How to cook dried apricot compote
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Dried apricots - 150 grams
Water - 1 liter
Sugar - 1-2 tablespoons (depends on how sweet the dried apricots are)
How to make dried apricot compote
Wash dried apricots thoroughly. Pour a liter of water into a saucepan, put dried apricots there, add sugar and put on medium heat. Bring the compote to a boil, dissolve the sugar by stirring, cook after boiling for 10 minutes. Then cover the pan with a lid and infuse the compote for at least 20 minutes. Ideally, infuse dried apricot compote for 6-7 hours.
Tips for cooking dried apricot compote
- Depending on the variety of dried apricots, the compote may turn out to be sweet or slightly sour. To add sweetness to the compote, you can add sugar to taste when preparing it. In order for the compote to acquire sourness, you can add lemon juice or 0.3 teaspoon of citric acid diluted with 1 tablespoon of water per 1 liter of drink.- In the dried apricot compote at the beginning of cooking, you can add raisins, dried apples, pears, rose hips or other dried fruits to taste.
- Dried apricot compote should be stored in the refrigerator for no more than three days, after a day the brightness of its taste begins to fade.
Fusofacts
- Large and fleshy dried apricots are more suitable for making compote, because gives the compote all its juiciness. Thanks to this, the compote turns out to be more rich. Many manufacturers use special devices for drying apricots, which prepare slightly smoked dried apricots. Keep in mind that such dried apricots are essentially already devoid of vitamins due to increased and accelerated temperature processing.- The peculiarity of dried apricot fruit compote is that it needs time to infuse after boiling. Then the dried apricots will give their taste better, the compote will turn out to be more saturated. To do this, it is better to cook the compote in the evening, so that by the morning the dried apricots give their taste to a greater extent and the drink can be eaten during the day.
- It is useful to give dried apricot compote to young children instead of soda and packaged juices, since the natural product does not contain harmful elements and dyes.
- The cost of dried apricots is 300-500 rubles / 1 kilogram (on average in Moscow for May 2019).
- The calorie content of dried apricot compote is 88 kcal / 100 grams.
- Due to the fact that dried apricots are, in fact, a preparation, dried apricots compote is considered suitable for consumption only fresh.
- The finished compote can taste bitter - this is due to poor processing of the seeds before drying the apricots or because of the variety (small ones can taste bitter). If dried apricots are bought on the market, taste them: only sweet notes should play without adding bitterness.
