How to cook black currant?

Black currant is great forcooking a wide variety of dishes, desserts and drinks. Especially tasty on the basis of it turns out jam, sauce and liqueur. About how to prepare them is told further.

Cream of black currant

To taste and quickly prepare a currant jam, use this recipe.

You will need these ingredients:

• sugar - 1,2 kg;
• black currant - 1 kg;
• water 100 ml;
• citric acid - ½ tsp.

The process of preparation of jam consists of these stages:

1. Take the berries and carefully scrape, rinse and wipe through a sieve.
2. Put a pot of water on the fire and put sugar in it.
3. Rub the currant in a container with liquid and mix everything thoroughly.
4. Bring to a boil the mass and cook for 20 minutes.
5. Add citric acid to the currant, remove the foam and stand on the fire for another 5 minutes.
6. Ready jam is removed from the fire and poured over sterilized jars, and then roll.

Blackcurrant pouring

Pouring black currant perfectly fits the festive table. You can prepare it yourself, for this you need the following ingredients:

• vodka 750 ml;
• sugar - 10 g;
• lemon peel - 10 g;
• black currant - 200 g.

To prepare the filling, you need to act like this:

1. Take the fresh currant, pick it over and crush it with a cricket.
2. The resulting gruel from the berries, put in a jar, pour vodka, add sugar and lemon zest.
3. Insist all this for 5 days in a dark place, then it will only be necessary to strain, after which the fill will be ready.

Black currant sauce

Black currant sauce is suitable for various vegetable and meat dishes. For its preparation it is required to take:

• red wine - 150 ml;
• garlic - 3 cloves;
• sugar - 10 g;
• soy sauce - 15 ml;
• tomato paste - 10 g;
• pepper and salt - to taste.

Prepares the sauce for this recipe as follows:

1. Rinse berries, go through, crush, wipe through a sieve and transfer to a container.
2. Fill the mass of berries with wine and boil until it is reduced by half.
3. Add soy sauce, chopped garlic, tomato paste, pepper, salt and sugar to the currant, mix everything thoroughly and serve it to the table.

Also, from black currant can be prepared vinegar. His recipe is found in the article How to Cook Homemade Vinegar.