Frozen Berries

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So when all the supermarkets were ransacked in the early days of the corona virus, I couldn't buy any fresh berries so I did what I've been meaning to do for a while and bought frozen.

I've tried twice defrosting them overnight in the fridge - first time they were like soggy clumps, and the next time I put them in a sieve so the excess water could drain, but the same result.

How do you do this successfully?!?

We just eat them frozen, they're lovely and not too hard.

They don't defrost into fresh berries. Great on porridge, on pancakes, in pies, with icecream (or blitzed in the blender with bananas to make icecream). I also make jam by heating them an adding chia seeds to thicken.

I add frozen berries to my porridge, where they defrost into it, or I blitz them still frozen into a smoothie. Have previously made a breakfast compote with frozen mango chunks that was successful also.

It doesn’t really work to try and defrost fruit and expect it to be just like fresh I’m afraid

I agree with @Bestestbrownies above, you can’t defrost berries and make them taste like fresh. But frozen berries do have a place, we use them in smoothies, crumbles and other puddings where the consistency doesn’t matter to much and I have them with yoghurts and find them fine like that. But Absolutely no good on a pavlova at all imo.

I put them in overnight oats or use in baking. As PP say not like fresh. They need to be “in” something.

Frozen berries with yoghurt is one of our favourite puddings around here.

I put a handful in my g&t, they have softened enough to eat by the time I'm finished

Thank you all - I fear I was expecting too much from them!