What to cook from red viburnum: recipes 

Everyone has heard about the benefits of viburnum berries: they have antioxidant properties, cleanse the body of toxins and toxins, improve blood composition, lower blood pressure, improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, and are successfully used in cosmetology. And also viburnum is an excellent stimulant for the immune system, so it should be eaten in the autumn-winter period, when the body especially needs support. To keep the berries for the whole year, various blanks are made from them.

You can learn about what to cook from red viburnum, how to make preparations with valuable berries for the winter, from this article.

How to pick red berries

Kalina red, the beneficial properties of which are difficult to overestimate, contains a lot of vitamins and trace elements. To preserve all these substances for as long as possible, you need to be able to properly collect and harvest scarlet berries.

You can find a viburnum bush in almost any region, because this plant is unpretentious, able to develop in different climatic zones. It is easy to recognize viburnum: when there is no longer any greenery in the garden, all the leaves have fallen off, and the flowers have faded, the only decoration of the site remains – a small tree with scarlet clusters of small berries.

While it is warm outside, the berries are not very tasty: tart and bitter. But after the first frosts, the taste of viburnum changes greatly, it becomes sweet and very fragrant.

Various dishes are prepared not only from red berries, the bark of a bush, twigs, leaves, viburnum flowers are also suitable for food. All parts of the plant also have a beneficial effect on the human body, as they have healing properties.

You need to collect red viburnum correctly:

• choose a fine day for this, when there is no rain and snow;
• cut the clusters with sharp scissors or secateurs, carefully holding them so that valuable berries do not crumble;
• fold bunches of viburnum neatly, in one layer;
• after harvesting, you need to dry the viburnum by hanging the bunches on a rope in a dark and dry room.

Recipes for the winter from red viburnum

Anything can be prepared from viburnum: it is used as a filling for pies or pies, added to salads and snacks, fragrant fruit drinks are squeezed out of berries, jelly and compotes are boiled, used in winemaking and make wonderful desserts.

There are several ways to save valuable vitamins in viburnum:

1. Freeze berries, peeled from twigs and laid out in plastic bags.
2. Dry the viburnum in the oven at 60 degrees, additionally opening the door.
3. Put in a clean saucepan and put it in the refrigerator – so the berries can lie for up to six months.

Viburnum preparations are popular, because after special processing, the berries become not only healthy, but also very tasty. After all, it is much more pleasant to eat jam or drink sweet fruit drinks in winter than to chew dry berries.

Method for preparing viburnum juice

In such a preparation, the highest concentration of useful vitamins and microelements, it is customary to treat colds with viburnum juice and strengthen immunity with it. If desired, sugar, syrup, or sweeten it with honey can be added to the juice. Sour lovers can preserve pure viburnum juice, without additives.

There are many recipes for red viburnum juice, but the technology for preparing them is approximately the same:

1. Kalina is thoroughly washed, the berries are cleaned of twigs and other debris.
2. Now you need to squeeze the juice. To do this, the berries are first crushed with a blender or meat grinder (you can use a juicer, but there will be more waste). Then the viburnum puree is ground through a sieve and the thick juice is squeezed out through several layers of gauze.
3. For each liter of juice add about 130 grams of sugar (you can replace it with honey). Put viburnum juice on the stove and, stirring, bring to a boil.
4. Ready juice and viburnum are poured into sterile jars and quickly rolled up with airtight lids.

How to make jam from red viburnum berries

Kalina gives dishes a unique aroma and a very peculiar taste. Such properties of the berry are especially appreciated by lovers of jam. Jam can be prepared both from pure viburnum, and from a mixture of this berry with other fruits or fruits – there are many recipes.

Viburnum jam with sugar

To prepare such a winter preparation you will need:

• 1 kg of viburnum;
• 1,3 kg of granulated sugar;
• 250 ml water.

To make jam, you need to follow these steps:

1. Wash the viburnum and dry the berries.
2. Blanch fruit in boiling water for a few minutes.
3. Dissolve sugar in warm water to make syrup.
4. Pour the berries with sugar syrup and mix.
5. Leave the candied viburnum for 10-12 hours at room temperature.
6. Now the jam must be brought to a boil, periodically removing foam from it. After that, pour the hot billet into sterile jars.

Kalina with oranges

Jam with the addition of orange citrus fruits acquires a rich, very bright shade. Such a blank will become a real decoration for the winter table, in addition, it will be very useful and fragrant.

To make viburnum jam with oranges, you need to take:

• 1,5 kg of red viburnum berries;
• 2-3 large oranges;
• 2 kg of granulated sugar.

