Kalina is best collected immediately after the first frost. Then bitterness will not be felt, and the berries will even taste sweet. Fresh and pre-sorted berries, which you did not have time to use, can be kept in the freezer or dried. But in winter it will be time to get their supplies and use them in the preparation of recipes for various dishes, which are listed below.
Kalina: drink recipes
1. A decoction of viburnum with honey. Pour a glass of viburnum berries with boiling water (1 liter), boil for 10 minutes, strain and add honey (3 tablespoons).
2. Pouring viburnum. Dissolve granulated sugar in a liter of boiling water (150 g) and cool. Pour vodka (1 liter) into sweet water and stand for two days.
3. Compote with viburnum and apples. Take viburnum (200 g) and sliced apples (400 g). In boiled water (2 l) dilute granulated sugar (300 g). Cook berries and apples in syrup for about 10 minutes. Cool the compote and serve.
Viburnum: dessert recipes
1. Viburnum jam. Using a juicer, make juice from viburnum (1.5 kg) and drain into a separate bowl. Remove the core from apples (5 kg), cut into slices, add sugar (5 kg) and cook. Cook jam until a drop of syrup stops flowing. Cool the prepared jam, pour in the juice of viburnum, boil again, pour into jars and cork with plastic lids.
2. Viburnum jam. Blanch viburnum (1 kg) in boiling water for 5 minutes to remove the bitterness and soften the skin. Drain the water, fill the berries with warm water (0.5 L) and cook until the viburnum softens. Then rub the berries through a sieve, mix with granulated sugar (1 kg) and boil again for 50 minutes. Pour hot jam into hot cans. Store the product in a cool place.
3. Viburnum candy
Blanch viburnum in boiling water for about three minutes, drain the water and fill the berries with water (250 ml). Cook until the berries soften. Wipe the viburnum through a sieve, add granulated sugar (800 g) and cook until the viburnum acquires a pasty consistency. Place the mass on wooden planks and dry in the oven. Store the marshmallow in a cool place.
Kalina: baking recipes
Pies stuffed with viburnum. Put the viburnum (500 g) in a bowl, add granulated sugar (150 g), mix and drizzle with lemon juice (2 tablespoons). Divide the finished yeast dough into small pieces and let it brew in a warm place. Roll each piece of dough into a cake, put viburnum (a tablespoon) in the center and form pies. With the seams down, place the pies on the baking sheet on which the baking paper is laid. Lubricate the top of each pie with yolk and leave for 15 minutes. In a oven heated to 180 degrees, bake pies for 20-25 minutes.
Hot Kalina recipes
1. Chuvash-style pork legs with viburnum. Process, thoroughly rinse and fill with water the pork legs (900 g). Cook them until cooked. Remove the meat from the pan, and in the broth put sauerkraut (200 g), viburnum (150 g), a couple of heads of finely chopped onions, and lavrushka. Salt to your taste and stew. Boil peas (0.5 kg), pass it through a meat grinder and season with butter (50 g). Put pea puree on plates, on top - pork legs. Pour each serving with sauerkraut and viburnum sauce.
2. Roast with viburnum berry
Fry a piece of meat (pork or lamb on the bone, 150 g) in a frying pan on both sides. Squeeze juice from viburnum (200 g) and pour meat. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover the pan and simmer over low heat until the meat is cooked. Roast is best served immediately after cooking - over time, the taste of the dish noticeably worsens.
Well, now how do you like viburnum red, recipes of dishes with the use of which you just found out? But this berry is (in addition to its culinary versatility) a surprisingly useful product. So eat viburnum and be healthy!