9 best recipes for cooking strawberries with sugar without cooking for the winter
Each housewife tries to make healthy and tasty preparations for her family. In the process of making jam, the fruits are heat treated, and some of the valuable vitamins are lost. But cooking strawberries with sugar for the winter without cooking will allow you to preserve a maximum of nutrients, vitamins and elements. In addition, you can prepare a multi-component blank by adding blueberries, raspberries, currants and other fruits.
Features of cooking strawberries, mashed with sugar for the winter
Each housewife uses a convenient and acceptable way of preparing such a "vitamin". There are features of cooking grated strawberries:
- you can use granulated sugar or powder;
- the amount of the sweet component may vary depending on the sweetness of the berries, family preferences;
- supporters of proper nutrition (PP) can replace granulated sugar with honey, maple syrup or Jerusalem artichoke syrup;
- used as garden strawberries, or strawberries, and wild berries;
- from wild strawberries, harvesting is obtained with a characteristic aroma;
- for a change, you can use additional components: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, lingonberries, and other berries.
Preparation of berries
Wild strawberries are more aromatic, the harvest will be tastier. But you can also use strawberries.
The berries must be prepared:
- sort out, remove the leaves, remove the stalks;
- remove damaged, spoiled fruits with signs of rot;
- wash, lay out to dry.
Important! If the piece is to be stored in the refrigerator, the berries must be completely dry. When water gets in, the "vitamin" will ferment. If the workpiece will be stored in the freezer, the strawberries can be used wet.
How to prepare the dishes
All utensils used must be sterilized and dry. You will need a container for grinding, a meat grinder or blender (you can use a crush), containers with lids for storage.
You can sterilize in any convenient way:
- boil;
- fry in the oven;
- in a microwave oven;
- hold over steam.
How to sugar strawberries for the winter without cooking
All recipes outlined below are based on a simple basic recipe. Using a classic set of products, you can show your imagination and create your own culinary miracle.
Simple recipe
To prepare according to the classic recipe, you must:
- berries - 1 kilogram;
- granulated sugar - 1 kilogram.
Sequencing:
- Put the prepared berries in a dry container. Grind in any convenient way (meat grinder, blender, crush).
- Pour in the specified amount of granulated sugar. Stir occasionally for an hour until it is completely dissolved.
- Arrange in sterilized containers, cover the top with a 1 centimeter thick layer of sugar, refrigerate.
With raspberries
For cooking according to this recipe, the ratio of raspberries and strawberries can be at the discretion of the hostess: 1: 1, 1: 2 or 1: 3, respectively. The main point is the amount of the sweet component. It needs as much as berries. Cook according to a classic recipe.
With blueberries
To prepare this vitamin dessert you need:
- blueberries - 300 grams;
- strawberries - 700 grams;
- granulated sugar - 1 kilogram.
Cooking feature: berries must be chopped with a blender or minced. Blueberries will not be chopped with a crush. Further - according to the classic recipe.
With vodka
When adding vodka to strawberries with sugar, you can get berry liqueur. But if you add vodka to strawberries and boil, you get an exotic jam.
It is necessary:
- strawberries - 1 kilogram;
- sugar - 550-600 grams;
- vodka - 55 milliliters;
- citric acid - 3 grams.
Cooking sequence:
- Pour the washed berries with vodka, cover with granulated sugar, leave overnight.
- In the morning add citric acid and boil, let stand until cooled completely.
- Repeat 4 times. Arrange the hot jam in a sterilized container.
With orange
For berry-citrus preparation you will need:
- strawberries - 750 grams;
- orange - 250 grams;
- sugar - 1 kilogram.
Cooking feature:
- Pass the peeled orange and strawberries through a meat grinder or chop with a blender.
- Further - according to the classic recipe.
With lemon juice
"Vitaminka" according to this recipe will have a pleasant citrus aroma and sour taste. One kilogram of berries requires the juice of one lemon. Add the juice along with granulated sugar, mix and arrange in a sterilized container.
Sliced strawberries under a sugar jam
To prepare strawberries according to this recipe, a classic set of products is used.
Sequencing:
- Washed, dry berries cut into halves or quarters.
- Put one layer in a sterilized container, add sugar. Thus, sprinkle the berries with sugar in layers, fill the container.
- The top layer of sugar should be about one centimeter long, it will be sugared - this is the sugar cork.
Under the nylon cover
The strawberries are prepared according to the classic recipe. The peculiarity lies in the method of sealing.
Nylon caps must be sterilized and dry.
Put the prepared berry mass in a container, without adding one centimeter to the end of the throat. Cover the top with granulated sugar. Sugar jam forms over time. Close the lid.
Freezer storage recipe
This recipe has several advantages:
- less sweet component will be required;
- the mass will not deteriorate, will not ferment;
- the process of container sterilization is omitted.
It is necessary:
- berries - 1 kilogram;
- sugar - 300-350 grams.
Sequencing:
- Put the strawberries in a container, grind with a crush or grind with a blender.
- Pour in sugar, stir, arrange in plastic containers. Do not fill completely. In the process of freezing, the volume will expand, the mass will flow out.
Frozen strawberry puree with powdered sugar
The blank with powdered sugar has the only difference from the classic recipe - the powder dissolves faster. There is no need to wait half an hour or an hour for the sweet component to dissolve.
Any workpiece that is not frozen or heat treated must be stored in the refrigerator.
