No matter how much we want it, the summer is drawing to a close. I don’t feel like saying goodbye to juicy berries and fruits. Do not need! We will tell you how   properly freeze fruit berries  and enjoy their taste for a long time. All you need is a convenient container or bags for freezing and a freezer.

Regardless of, do you freeze berries or fruits, the principle is the same. Just follow some simple steps.

How to prepare fruits and berries for freezing

• Apples and pears  it is necessary to clean, cut into four parts and remove the core. Then sprinkle them with lemon juice or apple cider vinegar so that they do not turn brown in the process of freezing.
• Apricots  it is better to cut into two or four parts, and get a bone.
• Blackberries, blueberries and raspberries  can be frozen whole.
• Cherries  it will also be easier to use if you get a bone before freezing.
• Melon  can be cut into small cubes or pieces.
• Peaches, Plums and Nectarines  must be cleaned, cut, and the bone taken out.
• Before freezing strawberriesit is necessary to rid it of green tails and cut in half.

A simple way to freeze berries and fruits

• Make sure that all berries and fruits that you have selected for freezing, ripe and without damage.
• Rinse  berries and fruits with cool water and thoroughly wipe them with a paper or clean kitchen towel.
• Put berries or cut fruits in one layer on a baking sheet.  Choose a pan that fits in your freezer.
• Place the pan in the freezer.  Berries and fruits should become hard, usually it takes a couple of hours, but you can leave them in the freezer for the night.
• Put berries and fruits in zip lock packagesfor storage, expelling as much air as possible from the bag before sealing it.
• Store frozen berries and fruits in the freezer until use. They can be stored frozen for up to 6 months.  (or a year if you have a freezer).

How to use frozen berries and fruits

Besides the fact that berries and fruits are very easy to freeze, they are still quite versatile in cooking.

First of all,   frozen berries and fruitsperfect for making cocktails and. Their texture will make the drink more thick. You do not have to add ice, banana or yogurt. To achieve a smooth, thick consistency, add berries at the very end of the preparation.

Berry Smoothie Recipe

Ingredients

• About 3/4 cup orange juice
• 1 cup frozen berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, etc.)

Cooking

• Place all ingredients in a blender and chop until smooth.
• If you use fresh berries instead of frozen ones, add a couple of ice cubes to achieve a thick smoothie consistency.
• Pour the smoothie into a tall glass and serve immediately.
• You can add a few tablespoons of yogurt. Low-fat or low-fat yogurt is also suitable, but whole milk yogurt will best give the cocktail the necessary creamy texture.

Variations

• Milk smoothie.  If you want the smoothie to be more creamy than fruit, use soy, almond milk, rice or cow's milk instead of orange juice.
• Vegetarian smoothie.  Use a whole, peeled banana instead of yogurt to make it thick. Other tropical fruits, such as mangoes or papaya, may also be suitable for this purpose. In addition, the papaya will make the cocktail more frothy while whipping in a blender.
• Mint smoothie.  Add a few fresh mint leaves to the berry smoothie to give it freshness.
• Protein smoothie.  Add a tablespoon or two of almond oil for a perfect nutty flavor and extra protein.
• Green smoothie. If you want to add greens to your diet, you will need a handful. This amount of spinach will not affect the taste, but will give the smoothie a dark color and make it more useful.

Secondly, frozen berries and fruits are very often used in baking. Oddly enough, but the frozen version is more suitable for baking than fresh. There is a simple explanation for this: freezing dries berries and fruits, depriving them of excess moisture, which can ruin the texture of the dough, making it liquid.

Puff pastry peach pie recipe

Ingredients

• Two sheets of puff pastry
• 9-10 frozen peaches
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3 tbsp. l corn starch
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/8 tsp chopped nutmeg
• 1 tbsp. l lemon juice
• 1 tbsp. l oils
• Milk for dough wetting

Cooking

• Preheat the oven to 400 ° F.
• In a large bowl, mix the thawed sliced \u200b\u200bpeaches with sugar, corn starch, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and lemon juice. Mix well, cover with foil and set aside.
• Put a sheet of puff pastry in the baking dish.
• Put the peach mixture and a little oil on top.
• Lubricate the edges of the dough with milk, then connect to the top layer of dough.
• Cover it all with the top layer of dough and seal the edges. Pierce the cake with a fork in several places.
• Lubricate the cake with milk and sprinkle with sugar.
• Transfer the cake to the oven and bake for about 50 minutes. You can cover the edges with foil if they begin to darken. The cake will be ready when the crust becomes golden brown, and peach juice begins to bubble.
• Before use, the cake must be cooled.

From frozen berries and fruits, you can freeze ripe, fresh berries, and set them aside until you have time for making jam, since not many people want to do this in the summer heat.

Finally, frozen peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, mangoes, strawberries and blueberries can be made fruit puree for long-term storage.

Fruit puree

Ingredients for 1.5 cups of finished mashed potatoes

• 500 grams of frozen fruit or berries (must be thawed before cooking)
• 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice

Cooking

• In a food processor or blender, mix fruit, sugar, and lemon juice. Grind for about 30 seconds until smooth.
• Strain the mash over the bowl through a sieve. Use a rubber spatula to mix and force mash through a sieve. There should be no lumps in mashed potatoes.

