Recipes for making berry juice from red currants for the winter

Red currant juice keeps well all winter and you can make many dishes based on it. Frozen berry juice is a tasty treat for adults and children, and sweet and sour red currant sauce will add exotic flavor to meat dishes.

You can prepare red currant juice in several ways.

Concentrated redcurrant juice through a juicer

Wash the red currants and let them drain. If you have a juicer, you don’t have to pick the berries from the branches.

This takes a long time, and the twigs in this case will not interfere, but will only help squeeze out more juice, compacting the cake.

Pour the juice into a saucepan and add sugar to it.

• For 1 liter of juice
• 200 grams of sugar.

In this case, the juice will be concentrated and will need to be diluted with water before use. But for cooking jelly, or syrup, this is the kind of juice you need.

Place the juice and sugar on the fire and boil for 5 minutes.

Pour the hot juice into clean jars and roll it up.

Redcurrant juice with added water

This recipe isn't just for those who don't have a juicer.With this method, the juice turns out more tart, and this has its own charm.

Wash the berries and remove the stems. Unlike the previous recipe, green twigs here can distort and spoil the taste, so you need to get rid of them.

There is no need to dry the berries, and you can immediately grind them through a meat grinder. This is exactly the secret. With this method, the small seeds in the berries are damaged and add tartness to the juice.

Pour the resulting juice into a saucepan and add water.

For 1 liter of juice you will need approximately 250 grams of water. Boil the juice and let it cool.

Strain the juice through cheesecloth or a fine sieve.

Add sugar to taste, but not less than 100 grams for each liter of juice. This is necessary so that the juice does not turn sour.

Place the juice on the stove again and boil it for 3-5 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Pour the juice into sterilized bottles and close the lids tightly.

Redcurrant juice stores quite well, and in a cool, dark place it will last for 12-18 months without problems.

Watch the video on how to make redcurrant juice: