Step 1: Prepare the ingredients.

To start, we lay out on the kitchen table all the necessary products. Then rinse the fruit with the root under cold running water and dry them with paper kitchen towels. After that, using a sharp kitchen knife, peel the ginger and cut into thin rings or grind it on a coarse grater.
With lemon, remove the zest, trying to do it so as not to hurt the white layer, it contains oil, which give bitterness. Then put it on a cutting board and chop small straws.

We remove the stem from each apple, cut them into 2 halves, get rid of the core with seeds, chop the flesh of the fruits in small segments from 1 to 2 centimeters thick and proceed to the next step.

Step 2: Cook ginger and apple compote.

Pour the right amount of purified water into a deep saucepan, put prepared ginger, lemon zest, apple slices, cinnamon, honey and put it on medium heat. After boiling, pour the sugar there and continue cooking compote for 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden kitchen spoon.

As soon as he starts bubbling again, we keep him on fire 3-5 minutes  and using a kitchen towel remove from heat. Cover the pan with a lid so that there is a small gap, and insist drink 30–40 minutes. Then we filter the fragrant liquid through a fine mesh sieve into clean dishes, such as a decanter. Then we act as desired: either we send the compote for a while into the refrigerator, or we serve it immediately in the form of heat or at room temperature.

Step 3: Serve ginger and apple compote.

Compote of ginger and apples are served in warm or chilled form or at room temperature. It is served in a decanter or a bowl specially designed for this purpose, and very often they are poured in portions into glasses, ice cubes are added there and decorated with fresh apple slices. It is pleasant to savor this yummy with any second or dessert dishes and pastries. This drink perfectly tones and strengthens the body in cold weather. Enjoy!
Enjoy your meal!

Very often, a set of spices complement star anise or ordinary anise;

A good substitute for lemon is orange or lime;

Together with apples, you can put a pair of chopped pears and a small handful of dry rose hips;

Want a drink to be more useful? Add honey at the end of cooking, boil stewed fruit for 1 minute and remove from the stove.

A recipe based on natural products - ginger and lemon has long been used to treat and prevent colds. Compote of ginger and lemon has been popular for over a hundred years. They knew about the benefits of citrus already three thousand years ago, it was not for nothing that they received the name of Limung in China - a medicinal fruit.

Drinks from these ingredients have unique healing properties due to mineral salts, a complex of vitamins and citric acid in the composition. The tool is an alternative to medical treatment.

Herb of the ginger family tops the list of popular spices of the East. A plant with a rich history has found therapeutic application in ancient Greece. The famous healer Dioscorides used it to treat the digestive system. The Romans used a plant from Southeast Asia to eliminate eye problems.

Europeans considered ginger to be useful in the fight against plague. In Russia, the product was added to drinks and pastries in order to improve the immune system and increase the body's resistance to viral diseases.

Ginger compote has the following beneficial properties:

• boosting the immune system;
• tones up;
• has an antimicrobial effect;
• warming effect;
• quenches thirst;
• normalizes the process of digestion;
• helps to lose weight, acts as a fat burner.

Compote recipe can be changed depending on the preferences of the person.

The plant goes well with various ingredients: apple, dogrose, cherry, cinnamon and representatives of the citrus family.

Cooking rules

Complying with several rules will help make ginger compote tasty and beneficial to the body:

1. Ginger - the main ingredient should be cut into thin slices;
2. Root must be boiled first and only then add the remaining ingredients.
3. All components must be removed from the brewed beverage.
4. To increase the sweetness, it is permissible to add granulated sugar or honey to taste.

Recipes

The drink is prepared with the addition of various ingredients. Consider the most popular.

With rosehip

The recipe of the drink includes the following ingredients:

• ginger root - 1 piece;
• lemon - 1-2 pieces;
• granulated sugar to taste;
• wild rose - 1 handful of berries.

