Sea buckthorn oil, quite widely used in folk medicine, is an oil extract of physiologically active substances from the fruits of sea buckthorn. Sea buckthorn oil, prepared in a factory method, has a thick red-orange color, with a characteristic odor, and is now very difficult to find in pharmacies. But there is quite a lot of this oil in bazaars and markets, but as for its quality, it is on the conscience of the sellers. Therefore, it is better to prepare it yourself at home, especially since the cooking technology is not complicated and is accessible to everyone.
Application of sea buckthorn oil
☀ First of all, this is an excellent pain reliever. In addition, it helps accelerate wound healing, which is why it is widely used in the treatment of burns and frostbite.
☀ For diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, ulcers), sea buckthorn oil is used internally. For stomach ulcers, take 1 teaspoon half an hour before meals, and for duodenal ulcers, take a tablespoon. It is also used internally for diseases of the cardiovascular system, especially for coronary heart disease and hypertension.
☀ For diseases of the upper respiratory tract (sinusitis, tonsillitis, sore throat), you should rinse your mouth with water, take a teaspoon of oil in your mouth and hold for several minutes.
☀ For joint diseases (rheumatism, polyarthritis), you should make lotions and compresses based on sea buckthorn.
☀ Sea buckthorn oil is also known as a means of cleansing the body of radiation and heavy metal salts, which is especially important in our time, when operating nuclear power plants are located in almost every region of our country.
☀ In addition to all of the above, sea buckthorn is also used for infectious diseases. Due to its bactericidal properties, it suppresses pathogens of diseases such as typhus and dysentery.
☀ She can cope with E. coli and streptococci. Sea buckthorn oil should be taken 4-5 tablespoons even after an illness, since it contains almost all the vitamins needed by a weakened body, which is especially important for patients who have undergone major operations.
But it should be remembered that sea buckthorn oil is contraindicated for patients with pancreatitis and cholelithiasis.
Preparing the berries
Today, there are several known methods for producing sea buckthorn oil, and each of them requires careful preparation of the berries, for which it is very important to comply with certain requirements during their collection and processing. Thus, preparing sea buckthorn oil at home is only possible if the berries are collected during the first frost. This ensures the integrity of the fruit and the content of the greatest amount of useful substances.
Before processing, the collected berries should be rinsed well under running water and dried, spread in one layer on a horizontal surface covered with a clean cotton or linen towel.
The simplest recipe for sea buckthorn oil
Rinse fresh berries thoroughly and place them on paper or a towel to dry. Next, squeeze the juice from these fruits. For example, grind them in a mortar and then squeeze them through cheesecloth, or use a juicer.
Then pour the squeezed juice into a clean glass container with a wide neck and place it in a dark place for a day. Oil will collect on the surface of this juice. It is lighter in color than juice and has a characteristic consistency. Carefully collect the oil from the surface with a spoon or you can do this with a pipette, then pour it into a glass bottle. Cover it tightly with a lid and store it in the refrigerator.
This method is not only simple, but also the highest quality. The resulting oil can be used in small quantities to care for facial skin.
How to prepare sea buckthorn oil from cake at home
Try making sea buckthorn oil in a simple way first. Of course, its simplicity is relative. But you will get an idea of the technology for making sea buckthorn oil at home and will be able to decide whether to do it in the future:
- Pass selected and pure sea buckthorn berries through a juicer. Separate the juice and use it as you wish (for drinking or cooking).
- Transfer the remaining pulp into a non-metallic container (a large glass jar will do) and fill with fresh vegetable oil.
- Use unrefined sunflower or extra virgin olive oil at the rate of half a liter of oil for every 3 cups of sea buckthorn cake.
- Cover the jar with a lid (no seal needed) and put it in a dark place. Leave at room temperature or slightly cooler for about a week (6-8 days).
- After this time, the pulp will have time to transfer microelements and vitamins to the oil. You can strain it from the cake and start using it, or you can further improve the quality of the oil.
- Juice again from about the same amount of fresh berries as you did the first time. Dispose of it as desired, and fill the new cake with the already infused sea buckthorn and strained oil.
- Repeat the infusion procedure, then squeeze the oil from the cake. Sea buckthorn oil is ready.
Sea buckthorn oil made from fresh berries and olive oil
Another most common way to prepare sea buckthorn oil yourself is a more economical option. Many will ask: why economical? But because, in addition to ripe sea buckthorn fruits, you will also need some refined oil of vegetable origin, for example, olive oil, which is ideal as a care product when used in cosmetology.
