Viburnum jelly for the winter - a recipe for making healthy, beautiful and tasty jelly.
Viburnum jelly prepared for the winter is a very healthy and tasty delicacy. Red, ripe viburnum berries, collected just before frost, are very useful. But they are naturally a little bitter and not every housewife knows how to prepare a tasty dish for the winter from viburnum berries. And it's absolutely simple.
To prepare for the winter you need to take:
- ripened red viburnum berries - 1 kg;
— granulated sugar – 1 kg;
- water - two glasses.
How to make jelly from viburnum.
To prepare our jelly, viburnum berries need to be sorted from spoiled or unripe ones and washed thoroughly.
Then, to make the skin of the berries soft, and also to remove excess bitterness from the berries, you need to blanch them in boiling water for about five to six minutes.
After this procedure, drain the water and fill the berries with a new portion of warm water in the amount specified in the recipe. We will boil the rowan fruits in it until they soften.
After the viburnum reaches softness, let it cool, and then grind it through a sieve, mixing with sugar. After adding sugar, our homemade jelly needs to be boiled for about 50 minutes.
After boiling the jelly until ready, while still hot, pack it in small (250-500 ml) scalded jars. After cooling, store our workpiece in a cool place.
In winter, viburnum jelly can be a pleasant and vitamin-rich addition to tea. Especially if you need to boost your immunity and avoid colds and flu.Or, using this beautiful and tasty jelly as a basis, you can prepare a vitamin drink, jelly, compote, or use it to prepare an aromatic and piquant seasoning for meat.