Smart housewives in the summer stock up not only with conservation for the winter, but also with different berries. It's no secret that some vegetables and fruits can be frozen. However, they almost do not lose their taste when defrosting. In addition, it is so nice to treat yourself to strawberries or cherries in the winter. And even if you didn’t have time to fill your freezer with these goodies in the summer, don’t worry, because frozen berries can be bought at any supermarket today.

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Photo Gallery: What can be prepared from frozen berries?

Freezing today is no less popular type of workpiece than conservation. In frozen berries, most of the trace elements of ivitamins are preserved. If you have already frozen berries, then you know that berries cannot be re-frozen. Therefore, at one time you need to defrost as much as you need for one serving. Do not defrost quickly. It is better to leave the berries at room temperature, then they will retain their original taste.

Frozen berries will go well with various dairy products: cottage cheese, kefir, yogurt. They are very healthy and tasty, so many doctors recommend that they be included in their diet in the winter.

What can be prepared from frozen berries? Almost everything from fresh ones. Of course, you can just fill them with sugar and eat or fry compote from them. But then they will lose all the useful vitamins and substances. We offer you several recipes that use frozen berries.

Sorbet

If you want an original and delicious dessert - prepare sorbet. Sorbet is a fruit and berry-based ice cream. Such ice cream is not only tasty, but also healthy, and most importantly - low-calorie, as it does not contain milk and egg yolks.

To prepare the sorbet, you will need: 1 orange, 2limons, 3-4 glasses of strawberries, 1 glass of sugar and a third of a glass of water.

Peel the citrus fruits and squeeze the juice out of them. Ceprupotrite on a fine grater. Pour water, sugar into a small bowl, add zest to a boil over high heat. Once the mixture boils, make it hot and cook it for another five minutes. Then remove from the stove and let it cool. Add the prepared juice from orange and lemon to the cooled mixture. In a blender, chop strawberries, add syrup there and mix everything carefully.

The citrus-berry mixture that you get, fill in the molds for freezing and put in the freezer. Popsicles will be ready in about 6-7 hours.

If ice cream is not to your liking, then make a drink of frozen berries - a smoothie. The history of this drink dates back to the time of hippies, and today smoothies in many countries are an invariable component of healthy nutrition. This is a cocktail of fruits with ice or berries, in which milk, yogurt or juice is added.

In our recipe, the smoothie will include yogurt, orange juice and frozen strawberries (you can take absolutely any berries that you like). In a blender, mix a glass of yogurt (it is better to take natural yogurt), a third of a glass of orange juice, 8-9 berries of frozen Isahar strawberries (to taste).

This drink is served in a high transparent glass, which is decorated with mint or a slice of lemon (you can take an orange).

Dessert

Frozen berries are a great base for desserts. You will need 350 grams of any berries (currants, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries), 2-3 tablespoons of sugar, 150 grams of yogurt (natural) and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar.

First, unfreeze the berries, then beat them in a blender with sugar and yogurt. Arrange the resulting mixture in small bowls and garnish with berries before serving. Dessert is ready!

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If you like berry drinks, you can prepare fruit drinks. Such a drink will be not only very tasty, but also healthy. Frozen berries preserve vitamins and nutrients, so drinks from them are especially useful in winter.

Absolutely any berries are suitable for fruit drinks. In our recipe, we use black currants, lingonberries and strawberries. You will need about strams of blackcurrant, 4-5 pieces of strawberries, a couple of tablespoons of lingonberry isahar to taste. To start, wash the berries and pour boiling water (there should not be too much water). Stir until the currants melt. Then add another cup (about 1 liter), 3 tablespoons of sugar and cover. Insist for three hours. After this, crush the berries and strain the fruit drink. Serving such a drink is better when chilled in a transparent decanter or glasses.

If you do not want to spend a lot of time on cooking, then here is another recipe for this drink. It will take you more than 5 minutes to cook it. Take any frozen berries and chop them into sugar blenders. Pour the resulting mixture with boiled cold water, and then strain. Morse is ready.

Compote

Wonderful compotes are made from frozen berries. It is best to cook them from cherries or black currants. Then the taste is more saturated. If you want the compote to be not only tasty, but also to have a beautiful color, add a handful of aronia to it. For one liter of water, one handful of berries is enough. You can also add mint or cinnamon to a compote of frozen berries. Do not forget about sugar.

Yogurt cake

From frozen berries you can make not only an ice cream and a drink. Make, for example, a yogurt cake. You will have no more than an hour to cook it. True, it is high-calorie, so if you stick to the diet, it is better not to do such a cake.

To get started, grind 250 grams of crumbly cookies in a blender and melt 250 grams of butter. Mix the butter with cookies, evenly distribute in a tin and put in the refrigerator. At this time, take 300 grams of berry and heat them in a saucepan. Add cinnamon, sugar and 15 grams of gelatin to the berries. Stir well, then cool. When the mixture cools a little, put cream on top, 600 ml of whipped cream and 150 grams of yogurt, then put it in the refrigerator for the night. In the morning the cake will be ready. It can be decorated with whipped cream and berries.

