How to make compote at home. How to make a compote from dried fruits, a recipe. How to make compote for the winter. How to make compote from fresh berries and fruits

Compote is a delicious and healthy drink that will satisfy thirst well in the hot season and will always be in handy at any celebration. The compote is prepared easily in a pan or in a slow cooker of fresh and frozen berries, fruits, dried fruits and berries, as well as canned fruits and berries.

How to make homemade compotes? Each housewife wants to feed the family with delicious, healthy and diverse dishes and her own drinks are no exception. Traditional compotes that are served in public catering establishments are compotes cooked from dried apples, pears and berries. In ancient times in Rus', it was customary to cook a naviga of dried fruits, now the hostesses have the opportunity to cook compote from fresh and frozen fruits and berries.

How to make compote at home

Rules for the preparation of a drink at home:

1. The compote is cooked from fruits and berries in sugar syrup. Cooking time - depending on the components. For example, to cook berry compote, 5 minutes enough, apple - half an hour, with other fruits - about 15 minutes. The main rule of cooking is not to digest berries and fruits so that they remain intact.
2. The compote is cooked first 10 hours before the supply. Then the decoction will turn out to be rich and tasty.
3. From frozen products (it means fast frost), compotes are very tasty if you add a handful of fresh berries or fruits when preparing. In addition, such additives will help to enrich the taste of compote: a handful of nuts, citric acid, cloves, cinnamon and other spices.
4. To seize the taste of the finished drink, you can add 5 ml of wine per 1 cup to the compote if the drink is prepared for adults. Adding lemon or orange crusts will help improve the taste. Only they need to be added while cooking a drink, and after cooking, when the compote cools down, remove it.
5. By adding spices, it is important to adhere to the middle ground, since the main thing in compote is to maintain the aroma and taste of berries and fruits.
6. How to cook syrup for the preparation of compote: no more than 200 g of sugar is taken per liter of water, if the berries and fruits are not sour - you can less.
7. Previously, in Rus', compotes were cooked with the addition of cereals to increase nutritional value. You can also try to cook the drink, as our ancestors cooked it in the old days.

What the hostess needs to know to make compote

Each drink is prepared in different ways, since there are many recipes. We will learn how to prepare berries and fruits for preparing a drink:

• if you cook compote from quince, pears or apples, fruits are cut into 2 parts, a seed nest is cut, then the fetus is cut into 6-8 parts and boiled for no more than 8 minutes;
• gooseberries, cherries and cherries - remove the stalks, leave the seeds. Lay in hot sugar syrup, bring to a boil;
• plums - cut into 2 parts, remove the bone, put plums in hot syrup and wait for boiling;
• preparation of compote from dried fruits: dried berries and fruits need to be sorted out, rinhed well. Bookmark in the syrup in the following sequence: pears - cook for 3 minutes, then apples - cook for 3 minutes, then everything else: raisins, prunes, dried apricots, etc.;
• the most delicious compote is the one who was given to brew from 10 to 12 hours and served chilled.

How to make a compote. Recipe for cooking

The drink can be prepared from different berries and fruits, there are different cooking methods, consider the classic one:

1. Preparation of fruits and berries: rinse, remove all excess (twigs, seeds, bones). There is no need to clean apples and pears, since the peel contains a lot of vitamins.
2. You will need a large container for cooking, you need to fold fruits, pour sugar and pour cleaned or well water into 2/3 pots.
3. Turn on the stove, wait for the water boiling, reduce the heating of the slabs and leave the compote on a slow boil for 20-25 minutes, then you can add berries and cook for another 10-15 minutes.
4. Remove the compote from the stove, leave it on the table until it cools completely, then pour in glass jars and put in the refrigerator.
5. Serve the finished drink chilled.

How to make a compote for the baby

The first compote for infants is boiled from fresh apples or dried fruits. Add a new ingredient (for example, pears, plums, berries, etc.) is necessary only after the child is used to the apple compote. Mom should be sure that the child is suitable for the child, he does not have a digestive disorder and allergies.

