Strawberry aroma is one of the brightest summer impressions! To keep it as fresh as possible and at the same time leave the benefits of fresh strawberries almost intact, prepare strawberries, grated with sugar, for the winter. This very simple preparation will remind you of berry June a few months later.

Prepare fresh strawberries and sugar in a 1: 1 weight ratio.

You need to sort out the strawberries, remove the leaves, stalks, twigs ..

When the water drains, pure strawberries need to be mashed. This can be done with a blender, and then the workpiece will be more uniform and homogeneous. If you knead the berries with a fork, then the finished product will be with small pieces of irregular size. Choose what you like and get started.

Combine the resulting puree with sugar, mix. Leave it on for 5-10 minutes.

Stir a couple more times to dissolve the sugar as much as possible.

Put the prepared sweet and aromatic strawberries, grated with sugar, into clean small jars for the winter and store in the refrigerator.

Strawberries are a delicacy that is available in our country only for one to two summer months. Of course, in large supermarkets, berries are sold all year round, but they do not always have the taste that we are looking for. Ordinary jam will not replace it either. The best option is pureed strawberries with sugar. To stock such yummy for the winter is as easy as shelling pears.

Uncooked jam

Strawberries mashed with sugar, the recipe for which we will definitely describe below (and more than one), otherwise it is called raw jam. This method of harvesting, called cold canning, allows you to preserve the taste and aroma of fresh berries. And with such processing, there are much more vitamins than in classic jam.

Thus, all the advantages that strawberries mashed with sugar have are obvious. Without cooking, without wasting time, without a significant change in taste and aroma, you can get an excellent winter preparation. There are only two drawbacks: you can store sweetness only in the refrigerator, and its shelf life does not exceed six months.

Preparation

Before cooking strawberries, mashed with sugar, you need to process them. Carefully sort out the berries, remove the stalks. Rinse the strawberries under running water using a colander, then let them dry slightly. If you grind wet berries, then the raw jam will quickly deteriorate.

The only additional ingredient is sugar or powdered sugar. If you wish, you can add other berries for a variety of tastes, for example, strawberries. It is also not forbidden to use vanillin and other aromatic spices.

Of the equipment, you only need jars, lids and containers in which the strawberries will be mixed with sugar. For grinding, each housewife can use any device convenient for her - a blender, a meat grinder or an ordinary pestle with a mortar, sieve or fork.

Mashed strawberries with sugar for the winter are prepared only from good berries. Set aside crumpled and damaged specimens and use in a different way, otherwise the workpiece will not live long in the refrigerator.

Proportions

Usually sugar and berries are taken in a 1: 1 ratio, but this parameter can be varied depending on taste preferences. Anyone who likes sweeter should take twice as much sugar as berries. If someone likes the natural taste, you can measure just a pound of sugar per kilogram of strawberries.

Recipe number 1: classic

Chop the strawberries, mix well the resulting puree, put in a saucepan and heat to 60-65 degrees. Add sugar to the warm mass, mix everything and heat another 70 degrees to dissolve the sweet sand.

Pour into sterilized jars. Sprinkle a little sugar on top to form a crust - this will keep the strawberries longer. You can close the container with a nylon lid, since sterilization is not needed.

Recipe # 2: freezer strawberries

Strawberries mashed with sugar, the recipe for which is given below, is an almost complete dessert.

The berries should be chopped so as to obtain a homogeneous mass, so it is more convenient to use a blender. Next, the strawberries are mixed with sugar, which you need to take half as much as berries.

The mass is poured into molds, plastic jars or bowls. The container must be closed. All this beauty is placed in the freezer and stored there in the future. Instead of containers, you can use bags with a lock - this is even more practical.

Another option is to pour the sweetness into ice cube trays. After freezing, fold the resulting cubes into a bag and store in the freezer. If necessary, you can always get the right amount of cubes and add them to a milkshake, tea, champagne, yogurt or porridge.

Strawberries, mashed with sugar, live longer in the freezer than in the refrigerator, and will lie there quietly until the next harvest.

Recipe number 3: delicious jam

For this recipe, the optimal ratio of sugar and berries is 1: 1.

