Pear puree is rich in vitamins and minerals, and, unlike fresh fruits, will not harden or weaken. It can be easily prepared at home and enjoy healthy dietary products without preservatives and dyes all winter. How to do this, read below.
Ingredient preparation
For the production of mashed pears, any variety is suitable. The main thing is that the fruits are of equal maturity, have a dense pulp.
All products must be washed, dried. After that, cut in half, remove the bones with the cameras, cut into pieces as large as the recipe requires.Did you know? The foliage on the pear trees is arranged in a strict order - at an angle of 135 °, which allows the fruits to receive the maximum amount of light.
Pear puree blanks recipes for the winter
Pre-prepare containers for preservation. It must be washed with soda, doused with boiling water or disinfected over a water bath. You should also make sure that all cooking utensils that you need are clean.
Natural puree recipe
3 cans of 250 ml30 min.
Energy value per 100 g:
- Peel prepared pears before chopping.
- Fold in a cooking pot.
- Bringing to a boil, boil for 10 minutes, remove from heat, grind to a homogeneous state with a blender, place again on fire.
- Boil for 10 minutes, pack in banks and roll up.
This recipe is the easiest. It involves the use of only one ingredient, without the addition of preservatives in the form of citric acid and sugar. The only thing that may be needed is water. It can be added in the process of heat treatment, if the product produces little juice and burns.
Important! If at the time of the first boiling of the pear mass not enough juice was allocated, add 2–4 tablespoons of water.
With sugar and citric acid
3-4 cans of 250 ml each 40 min.
lemon acid
1/3 tsp
Energy value per 100 g:
- Peeled, diced pears, put in cooking utensils.
- Add water, boil for 15 minutes.
- Remove the mass from the heat, grind with a blender, put on a stove to cook.
- Add boiling citric acid and sugar. Boil another 10 minutes.
- Pack in pre-prepared containers, roll up the lids.
With honey and lemon
6-7 cans of 250 ml2 hours
Energy value per 100 g:
- Cut the peeled fruit into slices, put in a refractory pan, sprinkle with lemon juice.
- Preheat the oven to +40 ... + 60 ° C, bake fruit for 1 hour.
- After an hour, increase the temperature to + 100 ° C, simmer another 40 minutes.
- Grind the pear mass. Melt honey in a water bath (if it has thickened) and add it to the pears.
- Pack the treat in jars.
- Sterilize mashed potatoes in jars in a water bath for 20 minutes.
- Roll up the lids.
In this recipe, you can add an apple to pears. Then you should take 1.5 kg of pears and 0.5 kg of apples.
Important! Strictly observe the proportions of preservatives (honey, sugar, citric acid or juice) specified in the recipes. Otherwise, the final product will have an unpleasant taste in which sugaryness or acid will prevail.
Ways to store at home
After rolling up, the jars should be turned upside down and left to cool completely, wrapped in a terry towel. As soon as the containers with preservation have cooled, they are moved to a dark, cool place. It should be stored at a temperature not exceeding + 15 ° C.
Pear harmoniously combines vitamins and minerals. It is an excellent raw material for winter preparations in the form of mashed potatoes, which is very easy and quick to prepare at home.
