Lingonberry is a healthy berry. If you managed to collect it in sufficient quantity, it makes sense to prepare it for future use. During the year, it will be possible to use the berry for making fruit drinks, desserts, add it to salads, decorate cold snacks and hot dishes with it. Soaked lingonberries, which can be prepared for the winter different ways (with and without sugar), retains its beneficial features, aesthetic appearance and taste peculiar only to her.

Cooking features

Before choosing a recipe for cooking soaked lingonberries for the winter, it does not hurt to study several recommendations:

• Wash well and sort out the berry you are going to soak. You need to inspect each copy, since the rotten and dented for this purpose are not suitable.
• Do not throw away the lingonberry leaves if they are with it - if you add them to the berries when soaking, then it will become even more useful.
• Do not use aluminum utensils for cooking berries - when it comes into contact with the acid contained in the berries, it releases toxic substances. It is better to give preference to enameled containers or stainless steel containers, but food grade plastic can also be used. Glass jars are also fine.
• To emphasize the aroma of lingonberry will help antonov apples... They must be cut into pieces and placed on top of the soaked lingonberries. It will be saturated with their aroma and will become even more appetizing.

Following these simple tips, it will turn out to prepare soaked lingonberries for the winter according to one or several recipes you like.

Lingonberries in their own juice

• lingonberry - 1 l;
• water - 2.5 liters.

Cooking method:

• Wash the lingonberries and dishes in which you plan to soak them. Very well suited for this purpose glass jar... For reliability, it is better to sterilize it.
• Place the lingonberries on the bottom. You can shift it with lingonberry leaves, but this is not necessary.
• Boil and cool water to room temperature. Pour in the lingonberries.
• Close the can parchment paper or a nylon lid with a slot (the slot can be made with a sharp knife) or round holes (such lids are usually used for conservation to drain the marinade from cans). Additionally, the lid can be covered with gauze to protect it from insects.
• Place in a dark, cool place.

Ready soaked in own juice lingonberries will be in a week. Benzoic acid, of which there is a lot in the composition of this berry, will help her to be stored all winter. But the water periodically needs to be poured out of the jar, adding fresh. Juice poured from a can can be made delicious and useful fruit drink, and use the berries themselves later.

Soaked lingonberry with sugar

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.15 kg;
• apple (optional) - 50 g;
• salt - 2 g;
• water - 1 l.

Cooking method:

• Sort out and rinse the berries well. Let the water drain.
• Boil the syrup from a liter of water, salt and sugar. Cool it down - it should not be hot, otherwise the berries will not retain their shape.
• Arrange the berries in jars, filling them approximately "shoulder length".
• Place an apple slice on top (optional).
• Pour in syrup.
• Wrap the neck of the jar with cheesecloth or close the lid with small holes.
• Leave at room temperature for 3 weeks, then refrigerate.

You can store soaked lingonberries at room temperature, but not for long (up to a month), so if storage is possible in a cool place (cellar, refrigerator), it will not hurt to use it.

Lingonberries soaked with sugar can be used to make desserts, fruit drinks, and also serve instead of jam for tea.

Lingonberries soaked with salt

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 20 g;
• sugar - 3 g;
• cloves - 1 pc.

Cooking method:

• Pour washed and dried lingonberries into sterilized jars.
• Boil water, put cloves, salt and sugar in it, cook for a couple of minutes.
• Cool the brine to room temperature, then fill the jars of lingonberries with it to the top.
• Close the lids tightly and leave for a week at about 10 degrees.
• After the specified time, remove for the winter in a cool place (up to 6 degrees).

Lingonberries soaked with salt are good for salads and other appetizers.

Lingonberry with honey

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - how much will go away;
• salt - 2 g;
• honey - 100 g;
• cinnamon -? sticks;
• cloves - 2 pcs.

