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We offer you some simple recipes for making compotes.

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60 minutes Easy Lunch

Ingredients

Preparation

Prepare a saucepan with a volume of about 5 liters (use a smaller vessel if desired, however, keep in mind the proportionality of the ingredients), fill 2/3 with water and bring to a boil. Next, take half a lemon and squeeze the juice out of it.

Pour into a saucepan required amount water, add sugar and bring to a boil.

Take frozen berries such as strawberries, cherries, black currants, or blackberries as indicated above. To prepare compote, the fruits do not need to be thawed first, as they will lose a lot of juice. So put your whole berry mixture frozen in boiling water. Wait for the water to boil again. Reduce heat and cook the compote for no more than 5 minutes.

Turn off the heat, put a lid on the pot and set it aside on the edge of the stove. Let the compote infuse for another half hour. This will make it richer and more aromatic. Now the compote can be filtered, poured into dishes and cooled.

20 minutes Easy Lunch

Ingredients

Preparation

First, prepare a syrup with added sugar. To do this, take a large pot and pour all the sugar into it. Don't be confused by the relatively large amount, keep in mind that you are making sweet sugar syrup. After that, cover with water and leave on fire until boiling. To dissolve the sugar faster, adjust the heat to below medium and stir the liquid constantly.

As soon as the water boils, take the frozen berries and add to the syrup, stirring gently. After that, lower the heat and cover the pan with a lid (but not tightly). Cook the compote for about 10-12 minutes.

20 minutes Easy Dinner

Ingredients

Preparation

Brew the mint boiled water(preferably, not boiling water, but water, the temperature of which is 80-90 degrees), let it brew. At this time, put the frozen berries in a clean vessel, after they are partially thawed (5-10 minutes), gently pour them into the present Mint tea... After adding sugar and cinnamon, simmer the refreshing compote for 7-10 minutes over low heat (the cooking time can be extended if necessary; focus on dissolving the berries in mint water).

We hope these simple recipes will become tasty base for your experiments. Enjoy your composting and health to your families. Enjoy cooking!

When we need to adhere to several basic rules, with the help of which it will turn out not only fragrant and very tasty, but also preserve most of the vitamins. With the advent of freezers different sizes even in winter you can pamper yourself fragrant blueberry, raspberries, black and red currants, cherries, sweet cherries, strawberries, gooseberries, which, when properly prepared, are difficult to distinguish from fresh berries the first time.

But it is also important how the fruits and berries were frozen and how much time they spent in freezer... Dry freezing is considered the most optimal, in which each berry or fruit is frozen separately, and does not turn into a piece of food. Remember that cherries must be pitted before freezing.

Some housewives make a mistake when cooking compote, trying to defrost berries or fruits before cooking compote. You can not do this, but simply send them frozen in a saucepan. When defrosting, most fruits and berries start juicing and begin to oxidize, thereby losing many useful minerals and vitamins.

It is also not recommended to cook the compote over high heat. With strong cooking, a foam is formed, fruits and berries are boiled down and thereby turn the compote into a puree-like consistency. To improve the taste and aroma, you can add orange slices or lemon juice to the compote.

It is also worth paying attention when cooking compote to the combination of berries in it. taste characteristics... Agree, we rarely cook compote using one type of berries or fruits, perhaps. So in tandem, many berries are able to give the compote interesting flavor notes, characteristic sourness, aroma, and, most importantly, color. So, cherries with black currants, gooseberries, strawberries go best with each other in taste, while blueberries go best with red currants, raspberries.

When we cook compote from frozen berries, then foam always appears during the cooking process. It must be removed, as it contains particles of debris, essential oils, elements vegetable fats and other light fractions.

If we cook compote from frozen berries red currant, then before that it is necessary to rinse it under running water at least two or three times in order to remove dry stalks. For other berries, it is sufficient to rinse them at least once before cooking. Let's take a look at how to cook with gooseberries and apples.

