Option 1. Classic recipe for lingonberry juice
Lingonberries are a real storehouse of vitamins and other useful substances. It has diuretic, antipyretic and bactericidal properties. Fruit juice from this berry retains all its beneficial properties, since heat treatment is minimal.
Ingredients
- regular granulated sugar - 150 g;
- spring water - liter;
- Lingonberries - 350 g.
Step-by-step recipe for lingonberry juice
Sort through the lingonberries, removing leaves and twigs. Rinse and dry on a kitchen towel. Place the berries in a jar or thermos. Add sugar and washed mint leaves. Pour boiling water over it and close tightly.
Infuse the drink for at least five hours. Strain through a sieve into a carafe. Rub the berries with a spoon so that the pulp remains in the drink. Throw away the cake.
If you make fruit juice in a glass jar, wrap it in a warm blanket while infusing it so that the drink cools slowly. You can replace sugar with honey. In this case, add it to a warm drink, since honey does not tolerate high temperatures.
Classic and unusual recipes for lingonberry juice
The approach to preparing a drink from lingonberries depends on the presence of additional components in the composition. Most often, housewives use the following recipes and approaches:
- Classic fruit drink. For 0.5 kg of lingonberries, take 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Squeeze the juice from the berries. Place the pulp in a saucepan, add water, and add a little sugar. Place the container on the fire and bring the mixture to a boil. There is no need to boil the composition, just remove it after boiling and cool. Then strain the mixture, add the squeezed juice and serve.
- Cranberry drink. For 300 g of lingonberries, take 200 g of cranberries, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Combine the berries, grind them, express the juice. Fill the cake with water and put it on fire. The mixture should be cooked for no more than a minute after boiling. Then remove it from the stove, add sugar and cool. Strain the product and add berry juice to it.
- Morse with mint. For 0.5 kg of berries, take several fresh mint leaves, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. The drink must be brewed according to the classic recipe. The only thing is that washed and dried mint leaves are added to the berry mass along with water and sugar.
- Lingonberries with beets. For 300 g of lingonberries, take 200 g of beets, 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. Grind the berries through a sieve and express the juice. Place the pulp into a cooking pan, and add the peeled and grated beets there. Add sugar, fill everything with water and bring to a boil. Strain the finished mixture and add juice to it.
To prepare tasty and healthy lingonberry juice with other ingredients, we follow the same plan. The main thing is to select well-combined ingredients that do not interrupt the taste and aroma of each other, but emphasize each other.
Option 2. Quick recipe for lingonberry juice in a slow cooker
Fruit juice in a slow cooker is prepared in literally 15 minutes. All you need to do is load all the ingredients into the device and wait for the beep.
Ingredients
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- two liters of purified water;
- a glass of white granulated sugar;
- two glasses of fresh lingonberries.
How to quickly prepare lingonberry juice
Sort the berries, removing leaves and twigs. Rinse the lingonberries and dry. Place in a bowl and mash with a pestle or potato masher.
Transfer the lingonberry puree into cheesecloth, folded in three and squeeze the juice out of it. If possible, you can use a juicer.
Place the berry pulp into the multicooker container, add granulated sugar and add water so that it completely covers the pulp. Close the lid of the device tightly. Start the steam program. Set the timer for 15 minutes. After the beep, pour in the lingonberry juice, close the lid again, bring the drink to a boil and turn off.
Leave the fruit drink in the device with the lid closed until it cools completely. Before serving, strain the drink through a sieve.
Lingonberry juice
When I was a little girl, one of the fears of adult life was related to cooking “adult” dishes: soup, pies, fish. It turned out that making soup is not at all difficult, delicious pies are made with practice and a good mood, but I still haven’t learned how to peel herring. Everything is ahead! Morse was one of my top 5 culinary questions, but now I know exactly how to make lingonberry juice and am happy to share it with you.
Total cooking time: 50 minutes
- - lingonberries (3 cups),
- - water (1.5 liters),
- - honey (2 teaspoons).
A few words. Lingonberry is a very healthy berry, this is the default. I won’t load you with information about vitamins and health benefits now. It’s better, of course, to use fresh lingonberries, but they don’t last long, so frozen ones will do. I somehow managed to grab bags of lingonberries, from which I made lingonberry jam (I wrote about it quite recently), and there were enough fresh berries for a fruit drink. I didn’t add sugar, I used honey (for a pleasant taste and additional bonuses for the body). For those who prefer sweet drinks, sugar can be added to taste. But believe me, it is superfluous in lingonberry juice.