Irish Cupcake Berries

Irish pastries are very famous all over the world. In many places you can taste it. As a rule, it is served with fresh thick cream (the cream consistency is similar to sour cream), which can be spread on muffins. This pastry is best for tea. And if you have a desire, you can easily treat yourself and your loved ones with delicious berry muffins, cooked with your own hands.

First you need to make a cupcake dough. To do this, mix flour, salt, sugar, baking powder and soda. Beat eggs with kefir and melted butter, add the resulting mixture to flour. Next, gently mix the berries with flour. Lay out the dough you have in the tins and place in the oven. Bake muffins for an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving. Enjoy your meal!

There are so many different recipes from frozen berries. They can be added to pastries, to make desserts and drinks from them. Even with special sugar and cream, the berries will be very tasty and healthy.

If this year you did not have time to stock up on berries for the winter, then be sure to do it next year in the summer to pamper yourself with different goodies all winter.

Useful and relevant always - not necessarily as an attribute of fasting days and months. And the frozen cherry pie is one of those delicious delicacies that everyone will enjoy. To cook it, you don’t even have to go to the store once again: this set of products, as a rule, can be found in the kitchen of any housewife.

Recipe from the magazine "Good advice", publishing house "Burda".

You will need

For the test:

• Flour - 350 g
• Sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Vegetable oil - 5 tbsp. spoons
• Vanilla Sugar - 1 sachet
• Soda - at the tip of a knife
• Salt - a pinch
• Ice water 6 tbsp. spoons

For filling:

• Frozen pitted cherries - 250 g
• Sugar - 5 tbsp. spoons
• Potato starch - 1 tbsp. spoon

How to cook

1. Sift the flour with a slide, make a depression in the center and add soda, sugar and salt there. Mix. Add oil and water. Knead the dough, wrap it in a film and send in the cold for half an hour.
2. Then roll the dough into 2 layers. Put the first into a greased mold, making the sides. Mix the thawed cherries with sugar and starch and lay on a dough sheet. Cover the spread cherry with a second sheet, pinch the edges.
3. Pierce the pie with a fork in the middle and several places, grease the top with vegetable oil and sprinkle with sugar a little. Bake in the oven at +180 ° C for 35 minutes.

  The whole cooking process takes 1 hour 10 minutes, and the specified number of products is enough for a pie for a family of five.

This dessert will be appreciated by both adults and children: it looks attractive and vibrant, tasty and satisfying, and also fragrant in a summer way. Cooking does not take much time.

Moreover, it is quite possible to attract a child to his layering in glasses - this is a double benefit)

You will need

• Cookies (any) - 9 pcs.
• Frozen raspberries - 150 g
• Corn starch - 2 tbsp. spoons
• Sugar - 30 g
• Soft curd cheese (Philadelphia, Almette) - 300 g
• Cream 30% - 100 g
• Cold water - 250 ml

How to cook

1. Grind cookies (you can use a blender). Warm the frozen berries in a saucepan (cauldron) slightly over low heat. Strain the juice that has stood out, add half of the water to it, then - starch, and mix everything thoroughly.
2. Add the remaining water to the berries, add sugar and put on the fire again. When the mixture warms up well, pour in a thin stream, continuously stirring, pour juice with starch into it. Cool jelly ready.
3. Beat the curd cheese, adding a little cream - we get the curd cream.
4. Put chopped cookies on the bottom of the glasses. Top - a layer of curd cream, on it - raspberry jelly. Repeat: put alternately a layer of cookies, curd cream and berry jelly. Garnish with leaves, berries, cream - and the lazy cheesecake is ready!

This, without a doubt, will become an adornment of the Sunday family table and will be remembered by children for a long time.

It will not require expensive and scarce products, and berries harvested from the summer will find very successful application!

You will need

• Frozen Strawberries - 500 g
• Cream 35-38% fat - 400 ml
• 4 egg yolks
• Powdered Sugar - 175 g
• Jam, syrup or preserves for decoration

How to cook

1. In strawberries, without waiting for thawing, add 100 g of powdered sugar; grind in a blender (should be mashed). Beat the yolks with 75 g of icing sugar in a water bath until they become thick and white. Cool by stirring continuously. Beat the cream well, add the yolks and about 4/5 of the strawberry puree.
2. Cover the selected form with foil. Pour half the cream into a mold and refrigerate for 30-35 minutes. Then put the remaining strawberry puree in the middle and pour the second half of the cream of berry cream on it.
3. Put the finished cake in the refrigerator for 5-6 hours, after which you can transfer it to a dish and decorate, or with syrup (or whatever the fantasy tells).

The funny name belongs to a thick cocktail of berries, fruits or vegetables in combination with milk or yogurt, juice or eggs and many other products. This is an American invention, it has taken root with us not bad, but even today not all housewives know about it.

A short "characteristic from the place of work":

• it is healthier than fresh, because it includes live fiber of vegetables or fruits;
• gives scope for imagination: each time you can make smoothies with others that are not like yesterday;
• it takes very little time to prepare: I got the berries, removed the seeds / seeds from the fruit, launched all the products in a blender and you're done.