Cook the compote from dried fruits in two ways:

1. Dried apples must be poured with purified cold water, leave for 5 minutes. Drain the water, rinse in warm water. Fold in a saucepan, pour water, bring to a boil, cook for 20 minutes. To prepare the drink, take 1 apple and 1.5 cups of water. Sugar during cooking is not added.
2. How to prepare a compote for a baby in a thermos: put a few dried yolks of an apple of apple in a thermos, pour boiling water (1 cup enough). You need to insist the drink at least 8 hours, in the morning you need to add 1 cup of water, mix. Pour the mixture into a saucepan, bring to a boil, cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Cool the drink, strain. For the first acquaintance with the drink, you need to take two parts of water and one part of the compote.

How to make an apple compote to the baby:

1. Wash the fruit, remove the core, cut into slices.
2. Separately boil 1.5 liters of water.
3. Put apples in boiling water, cook the drink over low heat for 5 minutes.
4. Cool and strain the drink.

How to make a compote from pears

The pear compot is aromatic and tasty, such a drink likes both adults and children.

What to cook from:

• pears - 1 kg;
• sugar - incomplete glass;
• water - 2 l.

Preparation of the drink:

1. Choose ripe but dense fruits. They need to be washed, cut into slices or cubes.
2. Fold in a pan, pour sugar, pour water.
3. From the moment of boiling, cook the compote for a quarter of an hour.
4. Remove the pan from the stove, cool, filter.
5. Serve the drink cooled or with an ice cube.

How to make compote from cherries

The compote, welded from cherries, turns out to be rich in color, it is very tasty and perfectly quenches thirst in summer heat. The drink in warm form will help to cope with the common cold, lower the rising temperature and help cure the cough faster.

To cook the drink, prepare:

• cherries (fresh or frozen) - 1.5 cups;
• sugar - a glass or to taste;
• water - 3 l.

How to make cherry compote:

1. Pour water into a tank for cooking, pour sugar.
2. Put on medium heat, bring to a boil.
3. Prepare cherries: rinse, remove leaves and twigs.
4. When the syrup boils, add cherries, bring to a boil.
5. Cook the compote for no more than 3 minutes, remove from the stove.
6. Cool, leave to infuse for 2-3 hours, pour into a jar or jug.

How to make strawberry compote

A strawberry drink is the most fragrant, perfectly quenches thirst in the summer heat, prepares very quickly.

You will need such products:

• fresh strawberries - 0.5 kg;
• water - 2 l;
• sugar - 5 tbsp or to taste.

How to quickly make compote:

1. Berries must be sorted out and washed.
2. Bring the water to a boil, put the berries, add sugar.
3. Cook a fragrant drink only 10 minutes.
4. Remove the pan from the stove, cool the compote in this way: pour cold water into the basin, put dishes with a drink.
5. The cooled compote must be filtered and poured into a jug.
6. Serve chilled with ice.

What to make from berries from compote

After cooking compotes, berries remain, they should not be thrown away. Of course, you can just eat berries, but if the berries are not a handful, but more, you should think about which dish to cook.

The easiest way is to bake a pie with filling. Berries must be squeezed out so that there is no excess liquid, wipe through a sieve, add sugar and use it as a sweet filling.

Or you can do this:

1. Boil a glass of rice.
2. Add 2 eggs to cooled porridge (beat), mix with rice.
3. Add a little sugar, a handful of dried fruits to taste.
4. Lubricate the baking sheet with oil, lay out half a portion of rice.
5. Lay out berries from compote on top. Only they need to be well strained so that there is no excess liquid.
6. It is advisable to trim the berries with sugar, again a layer of rice.
7. Put a piece of butter and bake in the oven on top. You will get a quick rice casserole.

