To enjoy the taste of raspberries and replenish the body with healing substances all year round, berries need to be prepared for the winter. The easiest, fastest and most useful way is freezing. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of frozen raspberries. Video recipe.
Today, freezing of berries and fruits is widespread. This is the easiest way to harvest winter. From many diverse stocks. Let's talk how to freeze raspberries for the winter. This medicinal and valuable berry is known and loved by everyone. Raspberries are the best helper for colds. It acts as a diaphoretic and antipyretic agent. In addition, it is recommended for improving digestion and increasing appetite. Berry fruits are used to strengthen the immune system and in the treatment of anemia. However, if raspberries have been heat treated, then not all vitamins will be preserved in it. Therefore, frozen berries are healthier than regular jam.
You can prepare it in different ways: twist it in mashed potatoes and sprinkle with sugar, and then freeze the fruit mass in a bowl or portioned small containers for ice. But in this review, we'll talk about how to freeze whole berries. This is suitable not only for compotes, layers and fillings, but also for decorating desserts. However, in order for frozen raspberries to turn out delicious and retain all the healing substances, you need to know a few secrets.
- Collect raspberries during the day on sunny days. This berry is the healthiest and sweetest.
- You need to freeze the berry on the day of collection, and preferably immediately after collection. Because raspberries sour quickly.
- The procurement equipment must be dry and clean, free of foreign odors.
- Freeze berries in shock (fast) freezing mode, then they will retain more nutrients.
- Frozen raspberries are stored very well. It can be kept in a freezer at a temperature of -15 ° C and below until the next season, at -10 ° C for six months.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 103 kcal.
- Servings - any amount
- Cooking time - 20 minutes
Ingredients:
Raspberry - any quantity
Step-by-step preparation of frozen raspberries with whole berries, recipe with photo:
1. If the raspberries are from their own garden, then the berries can not be washed. It is better to wash the purchased raspberries under running water. However, since the berry is very fragile, select firm, fresh and whole fruits for freezing, otherwise, during washing, they may soften and lose their shape. Also, before cooking, pour raspberries with slightly salted water (1-2 tsp of salt for 1 liter) and leave for 15 minutes. During this time, all the bugs will emerge.
Put the washed berries on a towel to dry out. water entering the harvesting will reduce the shelf life of the fruit.
2. Put the prepared raspberries on a board or baking sheet so that the berries do not come into contact with each other and send them to the freezer, turning on the quick freeze. When the berries are completely frozen, remove them from the baking sheet and put them in a vacuum bag and send them to the freezer for further storage. Use frozen raspberries with whole berries for any desserts.
See also a video recipe on how to cook frozen raspberries with sugar.
