Soaked cranberries and soaked cranberries. Recipe for soaked lingonberries

Soaked cranberries and soaked cranberries - one of the easiest ways to harvest, allowing you to keep these berries until winter or spring almost intact and almost fresh.

The main advantage of this method is that the appearance and taste of the berries remain unchanged, and the main inconvenience is that you need to store jars with soaked berries in a cold place, but at a positive temperature, which means that in urban conditions only in a refrigerator in which space limited. However, it seems to us that it would still be good to have two or three cans of lingonberries and a jar of cranberries in the refrigerator. When choosing which berries you will soak, you need to remember that cranberries are much more acidic than lingonberries, and therefore more limited in future use. Soaked lingonberries are good for decorating homemade cakes, desserts, tartlets with meat salads - just generously sprinkle with berries on top. Cranberries for these purposes should be used with great care, just a few berries, otherwise its sharp sour taste can ruin your dish. But by adding a few freshly crushed cranberries to a layer of sweet cake, you get an amazing sour taste. And both lingonberries and cranberries can be added as an ingredient to some meat salads. Soaked lingonberries and soaked cranberries are made in the same way. We took photos for this recipe when we soaked lingonberries.

Need:

• Lingonberries (or cranberries) - 4-5 glasses (standard, 200 ml)
• Water - 1 liter
• Sugar - 5 tablespoons
• Cloves - 10 pieces (just in case, for "culinary dummies", we clarify: we do not mean flowers, but the fragrant spice of the same name, which is sold in small bags, like all spices, in grocery stores)
• Allspice peas - 4-5 peas

In addition, you will need 2 glass jars with screw caps with a volume of 0.6-0.8 liters.

Cooking:

We remind you that for lingonberries and cranberries the process is the same. For soaking, we select the most beautiful, strong, large berries. The berries need to be washed and sorted out (we already wrote about how to do this in the lingonberry jam recipe, you can see this). Before soaking, the berries selected and washed with raw water should be washed with chilled boiled water (fill them with cold boiled water in a clean bowl and slightly “chat” with your hands there), then we throw the berries into a colander and let the water drain.

Pour a liter of water into a ladle or a small saucepan, put it on the stove and bring to a boil. When the water boils, add sugar, cloves and allspice, stir so that the sugar dissolves completely. Reduce heat and boil for 3-5 minutes. Turn off the stove, remove and discard the cloves and allspice peas. The resulting syrup (syrup here is a conditional concept, it is not very sweet, but somehow the resulting liquid must be called - not brine!) Cool to room temperature.

Pour berries into clean, dry jars, while the jar should not be completely filled with them, the berries occupy 2/3 or 3/4 of the jar volume.

Pour the berries in jars with chilled syrup - now our jars are full, the berries, as a rule, float to the surface.

We twist the lids on the jars and put them in the refrigerator, (or soaked cranberries) are ready.

The forest gives us many benefits, among them lingonberries stand out, it has long been customary to wet it for the winter. In this way, a large amount of useful is preserved, lingonberries will help to easily overcome colds and viral-type diseases, significantly increase immunity, and hence resistance to infectious diseases.

It is prepared for future use in various ways, but, as practice has shown, it is the soaked one that is preserved much better and longer. To do this, it is important to carry out the process correctly.

Urine has the following features:

1. A large number of berries for preservation in this way are placed in large containers made of plastic or wood.
2. Before placing lingonberries in a container, the berries are carefully selected.
3. If leaves come across during preparation, do not throw them away. Having shifted lingonberries with them, we get an additional portion of vitamins and trace elements in the marinade.
4. Antonovsky apples will give a pleasant aroma to the forest gift. They are cut into large cubes, placed on top.
5. Soaked lingonberries without sugar and spices will stand for a long time. The fruits contain benzoic acid, which is responsible for preservation, but the filling must be changed periodically. Without sugar, it can become moldy or sour.

The product is added to vegetable salads, sauces for meat are prepared from berries, they are used as a bite with tea instead of jam.

Important! Lingonberries are very useful in any form. Regular use will improve metabolic processes, strengthen the heart and blood vessels, and in winter it will become an excellent immunomodulating agent.

