How to cook frozen gooseberries for the winter without losing their taste and health? All the subtleties of cooking and useful tips in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Now the summer season is in full swing and all the housewives are harvesting the harvest for the winter in all possible ways. Berries and fruits are traditionally canned in the form of compotes, jams are boiled, mashed potatoes, etc. But many people prefer freezing. Let's talk in this review how to freeze gooseberry puree with sugar at home so that all vitamins and taste are preserved in it. Frozen gooseberries are rarely harvested for future use, because there is an opinion that this berry cannot be frozen. But this is not true, so consider a step-by-step recipe to delight loved ones with excellent desserts in winter.
To freeze berries in the form of mashed potatoes, you must have a blender, meat grinder or fine grater. Such a blank can be used for diet baking, make curd and cheese masses, add to pancakes, etc. And if you freeze the berry puree in the form of animals and stick sticks into the molds, you get a real fruit ice cream. One "but" is inconvenient to store it. When defrosting, such puree does not change the taste, it remains as fresh! Although, if desired, you can freeze fresh whole gooseberries. Such berries, unlike mashed potatoes, can be stored in the freezer for several years. But they can only be used for compote. Before moving on to cooking, keep in mind some important points. First, take only whole, ripe berries, without signs of rotting and mechanical damage. Secondly, freeze the fruits in medium portions, because they cannot be re-frozen.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 56 kcal.
- Servings - any amount
- Cooking time - 15 minutes of active work, plus 3-4 hours for freezing
Ingredients:
- Gooseberry - any quantity
- Sugar to taste
Step by step preparation of frozen gooseberry puree with sugar, recipe with photo:
1. Sort out the spoiled gooseberries. Place the selected whole and ripe berries in a sieve and rinse with running water.
2. Spread the gooseberries on a cotton towel and dry well.
3. Tear off the sepals with stalks from the berries and place in a convenient deep container.
4. Grind the berries with a blender until smooth.
5. If there is no blender, twist the gooseberries through a meat grinder or chop in a food processor. In the absence of such electric kitchen helpers, use the grandmother's method and grind the berries through a sieve. With the latter method, you get an almost dry cake: peel and seeds. It can be frozen and used in baked goods instead of bran, or used for brewing tea.
6. Add sugar to the puree and stir. Taste and taste if necessary and add more refined sugar.
7. Divide the fruit puree into convenient serving tins, such as silicone tins. It is convenient to remove the frozen workpiece from them. Use the size of the molds that is convenient for you to use at one time. Since it is no longer possible to freeze the berries again.
8. Send the mold to the freezer, turn on the fast (shocking or deep) freeze at a temperature of at least 23 degrees, then keep the temperature at 18 ° C. Leave the berries on for a couple of hours until freezing completely, until they are like a solid block of ice. Then remove them from the molds, transfer them to a special bag or plastic container for freezing and store in the freezer until the next harvest.
Defrost gooseberry puree in the refrigerator or in cold water. Bacteria proliferate in the microwave and at room temperature. Cook thawed foods right away.
See also the video recipe on how to cook frozen gooseberries with sugar.
