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How to freeze black currants for the winter: the best way.

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Blackcurrant with sugar in the freezer- simple and at the same time very delicate recipe preparations from summer berries. In this recipe, we will use not only one currant, but also raspberries in order to even out and make the preservation taste more expressive. By itself, black currant is incredibly useful for the body, and not only because it contains a lot of vitamins. The use of currants has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the kidneys and liver, evens out and normalizes metabolism. In turn, raspberries, which will also be present in the harvest, are one of the best remedies for colds. It is also rich in all the same vitamins and natural acids.

Cooking recipe with step by step photos We present such a preparation of black currant for the winter below and describes in detail the process of creating this winter conservation. It is advisable not to use automatic devices in the process of crushing berries, it is better to spend more time on the manual method of processing and at the same time preserve much more useful microelements in the berries. By the way, the presented method implies the absence of heat treatment, that is, we will not cook the berry puree before freezing. It is very important to free up enough space for storing this dessert, because after freezing, black currants, grated with sugar, will also be stored in the freezer. A refreshing and bright dessert will delight you more than once in the cold season, pies with such a filling will turn out to be especially tasty.

Let's start freezing black currants with sugar at home in the freezer for the winter!

Ingredients

Steps

    First of all, we go to the garden and collect black currant berries there along with ripe raspberries. It is very important that only the most natural berries participate in the preparation, because it is useful product we want to get the result. The ripeness of berries can be determined by their color or simply by taste.

    Put the collected black currants in a colander and rinse thoroughly under a running cold water, along the way, we remove all the leaves and twigs that could be in the basket along with the currants.

    We do the same with ripe sweet raspberries, which we give in this very colander to dry completely in a natural way.

    Since the raspberries are already almost ready for processing, during the drying process we separate the black currants from the branches carefully using the most ordinary fork as shown in the photo. Put the berries separated from the branches on a paper towel in an even layer and also let them dry.

    Now we put all the prepared berries in an enamel pan, send the specified amount of sugar there and methodically begin to knead black currants and raspberries. It is necessary to knead the berries until the mass in the pan becomes completely homogeneous and the sugar in it disperses evenly. An ordinary wooden mortar is perfect for this purpose. For the next 24 hours or a little more, we leave the berry mass to infuse. It is better to cover the top of the pan with a cotton cloth and periodically you need to stir the berry puree with a wooden spoon.

    Now we will prepare a container for storing such a blank, thoroughly rinse small glass or plastic jars with soda, and then rinse them and let them dry completely. Fill berry puree only completely dry cans are needed. It is necessary to freeze and store such a workpiece only in freezer, but you can eat almost immediately. Black currants, grated with sugar and frozen in the freezer, are ready for the winter.

    Bon Appetit!

How to freeze black currants for the winter worries many gardeners. After all, this is the best way to save delicious berries... It is during freezing that all beneficial features plants.

Frozen round blackcurrants are tastier than oblong ones.

Frozen berries can be eaten immediately without waiting for defrosting.

Chubby ice is poured onto a plate, berries are picked up with a small coffee spoon. Sweet and sour currants melting in your mouth are a small gastronomic pleasure.

A handful of frozen currants is a healthy dietary dessert.

Frozen black currant berries are stored for a whole year. Accidental defrosting and re-defrosting will, of course, reduce the presentability of the berries, but will not destroy all the vitamins. If for meat and fish products, repeated freezing is categorically contraindicated, then the berries are in a more advantageous position. Re-freezing will lead to sticking of the berries, since when thawing, juice will surely be released.

Note!

Frozen currants are the basis of many dishes. Berries are put in pies, mousses, jelly, compotes. Grinding half a cup of ice berries and one large banana in a blender makes a wonderful cool smoothie.

Ingredients

  • black currant - 1 kg.


COOKING SEQUENCE:

Ripe black currants are frozen, but yellow-red berries that come across are not thrown away. After defrosting, they can be added to compotes and jelly.

The currants are washed in cold water, dried leaves and green berries are removed.
When planning freezing fruits, the branches are cut after washing the berries.

The wet currants are first laid out on a paper towel. When the moisture is absorbed, the berries are transferred to a cloth and left for 2-3 hours. Instead of a towel, you can use a wooden board or a large flat plate to dry the berries. When frozen, wet berries are compressed into a monolithic iceberg, and then dried currants will easily spill out of the mold.

When vacuum packed, first the currants are put in film bags, and then the air is removed and the seam is fixed. This method ensures the best preservation of the currants.

For traditional freezing, plastic containers are used. Dry berries are poured into a container, shaken so that the currants lay down more tightly, then they are closed and the lid is tightly fixed. Especially good are those containers in which the lid is secured using thin lifting handles that fit into the grooves of the lid.

Both in containers and in vacuum bags, currants do not absorb foreign odors.


