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The culinary use of blueberry syrup can hardly be called limited: this natural product often acts as an excellent accompaniment to a variety of confectionery products, ice cream, sorbets, mousses and jellies. In addition, blueberry syrup goes well with summer cocktails.
They also make from blueberries: wine, liquors, liqueurs, tinctures
Classic recipe for blueberry syrup without water
Ingredients
Fresh blueberry juice – 1 l
Sugar – 1,5 kg
Method of preparation
Combine fresh juice and sugar in a saucepan.
Simmer over low heat for 15-20 minutes until the sugar crystals dissolve.
Check the consistency of the syrup, it should be slightly viscous, if the mass is still liquid, boil more, stirring and monitoring the consistency every 5 minutes.
As soon as the syrup shows signs of viscosity, remove from heat and let cool.
While still warm, pour your syrup into sterile jars, close and refrigerate.
Recipe for blueberry syrup with water
Ingredients
Blueberries – 500 g
Sugars – 300 g
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp l.
Water – 400 ml
Method of preparation
We sort out the berries, tear off the stalks. We throw out green and yellow balls, the color of the berries should correspond to their name.
Wash the blueberries and pour into a bowl. Then fill the berries with water and boil for 10 minutes.
The berry is boiled soft, signs of thickening appear in the syrup. Remove the pot from the heat, cover with a lid and leave for 15 minutes.
We wipe the warm berry mass through a sieve.
Add sugar and squeeze lemon juice. If a lemon is caught tight and unripe, then it can be “bathed” in boiling water. After this procedure, juice can be obtained by lightly pressing on the porous citrus peel.
Boil blueberry syrup for another 15 minutes, it becomes quite thick.
Pour the warm liquid into a sterilized bottle, close with a sterile cap.
You can store the syrup until the next blueberry harvest.
frozen blueberry syrup recipe
Ingredients
Frozen blueberries – 1 kg
Sugar – 1 kg
Method of preparation
Blueberries are laid out in a deep plate and covered with the same volume of granulated sugar. It is not necessary to thaw the berries first.
The berries are thoroughly mixed, and sent to the top shelf of the main compartment of the refrigerator for gradual defrosting. During the thawing process, the blueberries will release juice, which will dissolve the sugar crystals.
A day later, the fruits in sweet juice are put on fire and boiled for 5 minutes. After that, the mass is poured onto the finest sieve or onto several layers of gauze.
Then the berries are slightly squeezed out without pushing them. The resulting syrup is put on fire for 5 minutes.
After, the workpiece is poured into bottles and tightly twisted with sterile lids.
blueberry leaf syrup recipe
Blueberry leaves also contain a huge amount of useful substances, and are used as an independent product for brewing tea. To enhance the medicinal properties of blueberry syrup, it is boiled not only from tender berries, but also from leaves.
Ingredients
Blueberries – 1 kg
Blueberry leaves – 100 pcs.
Sugars – 500 g
Water – 350 ml
Method of preparation
Berries and leaves of blueberries are placed in boiling sugar syrup (prepared from 500 g of sugar and 350 ml of water).
The mass is brought to a boil and the fire is turned off. The workpiece is allowed to cool completely.
After that, the berries and leaves are removed from the infusion, and the syrup is boiled again.
The procedure is repeated 3 times. The finished syrup is filtered and, before being poured into sterile jars, boiled for 3 minutes.
Relevance: 19.08.2019
Tags: Syrup Recipes