Summer pleased with the apricot crop? Need to prepare the juice! For a fragrant drink you need very little: ripe fruits and a good mood. Here you can peep a suitable recipe for apricot juice for the winter.
Apricot juice for the winter - general principles of preparation
The easiest way to extract juice is with a juicer. It can be manual, electric or steam. You can also make a drink by rubbing the cooked fruit. Often the drink is diluted with water. Sugar, citric acid, various aromatic additives can be added to it. Apricot juice is often prepared with the addition of other fruits, for example, apples, citruses.
Sterility is our everything!
Since the juice is cooked, the apricots do not need to be dried after washing. But after cooking, sterility is required. It is not allowed to get into the drink raw water, specks and other garbage. Pour juice only in clean and dry cans.
How can sterilize containers:
• over steam;
• in the oven;
• in the microwave.
Grandmothers used to fry cans in the sun, but today this method has lost its relevance. Pour the drink only in a boiling state. Tighten with clean, preferably sterile lids. A special key is used. It is necessary to cool the workpiece upside down, then the banks are returned to their natural position.
Apricot juice for the winter with pulp
An ancient recipe for apricot juice for the winter, which is prepared without special appliances. All you need is an enameled pan, colander or sieve. The number of fruits is arbitrary. Sugar is added to the drink as desired.
Ingredients
• apricots;
• sugar.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apricots, sort them into halves. You do not need to dry fruits. We immediately discard the bones.
2. We put the halves in a large pan, necessarily enameled. If you cook the workpiece in an aluminum bowl, then it will have an ugly shade.
3. Now fill the water. It needs so much that the liquid is equal to the fruit, that is, it reaches their level.
4. Turn on the stove and start cooking. You can immediately make a big fire.
5. As soon as the foam begins to appear, immediately remove. In juice, it is useless.
6. Boil the fruit until soft. As soon as the apricots begin to disintegrate, remove from heat. Cool the brew.
7. Drain the compote through a colander, set aside the broth for a while.
8. We wipe boiled fruits through a small colander, but preferably through a sieve. Get rid of the skins.
9. Delicate mashed potatoes, which came out during wiping, connect with a decoction, stir and put on the stove again.
10. Now add sugar to taste.
11. Let the juice boil for about five minutes, remove the foam. Pour the drink into sterile cans, cork and remove the workpiece.
Apricot juice for the winter at home through a juicer
The easiest way to harvest apricot juice for the winter at home. All that is needed is a suitable juicer, which will separate the veins and skins from the liquid. Brand and device do not matter.
Ingredients
• 5 kg of apricots;
• 300 grams of sugar.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apricots, free from the seeds.
2. Pass the halves of the fruit through a juicer.
3. We evaluate the waste. Apricots in this regard are capricious and cake can be a lot. If this is true, a lot of waste has come out and they are wet, then we pass them through the juicer again.
4. Combine everything that happened to be extracted from fruits. Pour into a saucepan.
5. Add sugar and place on the stove.
6. As soon as the future drink begins to boil, remove the foam.
7. Let the juice boil for three minutes, but more if the output requires a thicker product.
8. Pour, cork and the sunny drink is ready!
Apricot juice for the winter with lemon
A variant of a very aromatic apricot juice for the winter at home. For 3 liters of squeezed drink you need only 1 lemon.
Ingredients
• 3 liters of fresh juice;
• 500 ml of water;
• 1 lemon;
• 150-300 grams of sugar.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apricots and squeeze the juice in any way. The easiest way to use an electric juicer.
2. Add sugar to the water. The sweeter the apricots, the less it is needed. We put the syrup to cook on the stove.
3. Dip the washed lemon in boiling water, then remove the zest with a knife. This is a thin, yellow-colored crust of citrus. Pour zest into sugar with water.
4. After boiling, let the syrup boil for five minutes, so that the zest gives off the aroma to the water. We filter.
5. Cut the peeled lemon and squeeze all the juice out of it, also filter.
6. Now combine lemon juice, aromatic syrup and prescription apricot juice. It should be 3 liters.
7. Put it all on the stove and brew the drink a few minutes after boiling. If a foam suddenly appears, then do not forget to remove it.
8. The juice is ready! Pour, tightly cork, cool up the bottom.
Spicy apricot juice for the winter at home
The recipe for an incredibly aromatic apricot juice, which is prepared with the addition of spices. If you don’t like some ingredient, then just exclude it. You can also make your favorite supplement if it does not contradict the taste of apricot.