If you count what more I harvest - berry jam or just frozen berries, the latter clearly win. A sweet treat in the form of jam is needed only for pies and rolls. Occasionally, when you're in the mood, you can drink tea with him. But, whatever one may say, there is practically no benefit in it. I cannot say this about frozen currants or other berries. They are not thermally processed. All I do before storing them in the freezer is rinsing them, letting them dry a little and freezing them.
Often I cook from berries and also send them to freeze. Moreover, if the family constantly eats strawberries, grated with sugar, or the same cherries in winter, then I take out currants only when someone is sick. Combined with other treatments for colds, it helps me quickly get my sneezing household members back on their feet.
I freeze the currants as just berries, and grated with sugar. In the first case, you can cook from it, fruit drink, make jelly or mousse. Well, in the second, such a product successfully replaces jam, so I water it thin pancakes, cheesecakes, pancakes, or just offer the children for an afternoon snack.
So, in order to prepare currants for the winter, grated with sugar and frozen in the freezer, you need to take only 2 products: the berries themselves and sugar. In addition, it is worth preparing the container in advance in which you will pour this mass. It is best to use plastic dishes: milk, kefir, yogurt bottles or containers. Never freeze glass. Rinse and dry the containers beforehand. And only after they are ready, you can start in the main workpiece.
How to make currant puree with sugar and freeze it for the winter

Ingredients:
- black currant- 2 kg;
- sugar - 700 g.

Recipe with photo step by step:





The goal is not to make “raw” jam as sweet as regular jam. We just need to slightly sweeten it, so sugar is needed not in a 1: 1 ratio, but 2 times less. I do not advise taking more, but less is possible if you prefer sour desserts to sugary-sweet desserts.
Separate the currant berries from the stalks. Go through and remove the leaves and twigs. Rinse in batches in a colander under a strong stream of water. Everything unnecessary will remain on its walls and stick to the bottom. Let the water drain. Then transfer the clean berries to a large bowl and cover with sugar. Stir and quickly, until the currants let the juice flow, scroll it through a meat grinder. I have the usual Soviet one, the one that needs to be screwed to the table before starting work. But I don't even think about changing my "unit", because I got used to it and got used to it.
Put the resulting sweet mass into bottles or other plastic containers, close the lids tightly and put in the freezer. Of course, you cannot eat such "raw" jam without first defrosting it. But it will melt pretty quickly if you put the container on the table. However, be sure to put the container either on some plate, lower it into a large wide mug, because there will be a puddle under the container.




When the grated frozen currants with sugar have turned into liquid, take out the spoons and savor the tasty and healthy berry blank. Bon Appetit!

Step 1: preparing and freezing berries.

During the freezing of berries, important nutrients are preserved, which are called carbohydrates, unstable vitamins and the most important vitamin C are also preserved, it loses its properties by only 10-12 percent. First, let's choose berries, they must be large, ripe and not damaged. The first and very important secret of the correct freezing of currants is do not wash it before freezing! During washing, these berries collect excess liquid and deform. Therefore, we take 1 kilogram of black currant, clean it from leaves, damaged berries, if any, and twigs, there is no need to remove the tails! Put the prepared berries on a tray and put them in the freezer. The temperature in it must be maintained from -12 to - 19 degrees. Freeze berries for 1 day. The reason for freezing berries on a tray is that such berries do not stick together into one mass, this simplifies their division into portions, you can always take the amount of berries you need, defrost and use for your needs. During freezing, most of the cell sap in the form of water turns into crystals, as a result the volume of the berries doubles. And during thawing in properly frozen berries, all the juice that was in them remains inside and does not drain. After a day, remove the frozen berries and quickly pour them into a clean plastic bag with clean hands. Insert a regular beverage tube into the bag and bleed any air from the bag. Put your lips on the drinking straw and suck out all the air with one breath. This process will create a vacuum in the packaging, which will help preserve the berries even more securely. Remove the tube from the bag and secure it with a clip so that no air gets inside. Return the blackcurrant bag to the freezer and forget about it until winter.

Step 2: defrost frozen berries.

Frozen currants can be thawed in two effective ways. First of them, it is a microwave oven. From the common bag of berries, take the amount of currants you need, pour it into a plastic bag, put the bag of berries in the microwave and turn on the defrosting mode to level 3. Defrost berries for 1 - 2 minutes. Then we take them out of microwave oven, rinse under running water and put on a plate. Second the way takes longer. We take a deep bowl, pour cold water into it and lower the bag of frozen berries into it so that no water gets inside. In this way, the berries are thawed for 20 - 30 minutes, depending on how much currant was in the bag. Put the finished defrosted currants on a plate.

Step 3: Serve frozen black currants.

