Unusual billets from gooseberry for the winter

Gooseberries are juicy, fragrant and very useful. This berry is universal and from it delicious dishes are obtained: from sweet jams to spicy marinades, which are usually used in cooking meat. The gastronomic value of these fruits is really great and they are able to surprise. However, you can be sure of this on your own - billets from gooseberry for the winter, which we want to present to your attention today, are considered the most delicious and original.

What should I cook?

Asking what can be done from gooseberries for the winter, many housewives stop at standard options: compote, jam, jam, in extreme cases marmalade. But the possibilities of this berry are much more interesting - spicy sauces and spicy seasonings are made from it. And do not forget that there are special cooking options that allow you to save all the benefits of fresh fruits until the winter.

With regard to the preparation of berries, different recipes provide for the use of gooseberries of a certain ripeness. There are blanks for which slightly frayed fruits are quite suitable, others will suggest the use of berries of exceptional appearance and ripeness.

. So, let's consider the best recipes of gooseberry preparations for the winter, which can later become your favorite.

Sauces

It is quite possible to use slightly crushed berries or fruits with small damages for the roasted sauce. This is permissible, since during the preparation the ingredients will be crushed. But just make sure that the spicy berries do not fall into the sauce.

Note! Some sauces are prepared by the method of minimal heat treatment, others are completely raw, and therefore they should be stored only in the refrigerator!

All recipes of gooseberry sauces, prepared for the winter, are quite simple in performance and assume the use of quite affordable products. Even though some of them carry a few exotic names. We proceed.

Sweet and sour sauce

This sauce has a very piquant taste and is an ideal addition to any meat dishes. For its preparation you will need:

• 900 g gooseberries;
• 2 medium heads of garlic;
• 1 pod of chili peppers;
• 1 bunch of celery;
• 1 bunch of fresh basil;
• 1 bunch of green dill;
• 1 dill umbrella;
• 1 horseradish;
• 50 ml of water;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• 1/3 teaspoon of sugar.

Tip! Use berries of varying degrees of ripeness and then your sauce will have a particularly expressive taste and aroma!

First we deal with fruits: they must be carefully sorted and washed under running water. Do not allow vegetation debris to get into the workpiece. Pour the gooseberries into the saucepan, add the indicated amount of water and bring it to a boil over medium heat. Extinguish for several minutes. We remove the softened berries to a homogeneous mass and return them again to the fire.

Tip! To make the cooking process faster, the mashed potatoes should be cooked in a wide container - so the excess liquid will evaporate literally in 25-30 minutes!

Puree from gooseberry must be constantly stirred with a wooden spatula, so it does not burn. And while it boils, we turn to the rest of the ingredients.

Wash the greens, remove the garlic from the husk, chili - from the seeds. We put everything in a blender and grind it. After the berry puree boil twice, we add to it a lot of greens, garlic and pepper, as well as salt and sugar. Cover the lid and cook for about half an hour. Ready sauce poured on sterile jars.

. Adzhika Adzhika

Spicy, fragrant, as if specially created for shish kebab. This dish is prepared without heat treatment, but because it is not only delicious, but also very useful. And the simplicity in cooking allows you to create such a sauce in just a few minutes - right at the dacha near the barbecue, while the meat is being roasted!

To prepare Adzhika from gooseberries you will need:

• 900 g fresh berries;
• 3 heads of garlic;
• ½ piece of chili pepper;
• 1 large Bulgarian pepper;
• large bunch of fresh greens;
• 30 ml of any vegetable oil;
• salt.

We go through gooseberries, we pull off the tails, remove the leaves, we thoroughly rinse in running water. We lay out on a paper towel and leave for a while, so that the berries dry out.

Chile and Bulgarian pepper are released from seeds and tails, we cut arbitrarily. Garlic is clean. Green my good and shake off excess water. In the blender we fall asleep berries, pepper, washed greens, garlic, oil and salt. We interrupt.

Tip! If you want the adjika to be as homogeneous as possible, then you need to beat it for a few minutes, prefer a sauce in which the pieces are felt - 15-20 seconds will be enough.

Sauce on Apple Juice

This recipe for gooseberry sauce is quite unusual. Its original version involves the use of the following products:

• 900 g of ripe berries;
• 2 cups of apple juice;
• 100 g of butter;
• lemon peel, salt and sugar to taste.