We wash and dry the berries, then carefully transfer them to some container (saucepan, bowl) and sprinkle with sugar. After that, grind the berries with a pusher or blender.

Then the tasty mixture is transferred to the stove, warmed up and, with constant stirring, languishes for about 3-5 minutes. Then it is poured into sterilized jars, closed and, after cooling, put into the refrigerator.

Recipe number 4: strawberries in their own juice

How to cook strawberries mashed with sugar without heating on the stove? Indeed, during heat treatment, a certain amount of valuable substances is still lost, albeit in a smaller volume than when making jam. Well, you can do almost the same thing, just without heating.

We prepare the strawberries, cover them with sugar and let them stand for a while so that the berries let the juice flow. A few hours is enough, but you can leave it overnight.

Recipe number 5: portioned

It will turn out even tastier and better if sugar is added gradually during the grinding process.

We take a small batch of washed and dried berries, put them in a container and knead them with a crush, gradually adding sugar. Then add the next batch of berries to this mixture and mash again, adding sand. And so on until all the ingredients are entered.

Future jam is infused for about fifteen minutes, and then laid out in storage containers.

How to sterilize jars

Since mashed strawberries with sugar for the winter are harvested virtually without heat treatment, the optimal storage capacity is a sterilized glass jar.

Sterilization can be carried out by placing the jars in an oven preheated to 140 degrees for ten minutes. Caps should not be sent there so as not to melt the sealing rubber. Just boil them for five minutes.

If you take small jars, you can pour some water into them (literally up to the level of 1-2 centimeters) and send them to the microwave for 3-5 minutes.

Is this strawberry good for you?

Mashed strawberries with sugar for the winter are harvested not only as a dessert, but also so that the menu in the cold period is more fortified.

Each spoonful of raw jam contains vitamins A, B 1, B 2, B 5, B 6, B 9, C, E, H, PP. Among the trace elements - calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, fluorine. In addition, the sweetness contains many beneficial acids and amino acids, glucose and fructose.

The calorie content of the delicacy is 220 kcal per 100 grams, provided that an equal amount of sugar and berries is used.

This is how easily and quickly grated strawberries with sugar are prepared. For the winter, you can store it by placing it in the refrigerator or freezer, depending on which container is more convenient for you to use and in which dishes you plan to add berries.

Such a long-awaited, but such a short strawberry season pushes housewives to search for new options for harvesting berries for future use. What to do if traditional jams and jams are a little fed up? Prepare "live" jam - strawberries, grated with sugar.

Composition and calorie content

Speaking of strawberries grated with sugar, it should be noted that in such a dessert the berry remains fresh. Unsurprisingly, it has almost the same properties as a strawberry plucked from a bush. The berry contains many organic acids, which determine the slight sourness in the taste.

Strawberries are one of the “garden” champions in vitamin C content, therefore the mashed dessert has a pronounced anti-cold and immune-strengthening effect. It can be used as a prophylaxis against flu and colds, vitamin deficiency, as well as promote faster recovery from illness.

Vitamin E, also contained in the berry, is an antioxidant - it binds radionuclides, removes toxins, and also slows down the aging of the body. Vitamin B3 (niacin) is another component in large volume available in strawberries with sugar. B vitamins are involved in metabolic processes, hematopoiesis, they have a beneficial effect on the condition of the skin, and niacin also helps to strengthen the heart.

Potassium and magnesium, which are also abundant in strawberries, also have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system. Potassium also helps maintain the water-alkaline balance and removes excess fluid from the body. Magnesium has an anticonvulsant effect and is essential for the functioning of the nervous system.

A large number of in the dessert calcium, which is necessary primarily for the health of bones and teeth. Also, here it is combined with ascorbic acid that improves its assimilation. Calcium "helps" phosphorus, which also maintains the strength of the skeletal system, and also improves cerebral circulation.

The composition of the dessert also includes sodium, which is responsible for the water-salt balance in the body, helping to maintain all trace elements in the blood in the desired state. This, in turn, guarantees adequate nutrition for all tissues.