Try it, you will like it! Cooking is a matter of minutes, but you will get a lot of pleasure and benefit.

You will need

• Banana - 1 pc.
• Frozen Raspberries - 50 g
• Frozen Blueberries - 50 g
• Milk (yogurt, kefir, water) - 100 g

How to cook

1. Peel and cut into slices. In a blender put a banana, berries, add (or milk, kefir or water).
2. Turn on the blender)) Smoothie is ready! It can be poured into glasses and decorated with mint leaves or slices of the same banana.

• For a smoothie, it is very beneficial to take a banana, especially a little overripe. Banana will give the smoothie a pleasant softness, density and elasticity, in addition, it is sweet and satisfying
• Smoothies based on milk or water will not be sweet. If you like sugary drinks, immediately add sugar to your blender or to your liking.
• If you want the smoothie to be more satisfying, add a handful, seeds or bran - from what you love.

Yes, you probably ask: what is the difference between a smoothie and a simple fruit cocktail? Only consistency: this drink has a thicker one))

Do you think our people do not eat in winter? No matter how! And ice cream eats, and snow, and icicles ... if in doubt, ask the children) A no less cold, but much more delicious dish - berry ice cream can serve as an excellent alternative to icicles in your family. Also frozen, by the way.

Option 1: sorbet (sorbet)

Sorbet is a frozen dessert made from fruit puree, juice or syrup.

As a rule, dairy products (cream, milk or sour cream) are not added to it.

You will need

• Frozen berries (raspberries, currants, strawberries ... any) - 300 g
• Sugar - 50 g
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. spoon
• Water - 30 ml

How to cook

1. In a blender lay berries, sugar, lemon juice and water. Mix.
2. Pour the finished mass into special flat forms or in plastic disposable cups. Stick wooden sticks in the middle of the mass and fix using foil or thick paper with a slot.
3. Send to the freezer for 2-3 hours.

Option 2: five-minute ice cream

But in this dessert we will add milk cream - and get a completely different ice cream.

Well, other calories, of course)

You will need

• Cream with maximum fat content (35%) - 150 ml
• Frozen berries (raspberries, currants, strawberries, together) - 300 g
• Sugar - 100 g

  The indicated number of products is designed for 4 servings.

How to cook

1. Put the frozen berries in a blender, add sugar. Grind at low speeds, then gradually pour in the cream. When the product becomes homogeneous, the ice cream is ready.
2. Dessert is ready to eat right away, it can be served immediately. And you can send it to the freezer, where the ice cream will be perfectly preserved for 5-7 days.

Tiramisu with Frozen Berries

This multi-layer dessert of Italian origin has long been loved by our sweet lovers. Like all popular dishes, it gradually acquires new features, enriched with unusual original additives.

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Today we present a recipe based on unchanged Mascarpone cheese, savoyardi cookies, and sugar.

You will need

• Frozen berries (cherries, raspberries, strawberries) - 0.5 cups
• Mascarpone curd cheese - 150 g
• Cream 35% fat - 100 ml
• Savoyardi cookies - 10-12 pcs.
• Chocolate - 30 g
• Powdered sugar - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
• Vanilla Sugar - 0.3 tsp
• Coffee (natural or instant) - 100 ml

How to cook

1. Cream and cheese thoroughly mixed into a homogeneous mass, add vanilla sugar. You can whip cream beforehand (but you can also not whip). Add icing sugar (to your taste - so that the resulting cream is not too sweet).
2. Brew strong coffee with sugar (either instant or natural, according to your preference). If natural, then strain. If tiramisu is being prepared for adults, you can add 1-2 tbsp to coffee. tablespoons of coffee liquor. Defrost berries, strain the juice as much as possible.
3. In prepared glasses (wine glasses, bowls, glasses or crystal bowls) put a layer of cream from Mascarpone with cream to the bottom. Savoyardi cookies (whole or crushed into pieces - depending on your idea and the size of the dishes) quickly dip one side in coffee and immediately put on the first layer of creamy curd cream. On the cookies we spread the berries squeezed from the juice.
4. Then, in the same sequence, we alternate again the creamy-curd cream, cookies and berries. At the top is a layer of cream. Send the finished dessert for an hour or two in the refrigerator. Before serving, the dessert is decorated using crushed chocolate or cocoa powder, cocktail cherry, mint leaves.

A little more about tiramisu

• Instead of frozen cherries, raspberries, strawberries or wild berries can be successfully used for dessert.
• Berries in tiramisu can be put not whole, but in the form of mashed potatoes, whipping them in a blender.
• Instead of savoyardi cookies, you can bake a classic biscuit.

• The shape of tiramisu can be different. And this dessert is not necessarily prepared in portions - tiramisu cakes are very popular.

Frozen Berry Mousse

Mousse is an interesting dessert, the highlight of which is a peculiar, slightly unusual foamy consistency. It is cooked quickly and also a little unusual for a fruit dish. Let's just say: this is a fun airy semolina porridge))

Berries are a source of vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and other substances important for the body. But you can enjoy fresh berries only in the summer. The rest of the time you have to be content with berries that have undergone heat treatment: in compotes and jam.