So, let's begin:
- Prepare approximately 500 grams of fresh sea buckthorn berries. The berries must be fresh.
- Rinse the fruits several times under running water and place them on a baking sheet prepared in advance.
- Place the baking sheet with sea buckthorn berries in the oven to dry. Keep an eye on them and stir them often so they don't burn. After all, we need dried fruits to have a firm and dense consistency.
- Grind the cooled berries using a regular coffee grinder. The ground mixture should resemble flour, only brown.
- Pour this sea buckthorn flour with vegetable oil, preheated to a temperature of 60 - 65 degrees, and in our case, olive oil. It should completely cover all the fruits.
- Mix everything thoroughly and send the resulting plant mixture to a dark place for about 7 days.
- After a week, sea buckthorn will enrich olive oil with all valuable substances and beneficial vitamins.
Very important: the place where the prepared sea buckthorn mixture will be located must be warm enough.
With this method of preparing sea buckthorn oil yourself, it is necessary to take into account that the effect of such oil will be significantly reduced, since its concentration is somewhere around 15%. But this oil is also recommended for use both in treatment and in cosmetic applications.
Some people, in order to increase its effect, filter this oil through thick cloth and mix it again with sea buckthorn flour for several days.
The more you repeat these procedures, the more you will increase the concentration of the oil.
Once you have the finished butter, place it in the refrigerator. It is best if you pour it into a dark glass bottle, which must be tightly sealed.
Sea buckthorn oil is a healthy and natural product that will help cope with many diseases. It is used to treat minor burns and frostbite, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, sore throat, laryngitis, tonsillitis, and some women's diseases. You can prepare this universal medicine with your own hands.
Sea buckthorn oil has many beneficial properties and vitamin content. It is successfully used in medicine and cosmetology both as an independent product and in combination with other components. For example, to create shampoos, creams, masks, gels. All of them are useful if they are made in compliance with technology and are made from natural raw materials. But if sea buckthorn grows near your house or at your summer cottage, there is every chance to prepare a healing and healthy product yourself.
In order to do everything correctly and enjoy using the product of your own labor, you need to learn how to make sea buckthorn oil with your own hands.
Manufacturing Features
Sea buckthorn oil is sold in pharmacies; the product is safe and effective, and if necessary, it should be purchased there. But it’s no less interesting to try making oil at home and experience for yourself the effectiveness of a DIY product. The production of sea buckthorn oil has its own characteristics. If other types of oils are extracted from nuts or seeds, then the preparation of sea buckthorn oil occurs by analogy with burdock, based on sunflower or olive oil. The reason is that it is impossible to extract the required amount of oil from sea buckthorn seeds; they are too small.
In industrial enterprises, this is achieved using powerful presses and other technological features. But at home this is unrealistic. Therefore, vegetable oil is taken as a basis, and a useful extract can be easily made from the berries yourself. They are rich in carotene, so the oil has a rich orange color with a reddish tint.
Regardless of which recipe is chosen, the first step is to prepare the fruit. They must be ripe, whole, berries separated from the branches, which should be washed well and dried under natural conditions.
Popular recipes
You can make butter at home in different ways, using seeds, fresh juice, or berry cake. They can be recycled together and each component can be used separately. In any case, you will get a useful product that will be useful both in treatment and in cosmetic home procedures.
Recipe No. 1. Fresh berries
To prepare sea buckthorn oil from fresh berries, you need to do the following:
- Use a juicer to extract juice or crush the berries manually using a rolling pin in a glass bowl. You can also do this in a blender or meat grinder;
- Using gauze, separate the juice from the pulp;
- Pour half a liter of oil into three cups of cake. Most often, unrefined sunflower oil is used for these purposes, which can be replaced with olive, corn or soybean;
- the composition is infused for about a week;
- after this, you need to strain first through a sieve, then again through cheesecloth;
- You can use oil or even improve its quality. To do this, squeeze the juice out of fresh berries again, and fill the new cake with settled oil;
- The process of settling, straining and squeezing is repeated. And the improved home product is ready to use.
The advantages of the method are that if you have raw materials, you can prepare a large amount of oil, it will contain enough useful substances. The downside is the length of preparation and many manipulations, although if the housewife has time, this disadvantage is not so significant. The main thing is to be patient.
