5 life hacks as it is correct to freeze berries and vegetables for the winter

1. After collecting or purchase of berries/vegetables separate integral from overripe or spoiled. They can give undesirable juice and spoil all preparation.


2. Prepare bags for freezing and a board which will get into your deep freeze. You will display your vegetables and berries for shock freezing which will allow to remain it integral on it and not to turn into a lump.

If your freezer is narrowish for a board, then before freezing of berries and vegetables it is necessary to be convinced that they are dry. And then to freeze in bags.

3. Before freezing vegetables, cut them a la carte. So, tomatoes can be cut on segments (they will be useful for soups and ragout), eggplants and vegetable marrows on rings, pumpkin — cubes.


You watch that vegetables were firm and without excess moisture on a surface. Having convinced of it, spread out them to boards for shock freezing and remove in the freezer for 5 hours. After that spread out on bags. If the freezer does not contain a board, spread out at once a la carte on bags and mark date. Then lay in the freezer.

4. The best berries for preparation: currant, sea-buckthorn, raspberry, cranberry, bilberry. From it is possible to use in pastries, desserts, compotes and fruit drinks.

Among vegetables the chief leader is tomato. Right now in the markets the most tasty and juicy tomatoes which can become addition to soups, sauces for spaghetti, ragout and fried eggs in the winter are on sale.


5. If in your freezer there is not enough place for full freezing of berries, then it is possible to make portion preparations of berries with sugar. For this purpose put in a blender bowl currant (or any other berry) and sugar (1 kg of berries — 100 grams of sugar), and then shake up. The received puree can be poured on bags both to freeze or pour in banks and to use as jam (best of all to store in the refrigerator).