The best recipes for fresh and canned cherry compote
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General rules
Are berries not overripe and firm to the touch? without any surface damage. Compotes made from raw materials with seeds are best drunk in the first year after preparation. If preservation is planned, the cans must be washed with soda and sterilized by steam or in the oven. Convenient containers with a volume of 3 liters are usually used. The lids must be boiled and wiped before use.
It is customary to cook compotes without syrup, pouring berries with water with sugar and rolling, as well as with syrup. In the latter case, the raw material is poured with boiled water, which must be drained to prepare the syrup itself. They are poured into a cherry drink before rolling.
Video "Cherry compote for the winter"
In this video, you will learn how to make a delicious and healthy cherry compote for the winter.
Fresh drink
The fragrant compote is ideal for strengthening the immune system, which is especially important in winter. Many housewives strive to cook compote from fresh or frozen berries, with apples or lemon, in a slow cooker, but such that they can be drunk right away.
The classic way
For this drink, you will need 2.7 liters of filtered water, fresh cherries - about 650 g, as well as 1 glass of sugar.
Rinse the berries and cook in a saucepan with water that has already boiled for 5 minutes, add sugar and cook for another 2 minutes. The finished drink is poured into a jug or jar, and after cooling it is drunk and stored in the refrigerator.
With apples
For the next drink, prepare 600 g of pitted frozen berries, 900 g of fruit and 300 g of granulated sugar.
The washed and peeled apples are cut into pieces and sent to a container with water. When it boils, add the cherries and cook over low heat, that is, simmer for about 20 minutes. After insisting, the compote is served chilled, the rest is placed in the refrigerator.
With lemon
The combination of berries with lemon is also interesting. To do this, take half a citrus fruit, 550 g frozen cherries, 3 liters of water and 1 glass of sugar.
Water must be poured into a container and placed on the stove, adding berries and sugar, and mixing the ingredients with a spoon. Juice is squeezed out of the lemon. When the compote begins to boil, it is removed from the stove and covered with a towel. When it's infused for about 3 hours, you can try.
Frozen berries
If you only love cherries, you can make a drink from frozen berries or fruits. Requires 0.5 kg of cherries, 1 glass of granulated sugar and 3 liters of plain water.
Cherries do not need to be defrosted beforehand - they are poured with water and set to boil, adding about 6 tbsp. l. Sahara. When the compote boils, you need to wait 5 minutes and turn off the heat. If sugar is not enough, you can add and be sure to stir. When the drink covered with a lid is infused, it can be poured into a jug or jar and tasted, and the leftovers can be placed in the refrigerator.
In a multicooker
The life of modern housewives has become easier thanks to the advent of kitchen appliances. Cherry compote can be made in a slow cooker.This will require 120 g of berries, 1 apple, 70 g of any berries and 130 g of sugar.
All components need to be rinsed, the seeds are removed from the cherries, the core and tail of the apple are cut into pieces. Then they are poured into the bowl of the device, adding water. The composition must be simmered for about 12 minutes, setting the "Steam cooking" mode. The finished drink is poured into any clean dish and cooled before serving.
Conservation
Our recipes for homemade vitamin compote with cherries, which can be prepared for the winter for the whole family, will be useful to every housewife.
Traditional method
You will need 1 glass of cherries, the same amount of granulated sugar and 2.5 liters of water.
The berries need to be reviewed and rinsed thoroughly, placed in steamed three-liter jars, and filled with boiling water. When at least 5 minutes have passed, the water must be drained into the saucepan through the lids with special holes. Add granulated sugar and boil. The syrup is poured while still hot into jars, which are rolled up and turned upside down, placed in an old blanket.
Seedless
It will take more time to prepare the blank according to the following recipe, since the seeds must first be removed from the fruits. Take 1 kg of berries and 800 g of sugar in 2 liters of water. The cherries need to be washed, and after removing the seeds, place them in sterilized jars. To fit more, the container should be shaken, then pour in hot syrup made from water and sugar. Next, the jars need to be sterilized and rolled up with lids.
With mint
An interesting version of compote is obtained from 3 glasses of berries, 1 glass of granulated sugar and 2.5 liters of water with the addition of a sprig of fragrant mint.
The washed berries are placed in sterile jars, covered with sugar and filled with boiled water at first half of the total volume. Put mint there, cover with lids for 15 minutes, while the next portion of water boils. After taking out the mint, boiling water is poured into the jars and rolled up with lids, sent to a blanket for cooling, then stored in a pantry or cellar.
With pears
The next blank is called "Vitamin Reserve". For her, take 300 g of cherries, 7 pears, 1 glass of sugar and 2 liters of water.
The fruits need to be washed, then make a syrup from water and granulated sugar. It is cooked for 5 minutes, at this time the pears are placed in three-liter jars, hot syrup is poured, and after 15 minutes it is poured into a container and boiled. Berries are poured into jars, again filled with syrup. Now the compote can be rolled up.
Without sterilization
Prepare 700 g cherries, 400 g refined sugar, and 3-4 liters of water.
Banks must be washed with water and soda and held over steam for about 5 minutes, then dried. The cherries, along with the seeds, are washed and placed in jars, pouring them with syrup made from water and sugar. Then the cans are rolled up, turned over and wrapped in a blanket.
Aromatic, tasty and healthy compotes can be prepared with raspberries or cherries, with the addition of pectin or rosemary, in order to immediately taste drinks or drink them on long winter evenings.