Recipe No. 2. Fried berries
To get a quality product in sufficient quantity, you can use fried berries. The only downside to this recipe is the cooking time. To prepare sea buckthorn oil, you should follow these steps:
- First, the sea buckthorn is dried well;
- Place the berries on a baking sheet and place in the oven. To avoid burning the fruits, you need to control the process, stir them periodically with a wooden spatula so that they dry evenly at a temperature of +70 degrees;
- when the berries have become dry and hard, they are crushed in a blender or coffee grinder to obtain a powder;
- The dry mixture is poured with vegetable oil about three centimeters above the mixture itself. To do this, it is better to choose wide dishes, so the mixture will more quickly release its nutrients to the oil. Dishes in the form of a bottle or jug are definitely not suitable;
- the composition, covered with a lid, is sent to a dark place and kept at room temperature for a week;
- when the time is up, you need to strain the composition and leave for another three days. After this, a small sediment forms at the bottom, you can strain again. And the butter is ready;
- To improve the result, you can stand and strain several more times.
Recipe No. 3. Frozen berries
The convenience of this recipe is that it can be prepared even in winter, when the need arises. But those housewives who have stocked up on vitamins since the fall will be able to do this. Whole, clean and well-dried berries should be stored in the freezer. Then, during the cold season, you can use frozen berries to make a vitamin drink or oil for treatment and cosmetic procedures.
The container with frozen berries is first moved from the chamber to the refrigerator. After a few hours, you can complete the process at room temperature.
To prepare sea buckthorn oil from frozen berries, you must do the following:
- the berries need to be washed to remove excess moisture and accidental contaminants;
- manually or using a blender, squeeze out the juice and separate the pulp;
- dry it by spreading it on clean paper;
- carefully select the grains and pass through a coffee grinder;
- mix the powder obtained from the seeds with mashed berries;
- add sea buckthorn juice, vegetable oil;
- keep the resulting composition in a water bath for at least three hours;
- the mixture sits for three days at room temperature in a dark place;
- at this point an oily film has formed on the surface; it must be carefully removed with a spoon and poured into a bottle;
- You can leave it for a few more days, and then remove the film again. And do this until oily stains stop appearing on the surface.
The positive thing is that you can prepare fresh oil at any time. But it should be taken into account that although some vitamins are retained in frozen berries, there are much more of them in fresh fruits.
Recipe No. 4. Concentrated oil
You must immediately take into account that this method of production will not produce a lot of oil; you cannot make a face or hair mask from such an amount, and it will not be enough for other procedures for an adult. But this is the case when, for example, a small child requires pure oil, in the beneficial qualities of which you can be completely confident. To prepare sea buckthorn oil, you must follow these steps:
- clean, selected berries are placed in a juicer;
- the resulting juice, separated from the cake, is placed in a glass container;
- put in a dark place for a day;
- after this, a thin oily film appears on the surface. This is where it is most useful. It has the highest concentration of vitamins and nutrients;
- it must be carefully removed and placed in a bottle. This is how, if necessary, you can extract the freshest and healthiest oil when you need a little of it.
Oil is the healthiest of all the options listed. The only negative is that a large amount of raw materials is required to make this product. All of the above methods have their pros and cons; each housewife will decide which option is preferable for her.
It is worth following a few simple rules to preserve the beneficial properties of sea buckthorn oil.
- In order for the product to be as healthy as possible, it must not only be properly prepared, but also preserved. Sea buckthorn oil should be kept in tightly closed glass bottles. It should be stored in a cool, dark place. A refrigerator is suitable for these purposes.
- Another important nuance that needs to be taken into account when making butter at home is the quality and ripeness of the berries. There are different varieties of sea buckthorn, and their ripening time varies. Every owner who grows this berry in the garden knows when it needs to be collected. The earliest varieties ripen in August, and the later ones can ripen in October.
- If you are going to buy a berry at the market, you need to take a closer look at it and determine by eye how ripe it is. Typically, the ripe berry is orange in color, soft and fragrant.
Good, truly high-quality oil that will bring benefits can only be obtained from ripe berries.
- The prepared oil can be used in a variety of areas - both internally and externally. It is used as an antibacterial agent and an analgesic. It is used to treat wounds and helps speed up healing. Inflammations on the skin can also be treated with oil.
To learn how to make sea buckthorn oil at home, watch the following video.