Cooking

1. The main ingredient is a member of the family of ginger washed in cool water and cut into thin slices, or rubbed on a coarse grater.
2. Ginger is added to boiling water along with sugar. Cooking time on a quiet fire should not exceed 7 minutes.
3. Citrus washed with warm water and cut into thin rings.
4. In the pot with boiling water and ginger root add the remaining components.
5. The contents are stirred, brought to a boil and boiled for no longer than 3 minutes and removed from the heat.

Cinnamon

Another popular drink recipe includes the addition of cinnamon and honey. For cooking you will need:

• ginger root;
• apples - 2-3 pieces;
• water - 2-3 liters;
• honey - 250 grams;
• lemon - 1 piece;
• cinnamon - 1 pack.

Ginger root has an unusual, savory taste, making dishes and drinks with its use are very popular. And thanks to their beneficial properties, they are not only tasty, but also very useful, because ginger contains many vitamins and microelements that will help strengthen your health and simply add vigor and good mood!

Ginger root, rosehip and apple compote recipe

It is necessary:

• Water - 2.5 liters;
• Apples - 3 pcs.
• Rosehip dried - a handful;
• Ginger root - 2 pieces;
• Sugar to taste.

Cooking:

Remove cores from apples, cut into slices. Bring water to a boil, add sugar, pieces of ginger root, apple slices and rosehip. Let the drink simmer a little. Leave the compote under the lid for 1-2 hours so that it is infused. It is quite simple to prepare such a compote from rosemary ginger and apples, besides, the drink turns out to be very tasty!

Ginger and Apple Compote Recipe

It is necessary:

Cooking:

Ginger root thoroughly rinse, peel and cut into thin plates using a special board - shredding. Then clean the apples, divide them into slices and remove the core. Remove the peel from the lemon and chop it on a grater or with a knife. Move the apples, zest, ginger root, honey and cinnamon into a saucepan, cover with water and bring to a boil. Then pour sugar into the container and continue cooking. Keep the drink on fire for about 3-5 minutes and turn it off. Compote of ginger and apples ready. Strain it through a sieve and can serve. You can drink it both hot and cold. In the summer it is used as a tonic, and in the winter as a tonic.

Lemon Ginger Compote Recipe

It is necessary:

• ginger root;
• 3 lemons;
• 3 l. water
• 200 g sugar
• handful of rose hips.

Cooking:

Clean lemons cut into laces about 0.5 cm thick, remove bones as far as possible. Rinse the ginger root thoroughly, peel and chop it in even small pieces. Fill the pot with water and bring to a boil. Add lemon, wild rose, to the container. Boil the drink for a few minutes and turn it off. Then give it time to infuse under the closed lid for 1-2 hours. A refreshing drink with a citrus scent is ready. It is simply indispensable in hot summer weather, and also people who are overweight use it.

Recipe for Hot Ginger and Currant Compote

It is necessary:

• 1 ginger root;
• 300 g of black currant;
• frozen berries;
• 2.5 liters of water;
• sugar to taste;
• ½ lemon.

To prepare such a drink, you can use any frozen berries, also determine the quantity yourself. Rinse lemon and ginger. Then cut the lemon into slices and ginger root into thin strips. Add water to the pan, put on the fire and bring to a boil. Frozen berries, currants, ginger and lemon dipped in boiling water. After that, the pan must be removed from the heat and cover with a lid. Cooked compote need to stand for about an hour to infuse. Add sugar to taste, when the drink is almost cool, mix thoroughly.

Such a drink is served hot or warm.

Rhubarb compote recipe with ginger and lemon

It is necessary:

• 300 g rhubarb;
• 1 lemon;
• 2 cm ginger root;
• Sugar to taste;
• 1.5 liters of water.

To make this drink, you first need to rinse and chop the rhubarb into pieces. Ginger also wash, peel and grate on a fine grater. Pour water into the pan and boil it, then add rhubarb and boil it for 5 minutes. Then put ginger and lemon in a container, let it boil for a minute and turn it off. The drink should stand for another 5 minutes under the lid. You just have to wait until it cools down and strain it.