If we talk about trace elements, then most of all in the composition of the dessert is iron, which is necessary to provide organs with oxygen. The second place is occupied by copper, which is responsible for the production of collagen. Slightly less amount of selenium, which promotes the production of antibodies. Manganese is also present in the composition.

Rich in strawberries and fisetin, a type of flavonoid that has a positive effect on brain cells, reducing the intensity of their aging.

The berry itself in fresh non-caloric - 35 kcal per 100 grams. However, the addition of sugar significantly increases the energy value of the dessert - up to 153 kcal per 100 grams of product (the average value may be higher). BJU looks like 1.6 / 2.7 / 151.6.

Proportions

Since this strawberry dessert is not boiled, you need to take care of its safety for the winter. A natural preservative will help in this, in the role of which sugar acts. It turns out that in grated strawberries, it is used not only for taste, but also to preserve the dessert, which means that its amount cannot be reduced.

The classic recipe assumes a ratio of sugar and berries as 1: 1. That is, 1 kilogram of berries also needs a kilogram of sugar. If the strawberries are acidic enough or lemon is also included in the composition, the amount of granulated sugar can be increased to 1200-1300 gr. An increase in the amount of sugar is possible. Then 1.5 parts of the sweetener are taken for 1 part of the berries. This will help extend the shelf life of the strawberries. You should not take more or less of the indicated volumes, since in the first case the berries will be sugared, in the second they will start to deteriorate.

As a rule, the recipe indicates the amount of sweetener to mix it with the berries, however, another 100-150 grams is required to make a “lid” on the surface of the composition before sealing the jar.

Many housewives do not know how to determine the amount of the finished dessert from the available amount of berries. For example, how many berries do you need for 5 liters of such a dessert? Usually, the volume of the dessert is reduced by 2.5 times the amount of fresh berries. For example, from a 5-liter bucket, you get about 3 liters of grated treats.

Preparation of berries

The preparation of berries begins with sorting them. Despite the fact that strawberries are puree in this dessert, damaged or rotten berries should not be used. They can provoke fermentation processes and spoil the workpieces.

You should use ripe berries without cracks, damage and traces of insect penetration. It is important to remember that even a slight violation of the integrity of the berry indicates that pathogenic bacteria could have penetrated through it. Considering that mashed strawberries are not heat-treated, this can be very dangerous.

The next step is to wash the berries. Strawberries are very tender and easy to crush and damage. In addition, it absorbs moisture quickly. This should be borne in mind when preparing raw materials. Strawberries should be washed in small portions using a colander. No need to turn it over with your hands or a spoon, just shake the colander lightly. Rinse the berries under gentle pressure and only in cool water.

In case of heavy dirt, the berries can be immersed in a bowl of water and left for 5 minutes. Litter, grass and insects will float to the surface, earth and sand will settle to the bottom. After soaking, the strawberries are also washed with a colander.

Pure berries need to be given 10-12 minutes to drain excess water. After that, they are laid out in one layer on a clean towel, where they should dry completely. Now you can start cleaning the ponytails after washing your hands with soap and water.

Cooking methods

It seems that strawberries twisted with sugar is such a simple recipe that there is only one way to make it. However, in practice, everything turns out to be different. We introduce you to the most popular proven recipes for this healthy dessert.

Recipe number 1

Grind 1 kg of berries through a sieve and pour 1 kg of granulated sugar into the puree. Hand-crushed strawberry mass is denser and does not contain seeds. Mix everything thoroughly and leave the mixture in a saucepan for 2-3 hours so that the sugar is completely dissolved. This also requires mixing the composition periodically.

After the sugar crystals are no longer felt in the puree, it should be distributed in sterile jars and put in the refrigerator. If the strawberry mass seems sour, you can increase the sugar content to 1200-1300 grams.

Recipe number 2

First of all, you need to turn the strawberries into puree. This can be done with a blender or by scrolling it through a meat grinder.