How to make compote from jam

The fastest way is to cook a drink from jam. No need to prepare fruits, cut and wash the berries.

Cook the compote from these components:

• water - 3 l;
• any jam is a glass;
• citric acid - 1/4 teaspoon.

Cooking compote:

1. Pour water into the container, add jam.
2. Bring to a boil, reduce the fire and cook the drink for 5 minutes over low heat.
3. You can add sugar to taste.
4. Strain the compote, pour it back into the pan, boil a minute over medium heat, adding citric acid diluted in a small amount of warm boiled water.

You can serve the finished drink chilled or hot with ice.

How to make compote from apples

The compote, boiled from fresh apples, is fragrant and tasty, cooked quite easily and quickly.

What products are needed:

• apples - 0.5 kg;
• water - 2 l;
• sugar - half a glass;

Preparation of a drink at home:

1. If you cook compote from acidic apples, sugar can be put more and vice versa, reduced sugar rate if the apples are sweet enough.
2. Pour water into the pan, put on the stove.
3. While the water boils, prepare the apples: wash, cut into 2 parts, remove the core and cut into 8 parts.
4. When the water is boiled, you need to put apples, cook for 3 minutes.
5. Add sugar, mix, taste. Add sugar to taste.
6. Cook the drink for 5 minutes so that the apples do not have time to boil and turn off the stove.
7. The pan can be left on the stove, covered with a lid.
8. Pour into banks after cooling. It is advisable to insist compote for several hours (just the drink will infuse and cool).
9. Serve the compote in chilled form. Before serving - strain.

How to make compote from cinnamon apples

This recipe is suitable for those who adhere to a diet and monitor their weight. The compote will turn out to be rich and very fragrant. The amount of sugar can be varied, added a little more or less to taste or, instead of sugar, put sucrotor.

List of components:

• apples-4-5 pcs. medium size;
• cinnamon - wand;
• water - 2 l;
• sugar is to taste.

How to make apple compote:

1. Preparation of apples: wash fruits, cut into 2 parts, cut the core, cut into slices.
2. Put apples in a pan, pour water, wait for boiling.
3. Reduce the heating of the slabs, add a stick of cinnamon and sugar to taste, mix.
4. Cook the compote with a closed lid until the apples are softened.
5. Remove from the stove, leave to infuse on the table with a closed lid.
6. When the drink has cooled to room temperature, strain and pour into glass containers, send to the refrigerator.
7. It is preferably chilled or with ice cubes to serve a finished drink.

What can be made of compote apples? This question is asked by economical housewives who cannot simply throw good products into the garbage bucket. From apples you can bake pancakes. In the finished dough before baking, add apples (they can be cut into cubes, remove the skin and knead with a fork in mashed potatoes), mix and start baking.

If there are a lot of apples, since the compote was cooked for a large family or for a celebration, you can bake the pie.

Apple Flonyard or recipe for the preparation of lazy casserole with compote apples

We offer to prepare a delicious and delicate dessert - an apple casserole from such products:

• cream (fat content of 10%) - 300 ml;
• apples - 300 g;
• sugar - 100 g or to taste;
• almond crumbs - 100 g;
• cinnamon - pinch;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• wheat flour - 50 g;
• calvados - 50 g.

Cooking process:

1. Before starting to knead the dough, you need to turn on the oven and prepare the form for baking Flonyard.
2. Eggs need to be mixed with sugar.
3. Add flour and almonds to the mass, mix.
4. Introduce cream into the dough in small portions, mixing with a spoon so that there are no lumps.
5. Introduce Calvados into the dough, mix.
6. The dough needs to be left for 30 minutes, stir periodically.
7. The shape must be lubricated with oil and with flour.
8. Put apples (if large, cut into cubes), take cinnamon, pour dough.
9. The dough should be liquid, do not add flour anymore.
10. Bake a dessert at a temperature of 180 degrees for 40 minutes.
11. Remove the Flonyard, carefully cut into pieces and remove it from the mold.
12. You can serve dessert with apple compote.