Rhubarb drink with ginger is ready! Drinking such a drink is recommended chilled, it will perfectly refresh in hot weather, and the sour-spicy taste will help quench your thirst.

And now we offer you a surprisingly tasty recipe. compote of ginger, cherry, cloves and cinnamonwhich not only will refresh in the summer, and also it is possible to prepare such compote from ginger for the winter.

It is necessary:

• 500 g cherries per 3 l jar
• 5-7 cm fresh ginger root
• 2 pcs. carnations
• cinnamon stick

For syrup:

• 400-500 grams of sugar per liter of water.

Preparations:

Sort out the cherry, rinse and pat dry on a towel.

Put cherries in sterilized jars, fill them with boiling water, cover with lids for 5-7 minutes. Pour the water into a saucepan, bring to a boil, add sugar per 400-500 g (or to taste) per liter of water. Bring the drink to a boil again and boil it for 4-5 minutes. Fill the jars with hot syrup, add a piece of ginger root, cinnamon stick, 2 pcs. Carnations in each jar and hermetically roll up. Then turn the jars, wrap a blanket and leave to cool completely. Keep such a drink in a dark cool place. Enjoy your meal!

And finally, I would like to offer you a recipe for a very tasty and refreshing drink - compote of ginger root and melon.

It is necessary:

• melon;
• 1 tbsp. brown sugar;
• rind of one lemon and juice;
• 4 cm ginger root.

Cooking:

Ginger root should be cleaned and cut into thin strips, and remove the lemon zest. Then cook from 1st l. water and 1 tbsp. sugar boil syrup. The drink should be brought to a boil, remove from heat, and then add all remaining ingredients. Compote should brew for 2-3 hours at least, then strain. Cut the melon's flesh into small cubes, place it in a container and cover with syrup. Everything, the drink is ready, it remains only to wait until it cools down and can be served on the table.

Healthy foods should be supplemented with the right drinks. In addition to the priceless water, these are juices, fruit drinks, smoothies, teas and, of course, homemade compotes. They can be very diverse, but with the addition of spices they become unique in taste and degree of usefulness for the organism.

Beneficial features

Ginger is added to the first, second courses and even desserts. Often it is put in compote. During heat treatment, it loses a minimum of useful substances and releases a lot of complex components. Compote ginger cook easily and quickly. This spice is unique in that it is combined with most fruits and berries, which are usually put in compote.

This is, of course, fresh ginger root. It is he who gives the drink a delicate spicy touch, mixed lemon sage aroma and great health benefits. Ginger should be peeled thinly and cut into rings juicy flesh. On 1 liter of water take about 2 cm of the purified root.

Ginger compote is rich in vitamins of group B, C, calcium, potassium, monosaccharides and organic acids. Due to the content of phytoncides in ginger, compote is stored for a long time without a refrigerator, without losing its freshness.

Among the most important useful properties of compote are the following:

• antioxidant;
• antimicrobial;
• warming;
• tonic;
• stimulating.

Wild rose ginger is a good remedy for colds.

This drink is good thirst quencher, helps to cheer up, improves digestion, promotes weight loss. It is nutritionists who often recommend it to be used while dieting. It enriches the diet with nutrients, helps to fight appetite, speeds up metabolism, promotes rapid recovery from colds and relieves the condition during exhausting sports.

Ginger compote can be drunk hot and cold. In the first case, it will help to warm up, relax and prepare the digestive system for eating. In the cold, it perfectly tones, quenches thirst, just puts on his feet with fatigue. Everyone chooses how to use this healthy and tasty drink.

Cooking recipes

Ginger goes well with citrus fruits, apples, cherries, rosehips, black currants, cinnamon and other ingredients. There are many recipes for making spicy compote, but they all boil down to following a few simple rules.

• Ginger must be finely cleaned.
• Root first put in a pan and boil a few minutes to release from it a maximum of benefit and taste.
• After preparation and infusion, all ingredients are removed from the compote.
• Sugar and honey can be added to this drink.