So, pour the berries into a container (I took a regular pan) and crush with a pestle. If the berries are frozen, let them defrost and drain off excess water.
We press until we feel that there are no whole berries left.
Place on low heat. Bring the fruit drink to a boil, remove and let it brew and at the same time cool slightly, up to 50 degrees.
Option 3. Frozen lingonberry juice
In winter, you can make a fruit drink from frozen lingonberries. Of course, the drink will not be the same as from fresh berries. However, it retains quite a lot of useful substances. Vanilla and cloves will add flavor to the fruit drink and make it spicy.
Ingredients
- vanilla bag;
- frozen lingonberries - 400 g;
- clove bud;
- filtered water - two liters;
- white granulated sugar - 75 g.
How to cook
Thaw the lingonberries, place in a colander and rinse under running water.
Place the berries in a blender container. Place the pulp in cheesecloth, folding it in three layers. Squeeze the juice into a separate bowl.
Place the berry pulp in a saucepan and fill with water. Place on the burner and turn on medium heat. Boil the mixture. Then reduce the heat, add sugar, cloves and vanilla. Cook for seven minutes. Remove the drink from the stove and cool slightly. Strain the fruit drink through a sieve.
How to cook fruit drink from frozen lingonberries?
The approach to preparing fruit juice from frozen lingonberries is slightly different from the usual method. In this case, the drink will have to not only be brought to a boil, but boiled. But here you don’t need to limit yourself to one component; you can safely use auxiliary components.
- For 500 g of frozen berries, take 3 liters of water and sugar to taste. If sugar is replaced with honey, then it is added only to the finished chilled composition.
- Defrost the berries naturally and grind them using a blender or meat grinder to a puree. Add sugar to it and knead the mixture.
- Fill the workpiece with water and put it on fire. Bring the mixture to a boil and cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
- Remove the finished drink from the stove, strain through cheesecloth and cool. If you want to get a richer taste, first infuse the product, then filter it.
Despite all its positive characteristics, fruit juice made from lingonberries has one contraindication. It should not be consumed by people experiencing problems with the stomach and other digestive organs. The abundance of acids in the product can aggravate chronic processes or simply cause discomfort.
Option 4. Lingonberry juice without cooking
It is recommended to make lingonberry juice prepared according to this recipe when the first symptoms of a cold appear, because it is the best antiviral remedy. It can be served as a medicine or as a refreshing drink.
Ingredients
- filtered water - two and a half liters;
- a bag of vanilla sugar;
- a glass of regular granulated sugar;
- two glasses of lingonberries.
Step by step recipe
Wash the lingonberries, dry them and pour them into a blender container. Add vanilla and regular sugar. Beat until the mixture is homogeneous and the sugar grains are dissolved.
Boil the water. Place the berry mixture in a saucepan and pour boiling water over it. Stir, cover with a lid and leave for half an hour. Strain the fruit drink before drinking.
Drink the drink warm in winter, and chilled with ice cubes in summer. For freshness, you can add lemon slices to the fruit drink. Prepare the drink only in glass or enamel containers.
A simple recipe for fruit juice made from ripe berries
Making fruit juice according to this recipe is very simple. Cooking time will be 10 minutes.
Ingredients:
- Berries – 500 g
- Water – 3 l
- Honey – 1 tbsp.
Algorithm for preparing the drink:
- Rinse the berries first by immersing them in warm water for 5 minutes, then rinsing with cold water. Place the lingonberries on a sieve, sort and dry.
- Rub the berries through a sieve, squeezing out the juice. You can extract the juice using a juicer.
Attention!
Squeeze juice only into glass or ceramic containers.
- Add berry pulp to the water. Boil the liquid.
- Remove the boiling fruit juice from the stove, cool slightly and strain through cheesecloth.
- Add freshly squeezed lingonberry juice and honey to a warm drink. Stir the fruit drink with a wooden or ceramic spoon.
The fortified drink is ready.
