Lingonberry is used to decorate dishes, prepare snacks, salads, desserts. Cooks value it for a unique, slightly bitter taste. However, many people harvest this berry for future use not for culinary purposes, but for medicinal purposes. After all, lingonberry contains in its composition a lot of vitamins that help out in the treatment of various diseases, and also help the body to resist infection. Lingonberries in syrup for the winter can be harvested for any purpose: it is useful, because the berries are exposed to minimal heat (they are poured with hot syrup), and tasty, because there is a lot of sugar in it.
Cooking Features
In order for the lingonberries in the syrup to be tasty and well preserved throughout the winter, several recommendations should be taken into account.
- Pick the berry well for harvesting for the winter. After all, one rotted berry can spoil the whole piece.
- Rinse the berries carefully, taking care not to damage them. You can use this method for washing: put the berry in a colander, dip it several times in clean water, making sure that the berries do not “float out”.
- Dry the berry to minimize the risk of souring of the future jam.
- The banks in which the lingonberries will be stored must be sterilized, even if they are planned to be refrigerated. Close them after filling with lingonberries and syrup will need to be sealed. Like jars, lids will have to be sterilized (for example, boiling for 5 minutes).
- Do not save sugar: you can add a little more than what is indicated in the recipe, but no less. Sugar makes harvesting tastier and increases its shelf life.
When following these tips for preparing winter for the lingonberries in syrup, even an inexperienced hostess should not be able to get into the syrup.
Classic lingonberry recipe in syrup
Composition:
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- water - 2 liters;
- granulated sugar - 0, 3 kg;
- lemon peel - 20 g.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the lemons and grate their zest on a special grater.
- Pick the lingonberries, wash the berries, put them on a napkin so that it absorbs the excess liquid.
- After sterilizing a 3-liter jar, pour the prepared berries into it.
- Boil water, throw sugar and grated zest into it, stir and cook for 4-5 minutes.
- Cool the syrup to about 60 degrees, strain. Strained syrup pour the lingonberries in a jar.
- Hermetically close the jar and store in a cold place.
The prepared lingonberries in syrup in winter should be stored in a cool place where the temperature does not rise above 16 degrees. But it is almost as useful as fresh, since it contains almost all the vitamins, while it has a pleasant taste and delicate aroma with citrus notes. If desired, instead of the three-liter jars, you can use three liters or even six half-liter. This option is preferred economical hostess, because if the contents of an open can not eat for a couple of weeks, then the remaining berry will have to be thrown away.
A simple recipe for lingonberries in syrup
Composition:
- lingonberries - 2 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0, 25 kg.
Method of preparation:
- After going through and washing the lingonberries, divide it into two equal parts.
- Place one part in a saucepan, add sugar and let stand for several hours to make the juice stand out.
- Place the pan on a low heat and heat until the syrup boils.
- Into the boiled syrup pour the remaining berry, stir, then immediately remove the pan from the heat.
- Sterilize a small volume of the jar, you can even from baby food.
- Spread the prepared lingonberries over the prepared jars.
- Boil the lids of the cans, close the berries in the syrup.
- Put the jars in the fridge, and store.
Do not try to save the lingonberries in syrup, prepared according to a simple recipe, in a warm room: despite the fact that lingonberries contain substances that prolong its safety, at a high temperature, the workpiece can deteriorate, especially if they are not Sahara. Despite the fact that the recipe is simple, the cooked dessert has a pronounced taste and color. You can even say that it is a lingonberry in its own juice, and not just in syrup.
Lingonberries in spicy syrup
Composition:
- lingonberries - 1 kg;
- water - 0, 5 l;
- sugar - 1, 5 kg;
- carnation - 5 pcs .;
- apples or pears - 0, 25 kg;
- lemon or orange peel - from one fruit.
Method of preparation:
- Moved cranberries, wash, dry.
- Remove apples from apples (or pears). Cut into thin slices.
- Boil the water. Gradually pour sugar into it and stir it, boil a thick syrup.
- Add apple slices, citrus zest, stir and cook over low heat for 20 minutes.
- Fold the lingonberries in an enamel pan, cover with boiling syrup.
- Cook 5 minutes a minute before being ready by adding a clove.
- Spread the jam on the sterilized jars, cork them tightly.
- After the contents of the cans have cooled, put them away for the winter in a dark, not too warm place, such as an unheated storeroom.
This recipe makes an original dessert with a rich taste and spicy aroma. It can be stored at room temperature, although it will last longer in a cool room.
Even the most difficult recipe for cooking lingonberries in syrup for the winter is quite simple. If you managed to collect a lot of lingonberries, it makes sense to prepare it for future use in one of the above recipes.
