Dried lingonberries are a healthy lingonberry preparation for the winter without sugar.

Dried lingonberries - what is easier to prepare for the winter than dried berries? Drying berries is the simplest and easiest way to prepare them for the winter. Everything about lingonberries is medicinal - both the leaves and the berries. Moreover, the leaves have even more medicinal properties than the berries. Therefore, for drying you need to collect the berries along with the leaves.

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You can make a decoction or tea from dried berries or leaves at home, which will relieve pain in sore joints and cystitis. Also, a decoction of dry lingonberries helps to break down stones in gallstone disease, lower blood pressure, and reduce blood sugar.

I’ll tell you in detail how to dry lingonberries for the winter.

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We sort out the lingonberries, wash them and dry them a little.

We lay out the dried fresh berries thinly on a sheet and dry them in a warm Russian stove, a slightly heated oven or in an electric dryer. It is better to dry the berries in several passes.

Dry lingonberries will be well preserved in glass jars or sealed clay containers. Or you can store it differently: grind the dried berries in a mill, put them in jars and close with tight lids. Lingonberry powder can be stored for a long time (more than five years).

If such a dry powder is added to confectionery products, juices, compotes, fruit drinks and sauces, then the finished products will have the taste and smell of fresh lingonberries. Making a healthy drink from ground dry lingonberries in winter is both simple and quick: pour boiling water over a teaspoon of the powder and stir. To enhance the healing properties, you can also drink it with honey.As you can see, dried lingonberries are a very simple and useful preparation for the winter.

Dried lingonberries are a healthy lingonberry preparation for the winter without sugar.

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