Option 5. Lingonberry and cranberry juice
Everyone knows the beneficial properties of cranberries and lingonberries. Drinks made from these berries are rich in vitamin C, which is why it is so important to prepare them in the autumn-winter period. Quite a lot of sugar is added to fruit drinks, since cranberries are quite acidic.
Ingredients
- 600 g regular granulated sugar;
- 200 g fresh or frozen cranberries;
- three liters of spring water;
- 200 g pickled lingonberries.
Step by step recipe
Rinse the cranberries and lingonberries. Place in an enamel saucepan, fill with spring water and place on the burner. Turn on medium heat.
As soon as the contents boil, remove the container from the stove and leave covered for 20 minutes. Pour the infusion into a dry three-liter jar through a sieve. Grind the berries to separate the skins.
Place cranberry and lingonberry puree in a jar, mix and refrigerate for an hour.
The drink is useful for both adults and children, but for children under three years old it needs to be diluted heavily with water. The taste of the fruit drink will become more piquant if you add a few mint leaves to it.
Frozen cranberry and lingonberry juice
Opinion about the most useful option for preparing fruit drinks among traditional healers is divided in two. Some people believe that only mono fruit drinks have increased benefits and only when whole berries are gradually heated in water are they able to maximize all their hidden healing resources.
Others claim that only the combined tandem of cranberries and lingonberries has the maximum effect, provided that the crushed fruits are brewed in boiling water. And if we have already reviewed the instructions for the first case, then the step-by-step recipe on how to prepare lingonberry juice from cranberries in a blender is eligible for implementation.
Ingredients
- Frozen lingonberries – 150 g;
- Frozen cranberries – 150 g;
- Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- Boiling water – 1 l;
- Vanilla sugar – 10 g;
How to make lingonberry and cranberry juice
- First, you need to defrost the berries a little; to do this, pour them into a plate and leave them at room temperature for 20 minutes.
- After the allotted time, transfer the lingonberries and cranberries into a blender and grind to a puree, after which we pass the resulting pulp through a strainer, separating the pulp from the skin and seeds.
- Transfer the resulting pulp into a thermos, fill it with boiling water and leave for 3 hours. If you don’t have a thermos at hand, then pour boiling water over the berries in a jar or pan, wrap the closed container in a blanket and let it sit for 3 hours.
- After this, strain the lingonberry-cranberry infusion into a saucepan through a sieve, mix it with berry pulp, plain and vanilla granulated sugar, bring to a boil and turn off.
Frozen lingonberry and cranberry fruit drink according to this recipe turns out incredibly tasty and very healthy. You can diversify the taste of the drink by using citrus fruits and their zest: lemon or lime, orange, bergamot or tangerine, as well as various spices: cinnamon and vanilla, cardamom and anise, ginger and clove inflorescences.
Beautiful, bright lingonberries ripen at the end of August, and they can be collected until November. In addition to a large amount of vitamins and minerals, lingonberries contain a natural preservative - benzoic acid, thanks to which the berries can be stored for a long time without any processing. Since lingonberries are not eaten fresh, it is better to prepare them for the winter, for example, freeze them, make jam or lingonberry juice according to one of the various recipes.
This refreshing, healthy drink retains a maximum of vitamins. It is good to give to children and adults, especially in winter, during colds. Fruit juice can be boiled or cooked without long boiling. The latter option is more saturated with valuable components, but may be stored worse.
A fruit drink made from one lingonberry (with sugar or honey, since it is sour) is delicious on its own. For variety, you can combine lingonberries with cranberries, blueberries, strawberries, cinnamon, ginger, lemon, and mint.
Option 6. Lingonberry juice with cinnamon
The drink can be prepared from both fresh and frozen lingonberries. Fruit juice will perfectly warm you up on a cool day and lift your spirits. Cinnamon will make the drink aromatic and very tasty.
Ingredients
- 120 g flower honey;
- 2 liters of boiling water;
- 5 g ground cinnamon;
- 10 g vanilla sugar;
- 600 g fresh frozen lingonberries.
Step by step recipe
Place the lingonberries in a thick-walled saucepan. Grind the berries until smooth with a wooden masher or pestle. Add cinnamon and vanilla. Stir.
Pour boiling water over the berry mixture, stir and leave covered for an hour. After the allotted time, strain the drink into a jug. Add flower honey and shake until completely dissolved.
