Cranberry contains a large amount of vitamin C, enhances the effect of antibiotics in the treatment of colds, helps with diseases of the urogenital system, helps eliminate other ailments. Possessing pronounced sourness, this berry goes well with sweet and spicy ingredients, serves for the preparation of various sauces and desserts. Cranberry juice is among the most popular soft drinks, although it can also be used warm. Its refreshing taste invigorates, vitamins fill the body with energy. Morse, sold in stores, is pleasant to the taste, but inferior to homemade in its beneficial properties. It is better to buy frozen berry and cook juice from it yourself. If you collect and prepare the cranberries themselves, a valuable drink will cost you quite inexpensively.
Cooking Features
Morsy from the berries are prepared by a special technology that allows you to save a maximum of vitamins contained in raw materials. The process of cooking cranberry juice is simple, but has several subtleties.
- Vitamin C, which is rich in cranberries, is destroyed by high temperatures. Therefore, first the juice is squeezed out of the berries, then the cake is poured with water and boiled. Cranberry juice syrup is mixed only after it cools to a temperature not higher than 40 degrees. If honey is used to sweeten the drink, it is also dissolved in warm, not hot, water. The goal is the same - to keep the maximum contained in the product of beekeeping nutrients.
- Both juice and decoction obtained from cranberries need to be filtered so that no pieces of skins get into the drink: they will spoil the taste of the drink.
- Cranberry juice will be tastier and healthier if cooked with the addition of other berries and fruits. It combines well with lingonberries, strawberries, apples, oranges, wild roses, black chokeberries, currants, raspberries. If you add zest and spices when cooking in a saucepan, you get a drink that tastes like mulled wine to taste and color.
- Serve cranberry juice warm or cold. In winter, it is more pleasant to drink an uncooled drink, in summer - ice. If you feel well, you can add a few ice cubes into a glass with cranberry juice, and decorate its edges with a sugar border. If you drink juice to recover from a cold, it is not advisable to cool the drink before drinking.
When using cranberry fruit drink, it should be remembered that with all its benefits it can also do harm. Drinking it in large quantities is not recommended for people suffering from ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract. If you have diabetes, replace the sugar in the drink with a sweetener recommended for you.
The classic recipe for cranberry juice
Composition:
- cranberries (fresh or frozen) - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 0, 2 kg;
- water - 3 l.
Method of preparation:
- Carefully sort the berry and rinse. If you are using a frozen product, let it thaw out, put it in a colander, and place the drained liquid in a saucepan in which you will cook the juice. Remember that aluminum containers are not suitable for these purposes: when in contact with acids, this material forms compounds that are harmful to the body.
- Place the berry in a bowl, add sugar, leave for 20 minutes.
- Wipe the berries through a sieve or squeeze the juice out of them, wrapping them in folded gauze.
- Cranberry juice set aside, send the husks to the pan. Fill them with clean water, put the pot on the stove.
- Boil the juice 15-20 minutes after it boils.
- Cool the broth to room temperature, strain.
- Mix with cranberry juice.
This is one of the most simple recipes for making cranberry fruit juice, which is considered traditional. It can be cooked from both fresh and frozen berries.
Frozen cranberries juice with honey
Composition:
- frozen cranberries - 0, 3 kg;
- water - 2 l;
- honey - 80 ml.
Method of preparation:
- Put the cranberries in a bowl. Remember the berry tolkushkoy intended for the preparation of mashed potatoes. Squeeze through gauze folded in 3-4 layers or wipe through a sieve.
- Pour the cake with water and boil for 10-15 minutes.
- Cool the broth to 40-50 degrees, add honey. Stir to dissolve completely.
- Mix the drink with cranberry juice.
Serve warm or chilled juice. This variant of cranberry juice is considered more useful than the traditional one. It will appeal to supporters of rational nutrition.
Fresh cranberry juice without boiling
Composition:
- fresh cranberries - 0.5 kg;
- sugar - 100 g;
- boiled or mineral drinking water - 1, 5 l;
- cranberry or rosehip syrup (optional) - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Pick and rinse the cranberries well, add sugar, leave for half an hour.
- Add a glass of water, stir, rub through a sieve.
- Pour the cake with a glass of water, leave for 2-3 minutes, strain.
- Continue pouring and filtering the cake until the water runs out.
- Connect all the parts of the resulting liquid. If desired, sweeten the juice with syrup.
This variant of cranberry juice is especially useful. It takes a long time to prepare, but the result is worth the effort.
Cranberry mors with wild rose
Composition:
- fresh or frozen cranberries - 0.5 kg;
- fresh or dried rosehips - 100-180 g (you need to take smaller dried products, more fresh ones);
- water - 2 l;
- sugar, honey or rosehip syrup - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Squatted and washed cranberries crush or squeeze juice from it.
- Wash the wild rose, put it in a saucepan, cover with water and heat.
- Boil over low heat for 10 minutes. Cool and strain.
- Connect with cranberry juice. Stir.
- Sweeten the drink with sugar, honey or syrup.
The use of cranberries in this recipe is enhanced by the use of rose hips. The drink will be especially effective for strengthening the immune system and restoring the body after an illness.
Cranberry fruit drink is not only pleasant to the taste, it invigorates and refreshes well in hot weather - it contains many vitamins and other valuable substances, it is useful for various ailments. You can cook and drink it at any time of the year.