Are frozen berries healthy?

The benefits, harms and composition of frozen berries are almost no different from fresh ones, because with the right process of freezing, almost all substances remain in the same quantitative composition as in fresh ones. Hence the recommendations do not overdo it with the amount of product used to avoid undesirable consequences. Caution in the use of berries should be shown to those who are prone to allergic reactions.

In other cases, frozen berries are a tasty and nutritious product. The benefits of frozen berries are manifested in such moments:

• they preserve a complete set of vitamins and minerals, so during the period of vitamin deficiency frozen berries can be a good help for an exhausted body. From frozen berries, you can get almost all the vitamins of groups B, C, A and some rare vitamins;
• with instant freezing, berries retain their palatability. They can be used as fillings for pie, cake, compotes and decorations for ice cream and souffle;
• the calorie content of frozen berries remains at the same level as in fresh ones. For example, the calorie content of frozen cherries and sea buckthorn will be 52 units, sweet cherries - 50, raspberries - 42, strawberries - 34, cranberries - 26 kcal .;
• each of the berries has its own beneficial properties, so you must choose the berries for the prevention and treatment of diseases with knowledge. For example, blueberries are good for vision, black currants and raspberries for colds, cranberries for heart diseases.

In summer, people have a great opportunity to enjoy a variety of delicious berries, saturating the body with vitamins and minerals. But what to do in the winter when the need for useful substances is especially urgent? Each solves this problem in his own way: someone makes jam and fruit drinks for the winter, someone dries the berries, someone buys expensive fresh berries brought from warm countries in the winter, but nowadays more and more people give preference to frozen tasty fruits . And, according to many experts in the field of nutrition, it is frozen berries that are more useful than other harvesting options. There are several reasons for this:

• Frozen berries retain in their composition most of the substances useful to the body. This is especially true of fruits subjected to shock freezing at a temperature of -50 degrees.

• Only fruits of high quality are selected for freezing. Crumpled, rotten and unripe berries are not suitable for these purposes.

• After thawing, most berries retain the taste and aroma of fresh berries.

• Many experts say that frozen berries are much healthier than berries brought out of season from warm countries. During long-term transportation and storage, fresh fruits lose many useful properties. While berries for freezing, as a rule, are frozen in the first hours after collection, which allows you to save most of the healing properties.

• The calorie content of frozen berries practically does not differ from the calorie content of fresh fruits. While various jams and compotes due to the high sugar content differ in a large number of calories.

Contraindications frozen berries.
The contraindications of frozen berries are completely identical to the contraindications of fresh berries, i.e. if raspberry is contraindicated for a person, then it should not be used frozen. About the beneficial properties and contraindications of various berries can be found in the "Useful Products" section.

What berries can be frozen:
  The most popular berries for freezing are strawberries, cranberries, lingonberries, blueberries, cherries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, black currants and honeysuckle. Almost all types of berries are suitable for freezing. Usually only red currants do not freeze.

Shelf life of frozen berries:
  Typically, the shelf life of frozen berries is one year.

Eat frozen berries and be healthy!

With the onset of winter, we begin to think about vitamins. Imported vegetables and fruits, plucked from the branch still green and lying on the counter for several months, are unlikely to contain these vitamins in sufficient quantities. If contain at all. A special talk about tablet vitamins. Scientists have proven that even from a quality pill, the body will absorb a maximum of 30-50% of the nutrients. And the keyword here is maximum.

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Repeatedly noticed that at the grocery counter our person is often suspicious. Especially when he meets products that are not very well known to him. So with frozen fruits and vegetables. After all, they relatively recently began to enter our diet. Hence the doubt. What if berries or vegetables were frozen spoiled? What if they are harmful? Are there any vitamins in them?

Let's try to dispel these doubts. It has long been known that berries are a source of many beneficial substances. Vitamins, glycosides, antioxidants, trace elements and bioflavonoids are necessary not only for the normal functioning of the cardiovascular, digestive and immune systems of our body, but also for many internal organs of a person. In addition, berry carbohydrates are of great value. They contain fructose, which is twice as sweet as glucose, so the calorie content of the berries will be lower. This is especially important for people with diabetes and those who persistently want to lose weight.

The benefits of berries

Useful can be considered all edible berries. The most useful among them is blueberries. It improves eyesight, and lowers cholesterol in the blood, and sharpens memory, and resists cancer, and restores the nerve cells spent in our difficult life. In addition, blueberries are useful for anemia. It contains vitamins of group B, P, trace elements: iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium and copper. If you take blueberries in the form of tablets, a set of useful elements, of course, will be preserved. But do not forget that it was created in the laboratory, and the body will absorb all 90 percent of the useful substances from the berries. However, do not get too carried away with blueberries, as it has a side effect. The berry has a tanning effect and can contribute to constipation. Therefore, people who have problems with the intestines, with blueberries need to be careful.

Among the most useful berries, it should be noted raspberries. This is a good antipyretic, the berry contains salicylic acid, it acts like aspirin, only without a harmful effect on the gastric mucosa. Raspberries have the ability to remove fluid from the body.