The drink can be varied by adding lemon zest or pulp, grated ginger root or other spices. After the fruit drink has infused, it must be strained using gauze or a sieve.
Recipe 2: Lingonberry juice with cranberries
Lingonberries and cranberries go great together. These berries not only have beneficial qualities, but also a sweet and sour taste that will be transferred to the fruit drink.
Required ingredients:
- Cranberries 200 grams
- Lingonberry 300 grams
- Sugar to taste
- Water for fruit drink 3 liters
Cooking method:
- Rub the cranberries and lingonberries through a sieve. Place the juice in the refrigerator and place the berry squeezes into the pan.
- Pour water there, add sugar and put on fire. Bring to a boil and immediately remove the pan from the stove.
- As soon as the lingonberry juice has cooled, strain it through cheesecloth, add berry juice to the drink, and stir.
Option 7. Lingonberry juice with beets
Beets will make the color and taste of the drink even brighter. Prepare fruit juice in a cauldron or enamel pan. A stainless steel container is not suitable for this. The drink is recommended to drink for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Ingredients
- regular granulated sugar - 100 g;
- drinking water - three liters;
- beets - 300 g;
- Lingonberries - 400 g.
How to cook
Sort through the lingonberries, removing leaves and twigs. Place the berries in a colander and rinse under running water. Dry by placing on a kitchen towel. Place the lingonberries in double-folded cheesecloth and squeeze out the juice.
Place the berry pulp in an enamel container. Peel the beets and chop on a coarse grater. Combine with the pulp and mix. Fill with water and put on fire.
Boil the fruit drink from the moment it boils for three minutes. Cool the drink slightly, strain through a fine sieve and combine with lingonberry juice. Add honey to warm fruit drink and stir.
If you plan to give the drink to children, increase the amount of honey. Do not use beets with white veins to prepare the drink.
Lingonberry fruit juice is in no way inferior to apple, grape and citrus juices in terms of the content of useful elements. This drink has been widely used in folk medicine for quite a long time, and it’s also easy to prepare. Today we will look at the main properties of lingonberry juice and bring to your attention several recipes for its preparation.
Lingonberry and beetroot drink
You can get a rich, tasty and aromatic drink by combining lingonberries with beet juice.
Components:
- Beetroot – 1 kg
- Berries – 1 kg
- Honey – 1 tbsp
- Water – 3 l.
The drink preparation algorithm is as follows:
- Squeeze juice from washed berries using any convenient method.
Attention!
You can also get juice from frozen lingonberries.
- Pour the berry pulp into a saucepan and add a liter of water.
- Boil the liquid for 2 minutes. Strain the cooled drink.
- Rinse the beets well under running water and remove the skins. Grate the root vegetable.
- Combine the resulting beet mass with a liter of water. Boil for 2-3 minutes over low heat.
- Cool the beet water and strain through a sieve.
- Mix beetroot and berry juice in a saucepan. Place the dishes on the fire. Bring the drink to a boil, adding granulated sugar.
Cool the fruit drink and serve to the dessert table.
Benefits for the body
The beneficial properties of lingonberry juice are used to normalize blood pressure and dilate blood vessels. It has an antipyretic and diaphoretic effect, which becomes relevant during the cold season. With its help you can increase your appetite and get rid of stomach and intestinal problems.
Drinking lingonberry juice has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the central nervous system - sleep is normalized, depression goes away, and a person becomes resistant to stress. This drink significantly improves the general condition and promotes a speedy recovery from cystitis and pyelonephritis. With its help, you can remove kidney stones, strengthen bone tissue and avoid joint diseases.
Attention! Scientific studies have shown that with complex therapy, lingonberry juice helps overcome breast cancer.
In addition, drinking lingonberry juice can be recommended for:
- pancreatitis;
- poisoning;
- diseases of the upper respiratory tract;
- fungal infections and other skin diseases;
- during the period of rehabilitation after suffering serious illnesses, as well as in the postoperative period;
- with anemia;
- vitamin deficiency;
- to strengthen the immune system.
Important! Lingonberry juice is a natural diuretic, but at the same time, if taken in large quantities, it can put extra strain on the kidneys, provoke migraines and cause dehydration. Therefore, this drink is not recommended to be consumed for more than 3 weeks in a row, as well as during attacks of ulcers and gastroenteritis.
