen. Trust me, your family will appreciate it. citrus note, it would seem, in the usual currant jam.

Ingredients:

• Red Ribes 1 kg
• Sugar 1 kg
• Oranges 3-4 pcs.

1. We dry and grind the sorted and washed currants (meat grinder, blender).
2. We cut the washed oranges directly with the peel into small pieces and scroll in a meat grinder.
3. We connect in the right utensils these two types of puree and add sugar to them. Let it stand for 30-40 minutes so that the sugar begins to dissolve.
4. Now you need to grind this mass again. We must achieve uniformity.
5. We put on the stove, making a slow fire, and bring the mass to a boil (stirring!).

The mass on fire should be no more than 5 minutes. Some housewives do not cook it at all, they simply lay it out in dry sterile jars. But there is no guarantee that it will last long. There is a need immediately.

1. We lay out the jam in a sterilized dish and roll it up. We store in a cool place.

This jam will amaze you not only with taste, but also with color. If you do everything right, then in winter you will have delicious jam with intense red.

Jam with fructose for diabetics

You will spend only 20 minutes to prepare this jam. But how much pleasure you get later from delicious jam.

Ingredients:

• Red Ribes 1 kg
• Fructose 650 g
• Water 2 tbsp.

1. We sort and wash the collected berries.
2. Cooking syrup. Pour water into the pan, add fructose and heat until the fructose is completely dissolved.
3. Pour the currant berries into the boiled syrup and, when it boils, cook over low heat for 5-7 minutes.
4. Hot jam must be laid out in pre-sterilized jars and rolled up.

Currant and cherry jam

Ingredients:

• Red currant puree 1.5 kg
• Cherry berries (seedless) 500 g
• Sugar 1 kg

1. First of all, we need to make a puree of red currant berries. To do this, pour the fruits with boiling water and cook from quite a bit - 1-2 minutes. Now we rub them through a sieve. Everything. Puree is ready.
2. Pour sugar into the resulting mass and cook over medium heat until it thickens.
3. It's the cherry's turn in this dish. We put it in a container with thickened currant puree. Cook until the cherries are done.

Don't forget to stir regularly. A thick mass on fire tends to "stick" to the bottom of the dishes, and then it can completely "burn".

1. Arrange in pre-evaporated jars and roll up.

Currant and watermelon jam

Ingredients:

• Watermelon pulp (pitted) 1 kg
• Red Ribes 1 kg
• Sugar 1.5 kg

1. Grind red currant berries with sugar.
2. Cut the flesh of the watermelon into small pieces.
3. We combine it all in one dish and put it on fire.
4. Boiled? We fasten the fire and cook for 40 - 45 minutes.
5. Now you need to wipe the resulting mass through a sieve and pack the finished fragrant jam on sterile (dry!) ​​jars.

Do not forget that the cooled jam will be a little thicker than when hot.

Red currant in syrup

Redcurrant syrup - very delicious thing, which can be used, subsequently, in many dishes.

Ingredients:

• Red Ribes 2 kg
• Sugar 2 kg

• We wash the berries. Now you need to dry them.
• Carefully tear off the stalks so that the berries are not damaged. We need only whole and beautiful.
• We fill the berries in a container with sugar, and leave them in the room so that they let the juice flow.

Usually this process is delayed for 5 - 7 hours.

• Now it is worth heating the mass on fire, stirring continuously. Thus, we dissolve the sugar completely.
• After boiling, cook for 5-7 minutes (stirring!).

Don't digest. Berries should remain whole.

• Carefully transfer the currants into prepared jars and pour the syrup in which they languished.
• We roll up the jars, turn them over and wrap them well until they cool completely.
• We hide the cooled cans of syrup in the cellar.

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In our country, there is another culture that grows in almost every garden plot, and which is honored by both old and young - this is red currant. We will tell you about what redcurrant preparations are in the article: the best recipes for jams, jellies and frosts, with and without sugar, with and without cooking, have been collected for you.

Red currant - the queen of taste

The scarlet berry, like its closest relatives (chokeberry and), is considered a wonderful ingredient for cooking huge number all kinds of goodies:

• amazing jams with healing properties;
• ruby jelly with a unique aroma;
• saturated compotes;
• fragrant jams;
• flavored juices.

