A drink of berries, prepared independently, provides a guarantee for the body to receive a pure complex of vitamins. Lingonberry fruit drink is one of the simple, tasty and healthy drinks that can be prepared both for consumption in the near future and for preservation for the winter.

How to make fruit juice from fresh lingonberries?

Of course, fresh berries have a maximum of healthy substances, unlike frozen or dried.

Ingredients:

  • 3 l distilled water
  • 0.5 kg ripe lingonberry fruit
  • 4-6 tablespoons of sugar, adjust to taste

Preparation of simple fruit drink:

  1. First of all, thoroughly wash the fruits: hold for several minutes in warm, and then rinse under running cold water.
  2. Fruits must be manually rubbed through a fine sieve. Squeeze the juice out of the resulting mashed potatoes with gauze, and dry the squeezed fruits into an enameled container, pour 3 liters of water and put on fire.
  3. When the preparation for fruit juice boils, add sugar, mix thoroughly. Boil for 15 hours over medium heat.
  4. Add freshly squeezed juice to an almost ready drink, mix well and cook for another 5-7 minutes.

On a note. In the process of cooking, it is not recommended to use metal utensils, since the acid of the fruits in interaction with the metal can cause the formation of harmful substances.

How to cook fruit juice from frozen lingonberries?

 

Fruit juice from frozen lingonberries is not as useful as fresh fruit. Nevertheless, it retains quite useful properties and taste.

Products:

  • 400 g frozen berries
  • 2 l of purified water
  • 3-4 tablespoons of sugar
  • 1 carnation inflorescence
  • 1 g vanilla

Cooking:

  1. Defrost fruits at room temperature, rinse under running water, placing in a sieve or colander.
  2. Grind the berries in a blender, squeeze the juice from the pulp into a separate container.
  3. Put the pomace in a saucepan and add water to a boil.
  4. After boiling, reduce the heat and add sugar, vanilla and cloves. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Remove the drink from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
  5. Strain the drink through a sieve, pour juice into the fruit juice and mix well.

When preparing a drink from frozen fruits, you can not separate the juice from the berry puree.

Note! Lingonberry fruit juice is useful in infectious diseases, oncological formations, and is also popular as an antipyretic drink.

Recipe without cooking
Today, a raw food diet is popular - eating foods without heat treatment.

We offer to make fruit juice from lingonberries without cooking.

Products for a raw food drink:

  • 2 cup cranberries
  • 1 cup agave syrup or liquid honey
  • 1.5 l of water temperature no more than 40 degrees

Preparation of a drink:

  1. Rub clean berries through a sieve with a spoon. Thus, juice should be pushed into the container.
  2. To pass through a sieve with the remains of berries water and repeatedly squeeze the remains of a cake with a spoon.
  3. Pour syrup or honey directly into the juice container - depending on what you have chosen. Stir the prepared fruit well.

This fruit drink has a rather interesting taste due to its freshness. But in this way it is better to drink the prepared drink in the next 2-3 hours, otherwise the beneficial qualities will begin to disappear.

Note! Lingonberry fruit juice is contraindicated in gastritis, colitis and similar gastrointestinal diseases. Fruits have a large amount of acid, negatively affecting digestive organs.

Lingonberry fruit drink for the winter

 

Hostesses often prepare fruit drinks, compotes and preservation for the winter. After all, this is a great option to cook a completely natural product, without unnecessary additives and dyes. In addition, homemade blanks are much cheaper than store ones.

Tasty recipe: compote of sweet cherry with pits for the winter

Ingredients for fruit drinks per 1 3 liter bottle:

  • 4 cup lingonberries
  • water as much as goes into the bottle besides berries
  • 1-1.5 cups sugar

How to cook lingonberry fruit drink for the winter:

  1. Carefully sort the berries for spoiled, rinse and put in a pre-sterilized bottle.
  2. Boil the water and then pour the berries over it. Let it brew with a third of an hour.
  3. Strain the water through a sieve in a separate pan, leave the berries in a container. Boil and add sugar, boil again. Make sure the sugar has dissolved.
  4. Pour the berries with syrup and immediately roll up.

Cranberry and berry juice recipe

This mix is ​​a real vitamin charge in the autumn-spring period.

To prepare, take:

  • 250 gr cranberries
  • 400 gr lingonberries
  • 4-5 tablespoons of sugar
  • 2.5-3 liters of drinking water

Preparation of a drink:

  1. Rinse the fruits, rub through a sieve. Squeeze the juice from the berry puree. Put the liquid in the refrigerator for a while.
  2. Pour the remaining dry pomace with water, sweeten and put on fire, bring to a boil. After that you can immediately remove it from the stove.
  3. Cool the fruit drink and strain it through a sieve from the cake residue. Mix the finished drink with fresh juice and serve.

Drink should be consumed in the next day.

Lingonberry fruit drink with beetroot

Quite interesting will be beet and cowberry juice.

Products for cooking:

  • 400 gr lingonberry
  • 300 gr beets
  • 3-3.5 liters of drinking water
  • 3-6 tablespoons of sugar.

Cooking:

  1. Prepare the berries in the same way as in the previous recipes, not excluding the extraction of juice. Peel and grate beets, mix with berry meal.
  2. Pour raw materials with water and sweeten, put to boil. After boiling, cook for 3-5 minutes.
  3. Further actions are standard - strain the boiled fruit drink and mix with juice.

The drink is very useful, especially during colds. But the children may not like it - in this case, you can add more sugar, and preferably honey, in which there are a lot of useful trace elements.

Fruit drink with apples

Tasty and aromatic turns lingonberry-apple juice.Even the smallest picks will appreciate such a drink!

Products for a drink:

  • 2 cups with a hill of lingonberry
  • 4 medium sweet apples
  • 1-1.5 liters of water
  • 1 cup of sugar

Cooking:

  1. Wash all berries and fruits. Cut the apples into quarters and remove the membranes in the middle.
  2. Put a pot of water on the fire. Put apple slices and berries in it. Add sugar and mix. Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.
  3. Once it boils, cover tightly and turn off the heat.

In this recipe, the beverage is infused in a hot liquid. When it cools, it will be possible to pour into a container for storage in the refrigerator - for example, a bottle with a screw cap or a decanter.

On a note. Given the acidity of the berries, sugar is recommended to be added to taste - someone likes a very sweet fruit drink, and someone likes sourness.

Mint recipe

Mint leaves give the drink a spicy note, due to which the familiar taste of fruit drink acquires new flavor notes.

Ingredients

  • 0.5 kg of lingonberry
  • 2-4 sprigs of fresh mint
  • 2.5-3 liters of water
  • 3-5 tablespoons of sugar.

Preparation of a drink:

  1. The beginning of preparation is no different from the usual scheme: prepare juice and squeezes. Peel mint leaves and rinse them.
  2. Sprinkle squeezed sugar, mix and leave for 3-5 minutes. Then pour water, add mint and start cooking. Immediately after boiling, remove the drink from the stove.
  3. After the pestilence has cooled slightly, strain it from the remnants of berries and leaves, mix with juice and serve with puff flavored pastries with berries or fruits.

Peppermint juice with lingonberries is good in the summer season - mint gives a refreshing effect, in combination with berries it invigorates well.

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