How to make compote from dried fruits

Every housewife will be able to cook compote from dried fruits, but many still do not know how to prepare this drink correctly.

What will be needed:

• plums, pears and dried apples - 200 g each;
• water - 2 l;
• kuraga - 400 g;
• cinnamon and cloves - to taste;
• apple syrup - 1 tbsp.

Subtleties of cooking:

1. Dry fruits need to be soaked in water for 10 minutes.
2. Put a pan with water on the stove, add dried fruits (pre -drain the water in which they soaked). Cook 20 minutes before boiling.
3. From the moment of boiling, cook for 10 minutes under a closed lid.
4. Add spices and sugar, mix.
5. Turn off the fire, leave the compote on the stove to infuse for 1-2 hours, you can leave the compote overnight.
6. Then strain, pour into glass containers, put in the refrigerator.

How to make a compote from ginger, lemon and dried apples in a slow cooker

The drink is very fragrant and tasty, and also very useful, especially in the cold season. The compote perfectly quenches thirst in the summer.

Cook the compote of dried fruits in a slow cooker with the addition of ginger from such ingredients:

• mix of dried fruits - 300 g;
• sugar - to taste or half a glass;
• lemon - 3 slices;
• ginger root - 30 g.

Preparation of a delicious and healthy drink:

1. Rinse dried fruits in water, drain water, pour apples with warm boiled water, leave for 5 minutes.
2. Drain the water, fold the fruit into a multicooker bowl, pour sugar.
3. Add immediately ginger, sliced \u200b\u200bwith plates, put the lemon.
4. Pour the water to the mark, set the preparation mode of “extinguishing”, the cooking time of compote is 1 hour.
5. After the signal, try the compote, add sugar to taste and if necessary, extend the cooking time for another 15 minutes.

After the signal, the drink must be left in the saucepan until it cools completely, then strain and pour into cans, store in the refrigerator.

How to make frozen compote

Healthy compote of black and red currants. The berries contain a lot of vitamins and minerals. A drink made of currants improves the work of the stomach and intestines, relieves the patient's condition with peptic ulcer, diabetes and dysbiosis, and helps with colds.

Ingredients for making a useful drink:

• black currant berries are fresh - 800 g;
• reed sugar - 200 g;
• water - 1 l;
• cinnamon - 2 tsp.

Cooking sequence:

1. Rinse the berries, throw it in a colander.
2. Boil water in the pan, pour sugar, mix.
3. Pour the berries, cook over low heat for 3 minutes, add cinnamon, mix.
4. Remove the pan from the stove, insist 2 hours, strain. Serve chilled.

How to make a cranberry compote

Cranberries are a very useful berry, it has a lot of vitamin C, it helps to establish the work of the genitourinary system, cleanse the body and increase the resistance in the season of colds. At home, it is easy and simply to cook cranberries, both fresh and frozen.

List of components:

• cranberries - 500 g;
• sugar - 2 tbsp. or to taste;
• water - 2.5 l.

Preparation of the drink:

1. Pour water into the pan, put on the stove.
2. When the water begins to boil, add sugar, mix.
3. Pour the washed cranberries.
4. The compote must be cooked over low heat for 10 minutes.
5. Then remove the pan from the stove, cool the compote, serve warm or chilled.

Cook the cranberry compote with apples

The drink is prepared quickly, it turns out fragrant and not sour. Cranberries go well with apples, you can not even add sugar.

What to prepare:

• cranberries - 300 g;
• fresh apples - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. or in tastes;
• zest from one orange;
• water - 3 l.

How to cook compote:

1. Pour water into the container, pour sugar.
2. From the moment of boiling water, add apples (wash, cut the core, cut into slices).
3. Immediately add cranberries and orange zest.
4. The drinking time is no more than 15 minutes, you need to focus on the readiness of apples. As soon as they are soft, you can turn off the fire.
5. The drink must be cooled, strained, poured into a glass jar, cool in the refrigerator.

