Anyone who harvested strawberries at least once in the forest will never forget its unique aroma and taste.
There are also garden strawberries, but some people have an allergy to it, but the forest one causes only positive emotions.
The berries contain a whole complex of vitamins, as well as pantothenic and folic acid.
The main value of strawberries is a high content of ascorbic acid. By the way, not only berries are useful, but also strawberry leaves, which are dried for winter.
Strawberries, rubbed with sugar for the winter - the basic principles of cooking
Gather strawberries in dry, clear weather in the first half of the day. It is desirable to collect it in the container, which can be placed in the refrigerator, if you do not plan to do the harvesting on the same day. In the refrigerator, it can be stored for a week, but still, it is better to immediately process the berry, because every day it loses its taste.
Many housewives who have never encountered this berry are wondering how to sugar strawberries in order to preserve the benefits, taste and flavor of the berries.
There are several ways to prepare wild strawberries with sugar.
First of all, you need to prepare strawberries. Berries are cleaned from the stalks, sorted, removing rotted fruit. Strawberries shift in a sieve and washed under running water. Then the berries are laid out in a thin layer on a linen towel, so they are slightly dried. By the way, the leaves can not be thrown away, but dried, and in the winter to brew tea from them.
Strawberries are spread in a deep cup, covered with sugar and left for some time to make juice. Then strawberries fray in mashed potatoes with tolkushki or blender.
You can first grind the berries through a sieve, and only then pour the sugar and mix.
The prepared mass is spread on sterile hot cans, cover with lids and store in the refrigerator, or put in containers and freeze in the freezer.
Recipe 1. Forest strawberries with sugar for the winter
Ingredients
- granulated sugar;
- strawberries;
- containers.
Method of preparation
1. Strawberries are carefully sorted out, we remove all forest garbage and leaves. We put the berries in a sieve and rinse under cold water. During the washing of the berries do not mix. Spread strawberries with a thin layer on a linen towel and dry them.
2. Then strawberries are poured into the blender bowl and interrupted until mashed. If you want the mass to be not so liquid, mash the berry with mashed potatoes for mashed potatoes.
3. In the grated berry pour sugar in the ratio of one to one. You can add a handful of whole berries to the ground mass. All mix thoroughly to sugar crystals dissolved.
4. Fold the strawberry mass in special containers and tightly close the lids. Sent to storage in the freezer.
Recipe 2. Strawberries, rubbed with sugar for the winter
Ingredients
- kilogram of strawberries;
- 1 kg 200 g of granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Enumerate the strawberries, removing the stalks, leaves and debris. Then put the strawberries in a colander and rinse thoroughly under running cold water. Berry spread a thin layer on a linen towel and dry.
2. Put the strawberries in the appropriate dishes, pour sugar sand and leave for some time to let the juice. It will take from three to four hours. It is better to do this in the evening, and leave the berries with sugar overnight.
3. Then the strawberries, which gave the juice, chop into puree. This can be done with a dip blender, tolkushki or meat grinder. However, it is worth remembering that if you grind strawberries with a blender, you get quite a liquid mass.
4. Half-liter jars, wash them thoroughly using detergent. Lightly dry the container and put it in the oven, heated to 120C, for five minutes. Put the caps in boiling water, remove and dry in a couple of minutes. 5. Spread the ground strawberry mass on the cooled jars and seal with the lids. Put the jars in the fridge and store no more than six months.
Recipe 3. Pureed wild strawberry with sugar for the winter
Ingredients
- kilogram of granulated sugar;
- 1 kg of wild strawberry.
Method of preparation
1. First of all, you need to sort out the strawberries. Remove leaves and other forest debris. If you collected strawberries yourself, you can not wash it. If the strawberries purchased, rinse it under a tap and dry on a linen towel. Put the berries in a wide enamel basin.
2. Kill the strawberries with the immersion blender to a puree state. If you do not have such a kitchen appliance, you can make it a small-hole pusher.
3. In a strawberry puree pour sugar at the rate of one to one. This proportion will help to kill the sour taste of berries.
4. Mix the mass with a wooden spatula until the sugar crystals are completely dissolved. Arrange the strawberry mass in jars, pre-sterilized them over steam or in a microwave. Close the cans with boiled plastic lids and store them in the refrigerator. The shelf life of such a billet is about six months.
Recipe 4. Strawberries, grated with sugar and lemon juice
Ingredients
- kilogram of strawberries;
- 500 ml of distilled water;
- kg of sugar;
- 50 ml of concentrated lemon juice.
Method of preparation
1. Enumerate fresh dugout, removing damaged and rotten berries. Debris, leaves and twigs also remove. Put prepared berry in a colander and rinse under cold water to get rid of grains of sand and earth.
2. Cut off the stem with a sharp knife from each berry. Put the berries in a blender container and smash at high speed to a puree mass.
3. Now take a clean fine sieve and put strawberry puree into it with a tablespoon. Grind through it the whole mass in a deep clean cup. 4. Pour distilled water into a saucepan and put it on fire. Add sugar and bring to a boil. Then twist the fire and cook the syrup, intensively stirring with a spoon, for 20 minutes. Remove the ready syrup from the heat and cool it to a warm state.
5. In a container with strawberry puree pour a thin stream of barely warm sugar syrup in a thin stream and mix with a wooden spatula. Pour into the resulting mass of concentrated lemon juice using a measuring spoon. Stir and put on fire. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and cool.
6. Arrange the ground strawberry with sugar in sterile, dry cans and tightly close the lids. Store in a cool place.
Recipe 5. Wild strawberries with sugar for the winter. Method 2
Ingredients
- kilogram of strawberries;
- 1 kg 500 g of granulated sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Sort out freshly picked strawberries, removing small debris and spoiled berries. Put the berries in a colander and rinse under running cold water. Spread strawberries on a linen towel and dry them so that the puree does not become too liquid from excess moisture.
2. Grind the berries to the state of mashed potatoes in any way convenient for you. This can be done with small-hole pusher or submersible blender.
3. Gradually pour the sugar into the ground strawberries, stirring constantly, and leave the mass to infuse for an hour.
4. During this time, prepare the banks. Rinse glass containers well with soda or detergent, rinse and dry. Put the jars in the oven and sterilize for five minutes. Boil the lids for a couple of minutes.
5. Spread the strawberry puree on the hot cans, cork tightly with lids and wrap. Leave the billet until it is completely cooled, then send it to the refrigerator for storage.
Recipe 6. Wild strawberries with sugar for the winter with citric acid
Ingredients
- citric acid - 2 g;
- forest strawberry - a kilogram;
- sugar - 300 g.
Method of preparation
1. Sort out fresh strawberries, remove debris and spoiled berries. Rinse the strawberries in a sieve or colander. Spread the berries on a thin linen towel and dry. Then put the strawberries in an enamel pan and leave in a cool place, so that she allocated juice.
2. Kill the berries with the juice to the state of mashed potatoes in any way convenient for you. Add citric acid to the mixture and mix.
3. Wash and dry half-liter jars. Place the container in the oven and sterilize at a temperature of 85C for about ten minutes.
4. Spread the strawberry mass in hot jars and close the lids, pre-boiling them. It is necessary to store such preparation in the refrigerator no more than half a year.
How to Sugar Strawberries - Tips and Tricks
- After you have washed the strawberries, be sure to dry the berries on a linen towel so that the excess moisture does not make the billet too liquid.
- Try not to pour the berries often from one dish to another, as the strawberries then deteriorate very quickly.
- Strawberries can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week.
- The ground strawberries with sugar should be made from freshly picked berries for the winter.
