What to cook from red viburnum: recipes

Everyone has heard about the benefits of viburnum berries: they have antioxidant properties, cleanse the body of toxins and toxins, improve blood composition, lower blood pressure, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and are successfully used in cosmetology. And also Viburnum is an excellent stimulant for the immune system, so it should be eaten in the autumn-winter period, when the body especially needs support. To preserve the berries for the whole year, various preparations are made from them.

You can learn about what to cook from red viburnum, how to make blanks with valuable berries for the winter from this article.

How to pick red berries correctly

Viburnum red, the beneficial properties of which are difficult to overestimate, contains a lot of vitamins and minerals. To preserve all these substances as long as possible, you need to be able to properly collect and harvest scarlet berries.

You can find a viburnum bush in almost any region, because this plant is unpretentious, capable of developing in different climatic zones. It is easy to recognize the viburnum: when there is no longer any greenery in the garden, all the leaves have fallen off, and the flowers have faded, the only decoration of the site remains - a small tree with scarlet clusters of small berries.

While it's warm outside, the berries are not very tasty: tart and bitter. But after the first frost, the taste of viburnum changes greatly, it becomes sweet and very fragrant.

Various dishes are prepared not only from red berries, bark of a bush, twigs, leaves, viburnum flowers are also suitable for food. In addition, all parts of the plant have a beneficial effect on the human body, as they have healing properties.

You need to collect red viburnum correctly:

• choose a fine day for this, when there is no rain and snow;
• cut off the clusters with sharp scissors or pruning shears, carefully holding them so that valuable berries do not crumble;
• fold the viburnum clusters neatly, in one layer;
• after collection, you need to dry the viburnum by hanging the bunches on a rope in a dark and dry room.

Recipes for the winter from red viburnum

You can cook anything from viburnum: it is used as a filling for pies or pies, added to salads and snacks, squeezed aromatic fruit drinks from berries, boiled jelly and compotes, used in winemaking and make wonderful desserts.

You can save valuable vitamins in viburnum in several ways:

1. Freeze berries, peeled from twigs and laid out in plastic bags.
2. Dry the viburnum in the oven at 60 degrees, additionally opening the door.
3. Fold in a clean saucepan and refrigerate - so the berries can lie for up to six months.

Viburnum blanks popular because after special processing the berries become not only useful, but also very tasty.After all, it is much more pleasant in winter to eat jam or drink sweet fruit drink than to chew dry berries.

Method for preparing viburnum juice

In such a preparation, the highest concentration of useful vitamins and microelements, it is customary to treat colds with viburnum juice and to strengthen immunity with its help. If desired, you can add sugar, syrup or sweeten it with honey to the juice. Sour lovers can preserve pure viburnum juice, without additives.

There are many recipes for red viburnum juice, but the cooking technology in them is about the same:

1. Kalina is thoroughly washed, the berries are cleaned of twigs and other debris.
2. Now you need to squeeze out the juice. To do this, first the berries are crushed using a blender or a meat grinder (you can use a juicer, but this will result in more waste). Then the viburnum puree is rubbed through a sieve and the thick juice is squeezed out through several layers of gauze.
3. For each liter of juice, add about 130 grams of sugar (you can replace it with honey). Put the viburnum juice on the stove and, stirring it, bring to a boil.
4. Ready juice and viburnum are poured into sterile jars and quickly rolled up with sealed lids.

How to make jam from red viburnum berries

Viburnum gives dishes a unique aroma and a very peculiar taste. Such properties of the berry are especially appreciated by jam lovers. Jam can be prepared both from pure viburnum, and from a mixture of this berry with other fruits or fruits - there are many recipes.

Viburnum jam with sugar

To prepare such a winter blank, you will need:

• 1 kg of viburnum;
• 1.3 kg of granulated sugar;
• 250 ml of water.

To make jam, you need to follow these steps:

1. Wash the viburnum and dry the berries.
2. Blanch the fruits in boiling water for a few minutes.
3. Dissolve sugar in warm water to make syrup.
4. Pour the sugar syrup over the berries and stir.
5. Leave the candied viburnum for 10-12 hours at room temperature.
6. Now the jam needs to be brought to a boil, periodically skimming off the foam. After that, pour the hot workpiece into sterile jars.

Viburnum with oranges

Jam with the addition of orange citrus acquires a rich, very bright shade. Such a blank will become a real decoration for a winter table, in addition, it will be very useful and fragrant.

To make jam from viburnum with oranges, you need to take:

• 1.5 kg of red viburnum berries;
• 2-3 large oranges;
• 2 kg of granulated sugar.