Ingredients:

Red currant - 300 gr.;

Gooseberry - 100 gr.;

Sweet apples - 200 gr.;

Sugar - 50-100 gr.;

Lemon zest.

Frozen gooseberries and red currants are washed and dipped in boiling water. Cook for 15 minutes. Add frozen or fresh apples, slices lemon peel, sugar. Boil for another 5-7 minutes over low heat. Make sure the apples don't boil. The finished compote is cooled and poured into a decanter. Follow these tips and your compote will always be at its best and everyone who has tasted it will definitely like it.

The ideal option is freshly picked berries, strawberries, raspberries, red and black. Apples and apricots, gooseberries and plums. Cherries, peaches and pears are less suitable. Of course, you don't need all the berries at once. Choose a combination of sweet and sour berries, then the drink will be tastier. Apples are combined with any berries in compote. They can be taken as the basis for useful vitamin drink.

In addition to vitamin D, which is absent in berries and fruits, all other vitamins are rapidly destroyed to varying degrees during the cooking process. How do I save them? The process of preserving valuable substances begins with the purchase or collection of berries. Go through them. Store in a cool and dark place. Wash the berries just before preparing the compote. If you need to cut apples, apricots or peaches - do it with a sharp stainless steel knife. Use only enamel, stainless steel or glass dishes. The board is better than wood.

And most importantly, boiling water has the ability to neutralize the action of ascorbate oxidase, which in turn can destroy vitamin C. And if you let the drink brew until it cools completely, a significant part of the vitamins and mineral salts will pass from the berries to the compote, saturating it useful substances.

Proper preparation compote

Take a 3 to 5 liter pot. Fill it with as much water as possible, leaving only room for sugar and berries.
While the water is boiling, select the berries for the compote, rinse them cold water, remove the bones if necessary. Large berries can be cut. Berries such as large black currants or gooseberries are good to pierce with a fork or toothpick. Then they will more fully "give" their vitamins and minerals to the compote.

If you decide to add cloves, cherry or raspberry twigs, rinse and add to boiling water. It is better to add mint and lemon balm, zest to compote after berries.

Add sugar to boiling water, depending on the set of berries and your tastes - this is a serving of 3 to 10 tablespoons of sugar. If possible, sugar can be replaced. But it is added to the finished compote cooled to a temperature of no higher than 40 ° C. Otherwise everything useful honey will be lost.

Put berries in boiling water quickly, in portions. Once you have put all the berries in boiling water, cover the pan with a lid and set aside from the stove. It is not recommended to boil the berries in order to preserve their properties. Leave the compote to infuse until completely cooled without opening the lid. Compote reaching room temperature ready. It can be drained from the berries and cooled in the refrigerator.

Many people remember it as a drink of their childhood. In kindergartens, children with enviable regularity were given it for lunch, although not everyone liked it. And here is homemade berry jelly- for real delicious drink, and it should appeal to both children and adults. Besides, jelly good for health. It influences well digestive system... It is recommended to drink it for gastritis and gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers.

You will need

• • Berries (fresh or frozen) - liter jar or less;
• 1.5 l and 0.5 l of water for diluting starch;
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar;
• 4 tablespoons of starch.

Instructions

We take berries. Any berries will do. Kissel can be cooked from strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, viburnum. The most useful is cranberry jelly.

My fresh berries and put in a saucepan. If the berries are frozen, then we also put them in a saucepan without defrosting. Fill with water, bring to a boil. You can put the berries directly into boiling water, then more vitamins will be preserved.

If foam forms after boiling (it depends on the type of berries), remove it and continue to cook the berries for 10 minutes.

We filter the resulting berry compote through a sieve, cheesecloth or colander. In order for the berries to give all their juice, you can crush them with a regular crush. Pour the resulting liquid into a saucepan. The squeezed berries can be thrown away. But you can pour boiling water over them, insist for 2-3 hours and drink like a weakly saturated fruit drink (This is for a very thrifty housewives!).

