Vitamins for winter: how to freeze vegetables properly to preserve their flavor and usefulness

Summer and fall is the time to prepare vegetables, berries, fruits for the winter. There is no doubt that in the summer, when there is access to fresh produce, you don't want to think about frozen foods. But think of greenhouse Turkish or Spanish tomatoes in winter that have no flavor at all and local fruits and vegetables - it will be mostly apples, potatoes, beets and cabbage. Not a very large assortment. And in winter most vegetables, fruits and berries will have another issue - high price.

Therefore, August and September is the best time to prepare stocks for winter. If you have a freezer, it is worth filling it with your favorite and different types of summer vegetables and fruits.

Storage at low temperatures causes a slight loss of nutrients. The most unstable to freezing are vitamins C and B1, the amount of which will decrease over time, and these losses are inevitable.

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Shchob frozen vegetables, fruits and berries came out savory and corrisni potribna correct preparation.

1. The first step is to grind them and, if necessary, slice them. Various berries, fruits, beans, green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts can be frozen sirimi. Others, such as mushrooms, spinach, eggplant, zucchini, peppers, pomidori should be blanched before freezing. Pomidori can be mashed.

It is better to pick them into a uniform mass and put them in bags or containers for freezing. Such tomato puree is an excellent addition to soups and the basis for tomato sauce. In addition, pomidori and peppers can also be frozen sirimi. It is very delicious to cook borscht with them. Only enough space for all the variety.

2. Try to freeze all the berries in one piece, as they will retain much more nutritious.

3. Make small portions. Large portions of frozen food will be difficult to separate before thawing. It is important to think about how much you need to prepare your favorite dishes. It is better to use bags for freezing. It is easier to make the necessary portions and they will take up less space.

4. It will be convenient to cook vegetable stew at any time, if you freeze ready-made vegetable soup in season. The soup can be made up of various vegetables that your family likes the most. Put the cut vegetables into the freezer, before mixing and portion them into containers.

5. Frozen vegetables, fruits, berries can be stored without affecting their flavor for 8 - 12 months. After that they lose their color.

6. Do not re-freeze food! Because in doing so, they lose not only their texture, but practically all of their beneficial properties.

7. Put the date of freezing and the name of the preparation on the labels. Then it will be easy to identify the frozen product in front of you.

It is worth including frozen foods in your winter diet. They will not only make your passions even better, but will also improve your mood. Who among us would not want to eat vivsianka with chornitsy or nalisniki with half a schnitzel in the early winter?

And what kind of frosts for winter do you make?