Cooking method:

• Arrange clean berries in sterilized jars, filling them up to the shoulders.
• Place the spices in the jars.
• Pour boiled but cool water over the berries and drain into a bowl.
• Dissolve the honey in the water drained from the jars, heating the syrup in a water bath. Add a pinch of salt to the syrup.
• Cool the syrup and pour over the lingonberries.
• Close the jars with plastic lids and store in a cool place in a dark place.

Lingonberries in honey filling will be ready for use in a month. The filling itself is no less useful and tasty than the berry.

Spicy soaked lingonberry

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• water - 1 l;
• salt - 10 g;
• sugar - 40 g;
• cloves - 7 pcs.;
• allspice (peas) - 6 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 1 stick.

Cooking method:

• Pour into a saucepan the right amount water, put spices, salt and sugar in it.
• Boil and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
• Let the syrup cool and steep.
• Sort the lingonberries, rinse, put them in banks (they need to be sterilized in advance).
• Pour the cooled syrup over the berry. Close up nylon caps.

Store in a cool room, if this is not possible, then you can leave it for the winter and at room temperature, but in this case it is better to eat it until the end of winter.

Each soaked lingonberry recipe is good in its own way. In the presence of enough You can use several berries, especially since it does not take a lot of energy.

Hurry up to close a few jars of this wonderful delicacy, which will serve a very useful service... Below we will tell you how to prepare for the winter at home delicious lingonberry, mashed with sugar without cooking.

Lingonberries, mashed with sugar - recipe without cooking

Ingredients:

• ripe lingonberries - 1.8 kg;
• fine sugar - 2 kg.

Preparation

We wash the sorted ripe berries first in one water, and then rinse in another. Sprinkle them on a large clean towel and let dry for about an hour. Now we collect all the berries, mix them in a container with the required amount fine sugar, and then we pass this mixture through the finest sieve of an electric meat grinder.

When grinding lingonberries, we slightly crushed the sugar grains, but this is not enough for it to completely dissolve. Therefore, we leave our jam for 30-40 minutes in a saucepan, stirring occasionally.

Jars, no more than 0.5 liters in volume, are well fried in the oven, and then pour the jam over them and seal it also fried metal lids... We hide it in the refrigerator and wait patiently for winter.

Lingonberries with sugar without cooking - a recipe for the winter

Vanillin will make this delicacy especially aromatic. Such a blank can be used to fill your favorite pies or supplement with a slice of bread and serve with tea.

Ingredients:

• lingonberry berries - 2.2 kg;
• granulated sugar - 2 kg;
• vanillin - 2/3 tbsp. spoons.

Preparation

In a deep metal colander, rinse the prepared lingonberries and leave until all the water has drained off. Next, we move everything into a wide bowl and gently press down all the berries with a wooden pestle, only to the extent that the lingonberry cracks on the peel. We cover all these berries with granulated sugar and set aside for 40 minutes. Then, mix the soaked sugar with lingonberries with a wooden spatula, add fragrant vanilla here and let the jam brew for about 20 minutes.

Pour glass containers with boiling water three times and, stirring the jam once again, pour it. We cover each jar with a boiled lid and roll it all the way up. In the refrigerator, this workpiece can be stored for a long time.

Lingonberries soaked with sugar without boiling

This blank will conquer all lovers of extraordinary treats. Lingonberry turns out to be especially tasty, moderately spicy and deliciously aromatic.

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.5 kg;
• drinking water - 1.5 l;
• small white sugar - 80 g;
• kitchen salt - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
• allspice - 9 pcs.;
• buds - 9 pcs.;
• sticks - 2 pcs.

Preparation

We distribute the washed and well-dried lingonberries over the cans, properly prepared for further conservation, so that 3-3.5 centimeters remain to the edge of the neck.

Pour the peas at the bottom of a small saucepan allspice, buds of fragrant cloves and put a couple of cinnamon sticks. Pour in all these spices drinking water and put the pan on the burner of the included stove. After the water begins to boil, boil the contents of the container for about 3-4 minutes. Next, cover it with a suitable lid and cool the broth to a slightly warm state. Using a slotted spoon, we extract the spices, and add kitchen salt along with fine sugar to the fragrant infused broth. Stir them thoroughly, and pour the entire contents of the pan into containers with lingonberries, leaving 1 centimeter to the edge of the necks. Close each jar tightly with a nylon lid heated in boiling water and set it pickled berries in the refrigerator or cellar.

Lingonberry is a tasty and healthy berry, from which jams, preserves, compotes, etc. are prepared for the winter. If we translate the phrase “ vine from the Phrygian mountain Ida ”, you get an ordinary lingonberry. Or not quite ordinary. Indeed, in the composition of lingonberries there are antiseptics and stimulants of cardiac activity, choleretic and vaso-strengthening substances. It contains more carotene than apples, grapes and cranberries.

Harvesting lingonberries for the winter is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. It is enough to make soaked and frozen berries in the fall, as well as a few jars of lingonberries with sugar to add them to hot dishes, sauces and desserts. Moreover, the piquant taste of this berry will emphasize the main notes of any food. The main thing is to follow the rules for the preparation and processing of berries, as well as adhere to the proportions of berries, sugar and other ingredients indicated in the recipes.

If you have harvested a good harvest of wild strawberries, be sure to prepare them for the winter!

To prevent lingonberry preservation from fermenting and becoming a delicious homemade alcoholic drink, follow the three golden rules:

1. It is necessary to thoroughly wash the berries (they must be whole and strong).
2. It is imperative to sterilize the jars and lids.
3. Observe the storage rules for conservation: refrigerator, cellar, basement, balcony, loggia.

Lingonberry preparations for the winter with sugar

Before you do something with lingonberries, you need to firmly decide what exactly you want to get: jam, jam, confiture or something else. The jelly version is one of the most delicious and beautiful in terms of culinary aesthetics.

Lingonberry jam

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.3 kg;
• granulated sugar - 0.9 kg;
• water - 0.25 l.

Preparation

1. Sort the berries carefully, select all the trash from them.
2. Rinse the lingonberries several times with a colander. Allow water to drain completely. Dry the berries (this way the confiture will be longer and better stored).
3. Transfer the berries to a deep, voluminous saucepan. Pour in water. Boil over moderate heat until the lingonberry becomes soft.
4. Puree the lingonberries with a blender. You can use a meat grinder or grind the berries through a fine sieve.
5. Combine the grated berry with granulated sugar.
6. Place the saucepan back on the stove. Cook the lingonberry jam until the volume is reduced by ¼.
7. Remove from heat, cool slightly. Pack in pre-prepared glass, well-washed, sterilized and dry jars. Roll up. Put away in a cold place.
8. The best places to store jelly: refrigerator, cellar, basement.

Grated lingonberry with sugar

To cook lingonberries, mashed with sugar, you must:

• 1 kg of washed and dried ripe berries;
• 1 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Heat plenty of water to a boil and blanch ripe lingonberries for 5 minutes. For simplicity, you can blanch the berries in a colander.
2. Quickly rub the hot berries through a sieve, put the puree in a saucepan or jam bowl, mix with sugar and heat until all the sugar is dissolved. It is important to stir with a wooden or silicone spoon so that the sugar does not remain on the bottom of the pot. If the presence of peels and seeds in the finished lingonberry with sugar does not bother you, you can grind the hot berries in mashed potatoes with a mixer.
3. Fill sterilized hot dry jars with lingonberries with sugar.
4. Put the jars in the bath, sterilize for half an hour, roll up, turn over, do not turn over until they cool completely.

Lingonberries with sugar in Czech

To cook cranberries with sugar in Czech for the winter, you need:

• 1 kg of ripe lingonberries;
• 0.5 kg of sugar.

How to cook:

1. Sort the berries, wash, pour over with drinking water, pour into a saucepan, mash a little, pour 2-3 tablespoons of water and put on a low heat under a lid.
2. When the berries begin to give juice, add sugar in portions and boil, stirring, until the volume decreases.
3. When the volume of berries with sugar ceases to decrease, boil for another 10 minutes. Skim off the foam.
4. Spread the berries with a slotted spoon under prepared jars, dry and hot.
5. Boil the syrup remaining in the saucepan, pour into the jars.
6. Cork the jars immediately, turn over and cover with a blanket for slow cooling.

