The first fruit of this summer such juicy, fragrant, and children eat them with pleasure! What to cook from the berries and to surprise the whole family? We understand!
Berries delight us in a special way. Aroma, color, taste, and of course - a huge benefit of vitamin support. You can compare them with precious gems: blue honeysuckle - sapphire, strawberries - a ruby red, yellow cherry - amber and cherry - burgundy garnet.
these seasonal berries, fresh eat them can only be a short time. So you should eat them as often as possible and, of course, give the kiddies, while respecting certain rules.
• Open the berry season gradually! Norma berry products daily for two year olds - 100 g, for a three year old - no more than 200 grams per day.
• Do not feed your baby directly from the bush. All berries baby food should be thoroughly washed. Even if you grow in your garden, they are, at least, road dust settles.
• Not everyone has a suburban area with a nice garden. Stores and bought on the market, it is necessary to wash the berries carefully!
Honeysuckle
The berries ripen on the bush is not at the same time that allows you to collect her almost to the end of the month. These blue "jugs" store and vitamin B1, which allows to support the tired after the spring of the nervous system, vitamin B2 is required for hematopoietic system and, of course, vitamin C helps maintain the immune system, promotes the absorption of iron, which is in itself honeysuckle.
Coating berries due to the presence of natural dye - anthocyanin, which has a powerful antioxidant effect. So, and my mother and grandmother honeysuckle will be useful for preserving youth and beauty!
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What to cook?
Honeysuckle can be cooked pies and compotes, fruit drinks. It is well tolerated freezing (you must sprinkle it in a single layer on a tray and freeze. Frozen berries folded into packages for storage in the freezer. From frozen honeysuckle obtained amazing dumplings and sauces for pancakes and casseroles. Yes, keep so difficult, but do not overeat! Otherwise it may be a result of an upset stomach..
Dumplings with honeysuckle
Ingredients: 2.5 cups flour, 150 ml of water, 1 egg, 0.5 tsp salt, 2 cups of fresh honeysuckle, sugar to taste
Preparation: Sift the flour into a bowl, make a recess in the middle of the hill, sprinkle in the salt into it, break the egg. Pouring a little water, knead a smooth elastic dough. You may need a little more water. Cover the dough with a towel or cloth and let it stand for about 30 minutes, during this time will have time to swell the best gluten flour making the dough more elastic.
At this time, prepare honeysuckle berries. Wash them, fold in a colander and then another and place on a paper towel so that it absorbed the excess moisture. Fold obsushennye berries in a bowl and next to put a bowl with sugar, which will be added to the filling directly into the process of molding, to avoid premature release of juice.
Shape dough roll, cut it into equal pieces. Of each piece of dough, roll the cake, put a little in the middle of berries and sprinkle sugar on top and blind dumplings.
Lower portions dumplings in boiling salted water, stirring skimmer not to stuck to the bottom. Cook over medium heat until the ascent, and then for 3-5 minutes until vigorous boiling with dumplings.
Remove the dumplings with a slotted spoon, fold in a deep bowl, add the butter, so they do not stick together. Serve with sour cream or natural yogurt.
Strawberries and strawberry
No matter how much we repeated botany that large berries, which we buy in early June in wicker baskets, are the fruit of strawberry, we stubbornly call them - strawberries. Although real strawberries or polunitsa - is a small berry, which is difficult to be separated from the green sepals, and its distinctive flavor can not be confused with anything. The bright berries - iron, cobalt, manganese, copper, and of course, vitamin C, organic acid needed for proper growth and development. Remember that strawberries and strawberries in a child may be allergic, so start with a single berry and watch!
Berries should be how to prepare for use. Carefully reassemble, remove spoiled. Rinse the berries are difficult. We gave it this way: in small batches placed in a container with water and gently stir, clinging to the earth and sand to settle to the bottom. Now we pull out the berries and dried in a colander or you can scroll down a bit in a centrifuge for salad and greens.
What to cook?
Use the berries for desserts, drinks, a great option - add to salads.
