How to freeze the sweet cherry?

There are several methods for storing fresh berries in winter, but freezing is considered the best and easiest of them.This allows you to save the taste and vitamins contained in cherries, and enjoy them throughout the winter season, when you want to feel the presence of summer. But in order to preserve the fruits for a long time, it is worth doing all the preparations correctly. For this, there are special recipes and instructions for freezing.

In modern culinary, cherry berries are not the last. With their help, you can cook milk soup, cream, dumplings, sauces, stewed fruit and many other dishes. Sweet cherry is also used as a diet product. It improves digestion and quenches thirst. This berry has expectorant, antiseptic and mild laxative effects.

How to prepare it for the winter, so that for a long time to keep it useful properties? The optimal and rational solution is to use freezing. On the shelves of stores now you can buy ready-made bags of frozen sweet cherries at a low price. But lovers of organic berries and fruits prefer to cook them yourself. This is due to the fact that the hostess often after the purchase of the product find that it is flawed. Immediately disappears the desire to use it as a food product. Reviews of such purchased sweet cherry are mostly negative.

But if there are ready-made fresh berries, you can use one of the recipes for freezing cherries for the winter to freeze them. To do this:

• remove wrinkled or overripe sweet cherries, leaves and stems;
• rinse the fruit thoroughly under warm water 2-3 times;
• sprinkle the berries on the surface of any towel and leave them until the final drying.

Then you need to use a specific way to freeze the berries in the freezer. Among the most common are boneless and stone fruit. The first is used to prepare different dishes. Such as pies or other confectionery products.

To start harvesting or use ready-made fresh fruit. After proceeding to the procedure of freezing. Although the method of preparing the berries for processing has not yet been determined, it is worthwhile to study the general instructions in order to get a high-quality and tasty product.

• Do not delay the time. Processing berries should be carried out immediately after harvest. This will allow you to cook a winter dessert. Only ripe fruits are suitable for freezing, and overripe fruits immediately go to the dining table.
• The container under the berries carefully washed. Dishes must be completely sterile. And it must have a function with a hermetically sealed holder to avoid various unpleasant odors.
• Place the cherries randomly on a flat dish, then freeze them for about 30 minutes. After the fruit is sent to the container for the final freeze.
• Containers made of plastic, cups with a lid, freezer bags with a zipper are suitable as dishes for preparing the product.
• In the container laid out small portions of berries. With too much, they do not freeze well. What makes them storage for the winter unsuitable.

In most cases, sweet cherry is harvested with bones. To freeze a single serving, you will only need to prepare:

• sweet cherries - 300 g;
• granulated sugar to taste;
• special packages for freezing in a cup or container.

The procedure for freezing the product.

• All berries are cleaned of legs, leaves, washed with water at room temperature.
• Spread the fruit so that it lies comfortably on a flat, shallow plate or on an average baking tray that fits easily inside the freezer compartment.
• For 30 minutes, put the cherries in the freezer.
• When the berries have hardened, put them in a container. If you need to sweeten them a little, then pour a small layer of sugar on top.
• Try to release air from the bag or cup, tightly close the clasp or lid.

Freezing this type of sweet cherry will take a lot of time. To make the first batch, you will need:

• sweet cherries - 300-400 g;
• granulated sugar to taste;
• container for storing berries in the freezer.

Before freezing the berries are prepared again. Clean and wash them with running water. Then perform the following steps.

• Remove the seeds from the inside using a pin. With the help of her slowly pull out the bones of the berries.
• Spread the fruit at a not very close distance to each other on any board, pan or flat dish. The main thing is that the surface was completely flat. And put for 30-40 minutes in the freezer.
• Remove the berries from the freezer box, put it on the bottom of the container or inside the package with clasps. Sprinkle with sugar if necessary.
• Close the container tightly, before releasing more air.
• Again, send the berries to freeze in the refrigerator.

Making the freeze in such a preparation, add sugar strictly according to the instructions. But in extreme cases, it can be added to the taste. All ingredients are exactly the same as in other methods:

• sweet cherry berries - 300 grams;
• granulated sugar - 4-5 tablespoons, it is possible to use it to taste;
• container for freezing.

The above recipes use a dry freeze method. With them, the berries were first frozen for 30 minutes in the refrigerating chamber, and then put in the freezer for the whole winter. You can consider the option of placing the berries without initial freezing in the container. In such a situation, they simply freeze and stick together, becoming one common lump. Neither dessert nor cake is very convenient to decorate with such berries. To prepare sweet cherries with sugar requires a few steps.

• Wash the berries with running water, remove the seeds from them with a pin.
• Repeat the procedure with a pre-freeze for 30 minutes.
• Spread the fruit into a container: first put one layer of sugar, then cherries, and so on several times. Then put them in the fridge.

Another method of freezing cherries for the winter. One of the yummy ways, which is similar to dessert. Cooked frozen food is used by housewives to fill pies and dumplings or the basis for cooking. Ingredients:

• berries ripe sweet cherry - 300-400 grams;
• sugar - 100 grams.

Instructions for preparing the product consists of several simple steps.

• Peel and rinse the berries well, freeing them from the seeds, then fold them into a container.
• The remaining fruits are mixed with sugar, then beat with a mixer or blender until a homogeneous mass.
• The liquid is poured into containers with sweet cherry.
• Firmly cover them with a lid, put in the freezer.

This option is the most difficult of all of the above. But it will be very pleasant to those who love compotes and jams. For its preparation, you will need to clear the berries and how to rinse. Then prepare syrup for sweet cherries. To do this, pour 4 cups of water into the bowl. To her pour 1.3 cups of sugar and berries. Place the dishes on the stove, whilst blanching the berries in syrup. Then the whole composition is poured into molds and put in the refrigerator. After the whole mass is frozen, it is divided into briquettes, wrapped in foil and put in the freezer.

To replenish the body with vitamins in the winter season, you can use cherries. It is not only healthy, but also low-calorie, which is important for those who are on a diet. Caloric content of 100 g of fresh or frozen berries is 53 kcal. When using sugar, of course, it increases.If sugar is added not so much, then the cherry dessert can be used as a substitute for sweet foods during the diet.

Store frozen container with berries should be in a tightly packed form, otherwise they will be able to absorb foreign odors of products stored in the neighborhood. Temperature index should not exceed -16 C. Shelf life when frozen can be up to 6-8 months. If the type of freezing with seeds was used, then the product should be consumed up to 6 months, since during this period, hydrocyanic acid is released from the seeds, which is a toxic poison and can cause harm to humans.

It is necessary to freeze, taking into account all our recommendations, so you will receive not only tasty, but also a useful product.

It is important when defrosting products do not rush. To begin with, it is worthwhile to place a container or package in the general refrigerating compartment for approximately 7 hours. Or even leave it there overnight. After the berries continue to thaw. And then they can be removed from the refrigerator and placed on the kitchen table, and then left until the final defrost. Note that the product is intended for single defrosting only. This means that it will be impossible to freeze the berries a second time. Therefore, all portions are prepared in small portions and thawed out in small handfuls for a single food application.

For information on how to freeze the sweet cherry, see the following video.