How to make a compote from oranges

Orange compote is very unusual to taste, it can only be welded to solo from oranges or with the addition of apples. Consider both methods.

To prepare compote, prepare:

• oranges - 4 pcs.;
• sugar - 150 g;
• lemon - half;
• water - 3 l.

How to cook compote from oranges:

1. Citrus fruits need to be washed, cleaned, removed with white veins, cut into cubes, but so as not to be too large.
2. Squeeze the juice from lemon.
3. Fold everything in a pan, pour water.
4. Bring to a boil and pour sugar into boiling water.
5. Cook a drink no more than 15 minutes.
6. After cooling, the compote must be filtered and cooled.

How to make orange compote for the festive table

The drink is very beautiful, saturated taste. If you treat children with compote, then the wine needs to be excluded.

List of ingredients:

• oranges - 4 pcs.;
• apples - 4 pcs.;
• water - 1 l;
• sugar - a glass or to taste;
• wine - 100 ml.

The sequence of cooking compote:

1. Wash, peel, cut, cut into slices.
2. Boil water in the pan, add sugar and apples (wash, cut the core, cut into slices).
3. Cook apples for 10 minutes, catch with a slotted spoon, cut into cubes.
4. Put in each glass a little oranges and apples, pour with cooled syrup, add 25 ml of wine.

How to make compote for the winter

Many housewives make blanks for the winter and are always happy with new recipes. Compots for the winter are easily prepared, they do not need to be sterilized for a long time and spend a lot of time in the kitchen. You can cook compotes in banks for the winter from apples, pears, drains, cherries and any berries.

How to make a compote made of plums

Plum compote - tasty, beautiful saturated color, perfectly quenches thirst and establish the work of the stomach and intestines.

Prepare a drink from such ingredients:

• yellow plum - 1.5 kg;
• water - 3 l;
• apples - 2 pcs.;
• ground cinnamon - a pinch;
• sugar - 300 g.

Squeare of actions:

1. Rinse the fruits, remove the seeds, cut into cubes.
2. Wash the apples, cut the middle, cut into cubes.
3. Pour water into the pan, boil, pour sugar.
4. Cook the syrup for 4 minutes, add cinnamon in the last minute, mix.
5. Prepare 4 liter jars at once, they need to be washed and sterilized.
6. Fruits must be divided into equal parts, put on the bottom of each jar.
7. Pour fruits with hot syrup, roll up with sterilized lids.
8. Turn the blanks with the compote bottom up, wrap it with something warm, leave for a day until it cools completely.
9. The compote will be ready after 2 hours, it remains to the maximum of all beneficial substances.

Similarly, the compote from any varieties of drain is cooked, try to make the workpiece for the winter of drain with bones. The time is saved, the compote will turn out to be rich and with a light sourness.

How to make birch juice compote

In the season of collecting birch juice, I want to prepare this healthy drink for the future health. But it is known that the juice is not stored for a long time, it quickly sours, so it is advisable to drink it fresh or make a compote.

What to prepare:

• fresh birch juice - 5 l;
• sugar - 600 g;
• citric acid - 25 g.

How to cook compote from birch juice:

1. Place the juice in a pan, put on the stove.
2. When the juice is about to boil, yellow or orange foam will form on top, it must be removed by necessarily. If you miss this moment, the drink will not be tasty and cloudy.
3. The juice cannot be boiled, as all the beneficial substances die.
4. After removing the foam, add citric acid and sugar, mix.
5. Remove the pan from the stove, pour the juice through gauze folded into several layers, according to pre -prepared banks (sterilize the banks and lids).
6. Roll the jars with lids, turn the bottom up, wrap it with a blanket. Leave for a day, then a healthy compote can be lowered into the basement.

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