If you have your own garden, then you, of course, make preparations for the winter. Well, even if you do not have a plot, you can prepare food for future use in the form of salting, jam or freezing by simply buying the necessary products in the market or in the supermarket. Cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, berries, fruits. In addition to salting, I really like to freeze food for the winter. It is very convenient, for example, to get a bag with already chopped vegetables in winter, which, after defrosting, smell as if they had just been plucked from the garden, defrost and cook your favorite dish.
Well, how are you doing with freezing berries? Now I'm not talking about currants, gooseberries, blueberries, which, after defrosting, do not "change" at all. I'm talking about strawberries or, for example, raspberries, strawberries. Despite such an amazing invention as a freezer, sometimes, instead of a delicious freeze, housewives get tasteless ice or porridge. Freezing berries is not an easy task. Therefore, let's talk in more detail about how to properly freeze the berry. It is not enough to wash it, put it in a container, and put it in the freezer. Let's start in order.
Packaging and date
To freeze the berries, you need to use a special vacuum bag or container. Even at a temperature of minus 18 degrees, an unpleasant odor can spread in the refrigerator. Berries, like, in principle, other products, very well absorb all foreign odors.
For example, if you freeze it in cling film, it will lose its elasticity, it may tear, and the products will absorb all sorts of odors. Eating fishy-flavored strawberries will be unpleasant for you, won't you? It is important to write the date on the package in order to know for sure how long the berry is in the freezer.
Small portions
It is a huge mistake to freeze berries in large portions. After all, then you have to either defrost everything, or split off the required volume. Well, why are these torments? It is much easier to freeze strawberries or raspberries in small portions. And in no case should you defrost a large volume, take as much as you need, and throw the rest back into the freezer. Here, the berry is definitely to be thrown away.
Freezing speed
Here's an interesting nuance. Experts recommend giving the berries a shock freeze! The faster the berry freezes, the less ice crystals form on its surface. If your freezer has a “quick freeze” function, be sure to activate it.
Sugar-coated berries
A very good option is to freeze the strawberries in sugar. Taking out the berry from the freezer, you will already get an almost finished dessert. For 1 kg of strawberries, you will need 2-3 tablespoons of sugar. But, of course, you can add more to your taste.
First, the berry must be washed, dried gently and the stalks removed. Place the strawberries in a bowl, sprinkle with sugar, and stir gently with a wooden spoon. Strawberry juice, of course, will appear, but there is nothing wrong with that. All that remains is to arrange the berries in containers along with the juice that appears, and send them to the freezer. An excellent "semi-finished product" for filling in pies, making smoothies, adding to porridge, ice cream, etc.
Dry freeze
For dry freezing, also rinse the berries, dry on paper towels, remove the stalks. After drying with towels, place the berries on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Place the baking sheet in the freezer, shock freeze, and then put all the berries in a vacuum bag. So your strawberries will remain their "native" form, ie. will not crumple, and also will not lose its useful properties.
Tell us in the comments what else you know the secrets of freezing such delicate berries as strawberries, raspberries, wild strawberries!
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