Good afternoon, dear gardeners!
Let's talk today about what to cook from sea buckthorn.
This is a very valuable and healthy berry, and it would be a good idea to stock it up for the winter.
As always, we will offer you an excellent selection of simple and proven recipes.
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Sea buckthorn without cooking with sugar
This is the fastest way to make so-called “raw jam”. A no-cooking recipe that retains maximum vitamins.
Ingredients
- Sea buckthorn – 1 kg
- Sugar - 1.3 kg
Preparation
Sort sea buckthorn from spoiled berries and twigs and rinse.
Sprinkle the berries with sugar.
Place this berry mixture into clean jars and close.
Candied berries can be stored in this form in the refrigerator for about 4 months.
The sea buckthorn will release juice in which the sugar will dissolve. You will get a berry in syrup. Tasty and healthy!
You can eat it with tea, make fruit drinks, or add it to compotes.
Mashed sea buckthorn with sugar
Ingredients
- Sea buckthorn – 1 kg
- Sugar - 1.3-1.5 kg
Preparation
Prepare all ingredients. Sea buckthorn needs to be washed and cleared of twigs.
Sea buckthorn must be poured into a deep container and covered with sugar.
Using a blender, grind the berries along with sugar.
You will get a fragrant orange mass. If you want, you can strain it through a sieve to remove the pits.
But in fact, these seeds contain enormous benefits, because it is from them that healthy sea buckthorn oil is made.
Therefore, the dish will be healthier if you leave the bones.
Pour the mixture into clean, scalded or sterilized jars.
Sprinkle one or two tablespoons of sugar on top of the product. And close the lid.
This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator for about 6 months. The longer it sits, the thicker it becomes.
This “jam” without cooking is very tasty!
It can be spread on bread or added to tea - a real vitamin recharge.
Sea buckthorn jam without seeds
A wonderful recipe for thick seedless sea buckthorn jam.
Ingredients
- Sea buckthorn 1 kg
- Sugar - 800 gr
Preparation
We wash and sort the sea buckthorn. Our task is to obtain sea buckthorn juice with pulp for wonderful seedless jam.
Therefore, we will rub the sea buckthorn through a sieve.
To make this easier, scald the berries with boiling water and leave there for a couple of minutes or blanch in a double boiler for 30 minutes.
Place the scalded berries in portions into a sieve and grind until only the seeds and pulp remain.
Mix sea buckthorn juice with sugar and cook for 15 minutes to thicken.
You can cook longer, then you will get a thicker version.
Pour the prepared jam into sterilized jars and seal. Place on the lid and wrap until cool.
This jam keeps well, it is sweet and tasty!
Sea buckthorn with honey without cooking
Perhaps this is the most useful and gentle recipe for preparing sea buckthorn. All vitamins are preserved, and honey further increases these benefits.
To learn how to prepare sea buckthorn with honey without cooking, watch this wonderful video:
Be sure to try it! Benefits from nature!
Seedless sea buckthorn jam for the winter
Beautiful, bright jam! And also healthy, because we will cook it without boiling.
It is no secret that with enough sugar, sea buckthorn can be stored for several months in the refrigerator without spoiling.
Therefore, we will take advantage of this property and prepare amazing, tasty and natural jam.
Ingredients
- Sea buckthorn – 1 kg
- Sugar – 1 kg
Preparation
For this recipe we will need a juicer.
Prepare sea buckthorn and sugar. The berries need to be washed and cleared of twigs.
The next step is to squeeze the berries through a juicer.
First, we pass all the berries through it, and then once again we pass the remaining cake.
We will get wonderful bright sea buckthorn juice.
We need to mix this juice with sugar. Leave the mixture to steep for 3-4 hours, stirring occasionally.
We need the sugar to dissolve completely.
In this case, the juice will acquire a slightly higher viscosity.
Pour it into sterile jars and close the lids. We send it to the refrigerator.
There the mass will thicken and finally become a very tasty jam.
It can be stored for at least 4 months, but, to be honest, it is eaten much sooner!
Sea buckthorn compote with apples
A recipe for a vitamin compote that is loved by both adults and children.
Ingredients for 1 jar
- Sea buckthorn with apples – half a jar
- Water - how much will go in to fill the jar?
- Sugar – 300 g for every liter of water
- Cinnamon – 1/4 stick
- Cloves – 3 pcs.