A storehouse of vitamin C - black currant.  This vitamin helps to retain iron in the body, accelerates the healing process, and maintains healthy bones, teeth and skin. To meet the daily requirement for vitamin C, it is enough to eat 50 g of black currant. Doctors have proven that berry is useful in preventing heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer. She also fights against age-related changes in brain cells, thereby preventing memory loss and senile dementia.

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Cranberry  It has long been used as an anti-inflammatory and antifungal agent, as well as for the prevention of diseases of the kidneys, urinary tract and urinary bladder. It has a pronounced tonic effect, stimulates appetite and improves digestion. It is also used for colds. It is recommended for vitamin deficiency. It also lowers cholesterol and prevents the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in blood vessels and the formation of blood clots. Cranberries increase the elasticity and strength of the walls of blood capillaries. Its berries are useful for high blood pressure.

Blueberry also has a number of unique properties. It is used for anemia and vitamin deficiency, helps to reduce blood glucose levels. It stimulates the metabolism and enhances immunity, removes toxic substances from the body, and improves eyesight. Possessing an anti-sclerotic effect, blueberry strengthens the walls of blood vessels, normalizes the functioning of the heart, and slows down the aging of nerve cells. Blueberry tea drink is effective for atherosclerosis, hypertension, capillary disease. In addition, blueberries have a choleretic and anti-inflammatory effect.

Chill all over the head

There is no better preservative than cold. After all, it retains the best qualities of a frozen product. That is, it is in frozen berries (and not in jam, juice and other products) that the largest amount of vitamins and nutrients is stored.

The secret of “berries with ice” is well known, for example, to residents of the north of Russia, who from time immemorial kept cranberries and lingonberries in a frozen state. Blueberries, for example, were placed in birch bark boxes and poured with fat. In this form, it was stored in moss until spring, without losing its nutritional properties.

Today, grandfathering methods have given way to modern technology. For example, quick freezing allows you to almost completely preserve vitamins and minerals in berries and vegetables. Both in taste and in nutritional value, frozen vegetables and fruits are in no way inferior to fresh ones. But under two conditions. First, they need to be stored in the freezer. Secondly, it is impossible to thaw and then freeze again, otherwise the products can definitely go bad. Fortunately, the most advanced manufacturers are already putting special paper indicators in fruit packaging. From the juice of the products, they change color, warning us of a defrost that has occurred.

But you can freeze in different ways. The classic way of freezing is at a temperature of minus 30-40 ° C using a low-temperature liquid or cold air. Water in the cells of the berries does not have time to turn into large crystals of ice, destroying the cell membranes and thereby damaging the contents of the cells. In addition to this method, there is a more modern cryogenic or shock freezing at temperatures below -60 ° C. It is proved that such a product in its nutritional value is practically not inferior to fresh.

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How to choose?

Some berries, vegetables and fruits lend themselves better to freezing and tolerate it better than others. So, from berries - this is strawberries, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, currants, cherries, gooseberries. The best vegetables for freezing are asparagus beans, sorrel, bell pepper, eggplant, tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots. Of fruits - apricots, plums, pears, peaches, grapes.

Scientists have long been discussing how many berries make up a useful daily dose. The principle “the more the better”, which has long occupied our minds, is completely unsuitable here. After all, anyway, the body will absorb exactly as many useful substances as it needs. So, from the point of view of the number of anthocyanins - useful substances contained, for example, in blueberries - it’s enough to use from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of this berry per day, for example, adding yogurt, cottage cheese or kefir. During the year, scientists recommend eating blueberries for 10 months a year (for example, eat 5 weeks and take a break for one week). It turns out that per year per person needs from 1.5 to 4.5 kg of blueberries. Agree, not so much. That is, it is important not so much the quantity as the regular consumption of berries.

Frozen berries retain twice as many nutrients as cooked ones. By freezing a couple of packets of treats in the summer, even in the spring you can enjoy them. Or, if you are late in the summer, buy at the store.

Why in winter it is worth making a choice in favor of frozen vegetables and berries

The fact that frozen fruits and berries are harmful or healthy is a long-standing debate. There are scientific studies proving that frozen foods not only keep up with fresh nutrients, but often surpass them. Product critics say the packaged frozen product does not inspire confidence in the customer. But there is one point of contact. Both critics and advocates of this method agreed that products produced and frozen in the summer are healthier than “artificial” winter fruits and vegetables.

Judge for yourselves: only fruits of the best quality are selected for freezing. Yes, then they are washed thoroughly, cleaned, crushed, packaged and frozen. But the product remains high quality. In winter, it is much better than other freshly brought fruits that can be stored for months without signs of decay.

Overcoming your own slowness is always difficult. But you can, if you see the ultimate goal - improving your own health.

Vladimir Tretyakevich,

candidate of Medical Sciences, lecturer at the Grodno State Medical University.

Health Nutrition Specialist.

Berries are rich in vitamins and minerals. They are very healthy and incredibly tasty. But are fresh, frozen berries as healthy as they are? And how to freeze them in order to maintain the maximum amount of nutrients?

What is the use of frozen berries?