Bring the strained liquid in a saucepan to a boil. Add granulated sugar... H 0.5 l cold water add starch, stir thoroughly. Slowly pour the starch into the boiling berry drink while stirring continuously. We bring everything to a boil. Kissel is ready!

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When the jelly cools down, it becomes covered with a starchy film. It cools down quickly, but the jelly under it remains hot for a long time, so be careful when you give jelly to children. Make sure it has cooled completely first.

Helpful advice

Berry compote you can not filter. Then the starch must be poured directly into the compote with berries. In this case, you will get not a drink, but a dessert - jelly with live berries. In addition, the density of the jelly depends on the amount of starch. The more starch, the thicker the jelly. This way you can cook different drinks- from liquid, light jelly to thick dessert.
Optionally in berry jelly you can add a little mint.

In winter, when the body was already longing for fresh berries, a great solution can become made from frozen fruits. Thanks to modern technology quick freeze berries stored in summer retain the maximum of their vitamins. In order for these vitamins to be better preserved in compote, cook it, observing following rules.

You will need

• - frozen berries, better different varieties- 0.5 kg;
• - sugar - 0.5-1 glass;
• - water - 2-2.5 liters;
• - lemon or orange zest (optional);
• - a saucepan with a capacity of at least 3 liters.

Instructions

Pour into a saucepan the right amount water, add sugar and bring to a boil. Make sure the sugar is completely dissolved, if not, stir the water with a spoon or ladle. It is advisable not to use it for a saucepan. Acids contained in a large number c, react with aluminum, and its compounds can go to. In addition, compote cooked in such a pan loses a huge share of minerals and vitamin C.

Take any frozen berries: strawberries, cherries, currants, blackberries, etc. in the amount indicated above. You do not need to defrost it first, so they will lose a lot of juice. Therefore, put the entire berry mixture frozen in boiling water. If you like the aroma, add a little freshly grated lemon or orange zest to the compote.

Wait for the water to boil again. Reduce heat and cook the compote for no more than 5 minutes. Turn off the heat, put a lid on the pot and set it aside on the edge of the stove. Let the compote infuse for another half hour. So he will get the maximum of aromatic substances and vitamins from the berries. Now the compote can be filtered, poured into dishes and cooled. If desired, the berries can not be strained through a colander. Serve in a tall decanter.

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Never use galvanized dishes for cooking compotes.

Helpful advice

If for some reason the berries for the compote were defrosted, and the juice remained in the dishes where they were defrosted, add it to the compote before the end of cooking.

Sources:

• frozen cherry compote

V summer heat compote good for quenching thirst. In bad winter weather, it reminds of fine sunny days and helps to fight vitamin deficiency. This delicacy instills in kids a love of natural fruits. berries... Unlike store-bought sodas and factory juices, homemade compote not only tasty, but also very healthy.

You will need

• • berries
• granulated sugar
• pot
• glass jars
• cover
• seamer
• warm blanket.

Instructions

Sort out the berries, free them from the stalks. Throw away the spoiled fruits, put the rest in a colander and rinse thoroughly under running cold water. Place a colander in a saucepan to drain off the water. You can also sprinkle the berries on a clean towel that has been laid out on the table.

Pour water into a clean saucepan, put it on fire and bring to a boil. As soon as the water boils, gently transfer the berries to a saucepan. Add sugar to taste, stir gently. Try it compote... It should be a little sweeter than you like. The fact is that after a while the berries will give their acidity to the liquid, and the taste compote but it will become just the way it should be.

Wait until compote boil, and remove the pan from the heat so that the berries in compote f have not lost their shape. Compote can be drunk immediately by pouring into glasses and pre-cooled. Or you can cover the pan with a lid and wait until the berries give it all their taste. When the saucepan is warm to the touch, compote will reveal its taste in its entirety.

