Secrets of cooking sea buckthorn punch

Punch is a hot cocktail with the addition of fruit, berries or juice. This drink can be not only tasty, but also useful if you add certain ingredients to its composition.Sea buckthorn berries are full of various vitamins and microelements, which indicates their great benefits for human health. The secrets of cooking sea buckthorn punch will be discussed in more detail in this article.

Punch is a fairly popular drink in many countries. The composition of this cocktail most often includes fruit or natural juice. The flow temperature of the beverage is mainly 60 degrees. Warming punch is an excellent prophylactic against colds and flu, especially if it contains berries or fruits rich in vitamins.

Cocktail is allowed to serve in the cold version. According to reviews, cooled punch perfectly quenches thirst and has no less benefit than the hot version. Sea buckthorn punch helps to strengthen the immune system due to the healing properties of the berries. Sea buckthorn contains many provitamins, which explains its benefits for the body.

Berries can be eaten both fresh and processed in the composition of beverages, jams or confectionery. Punch of sea buckthorn helps in the fight against viral diseases, helps to improve the outflow of bile and the nervous system.

Sea buckthorn punch is prepared in two main variations: with and without the addition of alcohol. To make a cocktail, you can use both fresh berries and jam from them. Greater benefit, of course, has the fresh sea buckthorn, which is laid in the drink without pre-boiling.

Sea buckthorn punch with the addition of alcohol has excellent warming properties. The strength of such a drink is low and most often does not exceed 17%. However, the abuse of sea buckthorn alcohol cocktail will not bring much benefit to the body, but, on the contrary, will cause harm. To prepare a hot cocktail at the rate of one serving you will need the following ingredients:

• two teaspoons of sea buckthorn jam;
• one tablespoon of honey of any kind;
• two tablespoons of brandy;
• a couple of lemon slices;
• 200 milliliters of green tea.

On request, some products can be replaced. It is allowed to use brandy instead of brandy, replace lemon with lime slices, and green tea - with black. The process of making a drink is quite simple:

• first you need to brew tea and cool it a little;
• when the tea has cooled to about 70 degrees, it is necessary to add jam and honey to it, after which everything should be carefully moved;
• cognac and lemon pieces are added to the drink;
• Ready cocktails can be decorated with lime slices.

For a non-alcoholic cocktail, fresh sea buckthorn berries are used. Before preparing the beverage, the berry does not need to be subjected to any heat treatment. Sea buckthorn is added to the punch just before serving. This is necessary to preserve all the beneficial properties of the berries. To make a hot, non-alcoholic sea buckthorn punch, you need the following ingredients:

• 300–350 grams of fresh berries;
• one medium sized lemon;
• ginger root - 20 grams;
• one orange;
• 5 grams of ground cardamom;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• fresh mint leaves - about 10 grams;
• 1.8 liters of drinking water.

Before preparing the drink, it is recommended to carefully sort out the sea-buckthorn berries, clean it from small debris and dirt, and then rinse well with hot water. Peeled berries need to knead well with a rolling pin. Then crushed sea buckthorn must be rubbed through a sieve. In this way, it is possible to obtain juice and solid waste from the berries, which are also used in the preparation of punch.

Freshly squeezed orange and lemon juices should be added to sea buckthorn juice. Fruits can also be ground with a sieve or use a citrus juicer.The finished mixture should be removed for a while to a cold place, having previously covered the container for storage with a lid or film. Solid waste from sea buckthorn and citrus fruits should be combined with each other and placed in a pan with clean drinking water.

Then put the pot on the fire and add to all the ingredients in it a few mint leaves. When the broth begins to boil, ground cardamom and sugar fall asleep in it. The pot is removed from the stove, and the resulting composition is passed through a sieve or cheesecloth. To filtered broth for three minutes, add ginger root, then remove it.

After this hot broth must be combined with a mixture of previously squeezed juices and mix well. The drink is immediately ready to drink.

Despite the fact that the sea buckthorn is a rather sour berry with a bitter taste and taste is not everyone likes, the punch of it turns out to be quite pleasant. According to reviews, the cocktail has a good aroma and taste without bitterness.

In addition, to make sea buckthorn punch is easy, and anyone can cope with this task.

A clear and simple recipe for cooking hot sea buckthorn punch, see below.