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Meringues with strawberries
Ingredients: 300 g of fresh strawberries, 200 ml whipping cream 200 ml whipping cream 3 eggs, 180 g of icing sugar
Preparation: First, prepare the meringue. For this purpose separate proteins from egg yolks, powdered sugar with a whisk to form peaks. Put on baking cakes coated parchment, hour bake at 100 degrees. Let us berries. Mash half the strawberries. The other half cut into slices. Sprinkle with powdered sugar. Cream whisk until soft peaks form. Meringue is ready. Now broke it into small pieces. Mix the strawberries and meringue and place layers with cream in transparent ice-cream bowls or glasses.
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Sweet cherry
It can be yellow, pink, burgundy, or even beloy- we are at the beginning of the summer are waiting for any! Especially because we will be happy cherries long delicate berry and disappear from our shelves quickly. Choose a dense berries, with the whole peduncle. Berries darker sweeter and contains more anthocyanin and a precursor of vitamin A carotenoids.
What to cook?
Jam, syrup, juice. Eat cherries fresh and cook delicate cakes or cup. All good cherry, but for young children it is important to remove the seeds, if they are not able to do it yourself. Otherwise, kids can choke or accidentally swallow it. It is possible to make a special device or a simple hairpin.
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Clafoutis with cherries
Ingredients: 300-400 g cherries, 70 g of powdered sugar, 80 g flour, 2 eggs, 60 g of melted butter 350 ml milk, 1 h. l. vanilla extract
Preparation: Molds carefully brush with butter. Put the cherries, stoned. Prepare the egg-milk filling. (All the products it should be at room temperature!) Beat eggs with sugar, add vanilla extract, sifted flour and continue whisking, pour in the milk and melted and cooled down butter. Fill the molds with a sweet cherry. Bake dessert in preheated oven for 15 minutes at 180 ° C, and then lower the temperature to 150 ° C and bake for 20-25 minutes before gentle golden color. Serve warm, sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Cherry
The peak of the cherry harvest falls into the middle of the summer, but we can already in June to try the fruit of felt cherry. Pectins, vitamin C, PP, malic and citric acid, and biologically active flavonoids veschestva- cherry excellent reinforce vessel walls.
What to cook?
This delicate berry, like cherries is better to eat in its original form. And it can be used for sorbets, cakes or cook jam. When cooking jam, though it is time consuming, but is also better to get bone - they contain prussic acid.
However, cherry contains an acid which can corrode delicate dairy tooth enamel. So after eating berries kids should be given to drink, and older children should rinse your mouth with water.
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Cherry sorbet "Minute"
Ingredients: 0.5 cups pitted cherries, 0.5 cups of plain yogurt, 2-3 hours. l. sugar or honey
Preparation: Pre-chill the prepared cherries and yogurt. Then put in a blender, add the yogurt and sugar. Turn on the blender for 1 minute. Open the lid, if it turned watery, add a little bit more berries. If it is very thick, the berries as though the walls of the bowl, add a couple of spoonfuls of yogurt. Put the resulting fruit and yogurt smoothie in a bowl and enjoy the taste and freshness.
Top 5 recipes of summer berries: honeysuckle, wild strawberry, strawberry, cherry, cherry / istockphoto.com
Top 5 recipes of summer berries: honeysuckle, wild strawberry, strawberry, cherry, cherry / istockphoto.com
cherry pudding
Ingredients: 6-8- slices of bread for toasting, 700 g cherries, 2-3 tbsp. l. powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. l. water, 1 tbsp. l. butter
Preparation: Lightly oil butter or a one-piece bowl baking dish (volume about 1 liter) and place the bottom and walls with cut pieces of bread crusts to avoid gaps. The pan put berries with sugar and water and a low heat, bring to the boil. It is better not to mix to form the berries are not violated. If the berries are sour, add more sugar. Pour the hot berries in a bowl with bread. Leave a small part of the syrup, then to pour the pudding is ready. Cover berries with pieces of bread, put the right size lid or saucer, applying slight pressure. When the dish has cooled sufficiently, remove it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day, gently invert the pudding onto a plate, pour the remaining syrup on top and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
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