How to freeze berries to preserve vitamins?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Summer is the best time when you can enjoy the taste and aroma of fresh berries and, at the same time, recharge your body with natural vitamins. But, unfortunately, this season passes too quickly, and you want to get "live" vitamins in the winter. There is a way out: you can prepare berries for future use.
Prepare a container for storing frozen berries. You can use cellophane bags (especially convenient bags with clips) and plastic boxes or cups with lids. The main thing is that the container is hermetically sealed. Stored in the packages, the fruits take up less space in the freezer. And in plastic containers it is convenient to freeze berries, sprinkled with sugar, or in sugar syrup. Choose what is most convenient for you.
Prepare the fruit: ripe, slightly pricked are not suitable for freezing. Go through all the berries, remove the trash, remove the stems, rinse lightly. It is recommended to raspberries and blackberries for a minute in a weak saline solution in order to remove from the fruit of possible bugs and their larvae. Rinse the berries in a single layer on trays (trays) to dry them.
Prepare the prepared fruits in one layer on a pallet and put in the freezer until completely frozen. Very well, if your refrigerator has a function of "quick freezing" - the less time is spent on freezing berries, the more vitamins will be preserved. After the berries are frozen, transfer them to a container for long-term storage. Try to keep as little free space as possible during the laying of berries, but do not compact the fruits strongly, so as not to damage them. Be sure to ensure that all packages with berries are hermetically sealed. Put it in the freezer.
To freeze berries, preserving vitamins, you can also in sugar. The principle is the same as with conventional freezing, only first fill the fresh berries with sugar. Very tasty and no less useful are the fruits frozen in sugar syrup. Before freezing, put the berries in a container for freezing and pour them with syrup (200 g sugar per 1 liter of water), put the container in the freezer.
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