How to prepare mint for the winter: juice, jelly, sauce, drink, compote, with sugar. How to dry, freeze mint for the winter?

Preparation and storage of mint for the winter. Recipes of cooking from mint.

What can be prepared from mint for the winter?

All kinds of cultural and wild mint are actively used in medicine, cooking, cosmetology. Peppermint is used as a medicine, has soothing and disinfecting properties.

Mint

For external use, mint leaves are used to treat dermatological diseases, general hair strengthening, fight against seborrhea, as an analgesic.

For internal use with mint, you can make tea, drink, tincture, jelly juice, sauce, liqueur, jam.

Mint is perfectly combined with a variety of products and dishes. In this form, mint helps to cope with intestinal spasms, bronchitis, flatulence, nausea, heartburn, headache.

Video: What to prepare from mint? Recipes

How to store mint for the winter?

Collect and prepare mint during its flowering season - June, July. The raw material for collection includes stems, leaves, inflorescences.

Before choosing the method of storing mint for winter, the plant must undergo certain primary processing.

All leaves should be sorted, removed, then rinsed and thoroughly dried.

Video: Mint storage

Mint drying for the winter

Drying the mint is very simple. We divide it into bundles, shoots, and put them into spacious bags of paper. Packages with mint are bandaged and hung in a dry dark place with good ventilation.

Such drying will help mint not to be exposed to ultraviolet radiation, will not allow the reproduction of insects. A healing essential oils and vitamins, will be preserved in full.

The readiness of the dried mint is determined by the rustling of mint leaves. If they are well separated from each other, they are easily crushed, drying can be completed.

Mint padding in electric drier

For winter tea drinking, a variety of herbs are added to the bunches with mint, for aroma: oregano, St. John's wort, sage and thyme.

In the modern world, specialized electric dryers are used for mint drying. To dry the mint, use the lowest and most gentle temperature regime - about 35 degrees.
The best place for storing dried mint is a dry glass container, with a tightly fitting lid. The period of storage of dried mint - no more than eight months.

Freezing mint for the winter

Freezing mint can be carried out in several ways:

• Freezing without blanching .Mint leaves are crushed and placed in a container for food storage. Shelf life is not more than nine months. Later the mint will lose its useful properties.
• Blanching mint. For a longer shelf life of , , peppermint is dropped into boiling water for a few seconds, then immediately into cold water and placed in freezer bags.

Freezing mint in cubes

• For making effective and fragrant cocktails, mint is frozen with ice cubes. To do this, in specialized molds, carefully lay mint leaves and pour boiled water.
• To prepare preventive and antiviral teas in such cubes, you can put pieces of ginger and lemon zest. After freezing, mint cubes are stored in bags. Jelly Mint for Winter

  Jelly from mint for the winter will please with memories of summer and will help to prevent the catarrhal diseases and cope with the disease. The jelly itself turns yellow , for giving it a beautiful emerald shade, you should add lime juice or food coloring green.

  Mint jelly for the winter

  The consistency of mint jelly is similar to a thick sauce. So they can serve the table not only for tea drinking, but also in the form of a basic sauce for exquisite dishes from lamb and poultry.

  To prepare jelly mint we need :

  • Leaves mint-one glass
  • Water cleaned-one glass
  • cider vinegar ½ cup
  • Sugar sand-floor kilograms
  • Dye food-five drops
  • Gelatin or pectin-seventy-five grams

  preparation stages:

  • A istya mint thoroughly wash and finely chop
  • In a saucepan to make jelly, pour the vinegar apple, mint and sugar lay
  • carefully nremeshivaem
  • capacity put on a small fire, bring to a boil, stirring slowly
  • After boiling, remove from heat and introduce dye into jelly
  • again put on the fire pot and bring to a boil. Keeping minute and remove from heat
  • finished jelly tsedim through gauze or sieve
  • Allocate jelly peppermint on clean banks and sterilize them for fifteen minutes
  • Banks sealed and stored at room temperature

  Video: Peppermint syrup winter

  Video: jam mint lemon

  Peppermint with sugar for the winter

  Peppermint sugar

  One of the ways to preserve the mint flavor for the winter is the preparation of mint sugar. Such a fragrant treat is suitable for a wide variety of culinary dishes.