Preparation of lingonberries before the start of the process

The method of urination came to us from antiquity, our ancestors prepared food for the winter in this way, because they did not have freezers and cans for seaming. Nowadays, many different methods of preserving food have been invented, but they have not abandoned urinating lingonberries. In this way, it is preserved much better.

In order for the product to be preserved as expected, it is necessary to carry out a preliminary preparatory process. Its subtleties are:

1. Each berry is inspected for rot and bruising, spoiled ones are removed in a separate container, they will not take part in urinating.
2. Ripe but firm fruits are selected.
3. Thorough washing is a must.
4. Water from the berries is allowed to drain, if desired, it can be dried.

Dishes are also important, the quality of the final product directly depends on it. In no case should aluminum containers be used - the oxidation of the metal will lead to the formation of toxic substances. The product immediately goes from useful to harmful. The most acceptable option is wooden barrels or glass jars. Food-grade plastic will perfectly retain urination throughout the year.

The containers are thoroughly washed with soda, rinsed. It is advisable to sterilize glass jars before starting work.

The best recipes for making pickled lingonberries at home

Strict observance of proportions and conscientiously carried out preparatory process will help to preserve the gift of the forest with many benefits for a long time. To get the best quality lingonberries, time-tested recipes for harvesting are used.

Easy winter recipe

Cooking according to this recipe is simple, just put everything in a prepared jar and pour boiled water over it. It is enough to take a kilo of prepared berries, a pound of sugar, a teaspoon of salt and about 3 liters of water.

The forest gift is placed in a container for urination, the filling is prepared separately. Water is boiled with sugar and salt. Cool the marinade. The stacked berries are poured with prepared water with sugar and salt, put oppression, covered with gauze. After 20 days, the berry is ready.

cold way

Berries soaked in this way are easy to store, and it is not difficult to cook them. Properly calculated ingredients will help the product last longer.

The recipe is different in that the filling of berries is carried out with boiled water, without the addition of spices and spices.

As a result, we get a drink with a natural taste, and the berry will be like fresh. For every one and a half kilos of berries, 4.5 liters of water will be required.

The workflow is carried out as follows:

1. Berries are placed in a prepared container by a third.
2. Fill to the top with water.
3. Close the lid with holes and put in a dark place for a week.

After 7 days, a sample is taken. You can use it as you like, but do not forget to add the selected amount of liquid to the berries.

Sugarless

The filling in this recipe is very tasty, you can add it with daily use, as it is used up. It is worth remembering that after 2-3 months the berries and liquid will no longer be suitable for consumption. A jar with a capacity of 3 liters is prepared for urination, about a liter of prepared berries are placed there. In a saucepan, boil and cool to room temperature 2.5 liters of water, pour into a jar of lingonberries. The jar is closed with parchment or a nylon lid with holes. Put in a dark place. Additionally, it is advisable to cover the lid with gauze, this will prevent the entry of small insects.

With salt

Very little sugar is used to prepare urination - salt and selected spices will give the main taste. The most commonly used is cloves. For a kilo of berries you will need a liter of water, 30 grams of salt, sugar on the tip of a knife, a clove bud. The berries are placed in a container for urinating, syrup is boiled from the remaining ingredients, cooled and poured over the berries. Under a nylon cover for 10 days they are stored in a room with a temperature of up to 10 degrees, then they are taken out to a cooler room.

With honey

In this way, it will be possible to prepare a berry, as in ancient times - there was no sugar then. Instead, honey was used as a sweetener. No more than 100 grams of honey are taken per kilo of product from the forest, salt is on the tip of a knife, and cinnamon and cloves are optional.

Prepared jars are filled with berries up to their shoulders. Water is measured, boiled and cooled liquid is poured into jars, and then poured into a common vessel. The rest of the ingredients are added there and heated in a water bath. Berries are poured with cooled syrup and placed in a cool place without light.

With sugar

How to soak lingonberries with sugar so that it is not cloying, but also sweetness is felt? We use the following recipe:

1. A kilo of berries is laid out in jars, 5 centimeters without filling up to the top.
2. From a liter of water, 250 grams of sugar, 2 grams of salt prepare syrup.
3. Jars are poured with chilled brew.
4. Cover with gauze in several layers.

