Cranberry sauce for meat

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• Use cranberries and its use
• Recipes with cranberries sauce

You like cranberries? For those who answered this question in the negative, the following information. Lingonberry - one of those berries, useful properties which is difficult to overestimate. It is rich in vitamin C and carotene. Moreover, the concentration of the latter in this berry than in cranberries, apple and lemon. And vitamin B2, mineral salts, catechins, organic acids, tannin and pectin, copper (useful in diabetes).
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Use cranberries and its use

The leaves and berries of this culture is used as a disinfectant and diuretic rheumatism, cystitis, kidney stones, gastritis, in oncology, for recovery after diseases and much more.

More recently, scientists have shown that cranberries, particularly syrups therefrom, improves vision. It is not the whole list of diseases that help fight this berry.

Surely, after reading about such benefits, many will rush to find a sour, bitter berry culinary use. Jam, fruit, tea - all this, of course, is good, but is not the limit for us. There really interesting recipes cranberry sauce. They are suitable not only for desserts, but also to fish meat.

Cranberry sauce was first prepared in Sweden. Today he is in this country is particularly popular, they complement many dishes, from simple fruit to give them a special flavor to a variety of elite foods. There are recipes, which include honey or sugar, various spices, and a small amount of spirits from wine to vodka.

If you want to give the meat a spicy flavor, but do not have the time or inclination to cook the sauce, you can simply add the crushed berries in fire in a pan or baking in the oven. There sauce recipe that is as easy to make: half a cup of fruit mash, add a teaspoon of sugar and a little salt. The resulting mixture is ready to be served with meat. Also interesting taste effect, your dish will be different and brightly decorated thanks to the color of the sauce.

Incidentally, lingonberry berries may be used for the sauce and fresh and frozen.   As you know, when properly frozen almost all the vitamins in foods are retained, but not so on dried berries and fruits. The principle of cooking cranberry sauce as follows: berry cook until tender, is ground to a homogeneous mass was. Then add the remaining ingredients. It so happens that the sauce would like to do a little thick; then added starch, which must first be diluted in water.

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Recipes with cranberries sauce

Classic cranberry sauce

Suitable and various casseroles, and for fish and meat.

Optional 0, 5 kg cowberry, 250 ml of water, 150 g of sugar, a little dry wine, 1 hr. L. starch.

Preparation. In boiling water, put the berries and sugar, bring them to a boil, cook for 2 minutes. The resulting mixture is desirable to grind with the help of a blender, then add the wine and boil. Separately, dissolve the starch in water, add to the sauce and stir. Boil it after the addition of starch in any case it is not necessary - immediately remove from heat.

Cranberry sauce and quince

It goes well with meat and fish. Due to the minimal thermal processing cranberries in this recipe retains all the vitamins.

Cranberries needed a glass, half-glass of wine, one quince (can substitute green apple), a little olive oil, honey and sugar (1 tbsp. L.), Spices to taste (well-suited combination of black pepper, cinnamon and cloves).

Preparation. Prepared berries pound and pour the wine so that it covered the ground. Leave the mixture in a sealed container for an hour. Quince peel and finely chop and send stew in a suitable container, adding a little butter and liqueur wine obtained from cranberries. At the end, add the sugar, honey and spices. When the sauce will darken, add the cranberries and bring to a boil and remove from heat.

Roasted pork meat in a sauce of cranberries

This recipe is suitable for both festive table and as an everyday dish: the ingredients because there is the simple, inexpensive recipe. But cooked meat to grace any table.

It should be 0, 5 kg of pork pulp, orange (for zest and juice), 300 g of berries cranberries, salt and honey.

Preparation. Mix the honey and orange juice, whisk blender. After that, add the zest. Meat cut into slices 1 cm thick (as Chops), salt. In the form of the mixture pour a little of the blender, put back the meat and fill it with the remaining sauce. Bake at 180˚S hour.