Harvesting lingonberries without sugar

This recipe is for those who do not consume sugar. Here it is replaced by honey, which gives a new flavor. The lingonberry-honey duet sounds unexpectedly tasty.

Ingredients:

• lingonberry - 1.5 kg;
• honey - 1.5 kg.

Preparation

1. Sort out the lingonberries. Rinse thoroughly under running water. Discard in a colander. Allow water to drain as much as possible. Scatter the berries over a linen cloth and dry completely on it.
2. Transfer the dried lingonberries into a deep container. Purée with a blender. Pour in the honey rate indicated in the recipe. Beat again with a blender.
3. Mix the prepared honey and berry mass well with a wooden or silicone spoon. Set aside for 2 hours until the honey is completely dissolved in berry juice.
4. After 2 hours, fill sterilized containers finished mass... Seal tightly with lids. Move to a cool place out of direct sunlight.

To give the workpiece an original spicy taste can add a little ground cloves... But this is already up to your taste.

Not everyone likes the preparation of blanks (it does not matter what), the technology of which includes cooking. It is clear why: cook longer, wash more dishes at the end of the process, and vitamins are completely destroyed during heat treatment. Therefore, many choose exactly those recipes where there is no heat treatment. Here is one of these options for harvesting lingonberries for the winter without cooking.

Ingredients:

• bottled mineral water without gas - 0.35 g;
• lemon fresh;
• granulated sugar - 0.4 kg;
• ripe lingonberry - 0.9 kg.

Preparation

1. To begin with, sort out the lingonberry berries. Unconditioned should be removed. Rinse berries that are suitable for consumption. Pour out on kitchen towel... Dry.
2. Next, move the lingonberries into prepared, washed, dry, sterilized glass containers.
3. To cook sugar syrup with the addition of lemon fresh to taste.
4. Fill glass containers with the product with the prepared hot syrup and close.

Ingredients:

• fresh lingonberry berries - 0.7 kg;
• bottled mineral water without gas - 1 l;
• granulated sugar - 0.06 kg;
• salt - 0.015 kg;
• clove peas - 0.005 kg;
• cinnamon - 1 stick;
• carnation - 10 buds.

Preparation

1. Wash the jars thoroughly, scald them with boiling water.
2. Sort out the berries. Leaves are recommended to be left. Wash the berries. Dry them completely.
3. Then move over glass containers so that the lingonberries take up all the free space in the jars.
4. Pour water into a saucepan. Place the saucepan on the stove top. Pour in water. Pour salt, sugar, pepper, cloves and cinnamon into it. Boil the contents of the saucepan. Remove from stove. Strain through cheesecloth. Cool down.

Storage: refrigerator, cellar, basement, in winter - the same, including a balcony.

How to properly freeze lingonberries for the winter

Sugarless

What you need:

• lingonberry - 1 kg.

Cooking (option 1)

1. Remove debris from lingonberries and wash thoroughly under running water.
2. Spread them on a baking sheet in one layer, put in the freezer.
3. When the lingonberry is completely frozen and becomes "glassy", transfer it to freezer molds or plastic packaging bags.

Cooking (option 2)

Immediately move the washed and dried berries into portioned bags (took - used), drive air out of the bags with a plastic tube and, after packing the bag, move it to the freezer.

You can use frozen lingonberries for a wide variety of purposes:

• cook jelly, compotes;
• prepare jams, confitures, preserves (see);
• add to pies as a filling, etc.

With sugar

There is an option in which sugar is used for freezing. This is somewhat more convenient, but as you like.

What you need:

• lingonberry - 1 kg;
• sugar - 0.5 kg.