Storage can be carried out at room temperature, but not more than a couple of months.

Without cooking

Urination is carried out in a standard way, but it is not necessary to boil the syrup, it is enough just to dissolve the sugar in water. A glass of sugar is taken per liter of liquid, the jars are completely filled with berries, poured with syrup, covered with a lid or gauze in several layers.

How to store

It is not enough to save the benefit of the berry by urinating, it is necessary to choose the most suitable temperature regime. Usually, storage is divided into two stages: for the first 2-4 weeks, pickled berries are stored at higher temperatures, and then they are taken out to a cool room without light. At the very beginning, you can store the gifts of the forest in a room or in the kitchen, and then put it in the refrigerator or basement, unless otherwise indicated in the recipe.

Step 1: prepare the cranberries.

Step 2: Sterilize the jars.

Step 3: prepare the syrup.

Step 4: Prepare the Soaked Lingonberries.

Step 5: Serve the Soaked Lingonberries.

- - If you have at hand not only lingonberries, but also its leaves, do not throw them away. It turns out that even lingonberry leaves have medicinal properties. For example, it is good to drink a decoction of these leaves for diseases of the genitourinary system, diabetes and rheumatism. The leaves can also be brewed like a tea. After such a drink, you will feel a surge of strength and vigor. And we make the preparation simply by drying the lingonberry leaves. To do this, lay them out on a clean surface in a well-ventilated area. And turn the leaves once every 2-3 days until they are completely dry. The main thing is that direct sunlight does not fall on them. After, put them in clean plastic or paper bags.

- - Soaked lingonberries in large quantities can also be cooked in barrels.

- - If you want to soak lingonberries without adding spices and sugar, then you need to change the water from time to time. Since the berries contain benzoic acid, lingonberries may not spoil for a long time. Unlike water! When interacting with berries, it can turn sour. Therefore, it is very important to monitor the process of soaking lingonberries.

- - And if you want to make Soaked lingonberries with a rich aroma, then peeled pieces of Antonov apples can also be added to the jars.

Lingonberry is a useful berry. If you managed to collect it in sufficient quantities, it makes sense to prepare it for future use. During the year, it will be possible to use the berry for making fruit drinks, desserts, add it to salads, decorate cold appetizers and hot dishes with it. Soaked lingonberries, which can be prepared for the winter in various ways (with and without sugar), retain their beneficial properties, aesthetic appearance and unique taste for a long time.

Cooking features

Before choosing a recipe for making soaked lingonberries for the winter, it does not hurt to study a few recommendations:

• Wash well and sort out the berry you are going to soak. You need to inspect each instance, since rotten and dented ones are not suitable for this purpose.
• Do not throw away the leaves of lingonberries if they are with her - if you add them to the berries during soaking, then it will become even more useful.
• Do not use aluminum utensils for cooking berries - coming into contact with the acid contained in the berries, it releases toxic substances. It is better to give preference to enameled containers or stainless steel containers, but food-grade plastic can also be used. Glass jars are also suitable.
• Antonov apples will help emphasize the aroma of lingonberries. They must be cut into pieces and put on top of the soaked lingonberries. It will soak in their aroma and become even more appetizing.

Following these simple tips, it will turn out to prepare soaked lingonberries for the winter according to one or more recipes you like.

Lingonberries in their own juice

• lingonberries - 1 l;
• water - 2.5 liters.

Cooking method:

• Wash the lingonberries and the dishes in which you plan to soak them. A glass jar is very well suited for this purpose. For reliability, it is better to sterilize it.
• Put the lingonberries on the bottom. You can shift it with lingonberry leaves, but this is not necessary.
• Boil and cool water to room temperature. Pour in the cranberries.
• Close the jar with parchment paper or a nylon lid with a slit (the slit can be made with a sharp knife) or round holes (such lids are usually used when preserving to drain the marinade from jars). Additionally, the lid can be covered with gauze to protect against insects.
• Put in a dark, cool place.