Preparation
Prepare sea buckthorn, cleared of debris and washed. Cut the apples into slices and remove the seeds.
Fill the jars halfway with apples and sea buckthorn, add cinnamon and cloves.
Fill it all with boiling water to the top of the jar and cover with lids.
Let it brew for 20 minutes. Then pour the water from the cans into a separate pan or basin. Add 300 g of sugar to it for each liter that is obtained after we drained the water.
Stir well and place on medium heat. Let the syrup simmer for 5 minutes, stirring until the sugar is well dissolved.
Fill the jars with the resulting syrup and roll them up.
Turn over and wrap with something warm until completely cool. After this, they can be stored in the pantry.
Drink with pleasure!
Sea buckthorn fruit drink
Watch how to prepare vitamin juice from sea buckthorn in this video tutorial:
Really very tasty, and so many benefits!
Nothing is made as easy as sea buckthorn juice.
The juice of this berry does not sour and is perfectly stored in the refrigerator for about two months in its raw form.
Therefore, you can simply squeeze the juice through a juicer and put it in the refrigerator.
If there is not enough space in the refrigerator and you want to close the juice, then we offer this recipe.
Ingredients
Sea buckthorn – 2 kg
Water – 400 ml
Preparation
Place clean sea buckthorn berries in an enamel or ceramic bowl.
Crush the berries well with a masher until they release juice.
Heat the water to 40 degrees and pour it over the sea buckthorn, stir. Place the mixture on the fire and bring the temperature to 50 degrees.
Drain the resulting juice through a colander into a separate container. Squeeze out the remaining berries thoroughly.
The resulting juice can be passed through a sieve to make it more transparent and to prevent pieces of cake from getting into it.
The water should reach the jars “up to their shoulders.” Sterilize the contents for 10-15 minutes and roll up.
Turn the finished jars over onto the lid and cover until completely cool.
That's it, you can enjoy your own homemade juice in winter!
We hope that our recipes will be useful to you!
Sea buckthorn with sugar without cooking for the winter is not a frequent guest on our tables, but in vain, because our ancestors knew firsthand about its benefits. Eating a small teaspoon of this jam every day will bring much more benefits to the body than newfangled vitamins and dietary supplements, and preparing such a delicacy is quite simple.
Small sour berries, which are almost impossible to pick without getting hurt on the sharp thorns that thickly cover the branches. Is it worth it to suffer so much for a jar of jam? The answer to this question is clear – yes, of course. The reason for such categoricalness is the beneficial properties of sea buckthorn.
It’s not for nothing that these small amber-colored berries are also called the king berry, because it contains huge quantities of vitamins B, C, K, E, as well as folic acid, iron, sodium and magnesium. All these components are not only capable of supporting immunity at the proper level, but also coping with depression, stress, rejuvenating the body and normalizing vision.
An important point: high temperatures and sunlight destroy vitamins in fresh berries, so the greatest benefit will be in winter preparations without heat treatment, which were stored in a cool place without access to sunlight.
Sea buckthorn with sugar for the winter without cooking - a classic recipe
The classic recipe for preparing sea buckthorn with sugar for the winter is considered the most gentle. It helps preserve not only the beautiful amber color of the berries, but also almost all vitamins.
To prepare you only need:
- 1000 g of berries;
- 1300 g sugar.
We make the preparation step by step:
- Carefully sort the berries, removing debris, leaves and burst specimens. Then wash in cool water and dry, spreading in a thin layer on a towel or napkin.
- Next, carefully, so as not to damage the berries, mix sea buckthorn with 1000 g of sugar. Place the fruits in sugar in dry and sterilized jars, filling the container ¾ full. Sprinkle the rest of the volume with sugar.
- Cover the jars tightly with lids and put them in the refrigerator. Gradually, all the sugar will dissolve and mix with the berry juice, leaving only the berries in the thick sugar syrup in the jar.
How to cook with hawthorn
Thanks to the beneficial properties of sea buckthorn and hawthorn, this preparation can hardly be called a dessert, since it is rather a sweet medicine that will support the immune system during the cold season.
Proportions of ingredients included in the treat:
- 1000 g sea buckthorn;
- 600 g hawthorn;
- 500 g granulated sugar.
Algorithm of actions:
- Sort out the orange sea buckthorn berries, rinse and dry, spreading them in a thin layer on a sieve, then rub them through the same sieve.