Fruits are sorted and transferred to a pan. Add a little water and cook for a few minutes. After, gooseberries grind, if desired, we pass through a sieve and again return to the plate. We boil for a quarter of an hour. Add apple juice and butter. Mix and bring to taste with salt, sugar and lemon peel.

Sauce for fish

And another unparalleled recipe for a hare sauce harvested for the winter that is able to take center stage on your table. Make it from such ingredients:

• 900 g of berries;
• 600 g of apples;
• 250 g of onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 430 g of sugar;
• 2 teaspoons of salt;
• 190 ml of vinegar.

We remove garlic and onion from the husks, finely chop and add them to the saucepan. Pour 2-3 tablespoons of water and simmer the vegetables until they soften, then discard it in a colander.

Gooseberries are sorted, washed, cleaned of seeds. With apples peel, remove the seeds and optionally cut. Prepared ingredients are piled in a saucepan, add vinegar, salt, sugar, as well as stewed onion and garlic. When the gooseberry becomes soft enough, knead it all with a wooden spatula or tolkushka and again bring to a boil. Cook for about 50-55 minutes with constant stirring. After the sauce becomes sufficiently thick, distribute it over sterilized jars and seal it.

Spicy sauce with wine

For the preparation of this seasoning it is necessary to prepare such products:

• 800 g of gooseberry fruit;
• 400 g of sugar;
• 200 ml of white wine;
• 80 g of potato starch;
• 1.5 liters of water;
• buds of cloves, ground cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.

Pour the water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. We dissolve sugar in it, add dry spices, cook for about 5-7 minutes. We carefully sort the berries, and put them into a clean container. Fill them with spicy boiling syrup and leave for a few minutes, after which we rub everything to homogeneity. The resulting mass is returned to the plate, brought to a boil and in small portions, we introduce starch. Stirring. We pour the wine, boil again and immediately remove it from the fire.

Sweet brews without cooking

The following recipes allow you to prepare gooseberries for the winter without cooking, and therefore all the benefits of fresh fruits will be preserved to the fullest.

Mousse with orange

To prepare this mousse you will need:

• 900 g of gooseberry berries;
• 2 ripe sweet oranges;
• 1,5-1,6 kg of sugar.

We sort out the collected fruits of gooseberries, discard spoiled, tails and pedicles cut. Citrus fruits are thoroughly washed, doused with steep boiling water, arbitrarily cut and choose seeds. We pass the prepared ingredients through a meat grinder, then transfer the mass into a blender, add sugar and whisk for several minutes. We make sure that the sugar is completely broken.

The finished air mousse is spread over sterilized jars and closed tightly with lids. We store it in the refrigerator or in a rather cold cellar.

Berries with sugar

Gooseberries, wiped with sugar, which you will prepare for the winter, can be used as a basis for various sauces, andalso compotes, fruit drinks and fillings for pies. This method is the simplest, but at the same time the blank itself is quite universal.

This recipe uses:

• gooseberry berries - 800 g;
• sugar - 1,2 kg.

Tip! The amount of sugar you can change at your own discretion, and also based on the variety and ripeness of the fruit!

Gooseberries are carefully sorted and discarded spoiled berries, after which we pour steep boiling water and dry it on a towel. We put the prepared fruits in the bowl of the blender and grind it. If you use a meat grinder, it is desirable to install the smallest grate and pass a gooseberry a few times through it. In the resulting mashed potatoes add sugar and leave at room temperature for several hours. From time to time, the mass must be mixed. When the sugar is completely dispersed, we spread the raw jam on dry sterile jars, top it with a small portion of sugar and seal it tightly.

Raw jam with kiwi

Gooseberry with sugar for the winter without cooking can also be cooked with a fragrant kiwi. This jam perfectly complements a variety of desserts and will give your body a dose of vitamins and trace elements.

For raw jam you will need:

• 900 g of gooseberry berries;
• 4-5 kiwi fruit;
• 2 kg of sugar.

We go through and wash the gooseberry, lay it on a towel, so that it dries up. Kiwi my, peel and cut into small pieces. We put the prepared ingredients in a blender and grind to homogeneity. The resulting mashed potatoes are poured into a large bowl or saucepan and covered with sugar, leave for 10 hours and periodically mix. Ready jam is poured into jars and clogged.

The use of gum products from gooseberry is undeniable, especially when it comes to billets without cooking. Cook with pleasure, create new recipes and be healthy!