Red currant contains almost as much vitamin C as lemon

Red currant tastes somewhat different from traditional black currant: it contains pleasant sourness, therefore, to a greater extent, gardeners grow this unpretentious crop for canning purposes. In addition, the berry, due to its composition, is well gelled during the harvesting process, so it can be easily obtained from it thick jams and jam without resorting to special gelling additives.

Gourmets take note! Scarlet berry with sourness is often added to custards for cakes and other pastries, adding freshness of taste. From it you can cook unusual fruit soups, puddings and other desserts.

Redcurrant - a powerful vitamin cocktail

The fruits of this scarlet berry, be it fresh currant or canned, they are distinguished by an incredible healing effect, not inferior. Only a baby has not heard of this. The content of organic acids, fructose, vitamins A, P and C in this berry exceeds their amount in chokeberry culture, and a wide range of B vitamins has a truly healing effect on the body - the culture is often used as an effective diuretic, diaphoretic, anti-febrile and hemostatic agent, protects from strokes.

From red currants, you can cook not only jams, but also juices, fruit drinks and compotes

Regular use is also recommended for those suffering from diabetes and gout, because the berry normalizes metabolic processes and activates all the body's defenses. Summarizing the above, we can conclude: fresh fruits, as well as red currant preservation, is an amazing natural healer that relieves the symptoms of flu and colds, improves the general condition and increases immunity (for this purpose, the use of currants is especially recommended by doctors in the off-season).

If redcurrant grows in your garden plot, but you have never harvested it for the winter, then we highly recommend trying it! You definitely won’t have to regret this, because redcurrant preparations for the winter do not take much time and will not require special strength from you, but interesting recipes with and without boiling there is a great variety.

Attention! main feature cooking currant jams and jamming lies in the fact that preservation is not complete without rubbing through a sieve. This will allow those who do not really like to find them in the finished product to no longer think about the skin and bones.

If you prefer maximum benefits with a minimum of effort, we recommend trying the cold-preserved currant jam recipe without resorting to heat treatment.

"Cold" jam

The cooking recipe involves the use fresh fruit and sugar (ratio 1:2). To begin with, the berries are sorted out, carefully washed, dried and crushed using a meat grinder (it can be a blender). If you have a wooden spoon or spatula on your household, great! It will come in handy for mixing grated berries with sugar. The berry mass must be stirred until the sugar is completely dissolved. The finished puree is transferred to clean jars and sealed with lids. It is better to store such a product only in the refrigerator.

Cold jam has a lot of poles: from ease of preparation to preservation of vitamins

Ruby jelly jam

For cooking delicious dessert you will need freshly picked berries, sugar (ratio 1: 1), water (200 ml). Sorted and washed currants are placed in a container, filled with liquid, brought to a boil and boiled for 2-3 minutes. Then the mass is rubbed through a sieve. Sugar is poured into currant puree and boiled for 20-30 minutes, after which the mass is poured into sterilized jars and hermetically sealed.

Red currant jam is a dessert that boosts the immunity of the whole family during the cold season

Of course, there are many recipes for jams from fresh currant berries with the addition of sugar, honey, apples, vanillin, walnuts- each of these components is able to make the currant delicacy more interesting, and its taste more vivid and unexpected.

Amazing walnut-honey currant jam

To prepare the treat, you will need the following ingredients:

• red currant fruits;
• apples;
• sugar (0.5 kg);
• natural honey (1 kg);
• walnut (300 g).

The berries of the red currant are sorted, washed, placed in a bowl, filled with water, and then slightly boiled. The softened fruits are ground through a sieve or crushed with a blender. The resulting mass is set aside for a while, and from granulated sugar and natural honey syrup is being prepared. Then it is boiled, added apple slices, crushed walnut. All this mass is brought to a boil, currant puree, which we have already prepared, is poured into it, and continues to boil for about 1 hour.

You can add any nut whose taste you like to currant and nut jam

Attention! Remember the need for constant stirring, make sure that the jam does not burn! Engage in conservation with love and warmth!

