Lingonberry berries combine vitamins A, C, E, various minerals and organic acids. They have a bitter-sour taste and little astringency, so not everyone likes it when fresh. There are a huge number of recipes for a drink from them, in which the taste of berries can be changed by adding other ingredients. The beneficial properties of the fruits will be preserved.
Selection and preparation of ingredients
To get a tasty compote, berries and fruits should choose the same size and one degree of maturity. In order not to damage the integrity of the fruits, they should be washed very carefully, best of all - in a colander. It is better to freeze part of the fresh berries so that even in winter there is an opportunity to prepare a summer drink.
Important! To get a transparent compote, cranberries must be dried first. Lower them only in boiling water.
Recipes for the winter
Cowberry blanks for the winter can be used not only as a tonic drink, but also as a preventative in the season of colds. You can add various berries and fruits to the compote, which will not only give unusual taste shades, but also increase the number of useful properties.
Quick recipe
75-10 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Berries need to be sorted out, remove garbage, and then rinse. At the same time, syrup is prepared (sugar is poured into boiling water and mixed until completely dissolved).
- Berries are dipped in the finished syrup. After boiling, they boil for 3 minutes.
- Stewed fruit is removed from the fire and poured into sterilized jars.
- The cans are rolled up with a special machine, turned upside down and wrapped (for sterilizing the air in the can and checking the tightness of the lid).
- After cooling completely, the jars should be stored in a dry, cool and dark place.
Important! To maintain the maximum amount of useful properties of lingonberries, use only boiled water for cooking — it has little dissolved oxygen, which destroys vitamins.
From frozen berries
1210-15 minutes
frozen lingonberry fruit
1.2 kg
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Lingonberries must be removed from the freezer to thaw.
- Thawed berries are put in a pan, poured with water and put on fire.
- When the berries float to the surface of boiling water, they boil for another 5 minutes.
- Hot compote is poured into sterilized jars and rolled up with lids.
With apples
840 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
The water is brought to a boil.
Apples are peeled and stalked. Cut into slices 1 cm thick.
Lingonberries, apples, sugar are added to the water. Everything is mixed.
After boiling, the pan must be removed from the stove - the drink should be infused for 10-15 minutes (if the compote is prepared for preservation, then it is worth pouring it into banks immediately after boiling).
The water is brought to a boil.
Apples are peeled and stalked. Cut into slices 1 cm thick.
Lingonberries, apples, sugar are added to the water. Everything is mixed.
After boiling, the pan must be removed from the stove - the drink should be infused for 10-15 minutes (if the compote is prepared for preservation, then it is worth pouring it into banks immediately after boiling).Video recipe
With apples
Did you know? When using green apples, compote turns out to be more useful, since they contain more iron.
With cranberries
1030 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Dissolve sugar in boiling water, add lemon juice and prepared berries.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.
- Pour into sterilized jars and preserve, or insist a little and cool for fresh consumption.
Did you know? Berry, harmful to the body of young men - that’s what cowberries were called in the XIY century. With this characteristic, the berry was first mentioned in Russian written sources.
With pear
835 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Berries are poured with 1 liter of water. The pan is placed on the burner and heated until the juice is released.
- At the same time, syrup is prepared: sugar is added to 1 liter of hot water and boiled for 3 minutes.
- Pears are washed and peeled, pitted and stalked, cut into slices.
- Syrup is poured into lingonberries, pears are added. Everything is boiled for 10 minutes.
- Compote is poured into prepared jars, sterilized for 25 minutes and rolled up.
Important! If the lingonberry has not undergone heat treatment, then the product of preservation can not be sterilized due to the presence of arbutin in the berries — natural antiseptic.
With prunes and apple
1020 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- The prunes are washed and poured with hot water for 15 minutes, then the water is drained.
- Apples are poured with boiling water, peeled and pitted.
- A pot of water is put on fire. Sugar is dissolved in it.
- The water is brought to a boil, dried fruits are added to it.
- After 10 minutes, put the apples.
- After another 10 minutes, pour cranberries. After a two-minute wait, the compote is poured into banks and rolled away for the winter.
With different citrus fruits
730 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- The orange is peeled and cut across (the fruit can be replaced with tangerine). The peel is made of peel.
- All ingredients are placed in a pan, poured with water and brought to a boil.
- The drink must be boiled for 2 minutes, then the orange is taken out.
- The remaining berries can be crushed in water.
- Before use, compote must be cooled.
Properly cooked lingonberry compotes will preserve the taste and usefulness of berries. Regular use of this drink can significantly reduce or even prevent infectious diseases. Preservation or freezing will provide access to the beneficial properties of lingonberries throughout the year.