If you are lucky and there is a shock freeze function in your refrigerator, then frozen berries  in it, they will preserve much more vitamins and nutrients than if you kept the berries fresh. But, even if your refrigerator does not have such a function, then even ordinary freezing will cope with the preservation of vitamins no worse.

• One of pluses of frozen berries  - you can eat off-season fresh products, without worrying about their quality.
• Frozen berries have an advantage.before fresh ones - frozen ones contain much less lead, pesticides and cadmium. When you purchase fresh berries in the supermarket during the cold season, often even the supermarket employees themselves do not know where they were brought from. And even more so, how and under what conditions they were grown there.
• Frozen berriesretain almost all the taste qualities that they had before freezing. You can not be afraid that thawing them, you will not get any pleasure from the food. In the freezer of your refrigerator, unlike supermarket shelves, various microbes do not develop at all. They just do not live at such low temperatures.

• Carotene, vitamins B1 and B2 are stored in frozen berries. Vitamin C is stored in almost the same amount as in fresh berries.
• The aroma and taste of berries that you freezewill be saved almost in full. Imagine how cool it is in winter, when a blizzard sweeps outside, eat a vase of fresh fragrant berries!
• Us women frozen berries very, very much help in culinary creativity. Thawing berries, you can decorate them with a cake, dessert or semolina for the baby.

Most of all, for freezing, berries such as strawberries, currants, raspberries, gooseberries are suitable.

How to freeze berries?

First of all, when you just brought home freshly picked or bought berries, you need to sort them out.

• To freeze, you need to select only ripe berries. Those that are not yet or have matured are not suitable. Also spoiled berries, with traces of bugs, larvae and worms, will not work. Tear off all the stalks, remove the leaves, in general, all that they do not eat. Only the finest berries need to be frozen.
• After you sorted through all the berries and selected the best of them, you should rinse thoroughly and dry. To dry, you can lay them out on blank sheets of paper, paper or waffle towels. You need to lay out in one layer.

• The highest quality freeze will occur if you will freeze berries  in batches. To do this, lay them out in a single layer on paper or on a flat bowl. After the berries are sufficiently frozen, you can sprinkle them in bags, or arrange them in specially prepared jars.
• Different types of berries are a must freeze individually. The only thing that can be frozen together is red, black and white currants. Everything else is separate.
• You can not just freeze fresh berries, and grind them with sugar, and freeze in this form.

Bags or jars you will be in store berries until winter, must tightly, one might even say, hermetically closed. Because the berries very quickly absorb various odors. For example, if raw fish or frozen greens lie nearby, then the berries can absorb the smells of these products. For the same reason, it’s best to set aside a separate compartment in your refrigerator, specifically for storing frozen berries.

When storing berries in a refrigerator, avoid freezing berries. Try to prevent the berries from thawing ahead of time.  Upon repeated freezing, they will lose most of their beneficial nutrients, lose their mouth-watering appearance, and taste. In addition, when the use of frozen berries  even indigestion and food poisoning are possible! So, be extremely careful!

In winter, when there are so few natural vitamins, it is so pleasant and useful to eat fresh berries! So pamper your family, freeze at least some berries for the winter!

Enjoy your meal!

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Now is the season when you can buy fresh strawberries and cherries on the market. On the bushes of currant, gooseberry and raspberry berries were tied - soon a new crop. And for many thrifty housewives, containers with frozen berry since last year. If you are one of them, do not try to throw anything away! Tips from "With taste"help to clear such a freeze in the best way.

Frozen berries can be used in the preparation of vitamin drinks, which at any time of the year will be useful to serve. Dumplings are also made from berries, pies, cottage cheese and rice casseroles are made with their addition. Desserts and pastries - needless to say. Finally, frozen berries make excellent meat sauces, for example, chicken or game can be served with cranberry sauce or dressing with slices of cherry.

Frozen Berry Recipes

Cheesecake without baking

This dessert will be appreciated by both adults and children: it looks bright and attractive, tasty and satisfying, fragrant. And its preparation does not take much time. Instead of the raspberries and strawberries declared in the recipe, you can use any other frozen berries.

Ingredients:

• 250 g shortbread cookies
• 100 g butter
• 200 g frozen raspberries
• 200 g frozen strawberries
• 500 g soft cream cheese (Philadelphia, Mascarpone or Almette)
• 200 g sugar
• 300 g high fat cream

Cooking:

1. Grind cookies with a blender, add softened butter and beat again until smooth. Then put in a closed form with sides (20 cm in diameter), covered with cling film, firmly press to the bottom and level. Refrigerate until solidified.
2. Put the berries in a saucepan and put on a slow fire. Cook, stirring, 3-5 minutes. Mash the berries with a spoon and grind through a sieve. Cool.
3. Whip with a mixer cream cheese with sugar, add cream and whisk again. Add mashed berry to this mass, mix and distribute on the basis of cookies. Refrigerate for 4-6 hours until solidified.
4. To make layers of cheesecake different in color and taste, divide the creamy cream mass into two parts and add raspberry puree in one and strawberry in the other (strawberries and blueberries will look very effective). And lay out the layers in turn. First, a mixture of cream cheese with raspberries (and send for 2 hours in the refrigerator), then a mixture of strawberries (now for 4 hours in the refrigerator).

