How to cook fresh cranberry juice
Products
Cranberries - 1 kilogram
Sugar or honey - half a kilo
Water - one and a half liters
How to cook fresh cranberry juice
Sort the cranberries, removing plant debris and stale berries. Then chop the cranberries with a blender or grind in a bowl with a wooden spoon / pusher.
Pour in half a glass of water, stir, squeeze the cranberry juice well through cheesecloth into a bowl. Put a saucepan with pomace on fire, pour in water, add sugar and stir. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Then pour in cranberry juice and leave for 1-2 hours, covered, serve warm or chilled.
If you make fruit drink with honey, add honey after boiling - and then stir well the boiled fruit drink.
Frozen cranberry juice
ProductsFrozen cranberries - 3 kilograms
Sugar - 2 kilograms
Water - 3 liters
How to cook frozen cranberry juice
Put the cranberries, without defrosting, into a bowl, crush, squeeze, pour in water and add sugar. Bring to a boil and simmer for 2 minutes over low heat, uncovered.
Fusofacts
- You can add other berries to the cranberry juice: lingonberries or black currants.- You can make cranberry juice easier: for this you need to rinse the cranberries, grind them with sugar in a blender, put them in jars and put them in the refrigerator. At any time of the year, you can dilute this mixture with warm boiled water and get a healthy vitamin drink.
- If you add 2 teaspoons of starch diluted in cold water to the fruit drink, you get cranberry jelly.
- By adding cranberry juice to the fruit drink, which is not subject to boiling, the drink retains many useful substances, for example, vitamin C. with diseases.
- You can add a pinch of cinnamon and orange peels to the cranberry juice.
- People who suffer from heartburn and have gastritis with high acidity are not recommended to often consume cranberry juice.
- Cranberry juice can be stored in the refrigerator for 2 days in a closed container.
- Caloric content of cranberry juice - 26 kcal / 100 grams.
- The cost of frozen cranberries on average in Moscow for June 2020 is from 250 rubles / 300 grams.
- Cranberry juice can be cooked without boiling. Thanks to the benzoic acid contained in the berries, it will keep well.
- To prepare a drink with a maximum vitamin content, you need to crush the berries with a wooden crush and pour cold boiled water, add honey instead of sugar. Let the drink brew for 3 hours.
- Cranberry juice contains a lot of potassium, phosphorus and calcium. The drink contains iron, manganese, copper, molybdenum. They normalize the blood composition, improve the work of the heart muscle, and restore elasticity to the skin. Cranberry juice strengthens the immune system, has antibacterial and antipyretic properties.