Use during pregnancy
Recommended for use in case of iron deficiency anemia, which occurs quite often during this period. This drink saturates the body with missing substances, helps strengthen the immune system and promotes a good mood.
Another problem that pregnant women often face is pressure changes. Lingonberry juice will help solve this issue. In addition, it will calm the nervous system of the expectant mother, prevent constipation, which is also not uncommon during pregnancy, and eliminate swelling.
This drink will replace medications for coughs and sore throats. Having anti-inflammatory and bactericidal properties, lingonberry juice will eliminate painful sensations and prevent the development of ARVI. By adding it to your diet in winter, you can carry out excellent prevention of influenza and other diseases that “rage” at this time of year.
When consuming lingonberry juice during pregnancy, you should remember that:
- it is a tonic drink that can cause uterine contractions, and this, in turn, can provoke miscarriage or premature birth;
- representatives of traditional medicine advise not to use it in the first trimester;
- Lingonberry juice has a laxative effect and if consumed in excess, diarrhea can develop.
Important! Before including lingonberry juice in your diet, be sure to consult a doctor who is monitoring the course of your pregnancy. Only he can determine the feasibility of its use, and in case of a positive decision, prescribe an acceptable daily dose.
Cooking recipes
Lingonberry juice prepared according to one of the recipes below turns out to be very aromatic and will surpass any store-bought drink in its taste.
It can be prepared from both fresh and frozen berries, and the recipes can be enriched with other ingredients, for example, cranberries, lemon, etc. Before cooking lingonberry juice, you should prepare the main component. The berries must be thoroughly washed and sorted, then immersed in warm water for 10 minutes and rinsed with cool water. If the lingonberries were not collected in your region, then it is best to soak them for a while.
Important! The juice should definitely be collected in a glass or ceramic container. Metal objects cannot be used in this case, since the acid contained in the juice will react with the metal.
Lingonberry juice - a classic recipe
Prepare ingredients:
- 1 kg of lingonberries;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 6 liters of water.
Cooking process.
- Squeeze juice from fruits.
- Place the pomace into a large saucepan and fill it with water.
- Add sugar, stir.
- Place the container on the fire and bring the contents to a boil.
- Immediately after boiling, turn off the gas supply.
- Cool the drink for half an hour, filter.
- Pour in the juice, stir – the fruit drink is ready!
With cranberries
And lingonberries have a pleasant sour taste and are perfectly refreshing on a hot day.
Prepare ingredients:
- 600 g lingonberries;
- 400 g cranberries;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 6 liters of water.
Cooking process.
- Squeeze the juice from the berries and put it in the refrigerator.
- Pour water over the pomace, add sugar and bring to a boil.
- Immediately after the liquid boils, remove the pan from the stove and leave for 30 minutes.
- Filter the cooled drink and combine with juice.
From frozen berries
If you don’t have the opportunity to get fresh berries, you can make a fruit drink from frozen lingonberries. His recipe is as simple as the previous ones.
Prepare ingredients:
- 1 kg frozen berries;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 6 liters of water.
Cooking process.
- Thaw lingonberries at room temperature.
- Using a blender, turn the berries into puree, or you can pass them through a meat grinder.
- Add sugar to the resulting mass and mix.
- Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and add water.
- Bring to a boil and after 5 minutes remove from heat.
- Cool slightly, filter.
If you prepare the raw materials for the vitamin drink yourself, then remember that the final ripening time of the berries occurs at the end of autumn. Although in some regions fully ripe lingonberries can be found in the last days of August. Its maturity will be indicated by a rich red color with a slight yellow tint and soft flesh with an elastic skin.
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Lingonberries have unique qualities. In addition to the fact that it is very useful for human health, you can make juice, fruit drink, sauce, and bake pies from it. The berry contains a large amount of vitamins, so it is recommended to give it to children.
Lingonberry juice recipes
From fresh berries for the winter
You will need:
- 0.5 kg of fresh lingonberries;
- 3 liters of filtered water;
- 0.5 kg of sugar or honey to taste;
- half a lemon.
