Recipes blanks from the actinidia for the winter

The use of actinidia is associated not only with its impressive decorative characteristics. It is also a source of extremely tasty berries.There are a number of ways to save them for the winter.

The fruits of actinidia are dried only after ripening and thorough cleaning. The procedure involves drying in a stove or oven.

Dried berries are often pressed and stored in plastic bags; judging by the reviews, it resembles raisins.

This product, according to most professionals, is most valuable. It is necessary to begin by rubbing fruits with sugar (its amount is exactly 60%). Sugar should be completely dissolved. Raw jam can be left at room temperature for up to 7 months. This method of preservation allows you to save 100% ascorbic acid.

Actinidia is also used to make delicious juice. To do this, the collected berries for 24 hours are left in a cool place, squeeze the juice, heat the liquid in an enamel pot to 70-80 degrees, pour the juice into sterilized jars, plug these jars and leave them for storage.

Many people really like actinidia jelly. To make it, fruits gently knead in enamelled or plastic containers. To do this, use a wooden pestle. After that, the berry mass is filled with sugar.

Next, you need to thoroughly mix the products, shift them to another container, boil over low heat until fully cooked, and put them in glass jars.

From actinidia can be prepared and jam without adding water. Usually spend 1 kg of berries. They add twice as much sugar. The mixture is left in a cool room for 2 to 4 days (until the juice begins to stand out). Then boil until fully cooked on a weak flame.

This recipe uses 1 kg of berries and 0.3 kg of sugar. For work, thoroughly ripened, but not overripe (this is important) berries are needed. They are washed and thoroughly dried. In peppered sugar form left for 1 day. Then boil the syrup using 200 ml of water. Cooked syrup is poured to the berries. The whole mixture is boiled over low heat for a maximum of 5 minutes. Fruits are pulled out using a skimmer and laid out on a baking sheet. This pan is put in the oven. 15 minutes berries are dried at 80 degrees, then 30 minutes at 70, and finally 180 minutes at 30 degrees.

This method of harvesting for the winter is used only for small fruits. They must be washed and dried. Berries spread in soda solution. For its preparation use 0.03 kg of soda per 1 liter of pure boiled water. After soaking in soda solution, actinidia on the pan is sent to the oven, heated to 70 degrees. In 2-3 hours the fruits will be ready.

Fruits need to be washed and dried. They are scattered on the pallet. Then put the tray in the freezer, cooled to -19 degrees. After freezing the berries are placed in packages. Keep them in the same freezer.

To make it, put a well-washed berries in an ordinary glass jar. They are immediately poured hot syrup. To prepare it, 0.3 kg of granulated sugar is put into 1 liter of water. Pasteurization under the lids takes ¼ hours. Ready compote is easiest to keep in dark cool rooms.

To make it, they usually take:

• 3 kg of berries;

• 2 lemons;

• 0.5 kg of sugar.

Fruits heat over low heat until juice appears. As soon as he starts to go out, the berries are crushed with a crush of wood. Crushing, lemons fall asleep in the same container (they are pre-cut smaller). Cooking should go to full readiness, while guided by taste. While the jam is boiling, it should be continuously stirred.

To prepare this drink, you need to take 1 kg of ripe berries and chop them. This gruel is left in the tank, where it can ferment.To fermentation went faster and more efficiently, add 0.3 kg of sugar and 3 liters of water. All this mixture is kept for 10 days in a dark corner. Shake the bottle once a day. On day 10, put an additional 0.3 kg of sugar. On the 20th - repeat the additive. Usually within a month the fermentation is completed. The finished wine is poured into smaller, clean bottles. They are carefully clogged and put in the cold.

There is another way to make such a dish out of the berries of actinidia. In this recipe, preference is given to slightly unripe, but already softened fruits. They, of course, how to wash. Then prepare the syrup. To start dissolve sugar in water. Sugar should be poured into low-boiling water, continuously interfering with it. When the syrup boils, it is time to put the berries. Boiling them lasts an average of 4 minutes, it is not recommended to spend more time.

Pans taken from the fire stand under cover for 6 to 8 hours. Such infusion allows you to soak the berries with syrup, they will become heavier and sink to the bottom. As soon as this happens, the jam is boiled over and boil gently. It lasts 20 minutes.

This drink can be made at home even easier than jam. For work use ripe berries. They should be washed under running water in a colander. Then actinidia is loaded into a juicer. After squeezing the liquid, heat it 5 minutes to 85 degrees. Hot drink should be poured into pre-scalded cans or bottles that immediately cork.

The use of actinidia in the winter is also possible when cooking grated berries. A good recipe implies:

• 1 kg of fruit;

• 1 kg of sugar;

• 2 ml of citric acid.

Berries are peeled and washed. The washed actinidia is dried. Then rub with sugar to make a homogeneous mixture. They put more citric acid there, then warm up the billet to 90 degrees. Pasteurization cans produced 10 minutes at 90 degrees. If jars larger than 0.5 l are used, they need to be pasteurized longer.

What is described above is well known to most cooks - after all, similar recipes are found in most sources. But there are less familiar ways of applying actinidia for the winter. Sometimes they make marmalade out of it.

The proportion between him and the berries is 1: 2.

Actinidia is sorted and washed, put in a dish, which add 0.2 liters of water. Cook until mass in the pan becomes mushy. This semi-finished product is rubbed through a sieve, which retains the skin and seeds. They cover with sugar, continue to boil until marmalade thickens. Pour it over the banks in hot form, put them in a cellar or other cool dry place.

From actinidia you can cook not only jam or jam, but also jam. Berries of various ripeness are suitable for him, that is, it is not necessary to sort out the crop especially carefully. The collected fruits are poured with hot (non-boiling) water. In her actinidia insists up to 5 minutes. Then it is rubbed through a sieve, the mashed potatoes are boiled for 10-12 minutes, then sugar is laid and cooked over medium heat to the desired condition.

The original way to save actinidia for the winter is pickling. For it use:

• 1 l of water;
• 0.4 kg of sugar;
• 0.2 liters of vinegar;
• 10 sweet peppers;
• cardamom and cloves to your liking.

Fruits are blanched using water heated to 60-70 degrees. The duration of blanching is no more than 4 minutes. In a sterilized jar at the bottom spread spices. Above them put actinidia, poured over her heated marinade. The bank must be tightly closed with a lid.

Another way to prepare the fruits of actinidia for the winter - is the preparation of marshmallow. It is made from 1 kg of berries, 0.7 kg of sugar and 0.3 kg of pure water. Fruits, as always, washed and put in an enamel container. It is necessary to simmer them in the oven under the lid until everything is softened.Soft berries should be ground, beat twice (one - after adding sugar syrup).

Next, the semi-finished product is poured into trays. The berries are pre-laid out with parchment paper covered with a layer of butter. Actinidium level with a knife and put in the oven to dry at 50 or 60 degrees. When it takes 5 hours, you can cut the mass, and after another 2 hours the parts need to be turned. Prepare the fruit candy, sprinkle it with powdered sugar. The dish, folded in parchment paper, is left kept dry.

See the original video recipe for kiwi pastila.