What to do:

1. Sort the berries and rinse thoroughly, dry first in a colander, then with a kitchen towel.
2. Transfer to the tray as follows: lingonberry layer - layer granulated sugar - a layer of berries - a layer of granulated sugar. And so on until the end of the product.
3. Seal container, place in freezer.

You can also freeze berries in a puree state.

Lingonberry syrup is delicious and healthy delicacy for children and adults. It can be used with baked goods, ice cream, dessert, cocktail and even meat. It is prepared without additives or preservatives. I offer you a simple recipe for such a syrup.

Ingredients:

Of the ingredients, you only need sugar and lingonberries, in a one-to-one ratio.

Preparation:

It is necessary to thoroughly rinse and dry the lingonberries. It is best to do this with a sieve to keep the excess liquid in the glass. Saturate additionally with dry paper towel if necessary.

Then send the pan to slow fire and bring to a boil. In the process of cooking, without removing the pan from the heat, you should knead the lingonberries with any available means (most conveniently with a potato roll) so that it releases the juice as quickly as possible. The syrup must be cooked over low heat for 20 - 30 minutes, depending on what consistency you need.

After that, remove the pan from the heat and grind the lingonberries with an immersion blender, then again send to low heat for 10 - 15 minutes.

Sterilize the jars, place the syrup and roll up.

Lingonberry - apple jam

Such jam will become a decoration of your table, and believe me, your guests will remember this pleasant taste and will definitely drop by again.

You will need:

Lingonberry - 3 liter jar;

Peeled apples - 3 liter jar;

Sugar - 3 kg;

Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon

Cloves - 1 teaspoon

Preparation

Peel the apples and remove the core. Cut the apples into cubes and put them in a deep saucepan, then add the washed lingonberries and sugar and leave to infuse for 5-6 hours. After the allotted time, we put the pan on the fire and stir so that our jam does not burn. Bring the jam to a boil and leave to cool. We do this procedure 2 more times. After everything is done, add the cloves and cinnamon, bring the jam to a boil and place it hot in sterilized jars. The output is 5 liters of jam.

Soaked lingonberries for the winter

You will definitely like this lingonberry dish, as it is not only tasty, but also very healthy. Lingonberry contains a lot of vitamins, so it's not for nothing that it is called the berry of health.

Ingredients:

3-4 cups lingonberry berries;

3 tbsp Sahara;

1 tsp salt;

1 l. water;

Allspice (peas);

Carnation.

Initially, it is necessary to properly wash and sterilize the jars or pour boiling water over them. Put the washed lingonberries in a jar so that they are evenly distributed. Then pour water into a saucepan or stewpan and add the remaining ingredients, bring to a boil. After that, filter the filling through a sieve or cheesecloth, and leave to cool. Next, fill in the lingonberry with the prepared filling and close it with a plastic lid. Now you need to put it in a cool place and the delicious soaked lingonberry is ready for winter.

Lingonberry jam with pear

In order to prepare such a jam, it is necessary to stock up on cranberries in advance, since pears are ripened a little later. Lingonberry with pear in combination gives a wonderful aroma and great taste.

For this jam you need:

2 kg of lingonberries;

4 kg of sugar;

2 kg of pears;

1 tbsp. water.

Preparation

Wash the lingonberries thoroughly. Core and chop pears small pieces... Sugar needs to be prepared separately, pour it into a saucepan and add water to dissolve faster. Put the saucepan on the fire and stir. After the syrup is brought to a boil, add the lingonberries and pear and boil for 20 minutes. Then we add cinnamon, because it is she who gives such a wonderful flavor in lingonberry jam. The jam in a saucepan will need to be boiled for about an hour and a half, stirring it all the time. The foam will definitely need to be removed so that there are no troubles in the final result. The jam can be cooked longer, it all depends on how thick you need it. After you have cooked the jam, it should be spread hot in sterilized jars and sealed with a lid for preservation.

As you can see, we have obtained a large number of blanks for the winter with lingonberries, a very tasty and healthy berry. Now you know what to make of lingonberries for the winter! Enjoy your meal and delicious blanks!

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