Preparation:
- You will need a piece of gauze or a fine sieve. Place clean berries there and place a glass or enamel container underneath. Crush into puree with a wooden mortar, carefully squeeze the lingonberry mass so that it releases all the juice.
- Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in a thick-bottomed saucepan. Place berry pulp and sliced lemon in water and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add sugar or honey, stir.
- When the broth has cooled to room temperature, strain it. The berry mass can be thrown away. Add the squeezed juice to the pan.
- The drink can be consumed immediately or rolled into sterilized jars.
The good thing about frozen lingonberry juice is that it can be prepared at any time of the year or you can use berries from the store.
You will need:
- 2 cups frozen berries;
- 2 liters of filtered water;
- 4 tbsp. l. honey;
- 1 cinnamon stick (optional)
Preparation:
- The berries need to be defrosted; it is better to do this naturally, without using a microwave oven or other quick methods.
- Using a sieve or gauze, squeeze the juice out of the lingonberries.
- Boil water in a thick-walled saucepan, add cinnamon and berry pulp, boil for 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Add honey to the pan and stir. When the mixture has cooled to room temperature, strain it and add lingonberry juice to the liquid.
- Morse is ready. You can serve it to the table or roll it in sterilized bottles.
From lingonberries and cranberries
You will need:
- 200 g each of fresh cranberries and lingonberries;
- 2.5 liters of filtered water;
- honey, sugar to taste;
- half a large or one small lemon;
- a couple of sprigs of fresh mint.
Preparation:
- Rinse, remove debris and dry the fruits.
- Place the berries in a sieve or cheesecloth and crush until all the juice is released.
- Add berry pulp, sliced lemon and mint to boiling water. Boil for about 5 minutes, add honey or sugar, stir, remove from heat.
- When the liquid has cooled to room temperature, strain it and roll it in pre-sterilized containers.
May with
cook fruit juice according to this recipe with the addition of not only cranberries, but also blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries. Lingonberries go well with other forest and garden berries.
Recipe without cooking
To make a particularly healthy and vitamin-rich fruit drink, the berries do not need to be exposed to high temperatures. You can prepare a truly healing drink without boiling using this recipe.
You will need:
- 300 g fresh or frozen lingonberries;
- 2 liters of water;
- sugar or honey to taste.
Preparation:
- Place clean, sorted lingonberries in a sieve or colander.
- Boil water and pour boiling water over the berries, several times.
- Puree the scalded berries with a blender, place in a deep container and fill with 2 liters of clean drinking water. Let stand for 30 minutes.
- After half an hour, strain the berry mass, the cake can be thrown away, and the lingonberry juice itself can be seasoned with honey or sugar.
This drink should be consumed within 2 days or rolled up, having previously been pasteurized.
Preparing the drink
Preparing fruit juice from frozen berries does not require much effort from the housewife. For two and a half liters of water you need 2 cups of lingonberries and six tablespoons of sugar.
Before you start preparing the drink, you need to prepare the berries.
It is pre-defrosted. To make the fruit drink rich, you will need to grind the berries or crush them, squeezing the juice through cheesecloth.
The remaining cake is poured with water, without bringing to a boil, and heated over low heat. Sugar can be added at any stage of preparing the drink. The finished juice is decanted and added to the concentrate previously obtained from the berries.
With preservation of vitamins
Heat treatment, even if you do not bring the fruit drink to a boil, has a negative effect on some vitamins and beneficial elements. But you can prepare a product from the berry, which will retain the necessary beneficial qualities, and in addition, the drink will delight you with an amazing taste.
To neutralize the sour taste, it is not necessary to add sugar; honey can be used just as well.
To prepare, you will need two glasses of frozen berries, a few tablespoons of honey and 3.5 liters of water. The sweetness depends on how much honey the hostess adds to the fruit drink.
As in the previous recipe, you will need to pre-process the lingonberries, only now they are defrosted and crushed in a blender. The resulting mixture is passed through a sieve or squeezed through cheesecloth. The resulting juice is set aside, and the pulp is poured with hot water. Cover the pan with a lid and let it brew, then drain the drink, cool it, add sugar or honey. Sweeteners should be added when the liquid is still warm, otherwise they will not dissolve well, and you can over-sweet the fruit drink.
In a slow cooker
Any lingonberry drink turns out tasty and healthy if you prepare it at home yourself. You can take a multicooker as your main assistant.