Ingredients
• 4 liters of juice;
• 4 star cloves;
• 1 vanilla pod;
• 0.5 lemon;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• 1 stick of cinnamon;
• 4 leaves of mint.
Cooking
1. Take 700 ml of water, pour into a saucepan, put sugar and set to boil.
2. Add all the spices to the saucepan; nothing needs to be chopped.
3. Squeeze the lemon juice, immediately pour into the apricot drink. All that remains, that is, a half with a crust, is thrown into boiling syrup. Cook it for at least ten minutes.
4. Filter the aromatic mixture, pour into the juice. Stir.
5. Put the pan with the drink on the stove, let it boil. From the surface we catch foam.
6. We taste the drink. Add sugar or acid if necessary.
7. Boil for about five minutes, pour into sterile dishes, clog with treated lids and juice can be sent to the basement.
Apricot juice for the winter with apples
A variant of perhaps one of the most popular flavors of apricot juice. With apples, the drink turns out to be very pleasant, sour and unusually fragrant. We extract the juice by any of the available methods, it is better to use an electric device.
Ingredients
• 5 kg of apples;
• 5 kg of apricots;
• 700 grams of sugar;
• 500 ml of water.
Cooking
1. Water can be immediately poured into a large saucepan and put on low heat.
2. Sugar also immediately fall asleep in water, let it dissolve.
3. The washed and pitted apricots are passed through a juicer, the juice is immediately added in portions to the water with sugar, let the drink warm, and we will not waste too much time.
4. We also wash the apples, cut into pieces, bypassing the stubs with seeds. We extract juice from them, we also use a juicer.
5. Pour apple juice to the apricot drink.
6. That's it! It remains to boil the drink for about five minutes after boiling. Remember about the foam that needs to be removed.
7. Next, pour the workpiece into sterile dishes, as described above.
Apricot juice for the winter at home with a blender
A method of preparing apricot juice for the winter at home for those who have nothing to squeeze the drink. You will need a blender, preferably a submersible. You can use the combine, but it will be longer.
Ingredients
• 3 kg of apricots;
• 900 ml of water;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 0.5 tsp citric acid.
Cooking
1. Rinse the apricots with water. No need to take out the bones. The fruits must remain intact.
2. We take a large pan to fit in a colander. Pour 2/3 of the water. We put on the fire, let it boil.
3. Next we put a pot or bucket with a cold ode, it is possible with ice-cold liquid.
4. Put the whole apricots in a colander and dip it in a pan with boiling water for 20 seconds.
5. Then take out and immerse in ice water.
6. After a minute, remove the apricots and remove the skin in one motion, immediately discard the stone. Put the cleaned pulp in a bowl.
7. Take a blender and mashed fruit until smooth.
8. Add water to them, pour sugar and throw citric acid. You can squeeze juice from fresh citrus.
9. Boil the juice for several minutes. If desired, the drink can be made even thinner by diluting with water. But in this case, do not forget to add sugar and acid in order to maintain a pleasant taste. Pour, put away for storage.
Apricot juice for the winter through a juicer
Sokovarka is a special device for extracting juice. It is a three-story structure with a straw.
Ingredients
• apricots;
• 5-7 tablespoons of sugar.
Cooking
1. Pour water into the lower compartment of the cooker. Usually it goes from two to three liters, but it is better to look in the instructions.
2. Divide the washed apricots into halves, put them in the lattice (topmost) part of the juice cooker.
3. Sprinkle apricots on top with sugar to enhance juice production.
4. Turn on the fire. Cook juice.
5. After about 45 minutes, you can remove the clip from the tube and drain the juice into a sterile container. Cork up.
Apricot juice for the winter - useful tips and tricks
• Apricot cake from a juice cooker should not be thrown away. It will make a wonderful mashed potatoes that can be put into the filling for pies or pastille.
• Apricots go wonderfully with different fruits. You can make juices with the addition of pears, peaches, different berries. But you should not add blackberries, otherwise the drink will turn blue.
• Any juice will become more aromatic and tastier if you add a little vanilla and cinnamon to it. It is better to use natural pods and sticks. The composition of the spices from the bags leaves much to be desired.
• For corking juices, you can use not only cans, but also glass bottles with screw caps.