The lingonberries soaked in their own juice will be ready in a week. Benzoic acid, which is very abundant in the composition of this berry, will help her to be stored all winter. But the water must be periodically poured out of the can, topping up with fresh water. From the juice poured from a can, you can make a tasty and healthy fruit drink, and use the berries themselves later.

Soaked cranberries with sugar

• lingonberries - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.15 kg;
• apple (optional) - 50 g;
• salt - 2 g;
• water - 1 l.

Cooking method:

• Sort and rinse the berries well. Let the water drain.
• From a liter of water, salt and sugar, boil the syrup. Cool it - it should not be hot, otherwise the berries will not retain their shape.
• Arrange the berries in jars, filling them approximately “up to the shoulders”.
• Place an apple slice on top (optional).
• Fill with syrup.
• Wrap the neck of the jar with gauze or close the lid with small holes.
• Leave at room temperature for 3 weeks, then refrigerate.

You can store soaked lingonberries at room temperature, but not for long (up to a month), so if you can store it in a cool place (cellar, refrigerator), it will not hurt to use it.

Cowberries soaked with sugar can be used to make desserts, fruit drinks, and also served instead of jam for tea.

Lingonberries soaked with salt

• lingonberries - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 20 g;
• sugar - 3 g;
• carnation - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

• Pour washed and dried lingonberries into sterilized jars.
• Boil water, put cloves, salt and sugar in it, cook for a couple of minutes.
• Let the brine cool to room temperature, then fill jars with lingonberries to the top with it.
• Close the lids tightly and leave for a week at a temperature of about 10 degrees.
• After the specified time, remove for the winter in a cool place (up to 6 degrees).

Lingonberries soaked in salt are good for salads and other snacks.

Lingonberry with honey

• lingonberries - 1 kg;
• water - how much will go;
• salt - 2 g;
• honey - 100 g;
• cinnamon - ? sticks;
• cloves - 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

• Arrange clean berries in sterilized jars, filling them to the shoulders.
• Divide the spices into jars.
• Pour the berries with boiled but cool water and pour it into a bowl.
• Dissolve honey in water drained from jars, heating the syrup in a water bath. Add a pinch of salt to the syrup.
• Let the syrup cool and pour over the lingonberries.
• Close the jars with plastic lids and put them in a cool, dark place.

Cowberries in honey filling will be ready for use in a month. The filling itself is no less useful and tasty than a berry.

Spicy soaked cranberries

• lingonberries - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 10 g;
• sugar - 40 g;
• cloves - 7 pcs.;
• allspice (peas) - 6 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 1 stick.

Cooking method:

• Pour the right amount of water into the pan, put spices, salt and sugar in it.
• Boil and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Give the syrup time to cool and infuse.
• Sort the lingonberries, rinse, arrange in jars (they need to be sterilized in advance).
• Pour the cooled syrup over the berries. Close with capron lids.

Store in a cool room, if this is not possible, then you can leave it for the winter and at room temperature, but in this case it is better to eat it before the end of winter.

Each recipe for soaked lingonberries is good in its own way. If you have enough berries, you can use several, especially since this will not take much effort.

Wintering without a cellar full of delicious preparations is quite difficult: compotes, jams and pickles can diversify the menu and remind you of the days when hot summer reigned outside the window. Housewives use various berries, vegetables and fruits for canning. Of particular interest is lingonberries soaked for the winter - an unusual dish will pleasantly surprise the household. Cooking recipes are very diverse. Let's try to choose the best of them.

Recipe without cooking and without sugar

The simplest recipe telling how to make pickled berries involves using a minimum amount of ingredients. Cowberries and water are all you need to make the perfect winter treat. Natural ingredients will bring a huge amount of benefits to the body. And the unadorned taste of sugar-free red berries is a real treat for gourmets.

Before you start making soaked lingonberries in jars, stock up on the following amount of basic ingredients:

• 1 kg cranberries;
• 2.5 liters of water.

The recipe for a 3 liter jar provides for the following steps:

1. Prepare the dishes: wash the container thoroughly. Do not use aluminum cans: this metal provokes oxidation processes, during which the fruits acquire an unpleasant aftertaste.
2. The berries are thoroughly washed and laid out on the bottom of the dish. If desired, you can add the leaves of the plant.
3. Boil water and let it cool slightly.
4. Pour the hot liquid into the cranberries.
5. Close the jars with capron lids.