Amount of ingredients:
- 3 liters of water;
- two glasses of berries;
- sugar or honey to taste.
Before using, lingonberries will need to not only be defrosted, but also rinsed under running water. Next, it is transferred to a deep bowl to squeeze out the juice. You can do this with your hands, use a tablespoon or even a masher. The juice is filtered and stored in the refrigerator.
The remaining puree is transferred to the multicooker container and filled with the required amount of water with added sugar. To prepare fruit juice, a steaming program is suitable, in which the timer is set for a maximum of ten minutes. Then the extinguishing mode is set for another half hour. After turning off, the drink still needs to brew; it is filtered through a couple of layers of gauze and put in the refrigerator. Ready juice, expressed earlier, is added at the last stage.
Jelly
Not every child can be forced to drink a healthy drink, but there is a recipe for tasty and healthy jelly that any child will like.
To prepare it you will need to take:
- half a kilogram of frozen berries;
- 250 grams of sugar;
- four liters of water;
- two tablespoons of potato starch.
The berries are washed and defrosted. In a deep bowl they are ground with the addition of sugar using a blender. The resulting puree is poured with water and placed on low heat. You should not bring fruit drink to a boil, otherwise it will lose the necessary vitamins.
The resulting compote is filtered and put back on the stove with the addition of starch.
The powder is not poured in, but is first diluted in water in a glass and only then poured into the fruit drink. It is necessary to stir constantly to prevent lumps from forming. When this drink cools, it will resemble jelly.
In any hot weather, lingonberry juice, regardless of the recipe used, will be an excellent solution to quench your thirst. This compote is rich in vitamin C and other elements. The acids contained in the berry help prevent the appearance of kidney stones, slow down aging and even kill cancer cells.
Nutritionists also recommend regular consumption of the drink, especially when a person is watching their weight. The acids in lingonberries not only emulsify fat, but also help fight cellulite. Adults are recommended to drink at least one glass of fruit drink per day, children – two or more.
To obtain a richer, thicker drink, you can add more berries. The resulting juice can be diluted with water; it does not lose its benefits. Making fruit juice at home is as easy as shelling pears if you follow the recommendations. For pregnant women, this drink is especially useful if prepared without cooking. During pregnancy, a woman who consumes fruit juice regularly receives enormous benefits from the berry.
Lingonberry fruit drink has no contraindications, with the exception of individual intolerance to the components
and acute stomach reaction to the high acid content in the product. Otherwise, fruit juice can and should be drunk by adults and children, especially in the summer heat. It will help quickly quench thirst and give the body the necessary vitamins.
The drink is no less beneficial during cold weather, when additional support is needed. There is more vitamin C in fruit juice than even in lemon, and it tastes better. Regular consumption of the drink will help fight colds, increase the body's resistance, and improve immunity.
To learn how to make a fruit drink from frozen lingonberries, watch the following video.
Generous harvests of wild berries are best stored frozen. Cold helps preserve vitamins and other beneficial substances in the berries, and thanks to their integrity and original taste and aroma, even in the middle of winter, the berries can be used to make juices, fruit drinks, fresh desserts, add them to porridges, dairy snacks and decorate baked goods. Lingonberry juice will help you improve your health and protect your body from colds in winter, and read our article on how to prepare it at home.
What are the benefits of lingonberry juice?
Much is known about the beneficial properties of lingonberries: it helps strengthen the immune system, overcome colds and ARVI, improve digestion and cure the body in case of poisoning. Lingonberries treat joints and liver, and in addition, they are good at maintaining skin elasticity.
For those who do not like sugary desserts, such as jams and marmalades, and do not drink alcohol, there remains the option of storing lingonberries frozen. In winter, you can make a fresh, juicy fruit drink from a whole berry, which is in no way inferior in taste and healing properties to a drink made from only picked berries.
Lingonberry juice keeps the body in good shape and helps fight ailments:
- Gives strength, invigorates, increases performance.
- Strengthens the body's resistance to viruses and the negative effects of the environment.
- Removes toxins, helps cleanse the blood and liver.
- Increases hemoglobin levels.
- Accelerates the healing process, relieves inflammation, relieves muscle fatigue during illness and long-term training.