Open pie

You can make the basis for the pie according to our recipe or use your favorite dough, or even purchased. Frozen berries can be taken different, but you can use only one species, 4 large handfuls.

Ingredients:

• 2.5 stack wheat flour
• 250 g butter
• 11-13 Art. l water
• 1 stack Sahara
• 1/4 stack starch
• 1 stack frozen raspberries
• 1 stack frozen strawberries
• 1 stack frozen blueberries
• 1 stack frozen blackberry
• 1 tbsp. l lemon juice
• salt to taste

Cooking:

1. Prepare the dough for the base. Mix flour with a pinch of salt, add 220 g grated chilled butter on a coarse grater. Enter 6–7 tbsp. l cold water, forcing the dough with a fork so that it seizes. Divide the dough into two parts, one slightly larger than the second. Wrap them in cling film and refrigerate for an hour.
2. For the filling in the pan, mix sugar, starch and 5–6 tbsp. l water, add blueberries. Bring to a boil and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat, add other berries and lemon juice to the mixture, mix.
3. Roll a large piece of dough into a layer, about 5 mm thick. Put in a parchment-covered form, forming the sides. Pour the filling on top and stick the pieces of butter (30 g). Roll a smaller piece of dough thinly and cut into strips of one and a half centimeter thick. Lay out a grid of strips on top of the filling, attach the edges to the sides.
4. Send the future cake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 10 minutes. Then reduce the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for 45-50 minutes. The dough should turn golden brown, and the berry filling with bubbles.

Berry Cupcakes

This recipe is suitable for one large cupcake, as well as for small cupcakes in molds. Delicate sweet dough on sour cream in combination with sour berries (cherries, currants or cranberries) will give an amazing result! Do not defrost the berries, just add to the dough and gently mix with a spatula or stick the berries directly into the blanks.

Ingredients:

• 150 g frozen berries
• 1 egg
• 100 g sour cream
• 50 g butter
• 1 stack flour
• 0.5 stack Sahara
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 chips. salt
• 1 chips. vanillin
• icing sugar - for sprinkling

Cooking:

1. Beat the egg, sour cream, softened butter, salt and sugar with a mixer at high speeds until smooth.
2. Continuing to beat, add flour, baking powder and vanilla. The dough should turn out smooth, without lumps, of medium density.
3. Insert paper cupcake molds into the metal mold. Fill them with dough for about two-thirds.
4. Put 3-4 cherries in each cupcake, slightly press them. Place the muffins in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
5. Bake for 20–25 minutes.
6. Cool the prepared muffins and sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.

Berry mousse

Children’s berry mousse will be very popular. And even those who do not like semolina porridge will certainly not refuse such “semolina”. Any frozen berries will do. Before serving, you can decorate the dish with cream, candied fruit or mint leaves.

Ingredients:

• 1 stack frozen berries
• 2–2.5 tbsp. l semolina
• 4 tbsp. l Sahara
• 0.5 l of water

Cooking:

1. Defrost the berries and drain the allocated juice (they can then be added to the finished mousse).
2. Grind the berries in mashed potatoes, pour hot water, put on fire. Then pour a thin stream with stirring semolina, bring to a boil and cook for 7-8 minutes.
3. In the finished fruit porridge, add berry juice and cool.
4. Beat the cooled mass with a mixer until a thick foamy state (it will increase in volume by about two times).
5. Pour the finished mousse into prepared bowls, glasses or wine glasses and refrigerate for an hour.

Smoothie

For preparing a refreshing and healthy smoothie, ordinary cow's milk or almond milk is suitable. But you can also take kefir or yogurt - as you like best. If you like sweet drinks, add honey to taste. And so that a thick berry cocktail becomes more satisfying, you can add a handful of nuts, seeds or bran.

Ingredients:

• 250 ml of milk
• 200 g frozen berries
• 1 ripe banana
• 1 mint leaf

Cooking:

1. Cut a banana into arbitrary pieces.
2. Place frozen berries, banana and milk in a blender and beat until smooth.
3. Pour into a glass, garnish with a mint leaf and several berries (optional).

Compote

In summer you need to drink a lot. And what could be better than a home compote? You can cook it in just 5 minutes! Stocks of berries are used up quickly and with benefit. Thanks to quick cooking, the drink will retain most of the vitamins that pass from fruit to water. Prepare compotes for children: they are more gentle for the children's stomach than juice, but no less useful.

Ingredients:

• 100 g frozen cherries
• 100 g frozen blackcurrant
• 100 g frozen plum
• sugar to taste
• 1 liter of water

Cooking:

1. Bring the water to a boil, add the berries (you can not defrost them in advance).
2. After boiling water with berries, add sugar, boil for 5 minutes.
3. Cool stewed fruit and drink on health.

After you unfreeze last year's stocks, you can start harvesting berries and fruits for the next winter. See how best to freeze strawberries, peaches and even persimmons.

In any case, save yourself a selection of recipes, because they will be useful to you in the future. And to friends who do not freeze anything themselves, but buy such products in stores, also discard the link to our article!