  Mint sugar can be used in baking, for drinks, salads and desserts.

  For sugar preparation:

  • Fresh mint - 200 grams
  • Sugar sand - 100 grams

  Preparation:

  • All the ingredients are ground and mixed with blender
  • The resulting homogeneous mass is laid out on clean jars, well sealing the contents of
  • The mint sugar stored in the refrigeratorlong enough

  For the fragrant aroma of your culinary inventions, add this mint should be already in the cooked dish.

  mint juice for the winter

  Mint juice actively used in medical to .Thanks to its antiemetic , choleretic and antispasmodic properties.
  Use juice and mint in cooking and baking at confectionery products .

  Mint preparation

  For the manufacture of juice from mint is needed :

  • leaves mint - 1 kg
  • purified water - 0,5 l

  Preparation:

  • To prepare mint juice on winter fresh leaves mint finely chop or skip through grinder
  • resulting liquid insist in during three
  • hours then tsedim , we bring to boiling
  • Removes juice with of fire and we pour into cans
  • Sterilize near twenty minutes , hermetadic sealing and give cool
  • Store juice and of mint can at room temperature

  sauce mint on winter

  Peppermint sauce for meat

  Sauce of mint considered light in preparation of and by the most exquisite to taste . It perfectly shades flavor meat dishes , especially from lamb .

  Manufacturing mint sauce occurs with following ingredients :

  • Mint fresh - 400 gr
  • Vinegar wine - 100 gr
  • Salt , sugar - on 10 gr
  • Water hot - 100 gr

  Recipe preparation peppermint sauce

  1. Take mint , mine for flowing with water , with
  2. leaves carefully separating
  3. Crushingtea mint in blender
  4. Put mint in capacitance , fill vinegar , fall asleep salt and sugar
  5. Adding water obtain desired consistency
  6. Peppermint sauce ready

  Video: Mint sauce for the winter

  Drink from the mint for the winter

  To minty drinks for the winter are: mint tea, mint extract, mint liquor, mojito , compote of mint, syrup from mint, mint broth.

  Drink from peppermint

  Mint broth is prepared mainly in winter for treatment of cough and as a disinfectant for ARVI.

  • To prepare a mint broth, take 15 grams of dry mint and pour a glass of pure water
  • Time digestion - 15 minutes
  • We give it a half hour, we put
  • We drink a decoction for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract

  Drink from mint

  To improve the appetite andsetting up the digestive tract, doctors recommend to prepare the infusion of mint.

  For preparation it is necessary: ​​

  • Mint crushed - 2 tsp.
  • A glass of boiling water

  Preparation:

  1. Mint boiled with boiling water, let it brew for half an hour
  2. Use mint infusion as an analgesic and sedative

  Mint extract is used both in medicine and for the preparation of cosmetic products.

  To prepare such an extract we take:

  • Mint crushed -100 gr
  • Alcohol - 0,5 l

  We prepare the mint extract with the following recipe:

  • Fresh mint is good for making juice
  • Take the glass jar or any glass container and fill it withmint with alcohol
  • We insist in a dark place one month
  • Cedim extract and use for the purpose

  Drink from mint with cucumber
  
  For preparation we need:

  • Cucumber average - 2 pcs
  • Water cleaning2
    
  • Freshly mint - 50 g
  • Lemon - 1 pc

  Recipe:

  • All the ingredients are finely chopped, mixed in a deep container
  • Fill with water and leave in the refrigerator for one hour
  • Served in glasses adorned with mint leaves

  Mint drinkwith fennel
  
  Take 100 grams of mint, 100 grams of fennel, sugar and cardamom to taste. The necessary components are mixed in blender , diluted with water.

  Video: Mint syrup

  Video: Compote from mint with gooseberry