In the vegetables and fruit frozen for the winter the maximum quantity of vitamins and useful properties remains. The cauliflower, broccoli, squash, zucchini, asparagus haricot, a sorrel, green onions and many other things well give in to freezing. In order that it is correct to prepare vegetables and fruit for freezing, it is necessary to adhere to some recommendations.
Cauliflower, zucchini and squash
Before freezing of these vegetables they need to be boiled on slow fire in a small amount of water. It is worth blanching a cauliflower no more than three minutes. During process it is necessary to add a little citric acid. Cool, dry up and freeze the boiled inflorescences for the winter.
To cut squash and zucchini into cubes, to boil. To ready vegetables allow to cool down then to spread out from in containers and to freeze.
Vegetables which don't demand scalding
Tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, salad pepper before freezing don't need to be boiled. To prepare pepper for the winter, it is necessary to remove a fruit stem and seeds, to wash out carefully. Clean pepper perfectly remain if to insert them one into another and to put in packages for freezing.
Tomatoes keep the gustatory qualities when freezing in the form of puree or segments. It is the best of all to cut cucumbers which go further on salad in straws or cubes. The frozen cucumbers should be defrozen before preparation. After that it is possible to add them to salads.
Freezing of onions and other greens
Greens of fennel, parsley and celery carefully to wash out, blanch within 1 minute. Divide greens into bunches, lay in forms and freeze. To beat out ready cubes with greens from forms, it is necessary to spread out on packages in quantity. Such form of freezing will allow to get the necessary amount of greens for preparation. Before freezing of green onions to remove the turned yellow and zavyadshy shooters. As well as other greens to wash out, blanch in water about 2-3 minutes. After that — to cool, spread out densely in forms and to freeze.
How to freeze fruit
Fruit and berries before freezing need to be boiled in syrup with sugar. It is obligatory to take out stones from berries. Apples should be subjected to freezing only in the form of puree. Blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, currant and a gooseberry before washing out, cleaning from scapes and leaves. To separate the ready frozen briquettes with fruit and berries from molds, to place in plastic bags and to remove in the freezer on storage. Store a frozen berries, fruit and vegetables it is necessary in the freezer at a temperature below — 18 degrees. After defrosting the repeated freezing isn't recommended. For convenience it is worth using portion containers to get that quantity which is required.