Thorny fruits have an astringent taste and because of this, not everyone likes. But if you can cook, the blackthorn yields: excellent wine, liquors, tinctures, jam, juice, pastille or marmalade. Not only the fruits themselves, but also the leaves and flowers of the tree will be used. What to cook from thorns, besides all this? Sauces and seasonings for hot meat dishes. Read on and find out what you can cook from thorns for the winter!
The thorn tree (both cultivated and wild) gives ripe fruits in late autumn. Be sure to collect them and do not think what to cook from the turn. You will learn the recipes now.
Sauce Recipe
Have you got a crop turn? What to cook for the winter, we will tell you! An excellent sauce for hot dishes, it will be the highlight of your culinary creations. This recipe is all the more convenient because the sauce can be preserved in the cold season.
What is required for cooking:
- ripe blackthorn fruits - 1 kg;
- filtered water - 100 ml;
- coarse salt - 2 tbsp. l .;
- garlic - 4-5 cloves;
- hot peppers - 0.5 pcs.;
- fresh cilantro - a bunch;
- young mint leaves - 4-5 pcs.;
- apple cider vinegar - 25 ml.
How to make the sauce:
- Rinse all thorns in clean water. Remove a bone from each berry. Put the pulp in a pan - preferably with a thick bottom and walls. In such utensils, the sauce does not burn when stewed.
- Add water and salt to the pan. Put on a slow fire. Cook and stir with a spatula for 7-10 minutes.
- Next, introduce peeled garlic and hot pepper into the pan. Keep in mind: the more these ingredients, the hotter and hotter the sauce will be. Stew for another 5-7 minutes.
- During this time, rinse all the fresh herbs (cilantro and mint can be replaced with dill and parsley if desired), chop it finely with a knife. Transfer to a pot with boiling blackthorn.
- Remove the pan from the stove for a while, grind the sauce with a submerged blender until the consistency of the paste.
- Put the mass in again. Add vinegar and mix.
- After two minutes, turn off the stove. And put the sauce in sterilized jars and cover with sterilized lids. You got blackthorn sauce for the winter.
Additional ingredients
Remotely, such a sauce is similar to Georgian tkemali or tklapi. Only it is made not of plums or cherry plum, but of the fruits of blackthorn. If desired, you can prepare several jars of such a blank for the winter. And make each run special. Just introduce new flavors:
- coriander;
- Imereti saffron or more affordable turmeric;
- dill - seeds or greens;
- peeled and roasted walnuts;
- tomato paste.
Tips for housewives
Saffron or turmeric before adding to the sauce, be sure to soak in a small amount of hot water, preferably boiling water. For one pinch of spice, 3-4 tablespoons of liquid is quite enough.
Be sure to peel walnuts or any other nuts from the dark skin, it makes any dish astringent-bitter. It is easy to do this - fry the nuts in a dry pan or in a saucepan (if there are a lot of nuts). You can bake in the oven. When the peel dries, it will fly off by itself. The only exception is pecans - they are sweet themselves, and their skin is neutral in taste.
And as a preservative, not only apple cider vinegar is suitable, but also ordinary table, lemon juice or citric acid.
What is sweet?
What to cook from sweet thorns? Dessert recipes boil down to jam and jam. But these same jams can be used as semi-finished products in the preparation of the following goodies:
- ice cream;
- sweet whipped cream desserts;
- baked rolls with sweet filling;
- pies with jam.
Even from thorn jam and jams comes out excellent pastille and marmalade.
Thorn nuts marmalade recipe
What is required for cooking:
- turn - 300 g;
- apples - 300 g;
- granulated sugar - 250 g;
- peeled walnuts - 50 g;
- butter - 1 tsp;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l
How to make marmalade:
- Rinse the fruit. Cut the peel from apples, remove the seeds from the turn. Cut the pulp into pieces and transfer to a pan.
- Pour sugar and mix. Place on a cooking stove.
- Process the walnuts as described above in the “Additional Ingredients” section and chop into slices. It can be crushed with a coffee grinder or blender. Insert the crumbs into the fruit pan. Shuffle.
- Cook the mass until thickened and reduced in volume. After this, remove from heat and cool slightly.
- Cover a wide baking sheet with low sides with baking paper and grease it with butter. Spread the sweet fruit and nut mass on paper evenly. Level with a spatula like a spatula.
- Place the baking sheet in a slightly warm off oven. It will cool, and leave the pastille there for another day. Then sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into small pieces.
What to do with flowers?
Blackthorn flowers are not only pretty in appearance, they are also useful. They are recommended to dry for the winter, and then add when brewing tea. It will not hurt the fruiting of the tree, and you will prepare an amazing drink in the winter evenings. The properties of these colors are reduced to the following effects on the human body:
- maintaining a good gastrointestinal tract;
- increase immunity;
- strengthening of blood vessels, including the neck and brain;
- improved sharpness of vision;
- the fight against viral diseases.
All these effects will not appear after the first cup of tea or if you drink immediately one and a half liters of a precious drink. Stabilize yourself a cup of tea with one dried thorn flower 2-3 times a week and drink in small sips. So all the positive qualities of drinking will affect you only in the best way.
Contraindications to the use of blackthorn
To begin with, you can’t eat a lot of this fruit, as well as dishes made from it. Thorn berries have a specific taste - for everybody. But if, after all, you overeat it, there will be nothing but a softer than usual chair. Just do not eat bones - they contain hydrocyanic acid. This is a poison that accumulates in the body, gradually poisoning it.
Now you know what to cook from the turn. Feel free to try new recipes in your kitchen workshop!