Frozen black currant is served on a plate, next to it is a bowl of sour cream or whipped cream. Fresh berries can be added to ice cream or yoghurts, baked pies, pastries with them, and decorated with cakes. Fresh frozen black currants are also used in the preparation of compotes, jelly, marmalade, pastilles and syrups. Professional chefs use this berry in different types gravy served with fish and meat. Healthy and tasty! Bon Appetit!

- - You can freeze raspberries, strawberries, strawberries, and red currants in the same way.

- - You can put frozen currants in more bags in smaller masses. So it will be more convenient for you to get the amount of berries you need from the refrigerating chamber, and the vacuum in other bags will not be violated.

- - Instead of a clip, you can use a hair elastic or just tie the bag on a loose knot so that after freezing it can be easily untied.

- - Currants frozen in this way can be filled in clean sterile dry jars instead of bags and closed with sterile dry plastic lids... Store jars of berries in the freezer.

- - Fruits and berries can be frozen in another way by making sugar syrup. Boil the syrup, 500 grams of sugar in 1 liter of water. Put prepared washed berries and fruits without a core, seeds, leaves, stalks in metal forms or plastic bags and freeze in the freezer. After the product you need is frozen, take it out of the refrigerator and put it in warm syrup for a couple of minutes. Syrup temperature 35, 40 degrees. Then, using a slotted spoon, remove them from the syrup, put them in bags and freeze. Get briquettes with berries or fruits. During such freezing, fruits and berries do not take on much liquid and do not swell much. From above, they are covered with an ice crust from sugar syrup... This type of freezing is used for very long storage fruits and berries.

Red currant is a very useful and aromatic berry, but most often black currant grows in our gardens. This article will focus on different ways freezing red berries, but all the freezing methods considered are quite suitable for other types of currants.

The berries are harvested as they ripen, picking off the currants along with a twig.

At home I need to sort it out. To do this, remove all the fruits from the brushes, and discard the crumpled and rotten berries.

You need to wash the red currants in a large saucepan or basin so that the stream of water does not fall on the berries. From the impact of the pressure of water, the delicate skin can burst.

If you pick currants in your garden and are completely sure of their purity, then it is better not to wash the berries at all.

The washed red currants must be thoroughly dried. This can be done on a cotton or paper towel. From above, the fruit can also be blotted with a cloth.

Methods for freezing red currants for the winter

Dry method of freezing currants

This is the simplest and cheapest way. The berry is prepared for freezing as described above.

If the currants are perfectly dry, then they can be immediately placed in plastic bags and sent to the freezer.

If the berry remains slightly damp after drying, then it must first be frozen on a flat surface in bulk for several hours. After the currants set in the cold, they are laid out in containers or bags.

See the video from the channel "Marinkiny Tvorinki" - Freezing red currants for the winter

How to freeze currants with sugar

With this method, clean berries are laid out in containers, sprinkled with granulated sugar. How much sugar do you need? This is a matter of everyone's taste preferences, but experienced housewives recommend using about a glass of granulated sugar for 1 kilogram of berries.

How to freeze berries in your own juice

Some of the berries are laid out in containers lined from the inside. cling film... The other part of the berries is mashed by grinding them with a blender. You can add sugar to the puree to taste.

The trays with red currants are poured with mashed potatoes and sent to the freezer for a day. After 24 hours, the containers are taken out, the berries frozen in own juice, and wrap the briquettes with cling film. In this form, the currants are sent for storage in the freezer.

See video from the channel "Marina Tvorinki" - Currant for the winter

How to freeze pureed currants with sugar

You can wipe the currants with sugar by hand or with a blender.

The manual method allows you to get currant puree interspersed with whole berries, and grinding with a blender will make the consistency more uniform.

You can also freeze mashed potatoes, rubbed through a sieve, then the berry mass will be completely homogeneous, without peels and seeds. It is very convenient to freeze currants in this form for small children.

The ratio of berries and sugar is approximately 5: 1, that is, for 1 kilogram of berry mass, you will need about 200 grams of granulated sugar.

See video: Blanks for the winter. Red currant with sugar

How to freeze red currant juice

The berry is passed through a juicer, the juice is poured into plastic cups, covered tightly with cling film, and sent to the frost.

The cake from the berries is not thrown away. It is also frozen and used later as a filling for pies.

How to freeze a berry on twigs

This method can only be used if you collect currants in your garden, and after freezing you will use them to cook compotes.

Each branch should be inspected before freezing and, if necessary, tainted berries should be removed. Then the currants are laid out on a cutting board or on a special tray of the freezer for small products, and sent to the freezer.

After preliminary freezing, the berries are transferred to containers, tightly closed, and put back in the cold.

Shelf life of red currants in the freezer

Frozen red currants can be stored in the freezer until the next harvest. The main thing is to pack the berry so that it is not exposed to heat again.