The finished treat (otherwise it cannot be called) is laid out in jars and hermetically sealed.

As you have noticed, there is nothing supernatural in the cooking technology and recipe, but what an unusual taste culinary perfection will have! You can't even imagine! It is not a shame to serve such a dessert for a festive tea party with pastries and ice cream!

Purple Currant Jam

For harvesting, stock up on freshly picked berries (2 kg), cherries (1 kg) and sugar (1 kg).

Puree is made from currant fruits, sugar is added, the resulting mass is boiled until thickened. The remaining fruits are washed, sorted, pitted and transferred to the berry mixture. The mass is boiled again until cooked. When cooking, the jam must be stirred, and at the end put into jars and cork.

Do not be too lazy to rub the jam through a sieve - the dish will be unusually tender

Not less than unusual taste obtained and watermelon-currant jam.

Watermelon-currant jam

To prepare such an unusual jam, you will have to stock up on watermelon pulp (1 kg), fresh currant berries (1 kg) and sugar (1.5 kg).

Sorted and washed berries are ground with sugar, chopped watermelon pulp. The mass is placed on the stove and boiled. You are provided with an aroma in the kitchen, it remains to show your willpower and cook the jam until cooked - and this is about 30 minutes. The boiled mixture is rubbed through a sieve and packaged in sterilized jars. It is recommended to store the currant miracle in the refrigerator.

Currant juice

To make the juice rich and fragrant, you will need freshly picked berries (3 kg), sugar (0.5 kg) and water (1.5 l). Currant fruits are moved, washed, filled with water and boiled for about 10 minutes. Then we take gauze and filter. It's time to add all the sugar and bring the strained juice to a boil.

Currant juice will be loved by all members of your family

You do not need to boil for a long time: just 2-3 minutes is enough, after which hot juice poured into three-liter bottles and sealed with lids. You can store such a drink for a long time, but whether it will work out or be drunk by the household in the fall is another question!

Freezing red currants

You can use two methods:

Method number 1 (without sugar). fresh berry sorted, washed and dried. The berries are laid out in a single layer on a baking sheet and placed in the freezer. Then they are transferred to bags and returned to the refrigerator again, but for long-term storage.

You can use frozen currants in winter for any dishes, as you would with fresh berries.

Method number 2 (with sugar). Sorted currants sprinkled with sugar are crushed with a blender, packed in containers and sent to the freezer.

Of course, all these goodies can be bought in the store. But why, if you can cook at home with love and care for your loved ones unusual recipes for the winter? Culinary inspiration for you!

How to make redcurrant jam: video

Red currant blanks for the winter: photo

Preparations for the winter from red currants are rarely made in the form of jam. The reason is the ability of this berry to gel. Although even under this condition there are recipes for jam. They can be eaten just like that or diluted to get a fruit drink. How to make redcurrant jam? Check out the tips and recipes below.

Red currant preparations

This berry is one of the most common. From it prepare the most different desserts, such as jam or jam-jelly, compotes, marmalade, jam or marmalade. This allows you to save the harvested crop until winter, because it will not lie fresh for a long time. Redcurrant brings not less good than black. Especially a lot of vitamin C in it, which is why it is used for bleeding, fever, as a diuretic and diaphoretic. To make redcurrant jam for the winter, you must first harvest the crop correctly and on time, and then prepare it.

How to choose berries for currant jam for the winter

These berries overripe quickly, which makes them soft. It is necessary to collect them on time and immediately make blanks. The crop must be sorted out, removing the stalks, husks, leaves and other debris. It is better to do this with gauze or a fine sieve. A few branches can be left, but then there is a risk that the jam will not last so long. Processing must be carried out very carefully so as not to touch the soft skin. It is not worth keeping the fruits in water for too long, you need to rinse them and lay them out in one layer on a napkin to let the liquid drain.

Preparing jars for canning

To roll up redcurrant jam for the winter period, you need to lay it out in sterilized glass jars. To do this, they are heated in the microwave or oven. In addition to this option, there is a method of sterilization over steam. Simultaneously with this procedure, you need to do the same with the covers. Only here for sterilization it is necessary to boil water. Then the lids are placed in it for a few seconds. This must be done immediately before the seaming itself.

