If you can find fresh cranberries during this time, do not let them escape! Use them to prepare a sweet and sour sauce with which to accompany meat dishes or fill Christmas cakes
THE cranberries, also known as redberry, they are sweet and slightly sour berries that are very good.
They have, in fact, antioxidant and antibacterial properties and their juice prevents and fights them infections of the urinary tract (they are a very effective natural remedy in case of cystitis) and of the gums.
Where to find them?
The United States and the Canada they are the major producers of these fruits. In Italy it is not always easy to find them, but between autumn and winter try to look for them in the very fruit shops because it is their season and are used in the preparation of many party dishes. Cranberries are an ingredient that can not miss, for example, in the Thanksgiving Day together with the traditional stuffed turkey.
How to choose cranberries
The good ones recognize themselves first of all by color. They must indeed be one beautiful bright red tending to burgundy.
Then I have to be firm, shiny and compact and must not show dents or stains.
If they are too dark, perhaps they have already reached an excessive level of maturation.
Cranberries sauce: the recipe
If you are lucky enough to find fresh fruit do not miss the chance to prepare this delicious sauce, sweet and with a sour aftertaste that goes perfectly with the game and some White meat like turkey, but also with i desserts.
Wash 350g of cranberries and melt in a saucepan 210 g of sugar with 240 ml of water and bring to a boil.
Add i blueberries and cook over medium heat for 5-6 minutes.
Add the grated peel of an orange and juice and mix well removing the froth that is created on the surface.
Leave to cool and serve at room temperature.
Flavored sauce
You can cook fruit with orange juice or even with a little bit of it port wine and of the spices like star anise.
To make the taste sweeter, add one teaspoon of strawberry or acacia honey.
Applesauce
Another fruit sauce that you can serve with that of cranberries to accompany meat is that of apples.
It is prepared by baking two peeled and chopped apples in the oven and mixed with sugar cane, a couple of tablespoons of cider, a cup of lemon juice, cinnamon is nutmeg.
Once ready, with a fork the apples are crushed and reduced to cream.
Some ideas for Christmas
Prepare the sauce and pack it in glass jars, then sterilize them and regalateli to your friends along with a leaflet that includes all the ingredients used and the various possible accompaniments.
With cranberries sauce you can too fill a panettone or a pandoro. Finally, with fresh berries you can decorate many dishes and make party cocktails spectacular and festive.
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