How to cook gooseberry compote

Products for gooseberry compote
For a 3 liter can
Gooseberries - 1.2 kilograms
Water - half a liter
Sugar - 300 grams

How to cook gooseberry compote
Chop the gooseberries with a toothpick, add water and cook for 5 minutes after boiling. Transfer the berries to sterilized jars. Prepare syrup from the water in which the gooseberries were boiled: pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and put on fire. Boil the syrup for 5 minutes after boiling, then pour the syrup over the berries, roll up the jars of compote and cool. Put the cooled jars with compote for storage.

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The taste of gooseberry compote depends on the variety: sour varieties should be balanced with sugar or sweet fruits, sweet varieties do not need a lot of sugar.

Gooseberries should be used unripe for preparing compote - then you get a transparent compote with a bright taste. Ripe gooseberries are recommended for cooking compote for the day.

Since the taste of gooseberries is often soft, and it can be interrupted with sugar, it is recommended to cook only gooseberry compote for a day, and to prepare compote for the winter, prefer adding other berries and fruits to the gooseberry.

How to make gooseberry and orange compote

Products for compote
Gooseberry - 1 kilogram
Oranges - 1 piece
Water - 1 liter
Sugar - 1 kilogram

How to cook gooseberry and orange compote
Select early sour gooseberries for compote. Rinse the gooseberries, dry, cut off the tails. Wash the orange and cut into wedges. Boil water, add sugar, stir it and cook the syrup for 10 minutes. Put berries and fruits in syrup, cook for 30 minutes. Arrange the gooseberries and oranges on the bottom of sterilized jars, pour over the syrup and roll up the jars.