Now the whipped strawberries are placed in a pre-sterilized jar, the layer of berries should be 2-3 cm thick, on top of it there is a layer of sugar of the same thickness. Next, you need to alternate layers of sugar and grated berries, but the last layer must be sugar. You can slightly increase its thickness to 3-3.5 cm. Such a sugar "lid" will ensure the shelf life of the dessert. After that, it remains only to seal it with a lid and send it for storage in the refrigerator.

Recipe number 3 with lemon

The lemon in this recipe is used not only for taste, but also acts as a natural preservative. In addition, its addition increases the benefits of grated strawberries, significantly increasing the level of ascorbic acid in the dish.

For 1 kg of berries, 1-2 lemons and 1 kg of sugar are required. The lemon should be washed and scalded with boiling water, and then cut into small pieces; you do not need to peel the rind. Scroll the berries and citrus through a meat grinder.

You can grind the lemon with a meat grinder, and punch the berries with a blender, but this processing does not make a tangible difference, and the laboriousness of the process increases. Do not try to grind the lemon with a blender; large pieces will remain that can taste bitter in the dessert.

After the strawberry-citrus mass is ready, sugar should be added to it, mix and wait until it is completely dissolved. The final stage is transferring it to jars.

Recipe number 4

This method is not a recipe in the true sense of the word, but a method of freezing and storing strawberries. It is necessary to grind 1 kg of berries with the same amount of sugar. Next, you need tins or ice bags. They are filled with berry mass and frozen. When scarlet pieces of ice form in the molds, they can be removed and transferred to containers with lids or plastic bags for more compact storage.

You can use grated strawberries as an independent dish or add to tea, prepare fruit drinks and compotes. Sufficiently juicy and aromatic, the mass is suitable for impregnating biscuits, making cocktails. It can be added to dairy and sour-milk dishes, cottage cheese, put on a sandwich or toast. If in the middle of winter you would like to taste jam or make marmalade, it is enough to boil the mass with pectin or gelatin.

Great taste is not the only reason for the popularity of pureed strawberries, however. She will help out during the flu and cold season. It is enough to add it to tea, drink it with milk or eat it fresh. It is worth leaving some delicacies at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, because it is at this time that vitamin deficiency, chronic fatigue and a decline in activity are observed. Rich in vitamins and berry minerals will help you quickly get rid of these troubles.

It is quite simple to prepare strawberries, grated with sugar, and the recommendations of experienced housewives will help to make the dessert even more tasty and healthy.

• To prevent the berry from fermenting, you can rinse it in vinegar water. To do this, 1 tablespoon of vinegar 9% should be dissolved in 1 liter of water. Use the resulting liquid to wash the berries.
• Use enamelled pots and pans for cooking. Due to the high acidity of the composition, strawberries, in contact with metal surfaces, are oxidized, which affects its taste. Enamelled surfaces should be free of chips and scratches.
• Store the grated strawberries correctly in the refrigerator, then you can seal the jars with nylon lids. If you freeze the berries directly in the jar, they may burst due to the pressure difference inside and outside the container.
• Packaged in bags, containers or frozen in tins, grated berries are stored in the freezer. Freezing should be as extreme as possible, that is, as fast as possible.

Do not pack large portions of berries; if possible, set the maximum temperature in the freezer. At the same time, it is important that strawberries are not subjected to repeated freezing and defrosting. It is better to pack strawberries in small batches - for one use.

• Refrigeration storage will be shorter than freezer storage. In the first case, the berries must be eaten within 3-4 months, in the second they can be stored for up to 8-10 months.
• If you decide to leave the berries overnight to help the sugar dissolve better, put the container in the refrigerator and cover with a clean towel. In the summer indoor conditions left for so long time strawberries are more likely to ferment.
• An important point in the safety of the dish is the sterilization of cans and lids. It must be carried out before laying the composition, but at the same time the banks must have time to dry out. It is also required to sterilize the lids, if nylon caps are used, scald with boiling water.

For information on how to cook mashed strawberries with sugar, see the next video.

Every summer, everyone is looking forward to when the strawberries ripen to fully enjoy their sweet taste and wonderful aroma. But nothing lasts forever and the berry season ends. And in order to please yourself with the taste and aroma of summer even in winter frosts, you can prepare for future use strawberry jam, ground with sugar - a recipe for the winter.

