Dogwood - what to cook from it, what are the benefits of berries and recipes for interesting dishes for every taste!

Although many people have heard about dogwood, not everyone knows what to cook from it. In fact, such knowledge and skills will not only make your menu more diverse, but also provide an opportunity to effectively use in cooking another extremely useful gift of nature.

What is cornelian?

The one who has never encountered such a plant and its fruits, is interested in what the dogwood looks like, what it tastes, where to find and how to try the miracle of nature.

1. Cornelium is a shrub that reaches a height of, at times, up to seven meters.
2. The most widespread plant in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Moldova, Central Asia and other regions with a warm climate.
3. Thermophilicity is due to early flowering: the first flowers appear in the middle of March, and the shrubbery fructifies in late August - early September.
4. Fruits cornelian - berries red or burgundy color, oblong form, sourish and slightly tart to taste.
5. Inside each berry is a large bone, which, depending on the purpose of the fruit, is left or extracted, based on the recipe's recommendations.

What is useful for corpuscles for the human body?

The use of dogwood for the body is impressive in scale and encourages the unconditional use of berries in cooking. Even the listed incomplete list of the basic properties of miracle fruit reflects their special value.

1. Due to the high content of vitamin C, P and beta-carotene, corn helps with beriberi, has an antiscorbutic effect.
2. Tannins in berries have an astringent effect and contribute to strengthening the stool.
3. The use of cornelian is indicated to diabetics, as it lowers the level of sugar in the blood and improves the functioning of the pancreas, its enzymatic activity and has a beneficial effect on the entire digestive system.
4. The substances contained in the fruit have a diuretic and choleretic effect, they help with diseases of the liver and kidneys.
5. Regularly using dogwood, it will be possible to lower arterial and cranial pressure, improve brain function and strengthen the nervous system.
6. Miraculous properties of cornelian are used for diseases of joints, gout or for strengthening the body and increasing its protective properties in general.

How to store cornelian?

Depending on what is made from dogwood, how it is used for food or stored for the winter will depend on the way the product is stored.

1. Fresh berries can be stored in a loosely covered container or a package with holes, placing it in the refrigerator, in the vegetable and fruit compartment. The term of such storage is not more than 12 days.
2. Fruits can be dried in the air, avoiding direct sunlight on the berries, or in a slightly open oven, keeping the temperature 50-60 degrees.
3. The ideal way to preserve a valuable product is to freeze berries in packages that can be stored until the next harvest.
4. Thermally processed and hermetically sealed preforms from dogwood are perfectly preserved even under room conditions for a year or more.

Cornel - cooking recipes

If you have collected or purchased a cornelian, what to cook from it, you can find out further. Simple recipes will help pamper the family with useful dishes, and knowing some secrets of technology execution will make their taste perfect and simplify the process.

1. Casual dishes from cornelian often require proper preliminary preparation of the original product. When using berries in the pie filling or as a component for the sauce, the flesh from the bones is preliminarily separated. To do this, the ripe fruit is crushed with a fork or bottom of the glass and the bones are selected with their hands or they let the berry mass in a small amount of water until softened and then grinded through a sieve.
2. For the preparation of compotes, kissels or tea, berries can be used in their original form entirely or for a better result, work a little and get a clean flesh, removing the bones.

Pie with dogwood

Baking with cornelian pleases not only with its nutritional value and valuable composition. Amazing taste of the obtained delicacy will amaze with originality and refinement. Often the berries in the filling are supplemented with fruits, in this case - these are apples, which harmonically emphasize the light tartness of useful fruits.

Ingredients:

• eggs - 3 pieces;
• flour - 3-4 glasses;
• margarine - 200 g;
• sugar - 1 cup;
• sour cream - 1,5 glasses;
• baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
• powdered sugar - 2/3 cup;
• apples - 4 pieces;
• cornel peeled - 1 glass;
• nuts.

Preparation

1. Beat the eggs with sugar.
2. Stir in the softened margarine, sour cream.
3. Add the flour with the baking powder in portions and mix a soft but not sticky dough.
4. Distribute the dough in an oily form with high sides, sprinkle the bottom with crushed nuts.
5. On top, cut apples and cornelian.
6. Bake a pie 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
7. Beat up sour cream with powder, pour cream cake.
8. After complete cooling and impregnation, the pie is fed to the table.

Tea with dogwood

Cornflower tea is a recipe that can be made from fresh ripe berries. The resulting drink will become an energy supply of the body for colds or after suffering ailments, will have an invigorating effect and raise the vitality. Sugar in this case can be replaced with honey or jam, which will make the drink even more useful.

Ingredients:

• cornelian - 1 glass;
• purified water - 1 l;
• black tea - 4 teaspoons;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• sugar - to taste.

Preparation

1. Berries eliminate pits.
2. The pulp is crushed, squeezed juice.
3. Squeezes boil with the addition of sugar, filter.
4. Brew tea separately, mixed with decoction and juice and served.

Cornel sauce

Another way to apply in cooking cousine - recipes of all kinds of sauces that will help improve and emphasize the taste of any unsweetened dish. One of the options for making a delicious addition to fried meat will be presented later. An indisputable condition for obtaining an ideal result is exceptionally ripe berries.

Ingredients:

• cornelian - 500 g;
• garlic - 5 teeth;
• hot pepper - 1 piece;
• greens - 1 bunch;
• hops-suneli - 1 teaspoon;
• olive oil - 20 ml;
• salt, sugar, wine vinegar - to taste.

