Blueberry fruit drink recipes
Many housewives prepare homemade fruit drinks for themselves and their families. For them, you can take different berries and fruits. Today we will talk about how to make such a blueberry drink.
Recipes
To date, there are a considerable number of recipes, how to cook blueberry juice.
- classic recipe for blueberry juice;
- juice of fresh blueberries with cinnamon;
- fruit drink from frozen blueberries;
- fruit drink with blueberries in a slow cooker;
- blueberry juice with lemon;
Classic blueberry juice recipe
To brew this drink, you first need to carefully sort and wash fresh berries under cold water. After that, the fruits are laid out on a paper napkin. There they should dry completely.
Prepared blueberries are placed in a metal sieve with small holes. There it is well rubbed. The resulting juice is poured into a separate clean bowl.
The surviving fruits are folded into cheesecloth and squeezed again by hand. In this case, the remaining syrup will stand out from them. Then the remaining blueberries are laid out in a saucepan and poured with water.
The dishes are placed on the stove. In this case, you need to turn on the largest possible fire. The liquid is brought to a full boil. After that, the fire is reduced.
Then boil the fruits for another 10-15 minutes. The whole mass is filtered through cheesecloth, folded in several layers. Sugar is spread in the still hot mixture (150 grams of sugar per 150 grams of blueberries and 1 liter of water).
The berry mass must be thoroughly mixed so that all the sugar is completely dissolved in it. Wait for the juice to cool down.After that, pour the blueberry juice into it.
Slightly dilute the liquid with mineral water, and then serve the finished drink to the table.
Fresh blueberry juice with cinnamon
First, the berries are washed well with cold water. Then they are squeezed out using a sieve with small holes. The surviving berries are laid out in a bowl and poured with hot water. Ordinary granulated sugar (0.5 cups per 1 cup of product) and vanilla sugar (2 teaspoons) are poured into this mass.
At the end, ground cinnamon (1/4 teaspoon) is laid out in the mixture. The mass with all the mixed ingredients is put on fire. It is boiled for five minutes over medium heat.
Another hot blueberry juice is filtered through a metal sieve. Then, berry juice is carefully and in small portions poured into such a mass. The finished product is cooled in the refrigerator. Then it is poured into glasses and served at the table.
Frozen blueberry juice
Take the frozen blueberries out of the freezer. It is not necessary to defrost before cooking. At the same time, take a pan with a deep bottom and pour clean water into it (2.5 liters per 500 grams of berries).
Bring water to a boil in a saucepan. Frozen blueberries are poured into the hot liquid. It is recommended to add more blueberry leaves and twigs to the dishes. They contain large amounts of vitamin C.
At the end, sugar is poured into the fruit drink to taste. Many housewives advise adding frozen cherries to the drink for more aroma and taste, but this is not necessary. The mass is thoroughly mixed so that granulated sugar is completely dissolved in the liquid.
Boil blueberry juice over medium heat for a few minutes. At the same time, do not forget to stir it constantly. Send the finished drink to the refrigerator so that it can cool.Then pour it into glasses and serve.
Morse with blueberries in a slow cooker
To make this drink, it is recommended to use frozen berries. You don't need to defrost them first. The fruits are laid out in a multicooker bowl.
Many housewives add some blueberries and red currants for a better flavor. The ingredients are poured with cold water. After that, the “Extinguishing” mode is turned on on the multicooker.
In this mode, fruit drinks are left to cook for 40-45 minutes. It is permissible to use the "Cooking" program. But in this case, the drink is boiled for only 20 minutes.
When this time passes and the timer sounds, the bowl with the product is taken out. Blueberry juice is cooled. To do this, put it infused for 15-20 minutes at room temperature.
After that, honey is added to the drink to taste. The entire contents of the dishes are thoroughly mixed until this sweet ingredient is completely dissolved in the liquid.
Wait until the berry juice has completely cooled down. Then strain the product. This is done using a metal sieve or colander. Then the drink is poured into containers, put in a refrigerator and served at the table.
Blueberry juice with lemon
Ripe berries are washed and sorted. They are poured into a pot of water. All contents of the dishes are well mixed.
Drain all liquid from the pot with a colander. At the same time, you need to take one lemon, wash it and dry it. Grate the citrus on a fine grater. Squeeze the juice from the fruit.
The bones should not get into the drink, this can spoil the taste of the fruit drink. Prepare containers for it. In them, the fruits are laid out first. Grated lemons are placed on top.
At the end, squeezed blueberry juice and lemon juice are poured to all these ingredients. Remember that citrus syrup in each container should be no more than one tablespoon. They need to leave a little space for the syrup.
To make it, you need to pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Then pour sugar into it. The resulting hot syrups are poured into each container with blueberries and citrus. Close them and chill. Usually such a drink is rolled up in sterilized jars and sent to be stored for the winter.
To learn how to cook delicious blueberry juice yourself, see the following video.