Cooking grated gooseberries with sugar for the winter
Gooseberry is a favorite berry of many summer residents, because its cultivation does not require significant efforts.From it you can make interesting delicious jams and preserves, but the classic rubbed gooseberry with sugar is the most popular. This useful and tasty preparation for the winter will help to cope with the winter blues and improve health.
Berry benefits
Gooseberry is an extremely useful product. Especially the peak of the presence of nutrients in it falls on the already ripe sweet berries. That is why they are not recommended to be collected before this period.
The composition of the gooseberry is extremely rich in vitamins, especially high in vitamin C, so it is often recommended to use it for colds and fevers. And there is more iron in it than in apples. The berry contains many pectins, organic acids and minerals such as potassium, phosphorus, zinc and calcium.
Gooseberry has the following beneficial properties:
- dietary product that is recommended for use by people with overweight and high blood cholesterol, since it has a beneficial effect on reducing the latter;
- it is shown to children and elderly people to prevent and strengthen the walls of blood vessels and capillaries, it has a beneficial effect on the human vascular-cardiac system;
- positively and gently affects the digestive system, strengthening its walls, and also contributes to the removal of toxins from the body;
- thanks to the serotonin contained in the product, helps to bring the overall well-being of a person in tone, as well as improve mood, reduce symptoms of depression;
- improves skin condition, cleans it and reduces the amount of acne and inflammation;
- smoothly affects and normalizes the liver.
The high level of nutrients in the berry attracts the attention of many. That is why the gooseberry is considered the most popular product, which is grown by domestic summer residents and gardeners.
In order to preserve the nutrients, it is necessary to cook the berry correctly, avoiding the process of boiling and evaporation of vitamins. The best option is to use the product fresh. However, if you want to pamper yourself with this berry, not only during the fruiting season, but also during the cold season, you should stock up on fresh winterized gooseberries with sugar.
Traditional recipe
To prepare a ground healthy gooseberry, you will need gooseberry and sugar in a ratio of 1: 1. It is important to understand that in this case sugar is a guarantee that the gooseberry will not deteriorate during its storage and will retain all its beneficial properties as much as possible.
The cooking algorithm is pretty simple. It is enough to put the berry together with sugar in a blender and beat the ingredients until smooth. But you can also twist the gooseberry by hand or use a meat grinder, and then mix it thoroughly with sugar. Then the mixture should be placed in pre-pasteurized jars, tightly closed with a lid and stored in a cool place. It is important to ensure that gooseberry passed through a meat grinder, crammed into the jar as tightly as possible.
After opening the can, the product is recommended to be consumed within 3-5 days.
To enhance the beneficial properties of raw berries, you can make gooseberries with lemon, adding it to the half of the ingredients, and rub it together with the pulp and skin. Thus, you can get a powerful source of vitamins for the cold period, and in winter resort to it in case of a cold.
Learn more about how to cook grated gooseberries with sugar for the winter, you can from the following video.
