Most people love strawberry ripening season. This sweet and fragrant berry wants to keep as long as possible. If you make jam from strawberries, then in this form with fresh fruits she will have a bit of similarity. And after freezing, it will be as if it had just been brought from the dacha.
This method of storing strawberries is the most tempting, so it has many supporters. How to freeze strawberries with sugar for the winter correctly, we consider the article in detail.
How to choose strawberries for freezing and prepare it for processing
In order that the preservation of whole berries in the freezer be of high quality, you should seriously consider their selection. Therefore, you should buy only fresh and moderately ripe strawberries. You can not take and overripe product, which lay in the refrigerator for more than 3 hours. The best solution is to recycle immediately after collection for freezing. We can not allow ingestion of rotten berries, because even one of them can spoil the taste.
When buying strawberries, they choose medium-sized fruits, because they are better frozen and can be preserved longer. Before freezing should pay attention to the weather, it should be dry and warm, because the berries collected in the rainy period will be odorless and watery.
After the acquisition of sweet fruits are engaged in their preparation for freezing.
Stages of work:
- The berries are put in a colander and washed in a container filled with water.
- Take out and allow the fruit to drain.
- Repeat the washing in several waters.
- Spread each berry on a paper towel.
- Remove sepals.
Make the procedure quickly so that the strawberries are not soaked with water and do not lose the flavor.
There are opponents of washing fruits among the hostesses, since you can wash off the protective film that is present on each of them. Therefore, some are limited to blowing dust with a household hair dryer. But this technology of preparing berries is suitable only for fresh, home-grown strawberries.
Freezing strawberries with whole berries sugar
Sometimes it is the whole strawberry that is needed to decorate culinary dishes. If the berry should freeze with sugar, then take:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 300 grams of sugar.
The active cooking time of this portion of delicacy is 15-20 minutes. Caloric value per 100 g of the product is 122 kcal.
Fruits are medium size and small prepare. Then they are poured with fine sugar and laid out in a flat container in 1 layer. To do this, you can use either a cutting board, covered with cling film, or a small tray. Then hide the decomposed strawberries in the freezer for freezing.
After a few hours, the treat is taken out, laid out in plastic bags, preferably with a zip-lock clasp. Servings should be such that the berries can be eaten at once, because repeated freezing is undesirable.
And still freeze the whole fruit with sugar in its own juice. To do this, sprinkle berries with sugar and let stand in the refrigerator for several hours. After shifting the strawberries into a container and pour it with juice. Tightly close the lid and sent to the freezer.
After gradual defrosting, we get a fragrant berry of bright color, its shape will be preserved.
Preserving berries in a freezer dusted with icing sugar
Since strawberries lose their sweet taste when frozen, powder will come to the rescue. Therefore, for the preparation of this delicacy take:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 200 g of powdered sugar.
The active time of processing berries is 15-20 minutes. Calorie product - 100 kcal.
Start with the preparation of strawberries. Then spread the plastic wrap on the surface of the cutting board and spread the fruit there, keeping a certain distance between them. Place the container with strawberries in the freezer for 2 hours. Take out the berries and laid out in plastic food containers, while sprinkling powder on each layer.
If everything is done correctly, then get a product that will be stored for a long time and after defrosting will retain its shape and remain sweet.
How to freeze grated strawberries with sugar
For the preparation of strawberry puree should take:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 0.5 kg of granulated sugar.
Berry processing time is 20 minutes. Calorie product - 159 kcal.
Prepared fruits are interrupted in a blender with a nozzle in the form of a knife, but you can skip through a meat grinder. In order for the berry to retain a maximum of vitamins, some housewives do not use metal tools, but wooden ones. The optimal solution is a mortar and pestle. Thus, you can save a maximum of useful substances.
After obtaining a homogeneous mass, sugar is added to the berry puree, it is stirred well until complete dissolution, and poured into food plastic containers. Capacity placed in the freezer. It is known that the rectangular shape of the containers will save space in the refrigerator. Such containers are tightly placed next to each other.
Using this method of freezing the berry mass, you can water the pancakes, cottage cheese and cereal, prepare compote and yogurt, jelly. When preparing such mashed potatoes, the rate of sugar can be reduced or increased and, as an option, the mass can be made without it at all.
Strawberries with sugar and sour cream: freezing instructions
In order to process the berry with sugar and sour cream, take:
- 1 kg of strawberries;
- 500 g of sugar;
- 500 g sour cream 15% fat.
Berry processing time is 20 minutes. Caloric content of this dish is 160 kcal.
Prepared fruits are pureed in the same way as in the previous case. Then add sugar and sour cream. Thoroughly mixed, laid out in containers and tightly closed lids. Put them in the freezer for storage.
Dessert is used independently or as an additive to various dishes.
The benefits of frozen strawberries
Much has been written about the benefits of eating fresh strawberries. Frozen in modern household appliances berries differ in composition from fresh slightly.
The content of vitamins B1, B2 and C remains at the same level as in the fresh berry. Strawberries also contain iron, pectin, iodine, folic acid, calcium, phosphorus and a large amount of acids of organic origin.
Valuable minerals and vitamins make the berry useful in atherosclerosis, thyroid disease, iron deficiency anemia, during epidemics of viral diseases. Antioxidants in its composition give a person youth, and for those who smoke, berries help to get rid of toxins accumulated over a long time.
Strawberry has a number of qualities that improve health:
- activates the digestive process - improves intestinal motility;
- acts as a diuretic - cleans the kidneys from salts;
- normalizes the exchange of salts in the body - can be used by people who want to lose weight;
- When the product is frozen, zinc and cadmium pesticides are destroyed.
This berry is often used in the preparation of desserts in many world cuisines. Frozen strawberries make excellent pies and cakes, as well as cocktails, mousses and jelly. But people who are allergic to berries should be careful when they are consumed.
