Frost apples for the winter - One of the best ways to make your winter diet more beneficial and rich in vitamins. Due to their low cost and ease of harvesting, these fruits are widely used in cooking. Thrifty housewives know dozens of dishes from frozen apples, which will benefit the body weakened by winter cold.
Did you know?Record for the content of vitamins are unripe green apples. When they begin to change color, the amount of vitamins is significantly reduced.
What apple varieties are best suited for freezing
Before learning how to freeze apples for the winter, you need to know which varieties are suitable for this purpose.
The best solution would be to use autumn and winter varieties with a sweet and sour taste - Antonovka, Glory to the winners, Golden, Richard, Kutuzovets, Sinap, etc. Fruits will perfectly remain at low temperatures.
In order to find out whether apples of a certain variety are suitable for freezing, you can also perform the following simple procedure: peeled fruit for 10 minutes should be put on the middle shelf of the refrigerator. If its surface does not darken, you can safely send apples to the freezer.
Preparing apples for freezing
Before freezing, apples should be thoroughly washed in a large container or under running water. Then, wipe each fruit dry. How to chop the apples, depends on what method of freezing you choose.
Ways to freeze apples for winter
Each hostess is looking for an answer to the question: "Is it possible to freeze apples for the winter so as to preserve most of the beneficial properties?".
Did you know? With proper freezing, fruits retain 90% of vitamins and trace elements from the original composition.
We offer you the most popular recipes for freezing apples for the winter.
Whole freeze
In clean, wiped dry apples remove the core with a knife or a special tool. You can do without removal, but it will save time if you need the seedless fruit. Peel can also be left as it is easily removed from the frozen fruit. Apples are placed in bags, the air is removed from them as much as possible and they are sealed before being sent to the freezer.
Important! With this method of freezing fruits take up a lot of space in the freezer.
Frozen Slices
Apples peeled, seeds and partitions, divided into 8 parts. The resulting slices, so that they do not stick together, you can first freeze on pallets. After that, they are poured into bags and put in the freezer.
Important! If you plan to make compote from the slices, do not cut off the peel - the drink will be more fragrant.
Dry freeze
The essence of this method of freezing is that, first, apple slices must be placed on a baking sheet or tray, covered with paper, and sent for 2-3 hours to freeze. At the same time make sure that the pieces are not in contact and lay in one layer. After a couple of hours, frozen slices are packed in sealed containers or bags for freezing and put in a freezer for long-term storage. Thus, they will not stick together and will be easily separated from each other.
Frost in syrup
To prepare the syrup in three cups of cold water (0.75 l) dissolve two glasses of sugar. In the resulting mixture dipped small pieces of apples. The slices soaked in syrup are packed in sachets and sent to the freezer.
Did you know? Frozen apples with sugar are perfect for cocktails and cold sweet dishes.
Frozen applesauce
For the preparation of frozen applesauce required:
- 300 grams of sugar;
- 5 g of citric acid;
- 1 kg apple puree.
First you need to make mashed potatoes. To do this, washed, sliced apples (with skin, seeds and partitions) are boiled in a saucepan, adding a little water. In the hot mixture, dissolve the sugar and add citric acid so that it does not darken. The entire contents of the pan are thoroughly mixed and fray through a sieve. After complete cooling, mashed potatoes are laid out in molds of a suitable container and frozen.
What are the storage periods for frozen apples?
No matter how many fruits the owners plan to prepare, you can store frozen apples for half a year to a year. An indispensable condition - the temperature in the freezer should be no higher than -18 ° C.
How to use frozen apples
In cooking, there are many recipes for dishes from frozen apples. In most cases, they are used in the same way as fresh fruit for cooking:
- pies, pies, bagels, cookies, donuts and other pastries;
- compotes and cocktails;
- fruit salads and jelly;
- roasting whole;
- stuffing poultry meat (duck, goose, turkey);
- pancakes, pancakes.
- 4 eggs;
- 1 tbsp. flour;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- 4 things. frozen apples or a handful of frozen slices;
- vanilla sugar to taste.
To make pancakes with frozen apples, the following ingredients are needed:
- 4-5 art. l pulp of frozen apples;
- 1 tbsp. milk;
- 2/3 cup flour;
- 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
- 2.5 Art. l Sahara;
- 0.5 tsp. soda (quench with vinegar);
- 1 egg;
- Vanillin to taste.
To make a compote of frozen apples, you will need:
- 400 g frozen apples;
- 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
- 3 liters of drinking water.
These are just a few of the recipes with frozen apples, so each housewife decides for herself what to prepare from the harvested fruit.
Most gardeners, finding out whether frozen apples are useful and how they can be used, begin to harvest fruit in this way. In addition, it helps to efficiently process the crop.