Redcurrant recipes for the winter

An essential ingredient in any jam is sugar. Its quantity depends on the specific method of preparation. In recipes for blanks with such a berry, sugar may be required a little more, because this berry has sourness. The optimal ratio is 1:1.5. Although those who love more sour taste, you can take sugar and berries in a 1: 1 ratio. It is important to observe the cooking time. V traditional recipes currant jam, it does not last more than 15 minutes. There are more quick ways cooking, for example, without cooking at all. This and other options are shown below.

How to cook redcurrant jam 5-minute

The easiest among the redcurrant jam recipes for the winter is Five Minute. Here, the delicacy undergoes a very short heat treatment, so a little more sugar is required. List necessary ingredients it turns out like this:

• sugar - 1.5 kg;
• water - 1 glass;
• berries - 1 kg.

Cooking delicacies is carried out in several stages:

1. Syrup preparation. To do this, bring water to a boil, add sugar and cook until this ingredient is dissolved.
2. Introduction of berries. After the syrup boils, fruits are added, after which the delicacy is boiled for 5 minutes, while stirring constantly.
3. rolling. The finished delicacy is poured into sterilized jars, tightly closed with lids.

Currant jam without cooking

Of all the methods for making currant jam, this one can be considered the simplest, because the stage of heat treatment of berries is excluded here. For this reason, a different amount of granulated sugar will be required to finished product kept longer. The calorie content is higher than regular jam. The list of ingredients looks like this:

• granulated sugar - 2 kg;
• currant - 1 kg.

Preparing the delicacy is very simple. For this you need:

1. Sort the harvested crop, wash and dry, then grind with a meat grinder or blender. You can instead grind through a sieve. Squeeze the cake, because the juice remains in it.
2. Pour granulated sugar to the puree, stir the mass with a wooden spoon until the sweet ingredient is completely dissolved.
3. Arrange berry puree in jars, roll up with sterile lids.

This cooking method is also called "cold jam", due to the fact that there is no heat treatment products. Here you can use the usual crush, rather than a meat grinder or blender. The latter device is not recommended for use, because part of the vitamin C is destroyed because of it. “Cold jam” can not only be rolled into jars, but also stored until winter in the freezer.

Red currant jelly

Next method differs in originality, because the result is not just jam, but jam in the form of jelly. It turns out very tasty due to the fact that pectin is contained in red currant. This substance is responsible for the ability of this berry to gel. For jelly you will need:

• water - 1 glass;
• sugar and the berries themselves - 1 kg each.

You can cook jam-jelly according to the following instructions:

1. Put the berries in an enamel pan, pour water into them.
2. Bring the mass to a boil, cook for about 2 minutes, grind through a sieve.
3. Add granulated sugar to the puree, again put the pan on a slow fire for about half an hour.
4. Distribute a hot delicacy in pre-sterilized jars, roll up and send to a cool place.

This method of making currant jam in the form of jelly can be made even more original. To do this, you just need to add others interesting ingredients such as apples, nuts, vanillin, honey or even bananas. As a result of such experiments, you can get even more fragrant and delicious treat which is sure to be loved by both children and adults.

Recipe for currant jam with gooseberries

According to this recipe, you can make assorted jam. An addition here is gooseberries, which are no less useful for the body. For cooking, you will also need dense elastic berries, preferably slightly unripe. They also need to be cleaned of excess debris, stalks and twigs. Then it remains only to rinse and dry the berries. The number of ingredients should be as follows:

• currants and gooseberries - 750 g each;
• water - 625 ml;
• granulated sugar - 1.5 kg.

Instructions on how to cook redcurrant jam for the winter look like this:

1. Place all washed fruits on the bottom of an enameled container, pour in the same water.
2. Place on fire, cook for half an hour, while kneading the berries.
3. After boiling, reduce the intensity of the fire to a minimum, add sugar.
4. Stirring, cook until the sand is completely dissolved.
5. Pour the finished product into sterile jars, roll up, put in a cooler place.

Video: how to make redcurrant jam in a slow cooker