- Blanch the sorted hawthorn fruits in boiling water for 1-2 minutes, then pass them through a fine-mesh metal sieve.
- Weigh out the amount of sea buckthorn and hawthorn berry puree indicated in the recipe, mix it with sugar and heat to seventy degrees.
- Wash and sterilize liter and half-liter glass jars thoroughly. Pour the heated mixture into jars and send for sterilization. The duration of this process for containers with a volume of 0.5 liters will be 20 minutes, for 1 liter - 25-30 minutes.
- Roll up the sterile workpiece with lids and, after cooling, store it in a cellar or pantry.
Cooking in a blender
Using a blender, in a few minutes you can get a smooth, seedless sea buckthorn puree, where, along with sugar, the vitamins that the berry is rich in are perfectly preserved. This preparation can be added to tea, used for baking, or simply eaten with a spoon.
For one serving of sea buckthorn with sugar in a blender you will need:
- 1250 g sea buckthorn;
- 1000 g white crystalline sugar.
How to cook sea buckthorn with sugar without cooking:
- Puree the prepared clean berries with a blender in short bursts. Filter the resulting pulp through a sieve to separate the seeds.
- Pour sugar into the finished puree, stir and leave at room temperature for four hours, stirring occasionally so that all the sweet crystals dissolve.
- After this, place the workpiece in clean and sterile jars, cover the top with parchment, nylon or iron lids and store in a cool and dark place.
To create more favorable conditions for storing workpieces that cannot be heat treated, you can make a sugar “plug” in each jar by pouring a couple of tablespoons of sugar on top.
Sea buckthorn pureed with sugar and apples
Thick jam without the use of high temperatures is obtained from sea buckthorn with the addition of apples. This preparation can be spread on toast for morning tea or used for filling pies. Apples should be selected from sweet and sour varieties.
For this winter treat you will need:
- 1000 g sea buckthorn puree;
- 400 g mashed apples;
- 500 g sugar.
Sequence of culinary processes:
- The first step is to prepare sea buckthorn puree and pureed apples in the quantity specified in the recipe. For the first, press the washed and sorted berries through a sieve. The resulting cake can be used to prepare compote.
- Wash the apples, cut them into slices, place them in a saucepan with a little water (about one glass is enough) poured into the bottom. After this, simmer the fruit until soft and press through a sieve.
- Place the prepared jars in the oven for calcination and sterilization, and in the meantime, combine sea buckthorn, apples and sugar, mix everything thoroughly and heat to 70 degrees.
- Place the preparation in hot jars, sterilize in the same way as in the recipe with hawthorn, immediately roll up the lids and store.
Through a meat grinder
Sea buckthorn with sugar twisted through a meat grinder looks beautiful in a jar. This harvesting method is also good because it allows you to quickly process a large number of berries in a short time.
The ratio of sugar and king berries is as follows:
- 1000 g sea buckthorn;
- 1500 g granulated sugar.
Progress:
- Add 300 g of the total amount of sugar. Grind the washed and dried berries on a sieve or sieve together with most of the sugar using a meat grinder.
- Let the resulting mass sit for several hours in a cool place, covering it with a clean towel. Then place the sea buckthorn in dry and baked jars, make sugar plugs on top of the jam from the previously poured sugar, and seal with lids.
How to store sea buckthorn with sugar?
Winter preparations without cooking from sea buckthorn and other berries and fruits require close attention to storage conditions. Of course, sugar acts as a natural preservative, but to prevent raw jam from fermenting, it must be stored in a cool room with good ventilation. In a city apartment, a refrigerator can be used for this purpose.
Sea buckthorn ground with sugar can become candied and separate into syrup and jelly; this will not affect the taste or benefits of the product, so it can be safely eaten.
The shelf life of sea buckthorn with sugar without cooking under proper conditions is up to two years, but it is not recommended to eat the preparation immediately after cooking; it needs time to brew.
How to properly cook tasty, thick and aromatic sea buckthorn jam? Cook with seeds or without seeds? The best recipe is up to you!
It has a pleasant consistency and a transparent amber color. This homemade sea buckthorn jam can be served with pancakes and pancakes, or used as a filling for pies or any other baked goods.
- sea buckthorn – 1 kg;
- sugar – 800 gr.
The first thing to do is prepare the berries for cooking. Leaves, stalks, and spoiled fruits should be removed.