Compote can also be cooked based on sugar syrup... To do this, pour sugar into a saucepan with boiled water and wait until it completely dissolves. Add berries to the resulting syrup, bring it to a boil again and remove the pan from heat.

With a lack of vitamins winter period they can be easily replenished using the useful homemade compote, which can be prepared from frozen berries (harvested for the winter or bought in a store), so in this article we will consider how long and how to cook compote from fresh berries in order to preserve vitamins.

How much to cook compote from frozen berries

The cooking time of the compote should not be long, since during prolonged heat treatment vitamins are destroyed and useful trace elements in berries:

• How long does it take to cook fresh berries compote? Fresh berries in compote are boiled for an average of 5-10 minutes after boiling water in a saucepan.

Having learned how many minutes to cook compote from fresh berries in a saucepan, we will further consider the sequence of its preparation, what to know how to cook it not only tasty, but also useful for our body.

How to cook frozen berries compote

For cooking compote in winter, you can use any frozen berries (strawberries, strawberries, currants), and if you wish, you can add apples (both fresh and frozen) and citrus fruits (lemons, oranges). Consider one of the simplest and popular recipes how to cook compote from fresh berries at home:

• We prepare a large saucepan and that's it necessary ingredients for compote: 2-2.5 liters of water, 0.5 kg of any frozen berries (you can use a mix of different berries) and 1-1.5 cups of sugar.
• Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring occasionally so that the sugar completely dissolves and you get a sweet syrup.
• After boiling water in a saucepan, put frozen berries in boiling water (you do not need to defrost them before this) and after re-boiling we cook them for 5-10 minutes (the less we cook, the more vitamins will be stored). Also, if desired, along with frozen berries, you can add several slices fresh lemon or an orange, as well as a fresh apple cut into wedges.
• At the end of cooking, set aside the pan with compote from the stove and let it infuse for 15-20 minutes, after which it can be consumed.

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In conclusion to the article, it can be noted that knowing how much and how to cook compote from frozen berries, you can cook delicious and tasty at home all year round. healthy drink for yourself and your loved ones, while according to the above recipe, it can be prepared in just a few minutes. Your reviews and useful tips how to cook compote from frozen berries in a saucepan so that vitamins are preserved in it, we leave in the comments to the article and share it in social networks if it was useful to you.

If fresh berries are frozen, in winter they will serve an excellent service and make up for the deficiency of vitamins in the body. In addition, the delicious compote, from which the aroma of summer blows, will be to everyone's taste!

We choose a saucepan with a volume of 3 liters or more. It must be non-aluminum, otherwise most of the vitamins so carefully preserved by us will simply die. We fill the container with water. We proceed from the ratio of 2-2.5 liters of water per 500 grams of berries. Accordingly, the more berries you put, the richer the compote will come out. We are waiting for the boil. We take out the berries. A combination of 3-4 varieties is optimal, in which case the compote turns out to be quite multifaceted. The simplest and most successful combinations: cherry, raspberry, strawberry; cherry, black currant, raspberry; apricot, blackberry, raspberry and red currant. But you should not get attached to specific recipes, the main thing is to make a variety and sufficient stocks of berries.

Pour sugar into boiling water. Its amount, again, depends on personal preference, but cooks recommend from 1 to 2 glasses for the above indicated displacement.

Next, we send the berries to boiling water. We will not defrost them in order to preserve the juiciness of the fruits.

When the contents of the pan boil again, turn off the gas and cook for 5 minutes. Longer heat treatment will destroy all useful trace elements. Turn off the heat, cover the compote with a lid and let it brew for half an hour.

Filter the cooled compote through a colander, pour into a tall decanter and serve.

To get a refreshing, original compote, mint (100-150 grams) and cinnamon are added to it. This drink is pleasant both warm and chilled.

As you can see, compote from frozen berries is extremely easy to prepare, and its benefits are invaluable. This drink is appropriate both on weekdays and on festive table... He should be a regular guest in a person's diet.