How to freeze blueberries for the winter. Delicious and healthy home-made preparations

Cold frosty evenings often want to pamper yourself with something tasty and useful. To remind us of the summer, to saturate the body with vitamins and to please pleasant sensations will be able to various berries. However, it is not easy to find them fresh when not in season. Let's talk about how to freeze blueberries for the winter. It suits best for baking, sweet salads, fruit drinks, and fresh consumption.

Useful properties of blueberries

In fact, it is important not only to know how to freeze blueberries for the winter, but also why. Buy this berry fresh in the cold season is quite difficult, it can be expensive, do not have the necessary flavor, meet only in some stores. It's much easier to make your own blanks. Blueberries need to be used regularly, it is associated with such qualities as:

• The presence in its composition of a large number of anthocyanins. These components are an excellent natural prevention of such a terrible disease as cancer.
• The ability to remove harmful slags from the body, toxins.
• It is allowed and recommended for diabetes.
• Favorable effect on the organs of vision: with regular use of berries you will see that your eyes are less tired, almost do not hurt, the retina is updated faster.

The first recipe for freezing

So, how to freeze blueberries for the winter? Start your workpiece from the preliminary stage: rinse and select the good berries, remove the small rubbish, gently dry, without disturbing the structure. Then pick up a flat tray with edges, place on it blueberries in one layer. Pay attention to the fact that the fruits do not have to touch each other tightly, if you fill them too much, then there is a great chance that they will simply chill out between each other. The capacity is placed in the freezer for only one hour, after which it is already possible to pour the blueberries into ordinary packets and send them there for long-term storage.

The second recipe - mashed potatoes for the winter

As you can see, the process is very simple and does not take much time and effort. Our next step is to discuss how to freeze blueberries for the winter in the form of mashed potatoes. For the beginning of the berries all the same need to select, rinse and dry. Then you need to turn them into a homogeneous mass, the easiest way to do this is with a blender. The resulting mixture is placed in plastic containers and placed in a freezer. If desired, you can complement the puree of berries with a small amount of sugar.

Alternative methods of procurement

Blueberries are harvested for the winter not only with the help of frost. You can also dry the berries on foil in the oven or in the sun, in this case it can be used for cooking kissels or preparing baking pastries. In addition, you can immediately make fresh jam from a very tasty jam or preserve its useful properties while respecting the original recipe of berries in your own juice. A favorable effect on health can and blueberry compote.

A couple of useful secrets

All vitamins and the necessary trace elements will necessarily preserve blueberries frozen. Recipes for its preparation can vary slightly, but one should always take into account a number of simple tips:

• Choose for storage only whole berries, which do not have dents, damages, integrity of the shell;
• If you want to enjoy a sweet taste, but do not use sugar, try to choose the largest fruits for storage, they say that they have the most pleasant taste;
• Do not forget to wash berries before freezing, even if you bought them not in the store, but collected in the forest, if you forgot this simple rule, be sure to wash the blueberries after defrosting;
• If you store your workpieces in the processed form in glass jars, take care of the purity of the container, sterilize it in any convenient way.

Blueberries in packages

Let's return to the question of how to properly freeze blueberries. If you are limited in time, the simplest solution will look like this. Sort out the fruits, wash and carefully dry (note that the berries do not have excess moisture, it is very important). Pack the prepared berries on transparent cellophane bags and put them into the freezer. After about two hours, the bilberries will need to be pulled out and, without removing from the package, slightly shaken. This action is necessary to make sure that the bilberries do not stick together and do not turn into a single solid.

Assorted

Blueberries combine well with berries such as raspberries, strawberries or currants. Pamper yourself and prepare for the winter cold even a bit of fine summer assortment, especially since it is prepared as simply. Pick your favorite berries, rinse them thoroughly and dry them, using a blender or a mixer, turn them into a homogeneous puree. Perhaps, some fruits must be cut beforehand. In the received weight add sugar, usually it put in a proportion 1: 1, but you can correct its quantity in own taste. Pack the assortment in pre-prepared containers and store in the freezer.