Recipe for frozen cranberry juice

A recipe for cranberry juice made from frozen berries will allow the housewife to pamper her family with a tasty and healthy treat all year round. If you don’t have frozen cranberries in your freezer, it’s not a problem. You can always buy it in the store.

How to make fruit drink from frozen cranberries

Many people love fruit drink for its amazing sweet and sour taste and amazing color. But this drink is not only tasty, but also healthy. Vitamins and minerals in easily digestible form, antioxidants and flavonoids, antibacterial and antibiotic components - this is an incomplete list of valuable substances that the body receives. But only if it is prepared correctly.

1. Maintain proportions: cranberry juice should be at least 1/3.
   Advice! You shouldn’t overdo it with the amount either - the fruit drink will turn out too sour.
2. Usually the sweet component in it is sugar, but it is much healthier with honey. It is added when the drink has cooled below 40 °C to preserve all the healing properties. True, it is better for allergy sufferers to abstain from such a supplement.
3. Frozen berries are allowed to thaw by placing them on a sieve to strain out the liquid. It is not used in cooking.
4. Lemon zest, mint, rose hips, lemon balm, ginger, spices or spices diversify the taste of fruit drink and add benefits to it. You can use several types of berries to prepare it. Ideal companions would be cherries or lingonberries.

Classic recipe for frozen cranberry juice

Any dish has a classic recipe according to which it was prepared for the first time. The traditions of making cranberry juice in Rus' go back a long way, but the classic recipe has remained unchanged.

Products:

• water – 2 l;
• frozen cranberries - a glass;
• sugar – 5-6 tbsp. spoons

Preparation:

1. Allow the berries to defrost completely, wash them and place them in a colander.
   
2. Mash in a bowl using a wooden pestle or blender.
   Advice! The first is preferable, as more vitamins will be preserved.
3. Carefully squeeze out the juice using a fine-mesh sieve or several layers of gauze. The glass container with the juice is placed in the refrigerator.
4. Cranberry squeezes are poured with water and brought to a boil. There is no need to cook them for more than 1 minute. At this stage sugar is added.
5. Let it sit for about half an hour, during which time it will cool down.
6. Mix the strained drink with cranberry juice and stir.

Frozen cranberry juice without cooking

Heat treatment at a temperature of 100 ° C destroys vitamin C. It is not necessary to boil the pomace. A tasty, healthy drink is obtained with minimal or no heat treatment.

Making cranberry juice from frozen berries in a slow cooker

Products:

• frozen cranberries – 1 kg;
• water - as needed;
• sugar - to taste.

Preparation:

1. Allow the cranberries to thaw after rinsing them with warm water.
2. Extract the juice using a juicer or manually.
   
3. The remaining cake is placed in the multicooker bowl, filled with water, sugar is added, and left for about 3 hours, setting the “Heating” mode.
4. Strain, mix with juice, which was previously stored in the refrigerator.

Long-term infusion promotes a more complete transfer of nutrients.

No heat treatment

Products:

• 2 liters of water;
• 4-5 tbsp. spoons of sugar;
• half-liter jar of frozen cranberries.

Preparation:

1. Thawed berries are washed with boiled water.
2. Grind to puree in any convenient way.
3. Fill with water and dissolve sugar in it.
4. Strain through a fine mesh sieve.

The recipe is very simple and does not require much time to prepare. In this cranberry drink, all the benefits of the berries are preserved to the maximum.

Frozen cranberry juice for children

Nutritionists do not recommend giving fruit juice to children aged 1 to 3 years more than 2 times a week. These restrictions do not apply to older children. For them it is prepared according to the classic recipe. But at first it is better to dilute the drink with cold boiled water.

Up to a year, give the drink with caution, starting with a small amount, if the baby is not breastfed. For children of this age, heat treatment of berries for 5-6 minutes (boiling) is mandatory. They are kneaded, boiled with water, and filtered. The juice is not pre-squeezed. It is not advisable to give honey to such babies, and in case of allergic manifestations it is strictly contraindicated.

Cranberry and ginger juice

Ginger is an excellent remedy for colds; it kills viruses and relieves symptoms. The combination of cranberry and ginger is what you need during the winter season to fight the flu.

Products:

• 270 g cane sugar;
• a small piece of ginger root;
• 330 g cranberries;
• 2.8 liters of water.

Preparation:

1. Sugar syrup is prepared from water and cane sugar. After it boils, let it cool.
2. Wash the frozen cranberries and let them thaw.
3. Grate the ginger root and add it to the syrup. Berries are also placed there. There is no need to knead them.
4. Place the dishes on the stove and heat until boiling. Turn off immediately and leave covered for 2 hours. Strain.

Cranberry juice with honey

Honey is a product that can not only replace sugar in cranberry juice, but also make the drink healing. To prevent its properties from being lost, honey is added only to the cooled product. It can be prepared with or without heat treatment.

Products:

• frozen cranberries - a glass;
• water – 1 l;
• honey - 3-4 tbsp. l.;
• half a lemon.

Preparation:

1. The cranberries are thawed and scalded with boiling water. Grind to a puree.
2. Remove the seeds from the lemon and grind it in a blender without peeling.
3. Mix berry and lemon puree, add honey, let stand for 2 hours.
4. Dilute with boiled water heated to 40 °C.

After straining, the drink can be drunk.

Cranberry juice with orange and cinnamon

This drink invigorates and creates a good mood.

Products:

• 2 large oranges;
• frozen cranberries – 300 g;
• water – 1.5 l;
• sugar – 5 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon stick.

Preparation:

1. Juice is squeezed out of peeled oranges. The cake is not thrown away.
2. Thawed, washed berries are turned into puree and the juice is squeezed out of it.
3. Both juices are placed in the refrigerator, and the orange and cranberry pulp are filled with water, sugar is added and heated.
4. When it boils, add cinnamon, after a minute turn it off. Let it cool under the lid.
5. Strain and add both juices.

Cranberry juice with carrots

This drink is especially useful for children. The combination of vitamin C, which cranberries are rich in, with vitamin A, contained in carrots, is an excellent way to boost immunity, fight anemia and improve vision.

Products:

• 0.5 kg carrots;
• a glass of frozen cranberries;
• 1 liter of water;
• sugar or honey to taste.

Preparation:

1. Defrost and wash the berries, chop them, and squeeze the juice out of them.
2. Grate the carrots and squeeze out the juice as well.
3. Mix juices, boiled water, sugar.

Cranberry juice with rose hips

This drink is a real vitamin bomb: tasty and healthy.

Products:

• frozen cranberries – 0.5 kg;
• dried rose hips – 100 g;
• water – 2 l;
• sugar – 5 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. A day before cooking, the rose hips are washed and poured into a thermos with a glass of boiling water.
2. Juice is squeezed out of thawed, washed, crushed berries and refrigerated.
3. The pomace is boiled with the remaining water and sugar for 2-3 minutes.
4. When the broth has cooled, it is filtered, mixed with cranberry juice and strained rosehip infusion.

Conclusion

A recipe for cranberry juice made from frozen berries does not require much preparation time and exquisite ingredients. But the health benefits of this drink are enormous. Various additives will diversify the taste of fruit drink, which children will especially like.

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