Ginger compote is cooked in just 10 minutes, half of which is spent on preparing the ingredients, and the second half is cooked. After infusion, sugar or honey is added to the already cold fluids. Below are a few recipes that allow you to prepare a compote that is good for your health and body shapes at home.

Recipe for apples with ginger:

1. For 2 liters of water take 4-5 cm of the root, 3 apples, half a lemon.
2. Ginger is peeled and cut into thin circles, the apples are cut into slices with skin and stones.
3. Lemon pour over boiling water and together with zest cut into circles.
4. Ginger is put in a saucepan, poured over with water and boiled over low heat for 5 minutes.
5. Add apples and lemon, cook for another 5 minutes.
6. Turn off the fire, cover the pan with a lid and let it brew for 2 hours.
7. Then compote is filtered, poured into a carafe and consumed warm or cold during the day, with sugar, honey or dried fruits.

Such compote is available for preparation all year round, as the ingredients present in its composition can be bought at any store every day of the year.

  For compote, you can use both fresh and dried apples.

Rosehip Recipe:

1. Cut the peeled ginger into rings and boil as in the first recipe for 5 minutes, avoiding strong boiling.
2. During this time 2 oranges boil over boiling water, and the tip and the tip are cut off from the hips.
3. For 2 liters of water take 3-4 cm of ginger, 2 oranges and a handful of fresh or dried rosehips.
4. All together, the ingredients are boiled for another 3-5 minutes and infused for 2 hours.

It is a good alternative to any cold tea or fruit drink. It contains a lot of vitamin C, natural phytoncides and anti-inflammatory components. To enhance the effect in the compote add honey.

To prepare the compote, you can use the following combinations of ingredients:

• berries and leaves of black currant, ginger;
• ginger, cranberry, raspberry;
• ginger, mint, cinnamon in sticks;
• ginger, orange, lemon.

In order for ginger not to seem too stinging in compote, you can hold it in cold water for 1-2 hours or drain the water after boiling in 1-2 minutes and pour a new one. This is not necessary, but important for those who do not take spicy notes in a liquid or have individual contraindications for its use.

Drink compote can be in between meals. If it is used as an additional means for losing weight, then it is drunk 30 minutes before meals in a warm form. So it will help reduce the amount of food eaten in the future, stimulate the production of digestive juice and help with the removal of excess fluid from the body.

Ginger compote is not considered an amateur drink. It is unusual, but does not cause negative feelings, but rather, on the contrary, surprise and delight. After all, already one flavor, mixed with lemon spice and fruity notes, makes it desirable on the table of each person. It can be given to children from 3 years old to 100 ml per day. This is one of the easiest ways to help your immune system become stronger.

A pleasant refreshing drink that is easy to prepare.

Everyone, even far from the kitchen (easy!) And even very busy (fast!) People.
  On a budget? And here (not expensive!), - the red strawberry will help out. Moreover, this drink (3 ingredients + water) can be prepared without a recipe!

Fragrant, invigorating, warm or cold - homemade strawberry compote - the favorite drink of the summer season. Tasty and healthy!

  They like strawberries - even without suspecting that it contains such a long list of nutrients, and vitamin C, and antioxidants, ... Strawberries are good for the heart, eyes, improves digestion, prevents the occurrence of cancer cells ...
  Everyone loves strawberries, for excellent taste and such a pleasant sweet aroma.
  And who loves strawberry jam with tea in the winter - he will like the cool, light strawberry compote - the hot summer.

For 4-6 servings.

Ingredients.

400g strawberries (fresh or frozen)
  2 tablespoons of sugar
  1 piece of ginger root (2.5-3 cm long)
  2.5 liters of cold water (for compote)
  0.3 liters of water (for ginger)
  4 teaspoons of honey - to taste
  1 lemon (squeeze juice) - optional
  Pieces of ice - 2 molds (or 4 pieces for 1 portion)

Ginger - known for its strong, pleasant aroma, spicy taste and has long been used to make various beverages (like "Ginger ale", for example).
  Ginger contains natural sugars, essential oil; vitamins of group B, vitamins C, E; iron, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, etc.
  Ginger is an antibacterial, anti-inflammatory agent, improves digestion, prevents the occurrence of cancer.
  Helps with nausea and "seasickness".