This is the quickest and easiest way to grind sugar and strawberries without cooking. It is good because the natural taste of the berries is completely preserved.

So, you need 1 kg of strawberries and 1.3 kg of sugar.

But first you need to prepare the container. Ideally, these are glass jars with a volume of no more than 0.5 - 0.6 liters. They need to be sterilized.

This can be done in the following way:

• boil the jars in a large saucepan for about 5 to 10 minutes
• hold them over steam for 10 minutes
• bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 - 15 minutes.

Set aside to cool and dry if necessary.
Boil the lids for at least 5 minutes. It is preferable to take polyethylene or screw caps, metal for screwing is not desirable.

Having prepared the jars, it's time to start grabbing the berries. The strawberries must be sorted out, removing the spoiled and rotten berries. Rinse 2 - 3 times, you do not need to keep the berries in water for a long time, they will be saturated with moisture, become watery and lose their taste and aroma. Throw it in a colander and let the water drain properly - there is no need for excess moisture.
Put clean and dried berries in a deep bowl. Now we need to make mashed potatoes out of them

The perfect tool for this is food processor or a blender. He will cope with the task in just a couple of minutes. If there is no harvester, you can use a meat grinder. In extreme cases, a good old "crush" will do, but with it you will not be able to achieve a uniform consistency of mashed potatoes.

Further, sugar in the amount of 1 kg must be added to the strawberry mass (the leftovers will go to the manufacture of sugar cork in jars) and stir everything thoroughly. Ideally, sugar should dissolve, so it is better to buy smaller sand for such a case.
Arrange the finished strawberry puree in dry jars, not reaching the edge of 1 cm. Top up with the remaining sugar, evenly distributing it over all the jars. Close the lids and put in a dark, cold place.

Strawberries prepared in this way can be stored only at a temperature not higher than +5 degrees in the refrigerator or cellar, otherwise they may ferment and will be unsuitable for use for their intended purpose. Shelf life - no more than 6 months.

Lemon or citric acid recipe

If you take less sugar and add lemon juice to make strawberry juice, which can be used to make a delicious drink in winter.

You need to take 1 kg of berries, sort out, rinse, dry. Next, knead the strawberries in mashed potatoes in any convenient way and add 250 g of granulated sugar and 1/2 tsp. citric acid or the juice of one lemon. Mix everything well and arrange in sterile jars. Like classic strawberries with sugar, juices are stored in a cold place for no more than six months.

To extend the shelf life, the strawberry mass must be boiled for 15 minutes and hot packaged in jars.
Jus is diluted with water in a 1: 1 ratio. If the drink seems a little sour, you can add a little sugar. It will be especially pleasant to drink it after a bath or sauna.

Strawberries grated with sugar like jam

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This sweet, thick, with a slight sourness delicacy will not leave anyone indifferent. It can be spread on a sandwich or served with pancakes and pancakes,

You will need:

• strawberries - 2 kg
• sugar - 1.5 kg
• lemon - 1 pc.

So, the sorted and washed strawberries must be mashed in any convenient way.
Add sugar, stir well and leave to infuse for an hour - one and a half.
Squeeze the juice out of the lemon and strain it, if necessary, to get rid of the seeds and parts of the lemon.
Combine sweet puree and lemon juice, stir and put on fire. Cook for at least an hour until the mixture thickens.
Put the hot jam in the jars, seal it tightly and wrap it up, let it cool.
Thanks to heat treatment, the jam can be stored at room temperature until the next harvest of berries.

Features of preparation.

Freezing.

The grated strawberries can be frozen. As with sugar, at the rate of 1: 1, and without sugar. You can add it after defrosting.

First you need to make the strawberry puree. Then put in plastic containers. It is not necessary to sterilize them. The size must be chosen so that the content is enough for one time, because after defrosting it will not be possible to store it for a long time.

Send the finished packaged strawberry puree to the freezer.

In this form, the berries can be stored for an unlimited amount of time. At the same time, they retain all useful material and natural strawberry flavor.

It will be possible to use it for making various desserts, compote, jelly, dilute it like fruit drink or just eat it - it will taste like fresh strawberries with sugar.

