Lingonberry contains so many nutrients that it can be considered a healing berry. Lingonberry is used for the treatment and prevention of colds, for the treatment of diabetes, restoration of metabolic processes. It is remarkable that this berry is unpretentious in storage and retains its useful properties for a long time. And if you cook lingonberry juice, you can consider that you have achieved an ideal result in the struggle for vitamins. The method of preparation of fruit drinks excludes boiling and boiling of berries, which allows to preserve all the useful substances of lingonberries as much as possible.
It is necessary
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- For lingonberry juice with mint:
- 1.5 kg lingonberries (fresh or frozen),
- 3 liters of drinking water,
- 6 tbsp Sahara,
- mint.
- For lingonberry juice with honey:
- 200 g lingonberries
- 1 liter of drinking water
- honey.
- For a simple lingonberry juice:
- 400 g lingonberries
- 200 g sugar
- 1 liter of drinking water.
- For lingonberry-beetroot juice:
- 3 l of water,
- 1 kg of lingonberries,
- 1 kg of beets
- 200 g of sugar or honey.
Instructions
Step 1
Lingonberry juice with mint: Wash the lingonberries and pick out sprigs, leaves and spoiled berries. Boil water, put the lingonberries in a glass dish and pour boiling water over them so that the water covers the berries by 1-2 cm.
Step 2
Mash the mint leaves to create a distinct smell, add sugar and mint to the water. Close the glassware with a lid, wrap it in a towel and leave to infuse overnight or for 4-5 hours. Strain through a strainer, mash the berries with a spoon to squeeze out the pulp and remaining juice from them. Pour the prepared fruit drink into a decanter and store in the refrigerator, serve chilled and with ice.
Step 3
Lingonberry juice with honey Rinse the lingonberries, fold them on a sieve and let the water drain. Place the lingonberries in water and over medium heat. Bring to a boil, but do not boil, remove from heat and let it brew for 10-15 minutes. Pour through a strainer into a glass jug, rub the boiled lingonberries there to make the fruit drink with the pulp, add honey.
Step 4
Simple squeeze out the juice. Pour the pomace with water, bring to a boil and strain, pour the broth into a decanter or jug, add sugar and combine with juice. Infuse the drink for two days.
Step 5
Lingonberry-beet juice. Wash and sort out the lingonberries, squeeze the juice from the berries, pour it into an opaque bowl and put in a dark and cool place. Pour the pomace with a liter of water, bring to a boil and strain with a sieve or through cheesecloth. Squeeze the boiled pomace.
Step 6
Peel the beets, grate on a medium grater, boil in the water remaining from the lingonberries and squeeze the juice. Mix the beetroot juice and lingonberry juice, add sugar, bring everything together again to a boil and refrigerate. Serve cold.
