Gooseberry sauce recipes for the winter

Gooseberry sauce is a great addition to various dishes, including meat. Sweet and sour, often spicy seasoning will favorably emphasize the taste of any food and make it more pronounced. Cooking gooseberry sauce is not difficult, the recipes are quite simple, so any housewife who is familiar with canning can cook it for herself and her loved ones.

Secrets of making gooseberry sauce for the winter

To prepare gooseberry sauce for future use, you will need berries that are fully ripe on the bush. They must be large and juicy in order to get a lot of the finished product. According to some recipes, you can make green gooseberry seasoning. Berries need to sort out, remove unsuitable for processing: small, dryish, with traces of disease. Wash the rest in running water, leave for a while to drain water from them, and then grind until smooth. The rest of the products that are added to the sauce according to recipes are prepared in the same way, that is, they are washed and left for a while to dry out a little, and then chopped.

Cookware for cooking gooseberry sauce should be enameled, glass, porcelain or stainless steel, it is better not to use aluminum. Spoons are also best made from stainless steel or wood.

Spicy gooseberry sauce for meat with garlic

The composition of this seasoning, in addition to the main components: gooseberry (500 g) and garlic (100 g), also includes chili pepper (1 pc.), A bunch of dill, salt (1 tsp), sugar (150 g). Before cooking, the berries must be sorted out, removed from them dry tails and stalks, washed in cold water. Grind them in a meat grinder, drain into an enamel container, add sugar and salt, bring to a boil over low heat. Cook until the mass begins to thicken. After that, put finely chopped garlic and dill in it. Leave on fire until thickened. Then pour into small jars, roll up with tin lids. The cooled garlic-dill gooseberry sauce should be stored in a cool, dark storage area.

Sweet and sour green gooseberry sauce

For this variation, you can take not only ripe berries, but also unripe ones. The ratio of both should be 1 to 1. Ingredients:

• 1 kg of gooseberry berries;
• 2 garlic heads;
• 1 hot pepper (pod);
• medium bunch of dill, celery, basil;
• 1 leaf of horseradish;
• 1 tbsp. l. salt and sugar.

Pass the berries and garlic (separately) through a meat grinder. Place the gooseberry mass in a shallow saucepan, pour a little water into it, boil for 10 minutes after boiling. Add chopped garlic, chopped herbs, bitter pepper, as well as salt and sugar to it. Stir everything until smooth and cook for another 20 minutes. Pour the prepared sauce into cans with a volume of 0.33–0.5 liters, roll them up with lids, cover with a warm blanket. After a day, when they cool down, take it to the basement or cellar.

Gooseberry sauce with raisins and wine

In order to prepare gooseberry sauce according to this recipe, you will need ripe berries. For 1 kg of the main ingredient, you need to take:

• 1 large head of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. mustard;
• 200 ml of any table wine and water;
• 1 tbsp. l. salt;
• 150 g sugar;
• 50 g raisins.

The sequence of cooking seasoning: rinse the gooseberries, grind in a meat grinder. Put the resulting mass in a shallow saucepan, pour in the peeled raisins, add sugar and water, after boiling, cook for 15 minutes. Then add finely chopped garlic, salt and mustard powder, boil for about 5 minutes. Add wine last, mix and hold for another 5 minutes. Arrange the finished product in 0.5 liter jars, roll up the lids, after cooling, store in a cellar or refrigerator.

Red gooseberry sauce with herbs

This seasoning, like the others, can be prepared every day and served with various dishes, or prepared for the winter. For her, you will need to take ripe gooseberries of dark varieties (1 kg), wash, scroll in a meat grinder. Put 200 g of finely chopped garlic in this mass, 2 pcs. large red pepper, 1 tbsp. l. salt, 50 g of crushed walnuts. Heat all this, after boiling, cook for about 10 minutes, then add 50 g of dry spicy herbs (you can take ready-made seasonings, which are abundantly presented in grocery stores). Boil for another 5-10 minutes, leave for a day to cool. Pack the finished mass in 0.5 liter jars, roll up and wrap up warmly. If the gooseberry seasoning is prepared for the winter, then the container with it must be stored in a cold, unlit place.

Gooseberry seasoning recipe with vegetables for the winter

Gooseberry seasoning can include not only these berries and spices themselves, you can cook it with the addition of vegetables. For example, sweet bell peppers and ripe tomatoes. Ingredients for one of these seasoning options:

• 1 kg of gooseberry berries;
• 2 pcs. chili peppers;
• 1 large onion;
• 5 ripe tomatoes;
• 2 pcs. sweet pepper;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 1 tbsp. l. paprika;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 tbsp. l. table vinegar;
• salt to taste.

