Apricots are delicious summer fruits, which contain many vitamins. Usually they are saved for the winter - dried or boiled jam, jam. In this form, you can only cook compote or bake pies. With such a processing, fruits lose a lot of useful substances. And in order to preserve the taste and most of the vitamins are best freeze. Therefore, modern hostesses are increasingly preferred by this method of preserving the crop apricot. It is only important to comply with the rules and technology of the freezing process.
Choosing and preparation of fruits
In order to obtain a quality product as a result of freezing, choose ripe, elastic fruits and only from trees. Those that on earth cannot be collected, they are already pouched upon. Skin must be without dents, damage and red dots. Bright orange apricots with an easily separated bone are considered the best for freezing.
The fruits wash and lay out onto a sieve or colander, give a stance of water. You can dry with paper towels or naturally. In any case, it is embarrassed only after their drying.
Freezing apricots at home
With the spread of household freezers frost fruit, more and more conserved conservation. This is explained by the fact that in frozen fruits, taste quality and useful properties are preserved. The apricots are also freezing, it is only important to do it right. So that when stored in frozen form, the pulp does not dry, fast frost is used at low temperature (about 24 degrees).
You can freeze apricots in several ways and they are all good. The choice of method depends on the preferences of the hostess, the presence of free space in the freezer, as well as the goals of the final use.
Fully
Hospitals need to understand that frozen whole apricots will occupy a lot of space. The fruits are laying out on a dish or a tray shown by the food film or foil, and loaded into the freezer until it is frozen.
It is important that apricots are located at a short distance from each other, otherwise they will stick. It is desirable that the initial stage of the freezing of apricot occurred in the department where other foods are not stored - they quickly absorb foreign smells. After a couple of hours, frozen apricots can be folded into containers or p / e prolonged storage packages.
Dolkov
Fruit preparation for this method lasts a little longer, but they will take less space. After removing the bones, the slices are laid out on the tray, sprayed with lemon juice and give to dry. Further, the fruits are sent to the freezing compartment on a quick frost. After a couple of hours, they can be shifted into the container for further storage in the freezer at normal temperature.
In sugar syrup
Prepared slices are laying out into the storage capacity in one layer, then richly sprinkled with sugar. The layers are repeated until the tank is filling. At the top there must be a sugar layer. Fruits leave for some time at room temperature so that syrup is formed from sugar and fruits juice. Then the dishes are closed with a hermetic lid and placed in the freezer for storage. Such a product can be used subsequently for the preparation of pies.
Apricot puree
If the places in the freezer are quite a bit, you can freeze apricots in the form of a puree. In addition, the crooked fruits (but without rot) will rise to the puree.
After removing the bones, the fruits are folded into the container and grind on the puree with the help of a meat grinder, a blender or kitchen combine. Sugar is added to the resulting mass (it is necessary to take into account that the familiar fruits can be very sweet). To improve taste, you can add an orange or lemon zest. The mixture is thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
The finished puree is poured into small containers (buckets, cups, molds) and ship on freezing. After defrosting the puree, you can add to cocktails, porridge, use to feed the infant.
Storage of frozen fruits
Fruits with bones in frozen form retain their qualities at a temperature not more than -18 degrees during the year, fruits in syrup and mashed potatoes can be stored up to one and a half years.
Defrost the fruit should be gradually placing them in the refrigerator in advance, then the slices retain shape. Refrozen apricots impossible.
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