Rinse the sea buckthorn in cold water and weigh out 800 grams of sugar.
The jam is made from sea buckthorn juice with pulp, but without seeds. To make it easier to extract the juice, the berries must be blanched. You can do this in a juicer or in a slow cooker. You just need to place the berries in a steamer tray, covering them with a piece of gauze.
Turn on the “steam” program, set the time to 35 minutes. After the program ends, the berries should be placed on a sieve in small portions.
And wipe.
Sea buckthorn cake can be used to obtain sea buckthorn oil.
Pour the resulting sea buckthorn juice into the multicooker bowl and mix with sugar.
Boil until the volume reduces for 15 minutes, setting the “frying” program with the lid open.
If you boil sea buckthorn juice longer, you get even thicker jam. If you boil sea buckthorn juice with sugar longer, you can make jam, marmalade and even caramel. In a word, be careful not to overdo it.
Recipe 2: sea buckthorn jam for the winter (step by step)
Sea buckthorn jam for the winter, the recipe with photo of which I offer, is tasty and aromatic. prepared without cooking. Sea buckthorn is a storehouse of vitamins. And sea buckthorn that has not been subjected to heat treatment is many times more beneficial.
- 1300 grams of sea buckthorn berries;
- 2 kilograms of sugar.
Sea buckthorn needs to be freshly picked, not fermented. Even one rotten berry will spoil all the jam; it will simply ferment. Remove leaves and debris from the berries and rinse under running water. Drain in a colander to drain the liquid for 20 minutes.
There is no need to lay it out on a towel, this berry is too tender. Now you need to separate the cake and seeds from the juice. You can use a juicer, or rub the sea buckthorn through a sieve.
Suspend the resulting sea buckthorn juice. 1300 grams of berries should yield a kilogram of juice. Sprinkle sea buckthorn juice with sugar. The weight of sugar should be exactly twice the weight of sea buckthorn puree.
Mix the sugar well, cover the sea buckthorn puree with a clean towel and leave at room temperature for several hours. The most important condition for good live sea buckthorn jam, which will be stored for a long time, is completely dissolved sugar. Stir the mixture approximately every half hour to speed up the dissolution of the granulated sugar. Instead of sugar, you can use powder, then the “tincture” time of sea buckthorn puree will be reduced to an hour.
Rinse the jars well with baking soda and detergent and sterilize. An important condition is complete sterility. When the sugar has dissolved, put the sea buckthorn puree into jars and cover with plastic lids. The jars must be completely dry. You can store sea buckthorn jam without cooking for a year in the refrigerator, or for three months at room temperature. This is a guaranteed shelf life if all conditions are met. Most likely, sea buckthorn puree can be stored longer.
But keep in mind that the longer it is stored, the less vitamins it will retain.
Recipe 3: how to make sea buckthorn jam with seeds
Making sea buckthorn jam at home is no more difficult than any other. You can verify this by studying this photo recipe. Even a beginner with no experience in canning can handle it.
In this recipe we will make jam from frozen sea buckthorn, but you can use fresh berries.
- sea buckthorn – 1 kg
- sugar - 1 kg
Since frozen berries are used in this case, we will first defrost them.
Cover the berries with sugar and leave them in this state for a day or at least overnight.
Now we put the sea buckthorn with sugar on the fire and cook it for about half an hour. The jam must be stirred constantly, otherwise it will burn.
The healthy treat should boil.
Remove any foam that forms on the sea buckthorn jam.
Now you can check the readiness of the jam. You can do this at home in a simple way: drop a little jam on the countertop. If the spot does not spread, and if it is sticky like honey, then the jam is ready.
Now you need to let the jam cool. You can’t roll it up while it’s hot, otherwise condensation will form in the jars and the finished delicacy will quickly become moldy.
While the jam is cooling, you can sterilize the jars. We cork the cold jam and put it in the pantry.
Recipe 4: unpasteurized sea buckthorn jam
Tasty, sweet and very healthy sea buckthorn jam. Sea buckthorn is a magic berry for 100 ailments. Its seeds, skin and pulp contain a huge amount of healthy oils and vitamins. And if you have a lot of free time, you are in no hurry and want to prepare a healthy and tasty preserve, unpasteurized sea buckthorn jam is what you need during the cold winter from harmful vitamin deficiency, which weakens the human immune system.
