How to cook a delicious cowberry sauce

Cowberry is very useful. It is rich in tannins, vitamins and minerals. It is used in the treatment of atherosclerosis, hypertension and gastritis. From cowberries prepare juices, jams, sauces and much more. In this article, we'll look at how you can make cowberry sauce, which is suitable for a variety of dishes. The preparation process is quite simple. So, let's get started.

Cowberry sauce: classic recipe

Main Ingredients :

• Fresh cowberry (500 g);
• Sweet pepper (2 g);
• Greens (basil, parsley);
• nutmeg;
• Sugar (400 g);
• Honey (1 tbsp.);
• Cloves of garlic;
• ginger;
• sea salt;
• cinnamon.

Technology of preparation

Mine cranberries and grind in a blender (you can in a meat grinder). Take the pan and pour the mass into it. We fall asleep with sugar. We put it on the fire, heat it until the sugar dissolves, but we do not bring it to a boil. Next, add pepper, chopped garlic and greens, ginger, nutmeg, sea salt. We mix everything thoroughly.

Leave it, let it cool down for a bit. Then pour into the saucepan and serve. Cowberry sauce is best prepared the day before serving, as it is fed during this time, it will become more delicious and aromatic. Keep in the fridge for no more than two weeks.

Cowberry sauce for meat

Main Ingredients :

• Berries of a cowberry (glass);
• honey;
• Meat broth;
• Potato starch ;
• Wine vinegar (1/2 tbsp.).

Technology of preparation

Pound the berries to a mashed state. Use a strainer or blender. Then add honey (if not, replace with normal sugar). In the cranberry purée pour in a portion of the meat broth. Cranberry mass pour into a saucepan and add the wine vinegar. Put it on the stove. When everything boils, pour in the starch dissolved in the broth, Continue on to cook the sauce. Stir constantly with a spoon (about five minutes). All is ready! You can not wipe the mass, but just boil it out of whole berries, but it's already someone like it. The sauce can also be watered dishes from fish, poultry. And they say that cowberry sauce fits well with ice cream. Any your dish, be sure, with this sauce will be a culinary masterpiece!

What can be done from cranberries

From berries you can cook not only sauce, but also blanks for the winter: jam, marinade, juices, jam.

Consider the simplest option - juice. You will need mature berries. Wash them thoroughly. Fill the cowberry in a three-liter jar with a layer of 5 cm. Use a wooden pestle until the juice appears. Add another layer. Tear the berry again. Continue these steps until the whole pot is filled with cranberries. Leave in a cool place - after two days the juice should stand out. Press it through the cheesecloth. Pour into a saucepan, add mint leaves and heat to 60 degrees. Slightly cool and then pour into sterilized bottles. Close them with stoppers. Cowberry juice can be stored for about a year at room temperature. When serving, you can add honey or sugar to the drink.

Cowberry can also be dried for the winter. For this, browse the berries, rinse and dry. Then place on a baking sheet and put in a hot oven. Dried berries are usually kept in clay jars. Such cranberries can be crushed in a coffee grinder. The resulting powder is stored for more than five years in cans from tea or coffee. Crushed lingonberry is an excellent raw material for various confectionery products, compotes, juices, sauces, fruit drinks and so on. What to cook from cranberries and how, decide for yourself. The main thing - experiment!