The sequence of preparation of the dressing: rinse the berries and vegetables, grind in a meat grinder until smooth. Sterilize and dry cans (from 0.25 to 0.5 l) and lids. Put the gooseberry-vegetable mass on the fire, boil, add sunflower oil, salt and lastly vinegar. Cook everything for no more than 10-15 minutes, then distribute to the jars. After cooling, transfer them to the basement for storage.

Garlic sauce with red currants and gooseberries

To prepare such a sauce, you will need 1 kg of gooseberry berries, 0.5 kg of ripe red currants, 2-3 large heads of garlic, sugar to taste, salt. Cooking process: sort the berries, remove the tails, rinse, grind in a meat grinder. Chop the garlic with a knife or also mince it like a gooseberry.

Put the berry mass on the stove, pour a little water into it, heat to a boil, then boil for about 10 minutes. Add chopped garlic, sugar and salt and cook for about 10 minutes. Arrange the prepared seasoning in small jars, roll them up with tin lids. After freezing for 1 day, put them in a cool place.

The famous "Tkemali" gooseberry sauce at home

According to the recipe for the preparation of this famous seasoning, you will need:

• 1 kg of green gooseberries;
• 2-3 garlic heads;
• 1 hot pepper (large);
• 1 bunch of herbs (cilantro, parsley, basil, dill);
• 0.5 tsp coriander;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• salt to taste.

How to cook: grind prepared gooseberries in a meat grinder or blender, do the same with garlic. Finely chop the herbs with a knife. Combine all the components of the future sauce in a saucepan, mix and boil over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Divide the still hot mass into jars, roll up the lids. A day after cooling down, put in a cold storage.

How to make gooseberry sauce according to Larisa Rubalskaya's recipe

This is a recipe for a gooseberry condiment that is made for sweet dishes. You will need: 0.5 liters of gooseberry juice from ripe berries, 150 g of red currants, 40 g of starch and sugar to taste. Cooking process: mix and dilute starch and sugar with pre-strained juice. Put the mass on fire and, stirring, heat to a boil. Pour currants (whole berries) into the hot liquid, add sugar if the sauce turns out to be unsweetened.

Recipe for spicy gooseberry Adjika seasoning

This is another well-known green gooseberry seasoning, for the preparation of which you will need:

• 1 kg of berries;
• 3 garlic heads;
• 1 bitter pepper;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 3 sprigs of basil (purple);
• 1 bunch of parsley and dill;
• 2 tbsp. l. refined sunflower oil;
• salt to taste.

How to cook? Wash berries and vegetables, dry slightly and chop in a meat grinder. Cut the herbs into the smallest pieces with a knife. Put the berry and vegetable mass in a saucepan, bring to a boil on the stove, boil for about 10 minutes, then add garlic and herbs, add salt and vegetable oil. Cook for about 10 minutes more, then put in prepared jars, cork, and after cooling, put in a cool, dark place.

Delicious and healthy gooseberry sauce with raisins and ginger

In order to prepare a seasoning according to this original recipe, you need to take:

• 3 cups gooseberry berries;
• 2 medium-sized onions;
• a small piece of ginger root;
• 1 hot pepper;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• a pinch of salt;
• 50 ml of apple cider vinegar;
• 1 tsp dry spicy herbs.

Grind the berries, onions and ginger separately in a meat grinder, put everything in a shallow saucepan and cook the mixture after boiling for about 10-15 minutes. Then add salt, granulated sugar, herbs, pepper to this mass and, finally, pour in vinegar. Bring to a boil again and simmer for another 10-15 minutes. Then spread the mass into 0.5 liter jars and roll up. Storage is usual - in cold and dark.

Another version of the sauce for meat dishes for the winter: gooseberry ketchup

Cooking such a seasoning is quite simple: you only need gooseberries (1 kg), garlic (1 pc.), Young fresh dill (100 g), 1 tsp. table salt and 1 tbsp. l. granulated sugar. First, chop the berries and garlic in a meat grinder, finely chop the greens with a knife. Put the gooseberries on the stove, add salt and sugar to it, wait until the gruel boils. Then add dill to the gooseberry mass and boil it for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Arrange the hot gooseberry seasoning in small jars, chill and store in the cold.

Rules and shelf life of gooseberry sauces and spices

Gooseberry sauces are stored only in a household refrigerator or, if conditions exist, in a cold and dry cellar (basement). Conditions under which you can save the product: temperature not higher than 10˚С and lack of lighting. Shelf life is no more than 2-3 years. After that, you will need to prepare a new portion of the seasoning.

Conclusion

Gooseberry sauce is a delicious original seasoning that can be served with various meat dishes and other dishes. It will make their taste brighter and thinner, and the aroma more pronounced. You can serve gooseberry sauce to the table at any time of the year, since it is easy not only to prepare it from freshly harvested or frozen raw materials, but also to store it at home.

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