Canned grapes for the winter: recipes

Learn how to make canned grapes, and on your table will necessarily appear an original snack, which will please all members of your family. Juicy, fragrant, spicy berries perfectly set off the taste of liver and meat.

This blank is ideal for preparing canapés and various salads.

Canned grapes: a recipe for cooking

Considered the recipe for a tasty snack allows you to use completely different varieties of wine berries. Additional use of spices such as sugar, salt, vinegar and others, will hide the sour taste of the product, making your workpiece more appetizing.

So, to make grapes canned for the winter, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• Grapes red or white - about 2 kg;
• Table salt - 10 g per 1 liter of marinade;
• Natural vinegar - 1-1.5 large spoons per 1 liter of marinade (depends on ripeness of berries);
• Sugar large - 1-2 large spoons per 1 liter of marinade (depends on ripeness of berries);
• Cloves in buds, peppercorns fragrant, laurel leaves - apply to your liking.

Preparing Components

To preserve canned grapes (like olives), it is delicious and appetizing, the main product should be purchased in the most fresh form. Berries should be large, juicy and without damage. They are carefully separated from the twigs and thoroughly washed with running water.

By the way, some landladies just cut berries from the side of the "tail". In this case, the peel just does not burst, which will make it possible to get canned grapes, like olives. However, this procedure is not required.

As soon as the main product is processed, it is spread into deep dishes and poured with steep boiling water. Leaving the berries in this form for half a minute, they are again thrown into a colander and once again they are poured cold water.

Pickling process

Grapes, preserved for the winter, will be well preserved only if it is placed in sterilized cans.

At the bottom of each container lay a few laurel leaves, fragrant peppers and cloves. After that, grapes are placed in cans and poured with steep boiling water. Covering the filled container with lids, it is left in this form for a few minutes.

After a while, the water from the cans is poured into a deep bowl and placed on a stove. After boiling it, salt, sugar and natural vinegar are added to the pan. Again, fill the grapes with a marinade, roll it up with sterilized lids and turn the top upside down.

After wrapping the jars with a thick blanket, they are left in such a shape exactly for a day. A day later the canned grapes are taken to the cellar. Also it can be kept in a dark and cool pantry or cold store.

How to use?

You can consume canned grapes in many ways. Someone serves it to the table with meat, fish or giblets, and someone uses it together with bread and sweet tea. In any case, open the jars with berries should be only after a few weeks of aging.

Making sweet canned grapes for tea

Absolutely all grape blanks are useful for humans. Their use contributes to the general tone and strengthening of the body. Such snacks help restore fluid balance in the human body, as well as destroy kidney stones, improve metabolism and reduce bad cholesterol.

Prepare a sweet canned grapes with grapes - an excellent solution. This will preserve the taste of berries. Such preparations will diversify your diet, saturate the body with vitamins and minerals.

So how to make canned grapes? For this we need the following components:

• Grapes with bunches - 500 g;
• Drinking water - about 150 ml;
• Sugar beet - 70 g;
• Citric acid - 1 pinch.

Method of step-by-step preparation

To conserve grapes in a sweet marinade, we need a small set of ingredients. Berries are thoroughly washed, not cleansing of twigs, and then dried with paper towels and placed in boiling water.

After holding the product for 5 seconds, it is removed and placed in a prepared sterilized container. After that start to prepare a sweet marinade.

Drinking water is strongly boiled, and then add sugar and citric acid. Thoroughly mixing the ingredients, they achieve their complete dissolution. After that hot syrup is poured over cans with grape clusters and immediately they are clogged with a sterile tin lid.

Turn the workpiece upside down, it is covered with a thick blanket and left until completely cooled. This procedure can take you about two days. After this time, sweet canned grapes are harvested in a cellar or a cellar. If desired, you can store such a blank in a cold room throughout the winter.

When can I eat and how to serve?

To preserve canned grapes with a sweet marinade, it is desirable to keep it in a cold place for several weeks (3-4). Only a long exposure will help to get a delicious and fragrant billet. If you open a jar with clusters before the due date, the grapes may seem sour and not very juicy.

Serve the sweet canned preform to the table in a cooled state with black tea. Usually it is used as a jam, previously smeared on a slice of white bread or roasted toast.

Also from this workpiece is often made a thick jam. For this, the grapes are separated from the twigs, filled with syrup from a jar and crushed with a crush.

One can not help saying that canned berries are very often used for making various sauces. They are ground by means of a blender, seasonings, spices, tomato paste and other ingredients are added, and then subjected to a short heat treatment. As a result of the described actions, a very tasty and aromatic sauce is obtained, which is ideal for fish, meat and giblets.