Training.

Wash lemon while you are waiting.
   Wash strawberries. Cut off the green stem. Large strawberries cut in half.
Ginger root wash. Peel part of the root, cut off a piece of ginger, 3 cm long, approximately. Cut it into 2-3 slices.
  (Save the rest of the ginger root for another dish).

Cooking

1.   Pour water into a saucepan, put it on medium heat. Bring water to a boil.
2.   Throw in the water strawberries. (If the strawberry has been frozen, it does not need to be thawed, but thrown into boiling water when frozen,).
3.   Add sugar. Stir until dissolved.
4.   When the water boils again, reduce the heat to below average and cover the pan with a lid (leave a small gap so that the steam comes out). Boil compote 10-12 minutes.
5.   At this time, while the compote is being boiled, pour water into a small saucepan or ladle. Put it on medium heat. Throw the ginger root into the water.
  Boil. Reduce heat to low and cook for 5-7 minutes.
  Turn off the fire. Cover the gingerbread ladle with ginger broth. Leave on the stove until strawberry compote is cooked.
6.   Compote has already been boiled - remove the lid and make sure that the compote is of a beautiful pink color and has a pleasant sweet aroma. To taste. (If the strawberry compote tastes less sweet than expected, no need to add sugar. It is better to add honey to the compote).
7.   Remove the ginger pieces from the decoction (they are no longer needed). Pour ginger decoction into a saucepan with strawberry compote. Stir. Leave the compote in a saucepan under the lid for 5-7 minutes so that the flavors of strawberry and ginger mix. (Compote will become darker, saturated scarlet color).
8.   Cut the lemon in half. Squeeze the juice. Add lemon juice to compote.

Serve “Strawberry compote with ginger” warm, chilled or cold (with ice).

Serving.

If you serve strawberry compote warm, pour it into mugs or glasses made of thick glass (like hot cider or mulled wine).
  And if you add a spoon of honey and a pinch of cinnamon, you get a tasty and healthy home remedy for colds.

A cold compote (with ice) - it is better to serve in tall glasses, in glasses or transparent circles.
  Put pieces of ice in glasses, fill them with compote. Add honey to taste.
  Color "Strawberry compote with ginger," - beautiful. Strawberries "paired" with ginger create a pleasant aroma - so that the compote looks and smells like an expensive drink.
  And it deserves not only a decent presentation, but also popular love.
  ... Dinner for two, a family holiday or a party with friends - this berry compote can appease the crowd! Without such a tasty drink just can not do.
It remains only to calculate how many guests there will be and cook the required amount of compote. And the holiday on a warm summer evening will be wonderful ...

(Hint. If suddenly there is not much left, 1-2 cups of compote (and there is no room in the refrigerator), you don’t need to pour it out, that is, throw it away, it’s a good thing.
  It is better to fill the ice molds and freeze compote.
  Then pink strawberry ice can be added to a glass of water, or used to make fruit cocktails or smoothies).

Once again about love ...
  It is known that ginger in Japan is very much appreciated, and in ancient times ginger was called an aphrodisiac.
  and ginger drinks are very popular in the countries of Southeast Asia.
  The Chinese, for example, often carry ginger tea with them, in small thermoses, in winter and summer. And rightly so, because ginger promotes the release of saliva, that is, it facilitates swallowing, prevents thirst, and this is good for the throat.
  ... So, if you decide to express your thoughts to an "exceptional someone", confess tender feelings, drink a sip of ginger drink first!
  And the throat will not dry out with excitement, and the voice will sound clean and beautiful.
  As it is known, - “Love will inadvertently descend ...”. Good luck and reciprocity!

Enjoy your meal! Have a nice warm summer!

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