Sorrel soup is tasty in winter! For this, wash the sorrel and close it!

As you know, the winter does not please us with a variety of products, but the body, despite this, still requires a bright menu. What to do? Homework comes to the rescue. In this article we will tell you how you can prepare sorrel for the winter. Agree, fragrant green soup is still able to make fresh notes in a boring winter diet. In addition, the procurement process itself does not require you to spend a lot of time, energy, and even more money.

In winter, you can make favorite soup from a harvested sorrel, add it to a salad and even use it as a stuffing for pies

Useful tips

1. To close sorrel for the winter is best in small in cans - the optimum capacity option is 0.5 liters. One such jar will suffice for you on a pan of fragrant soup.
2. To make the billet more fragrant when preserving to sorrel, add a small amount of dill.
3. How to make the most delicious soup? To do this, the canned sorrel should be added at the end of the cooking so that it comes to a boil in the broth.

If you hold a stock of sorrel for the winter by all rules, then the difference in taste between fresh and canned product you do not feel. So follow the recommendations and enjoy the taste of summer throughout the year.

Preparation rules for

The preparation of sorrel for winter at home can be carried out in different ways.

• First, the leafy vegetable can be frozen. What does that require? Just a free place in the freezer.
• Secondly, sorrel for the winter can be preserved. With this method, the issue is solved with a lack of space, which is necessary for storing the frozen product.

Soup from a canned green vegetable turns out to be as tasty as fresh

Before proceeding to recipes, it is necessary to give some tips.

1. Some mistresses of sorrel during sterilization under sterilization. But since it contains oxalic acid, then without this procedure you can do without.
2. Before harvesting sorrel for the winter, it is necessary to pay special attention to the purity of the main product - it is thoroughly washed and peeled so that not a single bacterium from the soil gets into the jar.
   

   Recommendation! To be completely sure about the purity of sorrel, after washing it should be poured with water and left for an hour! The storage tanks must be sterile. This applies not only to cans, but also covers.

3. For convenience, the leaves are not put completely into the jars, but cut into small pieces.

Recipes

So, we offer you a few recipes on which you can prepare sorrel for the winter.

With vinegar

Prepare ingredients:

• fresh sorrel;
• 1 liter of water;
• 1 tablespoon of salt;
• 100 ml table vinegar.

The cooking process.

1. Leaf the vegetable leaf finely with a knife, lay in jars and crush it.
2. In a separate container, combine the vinegar, water and salt, mix.
3. With a marinade pour the sorrel, roll the banks.

This is one of the most delicious ways that helps to prepare sorrel for the winter for soup.

It may seem strange that in this recipe sorrel does not undergo heat treatment, but despite this, it is perfectly stored and also retains its bright color.

Sorrel soup

Prepare ingredients:

• fresh sorrel;
• salt;
• water.

The cooking process.

1. Vegetables finely chopped.
2. Stack prepared greens in jars, pouring each layer of salt.
3. Water bring to a boil, cool and fill it with banks, roll up.

This method of harvesting is suitable for lovers of salted sorrel.

Without salt

Prepare ingredients:

• fresh sorrel;
• water.

The preparation process.

1. Vegetables soak in cold water and finely chopped.
2. Fold the vegetable in sterilized jars with a capacity of half a liter.
3. Water bring to a boil, pour it with sorrel and quickly roll up.

Freezing sorrel

To freeze sorrel for the winter there is no need to exert any special efforts. The technology is quite simple:

• fresh leaves are sorted, discarding floral arrows and blades of grass;
• vegetable is washed in a lot of cold water;
• large leaves are cut across, small ones are made whole;
• further greens are immersed in boiling water for about a minute - during this time, the color of the leaves will change to dark olive, but this will not affect the quality of the product;
• sorrel is removed from boiling water with a sieve and left for a few minutes to allow the glass to excess liquid;
• leaflets can be slightly soaked with a paper towel, then folded into plastic bags.

Tip! Conveniently, when a serving in a package corresponds to the volume of one soup pan!

As required, the greens are removed from the freezer and, without defrosting, lowered into the boiling broth

Sorrel can be frozen in another way. Green leaves, as usual, sorted, washed and dried on a towel. After that, the product is interrupted in a blender and the resulting mashed potatoes are spread over small containers.

And the third method - the vegetable is finely chopped, packed in containers and poured with chilled boiled water.

Each of these methods allows you to preserve the entire benefit of the product and its flavor. If desired, you can freeze sorrel with other herbs, for example, with dill or parsley.