Desserts made from wild lingonberries are not only incredibly tasty, but also very healthy. After all, lingonberries contain a huge amount of vitamins, which are preserved even when this berry is frozen.

There are several simple ways to make a delicious and healthy cranberry dessert. Just have some sugar on hand, and that's half the battle. Here are a few quick recipes you can use to delight your family at dinner:

Lingonberry marmalade

Rinse the lingonberries thoroughly with water and cook them on the stovetop until soft. While still hot, purée them thoroughly. It's best to press them through a sieve to prevent the skins from getting into the smooth, sweet and sour mixture.

Add sugar to taste to the resulting thick mixture. Stir until the last grain is incorporated, then add the swollen gelatin. The mixture should still be warm, so the gelatin will completely dissolve in the lingonberries after a while. Remember to stir the mixture occasionally. For convenience, it's best to immediately divide the lingonberry marmalade into molds and refrigerate it—not to freeze, but to help the dessert cool.

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Lingonberry pie

The following recipe serves 8 servings. This family-friendly lingonberry pie is a wonderful evening dessert perfect for any occasion. It's a perfect addition to a Christmas table, a great birthday cake, perfect for girls' get-togethers, and a perfect way to welcome good guests.

Compound:

  • Lingonberry 200g
  • Butter 100g
  • Granulated sugar 250g
  • Vanillin 4-5 crystals
  • 2 eggs
  • Wheat flour 300g
  • Baking powder or soda in vinegar (½ tsp)
  • Heavy sour cream

Recipe:

Soften the butter and cream it with the sugar and vanilla extract. You can use vanilla sugar and add it to taste.

Add eggs to the mixture and mix thoroughly.

Sift flour into the mixture and, while stirring, add baking powder. The dough will be sticky, but not sticky. Chill it in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

Place the chilled dough on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Create a nice, neat border. This will be used for the pie filling.

Sprinkle the washed and dried lingonberries on top and smooth them out. Bake the pie in the oven until golden brown. At 180°C, the dough will bake in 35 minutes.

While the pie is in the oven, you can prepare the cream. Sour cream and sugar are the best ingredients for this mixture. However, you can vary the sweet sauce with syrup, condensed milk, or the addition of pastry cream.

The pie is topped with sour cream immediately after it's removed from the oven and placed on a serving plate. Hot dough absorbs the sauce better. It's best to garnish the lingonberry dessert with cream after it's cooled, having been refrigerated, to prevent the beautiful "creamy roses" from melting due to the high temperature.

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Lingonberry strudel

Making strudel used to be problematic because of the puff pastry, which many people didn't have time to make at home—it's a very long and painstaking process. But now, ready-made, unleavened puff pastry is available in pastry shops and grocery stores. Whether it's in sheets or rolled up—it doesn't matter. The main thing is that the famous classic strudel can be made in just 40 minutes.

To prepare this lingonberry dessert we will need:

  • Puff pastry, slightly defrosted
  • Cowberry
  • Cinnamon
  • Pear
  • Powdered sugar
  • Raisin

In fact, you need all the ingredients for the filling, so don't worry if you don't have raisins or pears on hand. The main thing is delicious lingonberries and sugar. Of course, the cinnamon adds a certain uniqueness and originality to the strudel's flavor, a quality unique to this dessert.

First, place the puff pastry sheets on a baking sheet and place them in the oven. After 10-15 minutes, the dough will rise noticeably and begin to emit a pleasant aroma. You'll need to interrupt the baking process. Remove the strudel from the oven while it's still half-baked and open the sheet. It's as if you were about to read a book. This should be very easy, as unleavened puff pastry without additives becomes extremely fluffy.

Feel free to sprinkle the lingonberries into the center of the sheet and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. The peeled pear will add juiciness, and the raisins will add sweetness. Again, adjust the amount of ingredients to taste.

Close the pie crust and bake for another 10 minutes at 150°C (300°F). Be careful not to let the top crust burn. If you have a high-heat oven, you can reduce the temperature to 120°C (250°F) and bake for another 15 minutes. The berries will release their juices, the pie will simmer in the warmth, and you'll have a crispy, fluffy strudel. Simply a delicious lingonberry dessert.

In cafes, dessert is often served with creamy ice cream. You can try it too.

Fresh lingonberries, ground with sugar and frozen in the freezer, can delight you all year round with amazingly delicious fruit drinks, jam for tea, an addition to ice cream, or any dessert.