How to cook cherry compote
Products
Cherry - half a kilo
Sand sugar - 10 tablespoons
Water - 1 liter
How to cook cherry compote
1. Sort out the cherries, peel and wash; put in a saucepan.
2. Cover with water and cover with sugar, put on fire.
3. Bring to a boil, simmer for 10 minutes.
4. Pour cherry compote into jars, close and store in a cool, dark place.
Cherry and raspberry compote for the winter
The proportions of cherry and raspberry compoteCherries - 2 cups
Raspberries - 1 glass
Sugar - 1.5 cups
Water - 2.5 liters
Citric acid - half a teaspoon
How to cook cherry and raspberry compote
1. Sort out the berries, wash and dry.
2. Place the cherries and raspberries in the jars.
3. Boil water, pour berries over it, leave for 3 minutes.
4. Drain the water into a saucepan and put on fire, add sugar and cook for 10 minutes after boiling over low heat.
5. Pour jars of raspberries and cherries with hot syrup, twist the jars, cool and store.
Fusofacts
- Delicious, rich compote will be obtained from ripe maroon fruit with a small bone, firm pulp and a strong enough aroma. Fit cherry varieties Hungarian and Sofia.- For compote choose cherry with stalks - this guarantees the safety of the berries, tear off the stalks just before preparing the drink. Damaged, rotted, too small, unripe fruits cannot be used for processing.
- Cherries in compote go well with other fruits and berries, the taste of the compote will become richer if at the end of cooking add a couple of lemon slices, a handful of raspberries or strawberries. Instead of sugar, you can use honey, molasses, ready-made cherry syrup.
- Cherry compote for every day is cooked and from frozen cherries... The fruits do not need to be thawed, but if it was not possible to keep them frozen and juice was released, it must be drained and added to the compote at the end of cooking.
- Cherry compote has not only excellent taste and beautiful color, but also healing properties... The drink is useful for anemia (due to its high content of iron and magnesium), it improves appetite and perfectly quenches thirst.
- Calorie content cherry compote depends on the amount of sugar, on average about 99 kcal / 100 milliliters.
- If the jar with cherry compote exploded or you see foam on the surface of the drink, it means that the compote has fermented. Cherry compote ferments in 2 cases: if the jars and lids are not sterilized, or if an infection has nevertheless appeared inside the workpiece (for example, the fruits were poorly processed before cooking or were not cooked enough).
- If the cherry compote is bitter, it means that when processing the berries it was not possible to remove the seeds. Even the smallest pieces of bones can spoil the taste of the compote. In this case, add sugar or honey when serving compote. If the compote, on the contrary, turned out to be too sweet, add sourness when serving, dilute with water or unsweetened juice.
