Learn how canned grapes are made, and an original snack will surely appear on your table that will delight all members of your family. Juicy, fragrant, spicy berries perfectly set off the taste of liver and meat.
This preparation is ideal for preparing canapes and various salads.
Canned grapes: recipe
The considered recipe for a delicious snack allows you to use completely different varieties of wine berries. The additional use of spices such as sugar, salt, vinegar and others, will hide the acidic taste of the product, making your workpiece more appetizing.
So, to make canned grapes for the winter, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- red or white grapes - about 2 kg;
- table salt - 10 g per 1 liter of marinade;
- natural vinegar - 1-1.5 large spoons per 1 liter of marinade (depends on the ripeness of the berries);
- coarse sugar - 1-2 large spoons per 1 liter of marinade (depends on the ripeness of the berries);
- cloves in buds, allspice, bay leaves - apply to your liking.
Component Preparation
To make canned grapes (like olives) tasty and appetizing, the main product should be purchased in the freshest form. Berries should be large, juicy and without damage. They are carefully separated from the branches and thoroughly washed with running water.
By the way, some housewives just cut the berries from the "tail". In this case, the peel will not burst, which will allow you to get canned grapes like olives. However, this procedure is not required.
As soon as the main product is processed, it is laid out in a deep bowl and poured with boiling water. Leaving the berries in this form for half a minute, they are again discarded in a colander and again poured with cold water.
Pickling process
Grapes canned for the winter will be well preserved only if it is placed in sterilized jars.
At the bottom of each container lay several bay leaves, allspice and cloves. After that, grapes are placed in jars and poured with boiling water. Having covered the container filled with lids, it is left in this form for several minutes.
Over time, the water from the cans is poured into a deep bowl and put it on the stove. After boiling, salt, sugar and natural vinegar are added to the pan. Again, fill the grapes with marinade, roll it with sterilized lids and turn the top upside down.
Having wrapped the cans in a thick blanket, they are left in this form for exactly one day. After a day, canned grapes are removed to the cellar. It can also be kept in a dark and cool pantry or refrigerator.
How to use?
There are several ways to consume canned grapes. Someone serves it to the table with meat, fish or offal, and someone uses it with bread and sweet tea. In any case, open jars of berries should be only after a few weeks of aging.
Making sweet canned grapes for tea
Absolutely all grape harvests are good for humans. Their use contributes to the overall tone and strengthening of the body. Such snacks help restore fluid balance in the human body, as well as destroy kidney stones, improve metabolism and lower bad cholesterol.
Harvesting sweet canned grapes in bunches is an excellent solution. This will preserve the taste of berries. Such blanks will diversify your diet, saturate the body with vitamins and miners.
So how to make canned grapes? To do this, we need the following components:
- grapes in clusters - 500 g;
- drinking water - about 150 ml;
- beet sugar - 70 g;
- citric acid - 1 pinch.
Step cooking method
To preserve grapes in a sweet marinade, we need a small set of ingredients. The berries are thoroughly washed without peeling twigs, and then dried with paper towels and placed in boiling water.
After keeping the product for 5 seconds, it is removed and laid out in a prepared sterilized container. After that proceed to the preparation of sweet marinade.
Drinking water is boiled heavily, and then sugar and citric acid are added. By thoroughly mixing the ingredients, they achieve their complete dissolution. After that, hot syrup is poured into jars with grapes and immediately clogged with a sterile tin lid.
Turning the workpiece upside down, cover it with a thick blanket and leave it to cool completely. This procedure can take you about two days. After this time, canned sweet grapes are harvested in the cellar or underground. If you wish, you can store such a workpiece in a refrigerator throughout the winter.
When can I eat and how to serve?
So that canned grapes in bunches are well fed with sweet marinade, it is desirable to keep it in a cold place for several weeks (3-4). Only long exposure will contribute to a tasty and fragrant workpiece. If you open a jar of clusters before the due date, then the grapes may seem sour and not very juicy.
Serve sweet canned workpiece to the table should be chilled along with black tea. Usually it is used as jam, after spreading it on a slice of white bread or toasted toast.
Also, thick jam is often made from this blank. To do this, the grapes are separated from the twigs, poured with syrup from a can and crumpled with a pusher.
We can not say that canned berries are often used to prepare various sauces. They are crushed with a blender, seasonings, spices, tomato paste and other components are added, and then subjected to a short heat treatment. As a result of the described actions, a very tasty and fragrant sauce is obtained, which is ideal for fish, meat and offal.