These berries are widely known for their beneficial properties and high vitamin content. Many delicious preparations are prepared on their basis, and jelly from ripe lingonberries, rolled up for the winter, will become a truly interesting, tasty and original dessert. There are various, proven, but relatively simple recipes for its preparation, including with various thickeners.
Specifics of preparing lingonberry jelly for the winter
To prepare a tasty, healthy and beautiful jelly of the desired consistency, you need to choose the right berries, sterilize the container and strictly follow the recipe.
Rules for choosing ingredients
For cooking, only ripe, elastic and whole berries are selected. Spoiled, rotten or unripe green fruits are discarded - they will spoil the taste of the future jelly. Interestingly, some housewives cook jelly without adding thickeners - ripe lingonberries contain enough pectin for the desired consistency of the product.
How to properly prepare containers
To preserve the preparations, the jars are well washed and sterilized. To do this, treat with hot steam over a saucepan, fry for 10-15 minutes in the oven, use a multicooker or microwave oven, where they place the container, pouring water on the bottom.
How to make lingonberry jelly at home
To do this, you need to choose high-quality fruits and clearly, step by step follow the requirements of the recipe.
For cooking, use pans with a thick bottom and low sides, in which it is convenient to boil the berry mass.
Classic recipe
This is a simple, proven recipe that includes only the required minimum ingredients. This jelly is suitable for dietary nutrition, as an original, safe treat for children and simply as a tasty, beautiful, nutritious dessert.
Ingredients:
- berries – 1 kilogram;
- water – 250 milliliters;
- thickener (gelatin) – 25 grams;
- liquid honey – 350 milliliters.
Cooking technology:
- The berries are sorted, washed and dried.
- Then they are ground through a sieve or mashed with a masher, and then the juice is squeezed out using gauze.
- Add honey to a saucepan with juice, put on fire and, stirring, bring to a boil.
- Then add gelatin and, stirring constantly, cook until the thickener (gelatin) is completely dissolved.
- Afterwards, there are two options: simply pour it hot into sterilized, clean jars, or add berries and only then pour it.
No-cooking option
This jelly preserves as much as possible all the taste, aroma and benefits of lingonberries. There is nothing complicated about this preparation. You must first sprinkle the fruits with sugar so that they give juice. Then bring to a boil, allow to cool and grind through a sieve. Then heat it again and add a thickener before boiling, and after a few minutes remove it from the heat.
But some housewives manage without it. To prepare you need to take:
- lingonberry fruits – 2 kilograms;
- sugar – 1 kilogram;
- water – 3 glasses;
- thickener (pectin) – 30 grams.
With gelatin
To be sure that the finished jelly will definitely acquire the desired consistency, many housewives use a proven ingredient - gelatin. In addition, you will need:
- lingonberry fruits – 2 kilograms;
- gelatin – 50 grams;
- water – 750 milliliters;
- sugar – 1 kilogram.
With pectin
Housewives often use pectin to make jelly - a substitute for the usual gelatin. But it is important to remember that it does not tolerate prolonged heat treatment. It is added only 7-10 minutes before the end of cooking, having previously dissolved it in water. The following ingredients are needed: berries – 1 kilogram; sugar 500 grams, water 1.5 cups, pectin – 15 grams.
With yellowfix
Increasingly, instead of gelatin, housewives use zhelfix, a substance based on pectin and citric acid, to prepare jellies and jellies. In addition, it also acts as a preservative.For preparation you need the following ingredients:
- lingonberries – 1 kilogram;
- sugar – 500 grams;
- water – 350 milliliters,
- Zhelfix – 1 pack.
With liqueur
This is a jelly recipe exclusively for adults; adding liqueur makes the taste more piquant, enhances the aroma and extends shelf life.
The recipe is practically no different from the classic one, only 2-3 teaspoons of liqueur are added to 1 kilogram of berries at the end of cooking.
Spiced
But the prepared jelly with spices will not leave any real gourmet indifferent. To do this you will need the following ingredients:
- lingonberries – 1 kilogram;
- sugar – 800 grams;
- cinnamon – 1 stick;
- cloves - 2-3 buds.
Rules for storing lingonberry preparations
Rolled lingonberry jelly is stored in dry, dark and cool places. They should not freeze in winter, and the temperature should not rise above +10 C degrees. These are glazed, unheated balconies, cellars, basements, as well as ordinary home refrigerators.
