Delicious preparations for the winter

We all make preparations for the winter. Each housewife strives to prepare not only tasty, but also necessarily healthy products with a high content of vitamins and microelements. Preservation of berries, fruits, vegetables, as well as the preparation of live jam from gooseberries, currants, raspberries, cranberries, lingonberries, grated with sugar in the correct proportion, or freezing currants, cherries and others in plastic containers in the freezer. A good and easy way to harvest is to dry berries and fruits, as well as to dry mushrooms and preserve them, and not only them, but also vegetables. Do not forget about the possibility of preparing different juices and their long-term storage through the same preservation. All this helps to have vitamins at home throughout the winter.

Drying berries and fruits

Dried raspberries, sea buckthorn, hawthorn, rose hips are very useful as a vitamin option for preparing hot drinks infused in a thermos, both for the prevention of colds, and for strengthening the body's immune system on cold winter days, and for the direct treatment of colds.

The berries are dried in a ventilated room not in the sun, or in an open oven, with a gas oven constantly on and at a low temperature.

Dried fruits - sliced ​​apples, pears, apricots and pitted prunes, it is better to dry in the fresh air, in the shade, starting from summer.

Autumn is rich in berries. containing vitamin C. Chokeberry and ordinary mountain ash, sea buckthorn, seedless grapes - these berries are easy to dry, just hang their bunches on a rope.

At home, it is better to store dried foods in cardboard boxes or thick linen bags. Infusions and decoctions, compotes - perfectly support your body in winter.

We should not forget about the pumpkin, zucchini, which is stored for a long time in its entirety, even at home under the bed. And we all know about the beans, which do not require special drying at all. In winter, this is a hearty protein food.

Living vitamins

Sugar has always been used by housewives to prepare and preserve the lively vitamin composition of berries. Grinding sugar with berries in the right proportion, usually 1.5-2 kg of sugar is taken per 1 kg of berries, we get live jam, which is stored simply in the pantry, not even in the refrigerator. Everyone knows how tasty blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries, sea buckthorn grated with sugar are. And how useful!

Berries without cooking

We prepare pitted cherries, plums, blackthorn, as well as mashed pears and apples grated on a fine grater using a simple five-minute sterilization in small glass jars, also pre-sterilized. Having laid everything in jars, and having covered the jars with berries and fruit purees with clean seaming lids, we place the jars in a large container of boiling water (the bottom of the water container should be covered with a layer of cloth so that the jars do not burst). After a five-minute sterilization of the blanks, we roll the jars with lids with a seamer and turn them upside down. Let it sit until the jars are completely cool. A very profitable and easy way to prepare vitamins for a regular dessert at the table, and for filling in pies.

Mushroom preparations

Who among us does not like to wander through the autumn forest in search of mushrooms, and especially honey mushrooms?

Such walks bring both a lot of pleasure and a practical result - after all, we harvest mushrooms for the winter. And we dry them, and preserve, marinate, and even blanks from fried mushrooms are just delicious!

Honey agaric is perhaps one of the most useful, and of course delicious autumn mushrooms. This is again a source of vitamins - vitamin C, PP and D, as well as trace elements - calcium, potassium, phosphorus, copper. In addition, mushrooms are rich in fiber, amino acids. Cooked fried mushrooms will be a delicacy on winter days, both as an independent dish and as a side dish. Such a preparation can be used for making mushroom sauce, and making soups and cabbage soup, stuffing pancakes.

Fried mushrooms for the winter

Let's prepare first half-liter sterilized glass jars. In them we will lay out the cooked excellent winter mushroom appetizer and roll them up with lids.

We wash the mushrooms, although the mushroom itself is clean and there is little trouble with it. We soak the mushrooms in a large container with cold water with the addition of a small amount of salt (this makes it easier to clean the mushrooms from sand and adhering debris). Then we wash, clean, sort out the mushrooms, leaving healthy ones without worms, and separate the caps from the legs. the legs go for drying, and they dry very quickly and are stored for a long time, lie in a dried form better than a whole dried honey agaric.

The next stage - boil mushrooms for 30-40 minutes, carefully removing the foam formed during boiling. Then we drain the water with mushrooms through a colander, leave the mushrooms in a colander until the liquid drains completely.

The next step is frying boiled mushrooms. For the preparation of the workpiece itself. Here you will need additional ingredients. Ghee or sunflower oil - you can mix these oils, but it is better to use one sunflower oil - a glass of 250 ml for frying 2 kg of boiled mushrooms, salt and pepper to taste, 5 pieces of peeled, chopped onions.

Finely chop the mushrooms, place them in a deep frying pan with oil, add chopped onions, salt to taste, a little black pepper and, having covered the pan with a lid, put it on a small fire. Fry the mushrooms, stirring occasionally. We fry for 15-20 minutes. When the mushrooms begin to "click", increase the heat and fry them for another 5 minutes already without a lid, not forgetting to stir. All! We turn off the fire, remove the pan and immediately begin to carefully lay out our workpiece, carefully tamping it with a spoon with holes so that there are no air bubbles in the filled container, over the jars, and roll them up with lids.

Make delicious and healthy preparations for the winter. Do not deprive yourself of the opportunity to have vitamins from berries, fruits and vegetables on hand. As well as a delicacy harvested from mushrooms.

Happy, healthy winter season to you! And Bon Appetit!