Without sterilization

Strawberries grated with sugar without sterilization and any other processing retains all vitamins and nutrients. She retains the taste of ripe, fresh berries. It is very quick to cook - you just need to turn the berries into mashed potatoes and, covered with sugar, stir and put in jars.

But, despite the pros, there are significant disadvantages.

Berries that have not undergone heat treatment cannot be stored for a long time. In addition, they need special conditions - a cold, dark room, otherwise the workpieces will deteriorate.

The container must be prepared especially carefully: rinse and sterilize the jars with lids, dry them.

With sterilization

If strawberries with sugar need to be stored all winter or there is not enough space to place all the jars in the refrigerator, then the blanks must be subjected to a sterilization process.

It will take time, but not a single jar will deteriorate, it will not have to be thrown away and the work will not be wasted.

1. First you need to take a large saucepan or basin, with a flat bottom, copper, for example, or galvanized.
2. Install a grate on the bottom, on which you will need to put the jars. If there is no grate, then lay a material like gauze.
3. Put the filled jars with strawberries in a container for boiling, cover them with lids on top, but do not seal them.
4. Pour water over the neck of the cans and put this whole structure on fire.
5. When it boils, reduce the heating to a minimum, do not allow a strong boil.
6. Sterilize the workpieces in this way: 0.5 l - 1 min, 1 l - 15 min.
7. When the right amount of time has passed, take the cans out of the water carefully so as not to burn themselves, trying not to move the lids on them and now seal them tightly.
8. Put it all caps down to identify a possible leak.
9. When the jars of strawberries have cooled, store them in the cellar or closet.

Berries pureed with sugar are a source of fresh and healthy vitamins, a ready-to-eat product that retains the taste, aroma and valuable properties of a fresh harvest.

Strawberries mashed with sugar are a delicacy with an exquisite aroma and taste, known to our ancestors for a long time.

Excavations have confirmed the existence of the peoples of Ancient Rome and Greece, who ate wild berries, ground with honey or cane sugar.

Why is the berry so popular?

The value lies in the high content of useful vitamins and substances: fructose, essential oils, carotenoids, folic, pantothenic acids, vitamins C, E, group B. Wild strawberries will supply the human body with the necessary trace elements - copper, zinc, iron, which have a beneficial effect on the work of the cardiovascular system and other organs. Wild strawberries perfectly retain their dried properties, the taste of strawberries rubbed with sugar is pleasant and rich - for the winter this product will be both a delicacy and a prophylactic against colds.

Modern ones are in no way inferior to their counterparts in taste and content of vitamins, therefore, desserts made from garden berries are not only tasty, but also healthy.

How to cook grated strawberries with sugar?

The recipe for strawberries, mashed with sugar, is very simple, does not require culinary skills, the use of special devices, the list of ingredients is quite accessible:

• 1000 g of wild berries;
• 250 g granulated sugar;
• 2 g citric acid.

Instructions for cooking strawberries, grated with sugar:

1. Sort the berries, remove debris, spoiled fruits, put the sorted mass in a sieve, rinse under the stream cold water while gently shaking the sieve (colander). Prepare sealed containers.
2. Put the strawberries on a towel and dry.
3. Put the dried wild berries in a deep container, add sugar, use a puree press to mash the berries with sugar until a viscous mass is obtained. For convenience, you can use a blender, but then the mass will turn out to be liquid, like thick juice with pulp.
4. Put the prepared strawberries, grated with sugar, into containers, cover with a lid, put in the cold. The product can be used for 3 months. Grated with sugar forest berry can be frozen, then the shelf life of the product is 6 months.

1. In order for the berries to retain their taste, color and aroma, it is rarely necessary to transfer the product from one container to another.
2. It is advisable to cook a delicacy from freshly picked berries.
3. Forest fruits can be rubbed by hand, resulting in large candied fractions that can be used in the preparation of candied fruits, dessert decorations.

Wild strawberries, mashed with sugar, are unique in terms of value and low calorie content, which is suitable for everyone: adults, children, and people with impaired health.