The entire cooking process consists of several steps:

1. The berries are washed and moved.
2. Viburnum is ground with a blender or meat grinder.
3. Sugar is added to the resulting puree, everything is thoroughly mixed - after a while, the sugar should completely dissolve.
4. Oranges need to be cut into slices and also chopped with a blender.
5. It remains to mix all the ingredients and roll the jam into jars.

Jam with viburnum and apple

As mentioned above, not everyone can eat red viburnum in its pure form, but there are excellent recipes where this berry acts as a fragrant additive.

For viburnum-apple jam, you need the following ingredients:

• 2 kg of berries;
• 5 kg of any apples (it is better to take sweet or sweet and sour fruits);
• 5 kg of granulated sugar.

Cook jam just:

1. Remove the washed viburnum from the twigs and put it in a wide bowl or saucepan.
2. With hands or with a wooden pestle, the berries are pounded until smooth, puree.
3. Now the resulting puree is filtered through several layers of cheesecloth to obtain pure juice. Further, only viburnum juice will be used, mashed potatoes can be thrown away.
4. The apples are washed, cored and cut into thin slices.
5. Plates of apples are laid out on the bottom of the pan in several layers, covered with granulated sugar. Now you need to cook the apples over very low heat until the sugar completely turns into syrup.
6. When the apple jam has cooled, the viburnum juice is poured into it and stirred. Now you need to bring the jam to a boil and pour it into clean jars.

Viburnum jam with vanilla and lemon

Such jam has no chance to go unnoticed, because it has an unusual taste and a very bright aroma. To prepare this delicacy, in addition to granulated sugar, water and viburnum, you need to take only one lemon and a bag of vanilla sugar.

Making jam from viburnum is very simple:

1. The berries are sorted out and washed in a saline solution. The solution is prepared from a liter of water and a tablespoon of ordinary table salt.
2. Now you need to prepare sugar syrup: dissolve sugar in water and bring the mass to a boil.
3. Whole viburnum berries are placed in boiling syrup, turn off the stove and leave the jam to cool for 5-6 hours.
4. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice.
5. Berries are extracted from sugar syrup and lemon zest is added there. This composition must be brought to a boil, then strain through a sieve.
6. The syrup is boiled again with viburnum for eight minutes. Then they cool for at least four hours.
7. The last stage: the jam is brought to a boil and, with constant stirring, is cooked until fully cooked.
8. It remains to add lemon juice, pour out vanillin, mix everything and pour into sterile jars.

Unusual pumpkin jam

Such a preparation for the winter will definitely appeal to fans of culinary experiments, because pumpkin and red berries of fragrant viburnum are combined here. For this extraordinary jam you will need:

• 1 kg of viburnum;
• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 1.5 kg of sugar;
• 1 liter of water.

Prepare the dish like this:

1. Whole bunches are washed and cleaned of debris and leaves.
2. The pumpkin is peeled and cut into small cubes, which are simply boiled lightly with the addition of water.
3. Pumpkin and viburnum, together with twigs, are ground with a blender or minced with a meat grinder.
4. Sugar is poured into the resulting puree and wait several hours until it completely dissolves.
5. It remains to cook the jam, stirring it and removing the foam. Usually 40 minutes is enough on low heat.

Ready-made guelder-rose jam is laid out in jars and rolled up or closed with sealed lids.

Viburnum syrup

It is very good to add bright viburnum syrup to ice cream, jelly or cakes. It is easy to cook, you just need to take water, berries and sugar. It is advisable to blanch the berries, then chop and stir with sugar.

The mass is boiled over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved, after which you can add a little lemon juice and bottle the syrup.

Viburnum pastila

Children are very fond of this delicacy, and if we prepare marshmallow with viburnum, it becomes not only tasty, but also incredibly useful. For the marshmallow, you need washed berries, sugar and lemon juice or citric acid.

It is better to use a juicer to get the juice. The berries are passed through it, the juice is poured into a bowl with a thick or double bottom and boiled until the consistency of berry puree is obtained.

Now you need to pour sugar and citric acid, mix and cook until thickened even more. On a baking sheet covered with parchment, or in special forms, the viburnum mass is poured. After cooling, the pastille should easily come out of the mold, it becomes stringy and dense.

Outcomes

There are a lot of recipes for winter preparations from red viburnum: these are berries with sugar, and jam, and various fruit drinks and syrups.

If this beautiful bush grows in the garden, be sure to try at least one recipe, because viburnum is very tasty and incredibly healthy!

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