How to cook compote

Treat yourself to a natural and healthy drink all year round - weld the compote. This drink does not contain harmful substances for the body, but only one benefit and variety of tastes and ingredients. Compotes are boiled from all fruits, berries, dried fruits, vegetables, cereals. Add for aroma and spicy, not comparable taste of spices, citrus fruit and even alcohol. Despite the variety of compote content, the base of cooking is one and simple. It lies in the cooking of the ingredients of the compote from 2-30 minutes in sugar water, after which they give a drink about 12 hours to enrich it with a full-fledged taste. Prepare some simple compote options and find out several subtleties that are necessary for high-quality and excellent beverage taste.

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How to cook compote from fresh apples and cherries

Such compote is prepared in summer or early in the fall, when there is an opportunity to buy or assemble fresh juicy apples and cherry on the site.
On 1 liter of water will need 300 grams of apples, 300 grams of cherries and 4 tbsp. Spoons of sugar.
To begin with, we knew well, clean the apples from the core and stones. The peel is removed at will. If the compote is to drink a little baby, the peel is better to remove and leave only the flesh. Cut apples into small pieces or 6-8 poles.
Then wash and clean the cherry from the fruits and bones. The cherry is added to the compote as completely and, and if desired, it is cut into parts.
We put on the plate an enameled pan, pour water into it. After boiling, add prepared apples and sugar, we reduce the heating intensity of the plate. Compote must be slightly browning on a small fire, but not to buy.
5 minutes after boiling water with apples and sugar, add cherry to the pan and continue to cook on slow heat for 10 minutes.
How compote is welded, it is covered with a lid. The taste of the drink will be richer if you give a compote for 11-12 hours. At will and opportunity, time in infusion is enough in a couple of hours.

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How to cook compote from dried fruits

Properly prepared compote from dried fruits - useful bliss for the digestive system. Since all dried fruits are boiled different times, it is preferable to buy them separately. Dried apples and pears are boiled longer, it will take less time on the preparation of prunes, kuragi and dates.
To prepare 1 liter compote, we need 100 gr. All dried fruits and a small glass of sugar.
Before starting cooking, dried fruits need careful preparation. They are moved, washed well and soaked in warm water 20-30 minutes. Try to rinse every dried fruit separately.
We bring water to a boil, fall asleep dried apples and / or pears and cook for 20 minutes on weak heat. Then we fall asleep the rest of dried fruits in the pan, we continue to cook for 5 minutes and fall asleep sugar. I boil all within another 10 minutes and put the drink under the cover for 10-11 hours.

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How to cook compote - tricks

Compote can be prepared from any frozen berries, fruits and vegetables. To preserve all vitamins, frozen ingredients are not deflated before the decoction. It is enough to lay them out for 10 minutes out of the freezer on the table and then, without waiting for their full defrost, fall asleep into boiling water. The cooking time of the compote from frozen berries or fruits will increase by 5 minutes.
It is important to fall asleep ingredients in boiling water.
Berries and fruits in the process of cooking should not be very boiled, but slightly brown on a small heating plate.
On 1 liter of compote, use 800 ml of water, 200 grams of fruit and 1 tbsp. spoon sugar.
Instead of sugar, you can use any sweetener: sucrose, fructose, honey, etc.
Fruits and berries will better give their sweet drink if they are added to the pan in the pan on the tip of a teaspoon.
Compote will get a saturated color if bones in berries and fruits leave. A bright color of the drink will acquire when adding a pair of droplets of the lemon juice.
Some fruits and all berries have a gentle flesh and therefore quickly weld. Such ingredients are boiled in compote no longer than 7 minutes. Fruit of solid structure, such as apples and pears, boiled 10-15 minutes.

Compote - natural refreshing drink. Depending on its filling, light apple compote will love small children, and adults diversify tastes with ginger, cinnamon and cloves.