The workpiece should be infused for about 7 days under a twisted lid, after which it can be eaten. If it will stand for a long time, you need to periodically “renew” the water: pour a small amount of lingonberry juice from a jar and add boiled liquid. Lingonberries in their own juice, the benefits and harms of which were known to our ancestors, are an excellent delicacy that allows you to saturate the body with vitamins during the cold season.

Recipe with salt

Salads and other cold snacks will become even tastier, and most importantly healthier, if you add home-cooked lingonberries without cooking with salt. Urination will not take much time, and the result will definitely exceed all expectations.

Lingonberries for the winter are prepared using the following components:

• 1 kg of berries;
• liter of water;
• 20 g of salt;
• 3 g of granulated sugar;
• 1 clove.

A step-by-step recipe for a dish includes several steps:

1. First, lingonberries are harvested: the berries are collected or bought in a store, thoroughly washed and dried.
2. Water is brought to a boil, all spices are poured into it: salt, cloves and sugar. The mixture is boiled for 3 minutes, then cooled.
3. Berries are placed in prepared glass containers.
4. The brine is poured up to the neck of the jars, which are then covered with nylon lids.

Soaking lingonberries in a similar mixture costs 7 days. Then the corked jars are transferred to a cool place: the temperature should not be higher than 6 C. Since the berries themselves are not cooked, they retain the entire useful set of substances, which is especially important in the cold season.

Spicy lingonberries with sugar without cooking

One of the most exotic ways to prepare sour lingonberries is recipes that involve the use of a number of spices that give the berries a special spicy taste. This type of preparation is ideal as an addition to meat, bringing new notes to familiar dishes.

The set of ingredients looks like this:

• 1 kg of fruits;
• liter of water;
• 10 g of salt;
• 7 pcs. cloves;
• 6 black peppercorns;
• cinnamon stick;
• 40 g sugar.

Preparing a variety of dishes with sugar and spices is very simple:

1. The water is boiled, spices are added to it. Keep the pan on the stove until the sugar is completely dissolved.
2. For some time, the resulting syrup is infused under a closed lid.
3. Place lingonberries in sterilized glass containers.
4. Pour the resulting solution to the fruits.
5. Cover jars with capron lids.

The workpiece should be stored in a cold room or in the refrigerator. However, it should be consumed within 3 months, otherwise the fermentation processes will spoil the dish.

Sugar in many recipes is successfully replaced by a more useful product - honey. The recipes for lingonberry blanks were no exception: one of them just involves the use of a sweet, viscous product.

Prepare the following foods:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 2 g salt;
• 100 g of honey;
• 2 cinnamon sticks;
• 2 cloves.

The amount of water is not strictly limited: different housewives have different amounts of liquid. The cooking process looks like this:

1. Banks before the beginning of the neck are filled with berries.
2. Spices are placed on top of the cranberries.
3. Cool boiled water is poured into the container.
4. After half an hour, the liquid from the berries is drained into a clean bowl.
5. Heat the syrup and dissolve honey in it.
6. Add some salt to the brine.
7. Let the liquid cool and pour back into the jars.

The workpiece should be infused for at least a month under nylon covers. It is worth placing the jars in a cool place: this way the dish will last longer.

Lingonberries with apples

An excellent winter dessert is lingonberries soaked with apples. The ideal ratio of tastes of two natural ingredients will give a lot of unforgettable moments. But most importantly: the process of preparing the dish is very simple.

Stock up on ingredients:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 500 g of apples;
• 0.7 l of water;
• Salt ½ tsp;
• 250 g of granulated sugar;
• 100 g of vinegar (9%);
• Spices: cloves, black peppercorns, cloves.

Then start cooking:

1. Prepare fruits: wash and dry the berries, cut the apples into small slices.
2. Boil the marinade using water and spices.
3. Arrange the fruits in jars.
4. Add boiled liquid.
5. Sterilize jars for a quarter of an hour.

After closing the containers with lids, you need to cover the workpiece with a blanket and let it stand for a day. After that, the product can be eaten.