Marinated gooseberries for the winter: the original ways and their nuances

Gooseberries - very prickly plant with denseround or oval berries of green, yellow, purple or burgundy color. The shade depends on the variety. This berry is called "royal" for its exceptionally delicate taste in winter preparations. Especially in boiled sweet syrup and marinated. Let's get acquainted with one of the most common blanks for the winter and prepare pickled gooseberries.

Preparation of berries

Marinate gooseberries for the winter is not difficult, but these berries require special treatment. It consists of the following stages:

cleaning berries from pedicels and tails of wilted flowers - this process is very long, but they should not be neglected and spend time for the excellent taste of ready-made snacks;
washing gooseberry - in a cup of cold water by hand, touching each berry;
drying of berries on a clean kitchen towel (you can take a paper towel) - otherwise they will have a lot of water, which will interfere with the preparation of blanks;
piercing - every berry should be punctured with a thin toothpick, otherwise the thick skin will not allow them to properly weld and completely marinate.

Original recipes for pickling gooseberries

1) With seeds of mustard.

What products will be needed:

2 cups of gooseberry;
200 g of granulated sugar or powder;
1 cup of boiled or filtered water;
20 g of mustard seed;
60 ml of apple cider vinegar.

We start to prepare gooseberries marinated:

First, treat the berries as above.
Then cook the sweet syrup from sugar and water. By the way, sugar can easily be replaced with natural flower honey or fructose.
Transfer to syrup the dried berries of gooseberries and cook for about two minutes.
In the meantime, prepare the jar. Such original snacks are best prepared in small containers. You can take glass jars in volume 0,5 or 0,25 l. They need to be thoroughly washed with water and baking soda. Rinse with hot water and pour boiling water. Boil the cap for cooking in a separate saucepan.
So, pour the boiling water out of the can and put the gooseberry into it from the syrup.
And with the remaining boiling syrup in the saucepan do the following: add mustard and vinegar. Boil a couple of minutes and pour the berries in a jar. Clog with lids and remove for cooling.

2) With fennel.

What products are needed:

2 cups of gooseberry;
200 g of granulated sugar or flower honey;
1 cup of boiled or filtered water;
15 g of fennel seeds;
50 ml of wine vinegar.

How to cook:

Carry out primary processing of berries (cleaning, washing, piercing).
Mix sugar with water and cook until boiling over moderate heat.
Add berries and fennel seeds to the syrup. Cook for 4-5 minutes.
Pour in the wine vinegar. After a couple of minutes, gently spill the mixture over hot sterilized jars. It is necessary to look, that the edges of the neck of the jar remain dry and clean, otherwise the lid will not close tightly. Immediately close with sterilized lids and remove for slow cooling.

Tip

For the preparation of blanks from gooseberry, you cantake ripe or unripe berries. For sweet billets, ripe specimens are preferable, but in snacks of sour or sweet and sour, slightly ripe berries should be used.

Gooseberry pickle should not be taken away to a cool cellar. Hot banks should cool naturally in a warm place. Otherwise, there will not be such a preparation before the winter - it will deteriorate.

Suitable spices and condiments

With mustard (you can take seeds or groundpowder) it turns out a spicy taste of pickled gooseberries. Billets for the winter can be done with other spices and spices. It is necessary to be guided here only on own taste. For example, it is not superfluous to add berries to ground cinnamon, coriander or nutmeg - enough pinch. Also, fragrant or black pepper in peas, clove inflorescences, dill seeds or dried barberry is also perfect. These combinations look in the winning light along with sweet and sour gooseberries.

There are recipes in which gooseberries marinate withcloves of garlic. Preparation does not change, just put small small denticles together with berries. This option is designed for an amateur and not everyone will like.

Apple or wine vinegar is optionalreplace it with a normal dining room, but you should significantly reduce its bookmarking. How much to add acids, you decide. Try the workpiece - and you will understand. The taste of syrup with vinegar should be slightly sour, without a pronounced taste.

Using the workpiece

Marinated in any way gooseberries can be served as a stand-alone snack or as a supplement to the main hot dish.

Interesting options are obtained by addingharvested berries in pies. Together with the fresh test sweet and sour with a spicy shade of berries produce an amazing effect. Rest assured, the pie will go on hurray!