- Sea buckthorn 1 kilogram
- Sugar 1 kilogram 300 grams
- Pure pasteurized water 500 milliliters
Sea buckthorn berries stick very tightly to the branches, so take scissors and carefully cut them into a large, deep enamel bowl. Select the spoiled, rotten ones, and cut off the stems of the rest with scissors and throw them into a large, deep colander. Rinse the sea buckthorn under running water to remove various types of contaminants and leave in a colander to drain all the water. Then transfer the berries back to the washed bowl.
Turn on the stove to medium level and place a pan with the required amount of clean distilled water on it. After the water boils, pour the required amount of sugar into it and cook the syrup for 5 - 10 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved, stirring it occasionally with a wooden spoon or wooden kitchen spatula.
Then pour the syrup into the bowl with the berries and let them brew for 30 - 40 minutes. Then place the bowl with the ingredients on the stove and cook the jam for 10 minutes on low heat, constantly stirring and skimming off the foam with a slotted spoon. The time is counted after the total mass boils.
Then set the jam aside in a cool place and cover the bowl with a lid. The next day, boil the jam again for 10 minutes, remembering to remove the foam with a slotted spoon, and leave to settle overnight. On the third day, boil the jam for 15 minutes.
After you have boiled the jam for the third time, take a ladle and pour it hot into sterilized jars, cover with sterilized lids for preservation and immediately roll up with a prickly preserver. Wipe the jars with a damp kitchen towel to remove stickiness, turn the top upside down and place on the floor.
Place a woolen blanket on top of the preservation so that there are no gaps between the floor and the blanket, so the jam will cool gradually without sudden temperature changes. Place the cooled jars in a dark, cool, well-ventilated place, such as a pantry, basement or cellar.
Recipe 5, step by step: seedless sea buckthorn jam
- sugar
We sort out the ripe sea buckthorn berries and remove the stems. Fill with cold water and wash. Place in a colander to drain the water. Rinse again and pour into the pan. Fill with water so that it lightly covers the berries. Put it on high heat to cook. When the water boils, collect the foam and turn down the heat. Cook sea buckthorn jam over low heat for 20 minutes.
Remove from heat. We wipe the boiled sea buckthorn through a colander and pour out the rest of the liquid in which the berries were boiled. Add sugar at the rate: for 1 kg of boiled and ground sea buckthorn add one and a half kilograms of sugar.
Let it simmer again over low heat and periodically collect the foam and stir the jam. While the sea buckthorn jam is cooking, prepare the jars. Wash them and then fry them in the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
During the cooking process, the sea buckthorn jam will become thicker and slightly darker. The finished jam is hot, poured into clean jars and covered with lids for the winter.
Recipe 6: sea buckthorn jam without cooking (step-by-step photos)
If the fruits are subjected to heat treatment, then sea buckthorn will simply lose more than half of its beneficial properties.
That's why our jam is prepared without cooking.
- sea buckthorn – 2 kg
- sugar - 1 kg
We select high-quality sea buckthorn fruits; crushed or dry ones are discarded: they are not suitable for making sea buckthorn jam without cooking.
Wash and dry the berries.
And fill the berries with sugar in a ratio of approximately 2 to 1.
Mix well and leave the sea buckthorn jam for several hours without cooking, so that the sea buckthorn releases its juice.
We sterilize the jars (either in the microwave or in boiling water).
Place sea buckthorn jam in jars very tightly and right up to the edges.
We screw the lids on and store them either in the cellar (if anyone has one) or in the refrigerator.
Recipe 7: delicious sea buckthorn jam with nuts
- 1.5 cups sea buckthorn
- 150 g sugar
- 100 g walnuts
First of all, I picked the berries from the branches.
I washed them in a colander under cold water.
I put it in a cooking ladle, covered it with sugar and left it for 1.5 hours.
Stir and put on low heat.
After the sugar has completely dissolved, boil it, stirring, for 10 minutes and turn it off.
Let it cool completely. Then put it on the fire and boiled until it boiled.
Finely chop the walnuts with a knife.
I fell asleep with the berries.
Boil for 12-15 minutes, stirring regularly.
One caveat. Many people add water to sea buckthorn jam. In my opinion, it’s absolutely in vain, because sea buckthorn gives a lot of its juice and, in combination with water, the overall consistency becomes too liquid. But this is a matter of taste.
If you plan to cook a lot and for long-term storage, then you need to immediately put the jam into sterilized jars.