- Increases the elasticity of skin and hair, which is especially useful in the cold season, when there are fewer vitamins in food and bad weather has an intense effect on the body.
- It has a mild diuretic effect, so it will help eliminate swelling and restore the body after colds.
- Improves appetite, discourages cravings for junk food.
- Promotes better absorption of nutrients and much more.
Berry fruit drinks perfectly tone the body during sports, maintain vitamin balance during the cold season and promote recovery from many ailments.
Fruit drinks are drinks made from berries, which are prepared on the basis of natural concentrated puree or mousse. They differ from juices in the content of water and flavoring additives, and from compotes - in the proportion of the fruit part, which exceeds that in the compote, and in the absence of the need to brew the drink if it is not rolled into jars. Mors is a living berry nectar that preserves the active properties of plants and heals the body. That is why they are popular at any time of the year, and they are prepared both from fresh fruits and from frozen or ground berries with sugar.
Interesting fact:
Fruit juice is useful not only in winter. In the spring, such a drink will save you from vitamin deficiency, and in the summer it will perfectly quench your thirst and replenish your supply of electrolytes. And since lingonberries are an autumn berry, they can be stored frozen until summer and combined in unexpected compositions with black and red currants, strawberries and blackberries.
Fruit drinks are prepared cold and warm. In the first case, berry puree, ground with sugar, honey or without sweetener, is added with water to obtain a drinking concentration. In the second option, whole berries are poured with boiling water so that they release their beneficial substances and are pounded into puree, and after that sugar and water are added to taste.
To regulate the taste, citric acid or lemon juice, cinnamon, cloves, mint leaves, ginger, nutmeg, elderflowers and other aromatic herbs are added to fruit drinks to make the taste truly foresty and rich.
To make a tasty and fragrant drink with ideal proportions of acid, sugar and fruit base, you need to follow the correct preparation technology and know a few secrets. Sometimes the taste of the drink depends more on the quality of processing of the berries than on the content of sweeteners and spices in it. Here are some healthy recipes.
Soft lingonberry juice with mint
One of the basic recipes that does not require much effort. For 0.5 kg of berries, take 3 liters of water and 3-4 mint leaves, and you will have to add sugar to taste, from 100-120 grams for a light fruit drink. The berries are defrosted naturally, ground with sugar, then poured with hot water and brought to a boil. Immediately after this, add mashed mint leaves and remove the juice from the heat. The drink is allowed to brew while it cools and filtered. You can store fruit juice in the refrigerator for about 5 days.
You will need half a kilogram of frozen berries, 3 liters of purified water, half a lemon, a couple of sprigs of tarragon and half a teaspoon of dried thyme.
The berries are thawed and pureed with sugar. After this, add herbs to the mixture and fill them with boiled water, cooled to 80 degrees. The drink is wrapped or poured into a thermos and left for 3-4 hours. Before serving, add lemon juice.
The drink quenches thirst and recalls the notes of tarragon and other herbal infusions from childhood.
Spicy fruit juice for the holiday table
For those who love sangria, mulled wine and other spicy berry drinks, there is a wonderful recipe for fruit drink, which is very easy to prepare and drink cold. Based on the drink, you can make a light alcoholic cocktail.
You will need 0.5 kg of frozen lingonberries, sugar to taste, 3 liters of filtered water, a cinnamon stick and 3 cardamom grains (0.5 tsp powder). Without defrosting, pour the berries into a saucepan, add warm water, add spices, add sugar before boiling and mix thoroughly, and immediately after boiling, grind the berries, pour the syrup onto a sieve so that the pulp gets into the drink, but the skins and remaining spices do not. . The drink is wrapped and allowed to brew.
Dessert juice
You will need 150 grams of frozen lingonberries and cranberries, a pinch of vanilla, a glass of sugar and 1 liter of water.
The berries are thawed, ground in a bowl and filtered through cheesecloth. The remaining cake is brewed with boiling water and infused in a thermos or under a blanket for 3-4 hours. Afterwards, the liquid is filtered, mixed with sugar, vanilla and live puree and heated over low heat, without bringing to a boil. You can add a little orange zest and grated ginger root (0.5 teaspoon each) to the warm liquid. After this, the fruit drink is allowed to cool and served cool or used for cocktails such as Cosmopolitan.