The whole cooking process consists of several steps:

1. The berries are washed and moved.
2. Kalina is ground with a blender or meat grinder.
3. Sugar is added to the resulting puree, everything is thoroughly mixed – after a while the sugar should completely dissolve.
4. Oranges need to be cut into slices and also chopped with a blender.
5. It remains to mix all the ingredients and roll the jam into jars.

Jam with viburnum and apple

As mentioned above, not everyone can eat red viburnum in its pure form, but there are excellent recipes where this berry acts as a flavoring additive.

For viburnum-apple jam you will need the following ingredients:

• 2 kg of berries;
• 5 kg of any apples (it is better to take sweet or sweet and sour fruits);
• 5 kg of granulated sugar.

Making jam is easy:

1. Remove the washed viburnum from the twigs and put in a wide bowl or pan.
2. With hands or a wooden pestle, the berries are pounded to a smooth puree.
3. Now the resulting puree is filtered through several layers of gauze to get pure juice. Further, only viburnum juice will be used, puree can be thrown away.
4. The apples are washed, the core is removed from them and cut into thin slices.
5. Plates of apples are laid out on the bottom of the pan in several layers, covered with sugar. Now you need to cook the apples over very low heat until the sugar completely turns into syrup.
6. When the apple jam has cooled down, viburnum juice is poured into it and stirred. Now you need to bring the jam to a boil and pour into clean jars.

Viburnum jam with vanilla and lemon

Such jam has no chance to go unnoticed, because it has an unusual taste and a very bright aroma. To prepare this delicacy, in addition to granulated sugar, water and viburnum, you need to take only one lemon and a bag of vanilla sugar.

Preparing jam from viburnum is very simple:

1. The berries are sorted and washed in saline. The solution is prepared from a liter of water and a tablespoon of ordinary table salt.
2. Now you need to prepare sugar syrup: dissolve sugar in water and bring the mass to a boil.
3. Whole viburnum berries are placed in boiling syrup, the stove is turned off and the jam is left to cool for 5-6 hours.
4. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice.
5. Berries are extracted from sugar syrup and lemon zest is added there. This composition must be brought to a boil, then strain through a sieve.
6. The syrup is again boiled with viburnum for eight minutes. Then cool for at least four hours.
7. The last stage: the jam is brought to a boil and, with constant stirring, is cooked until fully cooked.
8. It remains to add lemon juice, pour vanillin, mix everything and pour into sterile jars.

Unusual jam with pumpkin

Fans of culinary experiments will definitely like this preparation for the winter, because pumpkin and red berries of fragrant viburnum are combined here. For this extraordinary jam you will need:

• 1 kg of viburnum;
• 1 kg of pumpkin;
• 1,5 kg of sugar;
• 1 liter of water.

Prepare the dish like this:

1. Whole bunches are washed and cleaned of debris and leaves.
2. The pumpkin is cleaned and cut into small cubes, which are simply boiled slightly with the addition of water.
3. Pumpkin and viburnum, along with twigs, are ground with a blender or chopped with a meat grinder.
4. Sugar is poured into the resulting puree and wait several hours until it is completely dissolved.
5. It remains to cook the jam, stirring it and removing the foam. Usually 40 minutes on low heat is enough.

The finished viburnum jam is laid out in jars and rolled up or closed with airtight lids.

viburnum syrup

It is very good to add bright viburnum syrup to ice cream, jelly or cakes. It is easy to prepare, you need to take only water, berries and sugar. It is advisable to blanch the berries, then chop and stir with sugar.

On low heat, the mass is boiled until the sugar is completely dissolved, after which you can add a little lemon juice and cork the syrup into bottles.

Pastila from viburnum

This delicacy is very fond of children, and if we cook marshmallow with viburnum, it becomes not only tasty, but also incredibly healthy. For marshmallow, you need washed berries, sugar and lemon juice or citric acid.

To get juice, it is better to use a juicer. Berries are passed through it, the juice is poured into dishes with a thick or double bottom and boiled until the consistency of berry puree is obtained.

Now you need to pour sugar and citric acid, mix and cook until it thickens even more. On a baking sheet covered with parchment, or in special forms, the viburnum mass is poured. After cooling, the marshmallow should easily come out of the mold, it becomes viscous and dense.

Results

There are a lot of recipes for winter preparations from red viburnum: this is a berry with sugar, and jam, and various fruit drinks and syrups.

If this beautiful bush grows in the garden, you should definitely try at least one recipe, because viburnum is very tasty and incredibly healthy!