Preparation

1. Ripe cornelian water is poured into the water and covered with boiling for 15 minutes.
2. Softened berries eliminate pits.
3. The resulting pulp is combined in a blender vessel with greens, butter, garlic and hot pepper and pierced to the desired degree of grinding of the constituents.
4. The mass is placed in a saucepan, if necessary, brought to the desired density, adding a decoction of cornel, flavored to taste.
5. Sauce from a dogwood to meat warm up to boiling and pack on sterile jars.

Kissel from dogwood

Like any other drinks from dogwood kissel it turns out surprisingly tasty and unusually rich. Considerable value is also the nutritional characteristics of a similar dessert, which can complete a hearty lunch meal or serve it as a supplement to the main dish for a midday snack or dinner.

Ingredients:

• dogwood - 150 g;
• purified water - 1 l;
• starch - 3-4 st. spoons;
• sugar - 150 g.

Preparation

1. Cousine is boiled in water for 10 minutes.
2. Rub the berry mass through a sieve.
3. Puree is mixed with broth and again brought to a boil, sweetening the base in the process to taste.
4. Dissolve the starch in water, pour a thin trickle into a pan with a cousal decoction.
5. After boiling for a minute, let the jelly cool, and then, if desired, filter through gauze.

What can you cook from dogwood for the winter?

If there is an opportunity to save the dogwood for the future, what to cook from it for the winter, you will learn further. Proven recipes will help to replenish stocks of a mass of valuable preparations, including sweet desserts and snack foods, as well as all sorts of drinks.

1. The easiest way to prepare dogwood for the winter is to cook from it a delicious and without any doubt a useful compote. The concentration and saturation of the drink will depend on the proportions of the constituents and can be selected to taste.
2. An indispensable sweet delicacy for strengthening immunity or simply complementing the dessert menu will be jam or jam of berries . In addition, corn stalks without pits can simply be twisted through a meat grinder and mixed with sugar in a 1: 2 ratio. Keep this kind of sweetness in the cold.
3. The fans of the original pieces will appreciate the taste of the pickled dogwood, and lovers of home-made alcohol will be pleased with the tasty filling of berries.
4. If there is free space in the freezer, the cornelian can be frozen and used as needed.

Compote from dogwood for the winter without sterilization

Delicious harvested cornel compote for the winter will be a worthy replacement for any purchased drink. The following basic recipe of the drink can be used as a basis for experiments, adding to the composition of other berries or fruits and thus obtaining an even more refined and original taste of drinking.

Ingredients:

• cornelian - 2 cups;
• purified water - 3 liters;
• sugar - 1 glass.

Preparation

1. Dogwood is covered in sterile cans and poured over boiled water for 30 minutes.
2. Water is drained, boiled, and sugar is poured into the jar.
3. Pour the contents of containers with boiling infusion, seal, turn the vessels upside down, warm them to cool.

Gem from a pitted cornelian - recipe

Pleasant to taste, with unobtrusive sourness and light astringency, cinnamon jam will please both fastidious adults and children. In this case, you have to tinker with the extraction of pits, but the result will justify all the work. For harvesting, only ripe and fragrant fruits are suitable.

Ingredients:

• dogwood - 1 kg;
• purified water - 300 ml;
• sugar - 700 g.

Preparation

1. The berries are immersed in water and cook for 15 minutes.
2. Rub the softened fruits through a large sieve, separating the bones.
3. Add the mashed potatoes mixed with broth, sugar, cook jam, stirring, 30 minutes, sealed in sterile jars.

Pickled dogwood

Surprisingly original original taste marinated cornelian as olives. Such a savory snack will be a spectacular addition to any feast and exquisite decoration of salads and other dishes. Preserve the integrity of the fruit during heat treatment will help pre-pierce them with a toothpick or skewer.

Ingredients:

• dogwood - 1 kg;
• purified water - 300 ml;
• vinegar - 100 ml;
• salt - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• sugar - 5 teaspoons;
• clove, laurel, sweet pepper and tarragon - to taste.

Preparation

1. Prepare the marinade, boiling water with sugar, salt and vinegar, lay the prepared dogwood.
2. Tumble berries on a quiet fire for 15 minutes.
3. At the bottom of sterile containers lay spices, fill the cans with boiled berries with a marinade.
4. The vessels are sealed, wrapped until cooled.

Pouring cornelian

Fans of home-made alcohol will like a liqueur made from dogwood. Drink can be obtained using a technology similar to the preparation of wine, or use the recommendations from this recipe and greatly simplify the task. Crushed berries are insisted on an alcoholic base, after which the drink is sweetened to taste.

Ingredients:

• cornelian - 500 g;
• vodka - 500 ml;
• sugar - 500 g.

Preparation

1. Stretch the berries with tolik, pour vodka, cover tightly with a lid and leave for a month.
2. Finished cornel tincture is filtered, sweetened and aged for a week to normalize the taste.

How to freeze cornelian?

Especially it's easy to freeze the dogwood for the winter. The process of such harvesting of berries does not require any work and is absolutely not troublesome. But as a result, within a year it will be possible from time to time to get the right portion of fruits and use it for making all kinds of drinks, desserts, bakery, sauces and other dishes.

1. Select the ripe and quality fruit, getting rid of spoiled and crushed specimens.
2. Wash the berry mass spread on a towel or a tissue cut to dry.
3. You can freeze the berries entirely, packing them in bags or special containers.
4. To make a ready-made baking filling or a component for making other dishes, you can freeze the dogwood, removing pre-bones.