Unbeatable currant recipes in one place! Bake, press, preserve, but above all enjoy!

We don’t have to look forward only to the vintage, a few months earlier we will be happy to catch fish.

Like other sour fruits, currants are not always suitable for direct consumption, but all the better for desserts, ice creams, preserves, cold lemonades and cocktails or pastries.

What are the most popular currant dishes?

Find out in these 6 great and easy recipes with currants!

Currant jam

What will we need

• 5 kg of currants
• approx. 4 bags of icing sugar
• a cup of sugar

Method

1. Grind red or black currants in a kitchen blender. Then let the mixture drip through the cloth.
2. To cook the marmalade, take 1 kg of juice (a little less than a liter) into a pot, add a bag of icing sugar and 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar and mix well while cold. After mixing, bring to a boil.
3. Boil slowly for about 10 minutes, stirring constantly, and remove the foam.
4. After cooking, immediately pour into prepared glasses, close and turn upside down for about 5 minutes.
5. Then we turn it back again so that the marmalade does not remain on the lid.
6. We serve it on morning bread, in white yogurt or in cottage cheese.

Currant crumb cake

In cakes, currants are excellent and popular for their spicy taste.

What will we need

• 250 g semi-coarse flour
• a cup or two of currants
• 160 g of granulated sugar
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 120 g of butter
• 220 ml of milk

On a dime

• 80 g of sugar
• 80 g coarse flour
• 80 g of butter

Method

1. Mix flour, baking powder and sugar.
2. Add the melted butter, eggs and milk and mix well.
3. Pour the batter into a greased and lined baking dish.
4. Cover the surface of the dough with currants.
5. Knead the butter, coarse flour and sugar into a crumb and sprinkle it on the surface of the cake.
6. Bake in a heated oven at 175 ºC for about 30-40 minutes.

Vegan cake with currants

This delicious vegan and gluten-free redcurrant cake can be one of the many creations of this redcurrant summer.

What will we need

On the crust

• 200 g of rice flour
• 60 g of cashew butter
• 60 ml of dark maple syrup
• 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

For filling

• 200 g of red currants
• 3 tablespoons of dark maple syrup
• 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch
• juice of half a lemon
• ½ teaspoon of cinnamon

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
• Grease the cake pan.
• Process all the pie crust ingredients in a food processor until combined into a batter.
• Knead the dough lightly into a ball.
• Divide the dough in half and roll each into a ball.
• Take one of the balls and flatten it into a pancake with your hands.
• Place in the prepared cake tin and press it into the tin with your hands.
• Prepare the pie filling by mixing all the ingredients.
• Transfer this mixture to the prepared pie crust.
• Roll out the remaining half of the dough and cut lengthwise into thin strips.
• Make a grid of these strips on the filling.
• Bake the currant cake in the preheated oven for approximately 45 minutes, until the edges are golden and the filling is bubbling and set.

Currant syrup

The recipe for redcurrant syrup is easy to prepare and can make a delicious refreshing drink. Learn how to make this delicious syrup at home with minimal ingredients and effort.

What will we need

• 3 kg of currants
• 3.5 kg of sugar
• 10-15 g of citric acid
• kitchen thermometer

Method

1. Stem the currants, wash them, mash them with a fork and immerse them in water in a large container. Let it sit until the next day.
2. Strain through cheesecloth or cheesecloth and squeeze.
3. Measure the amount of squeezed juice.
4. Heat to 70 °C and add 1.7 kg of sugar and 3-10 g of citric acid per liter of juice.
5. Heat to approximately 85 °C, stir, collect the foam.
6. Immediately fill into bottles, put them aside and let them cool.
7. We add the syrup to water or carbonated water to prepare a delicious refreshing drink.

Currant bubble

A very simple bun with a soft center and a crispy crust. Red Currant Bubbly is an easy dessert for summer days!

What will we need

• 3 cups of currants
• 200 g of butter
• 200 g of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• 3 eggs
• 350 g semi-coarse flour
• 1/2 package of baking powder

Method

1. Take the currants and rinse them.
2. Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and eggs into a foam.
3. Mix the flour with the baking powder and mix it into the whipped foam.
4. Grease the tray, preheat the oven to 160 °C.
5. Spread the dough on a baking sheet and sprinkle currants on top.
6. Bake in a well-heated oven for about 40 minutes.
7. Serve sprinkled with powdered sugar or just plain – but beware, red currants in particular are quite sour even in the cake!

Currant juice

Making currant juice is as simple as it gets. Peel the currants, boil them, sweeten them and pour them into bottles.

What will we need

• 3-4 kg of red currants
• 2.2 liters of water
• 250 g of sugar, stevia or erythritol

Method

• Place the currant berries in a large pot.
• Pour water into the pot so that the berries are covered.
• Add a sweetener, use erythritol for a sugar-free version. Honey or regular sugar also works well.
• Cook the mixture for about 5-10 minutes to soften the berries.
• Taste the juice and add more sweetener if desired.
• Let the mixture cool.
• Strain the juice through a sieve into a bowl and press to get all the juice.
• Pour the finished juice into bottles.

Health benefits of currants

Currant or gooseberry is a popular berry that is grown in almost every garden. Red, white or black currants are well-known, but pink, which is the sweetest, is also newly appearing. It is suitable for direct food, frozen for winter fruit cakes, or for jam.

Currants contain many vitamins, e.g. A, B5, B6, B1, E. The most important is vitamin C.

Black currants actually contain four times more vitamin C than oranges and twice the antioxidants of blueberries.

In addition to vitamin C, currants have a lot of antioxidants and anthocyanins. These can help boost your immune system, soothe a sore throat, and ease flu symptoms.

Currant seed oil contains gamma-linolenic acid, a type of omega-6 fatty acid that is said to help reduce inflammation in the body.

Blackcurrants are high in potassium and gamma-linolenic acid, which can also help lower your blood pressure.

Currants are not difficult to include in your diet, you can find them in the form of:

• dried fruit
• oils
• pills and capsules
• powder

Recommended dosage:

• four 250 milligram capsules per day, twice daily
• 5-10 milliliters of fruit syrup daily
• one glass of fruit juice a day
• 1-2 teaspoons of dried leaves, three to four times a day