How to prepare cranberry, lingonberry and currant juice, a drink from fresh and frozen berries? TOP 5 step by step recipes with photos. Video recipes.
Morse is a fragrant, light and at the same time rich original Russian refreshing drink made from berries. Today you can find a huge variety of it on the shelves in supermarkets. But the industrial product loses to home recipes. Since it has a high sugar content, dyes, preservatives and taste stabilizers are present. For those who care about health and like to experiment in the kitchen, it is better to make homemade fruit drink from fresh or frozen berries. Moreover, it is very simple, fast and affordable!
Morse - secrets and general principles of cooking
- For 3 liters of fruit drink, you will need about 500-600 g of berries.
- Most often, fruit drink is made from cranberries, lingonberries, red and black currants, blueberries, cherries or a mixture of berries.
- Fruit drink from cranberry has an antipyretic effect and increases appetite, from lingonberry - well quenches thirst, from blueberry - useful for stomach and intestinal disorders.
- Berries should be free from signs of damage and rot.
- A drink is prepared from the juice of fresh or frozen berries.
- Defrost the frozen berry mixture in advance.
- Before brewing a drink, fresh berries should be thoroughly washed. First, immerse them in warm water for 5 minutes, then rinse with cool water.
- Grind clean berries with a blender, twist through a meat grinder, wipe through a fine sieve or use a juicer. Squeeze juice from the resulting mass.
- Squeezed out fresh juice, until use, store in the refrigerator to preserve the maximum vitamins.
- Squeeze the juice of berries with high acidity in a ceramic or glass container, not in a metal one. Otherwise, the acid will chemically react with the metal.
- The drink is brewed for 1 minute from the pomace of berries, after which it is infused for half an hour so that it retains its usefulness and valuable properties. Since many vitamins cannot withstand long-term heat treatment. Then the broth is filtered and fresh squeezed juice is added.
- Due to the fact that the maximum taste and benefit is preserved in the fruit drink, the drink is a good medicine for colds and viral diseases.
- To make the fruit drink tasty, the squeezed juice in it must be at least 30%, or even more.
- Do not throw away the cake, they retain many healing properties. Use it as a basis for making new fruit drinks.
- In addition to berries, add any spices and herbs to your fruit drink to taste. For example, mint, cinnamon, cloves, anise, and other additives. For piquancy, lemon or orange slices are often put.
- Adjust the amount of added sugar to taste.
- To make the drink more useful, use honey instead of sugar. Add it to an already chilled drink, because in boiling water, it loses its qualities.
- Store ready-made fruit drink exclusively in the refrigerator.
- Do not consume the drink two days after boiling.
- In summer, fruit drink is served chilled, in winter - warm or hot.
- Fruit drinks are often used as the basis for alcoholic cocktails.
Cranberry juice
Cranberry juice increases the overall tone of the body, and cooking it is no more difficult than cooking compote. However, the cooking time is much shorter. That is why fruit drinks are more useful than their brother.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 45 kcal.
- Servings - 700-800 L
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
- Cranberries - 150 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Water - 600 ml
Cooking cranberry juice:
- Sort out the cranberries, rinse and mash with a wooden crush or other convenient device.
- Put the crushed berries in a cheesecloth folded in half and squeeze the juice.
- Put the berry cake in a saucepan, cover with water and send to the fire.
- Bring the berry broth to a boil and strain.
- Pour sugar into the strained hot broth and stir to dissolve.
- Leave the fruit drink to infuse for half an hour so that it cools down to room temperature and pour in the previously squeezed cranberry juice.
- Chill the cranberry juice in the refrigerator.
Currant juice with honey
Currant fruit drink is filled with a unique aroma and is famous for its healing properties. For the recipe, both black and red currants, or a mix of berries are suitable.
Ingredients:
- Currant - 300 g
- Water - 1 l
- Honey - to taste
Cooking currant fruit drink:
- Rinse the currants well, separating the brushes from the berries.
- Rub the berries through a sieve and squeeze out the juice, which is put in the refrigerator.
- Put berry cake in a saucepan, cover with water and boil.
- Boil it over low heat for 1-2 minutes.
- Cover the saucepan and let sit for 30 minutes.
- Strain the fruit drink through a fine sieve and squeeze the cake well.
- Cool the drink to room temperature, add honey and stir to dissolve.
- Then pour in the juice that you squeezed earlier.
Assorted berry fruit drink
The drink can be prepared from any forest or garden berries that grow in the country, are available in the refrigerator or on sale.
Ingredients:
- Assorted berries (black, white and red currants, cherries, gooseberries, raspberries and other berries) - 0.5 kg
- Sugar - 100 g
- Water - 800 ml
Cooking assorted fruit drinks from berries:
- Sort the berries and wash. If using cherries and cherries, remove the pits first.
- Crush the berries and pass the mixture through a sieve.
- Place the cake from the peel and seeds in a saucepan, add sugar, pour in water and boil. Boil the drink, stirring occasionally, for no longer than 3 minutes.
- Strain the resulting broth, cool and combine with fresh berry juice.
Lingonberry juice
This drink is simple and quick to prepare, but it turns out to be much tastier than store counterparts. Plus the lingonberry juice is incredibly healthy. It fights infections effectively and has antipyretic properties
Ingredients:
- Lingonberry - 500 g
- Sugar to taste
- Water - 3 l
Cooking lingonberry juice:
- Wash the lingonberries well and squeeze the juice out of the berries using a juicer.
- Put the berry squeeze into a saucepan, cover with water, add sugar and stir.
- Send the pan to the fire and after boiling, immediately remove from the stove.
- After the drink has cooled, strain it, pour in the lingonberry juice and stir.
Frozen berry fruit drink
Fruit drink made from frozen berries is no less healthy and tasty drink. It is prepared no more difficult than from fresh fruits. The only thing that is necessary is to spend more time so that the berries are defrosted in advance.
Ingredients:
- Frozen berries (any) - 500 g
- Water - 3 l
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons
Making fruit drink from frozen berries:
- Remove the berries from the freezer, place them in a sieve, place them on a deep plate and let them thaw a little. During defrosting, juice will drain from them, which do not pour out, but save for later use.
- Wipe the thawed berries through a sieve.
- Pour the freshly squeezed juice into a bowl with the liquid left over after thawing the berries and refrigerate.
- Dip the cake into a saucepan, add sugar and cover with water.
- Stir the food, put on fire and after boiling, cook for 5-6 minutes.
- Cool the drink a little, strain and add berry juice. Stir and refrigerate
Video recipes:
Cranberry juice
Blackcurrant juice with cinnamon
