In the presence of the good freezer it is possible to keep taste, aroma, a form and advantage of strawberry for long time. For this purpose it will also be required to choose berries competently. The frozen strawberry can be used for preparation of pastries, compotes, kissels, cocktails. It is good also in itself.
The frozen strawberry: how to choose berries
For freezing of strawberry it is important to choose berries competently. Otherwise when defrosting you receive muddy kissel with unattractive taste and color, but not tselenky beautiful and tasty berries. It isn't necessary to choose the resung strawberry for freezing. It has to be moderately ripe, dense and firm, not dry and watery.
For preparation of strawberry for the winter it is necessary to pick berries in hot and surely dry weather. It is desirable that couple of days before collecting there was no precipitation, then berries will be more tasty. It is better to give preference to small strawberry - it is well exposed to frost.
The frozen strawberry: preparation of berries
There is an opinion that before freezing strawberry can be not washed. Supporters of this idea believe that the washed strawberry loses the taste. If you are sure of purity of berries - you can freeze their dirty. It is so possible to arrive with home-made berry. However many doctors consider that washing of strawberry - elementary hygiene. Only it is important to do it as soon as possible that berries didn't become impregnated with water.
Wash out strawberry in the small portions, but at the same time don't feel sorry for water. It has to be obligatory for cool. Wash berries accurately, a choba not to damage their gentle thin skin.
It is desirable to place the washed-out strawberry in a sieve from plastic. In it water will quicker flow down from berries. Don't place some berry in metal ware: at contact with it, strawberry can decolorize - to darken slightly.
Let's water flow down and accurately destem. If you plan to freeze berries entirely, it isn't necessary to delete them. Without them strawberry will at once produce juice and will get out of a shape.
Spread out berries on a tissue in one layer so that they didn't concern each other. In such situation they have to spend not less than an hour. During this time berries will well dry out.
Freezing of berries: preparation of ware
It is the best of all to freeze strawberry in plastic ware: trays for ice cream, disposable containers, it is possible even to use plastic bottles. The last should be cut off previously.
Strawberry doesn't transfer repeated freezing therefore it is better to divide it into small portions which you will be able precisely to master for once at once. Dishes for freezing have to be well washed and dry-through.
It is admissible to use also plastic bags, however cellophane on a frost becomes very fragile and can tear in the course of storage.
Freezing of the whole strawberry
Wrap up in a plastic bag a cutting board or a shoroky plate. Place in one layer the washed-out and dried up berries on all plane. Place them in the freezer and leave for day that strawberry grabbed.
Get berries from the freezer, remove them together with a package so that strawberry appeared inside. Place packages of berries in the freezer, on long-term storage now. This way is good the fact that berries in such portion packages don't stick together and don't spoil the form.
How to freeze strawberry with sugar
Berries with sugar will give a little juice in freezing operation, but after a defrosting they will remain the same, as well as to the room in the freezer - bright and fresh.
Take about 300 g of sugar on 1 kg of strawberry. It is desirable to turn it into powder by means of the coffee grinder or the blender. Place the prepared berries in a plastic basin and pour each layer icing sugar. Put strawberry in the fridge for 2-3 hours. Berries have to give juice. After that shift them together with not dissolved sugar in a container and fill in with juice.