Simple step-by-step recipes for making winter compote from nectarines in a 3-liter jar
Nectarines are a juicy peach-flavored fruit with a plum-like skin. It tastes good and is rich in vitamins. Until the end of the last century, he was not popular. Only when new varieties with large sweet fruits were developed, people appreciated their taste. Below will be presented simple recipes for compote from nectarines in a 3-liter jar.
Features of cooking compote for the winter
Jam, jam and various desserts are made from nectarines. They have a unique fresh taste, but they are not stored for long. These fruits are especially good for canned drinks. They look very nice, tasty, healthy and easy to prepare.
You can make a drink only from nectarine or combine it with various fruits. It usually ripens with plums and summer apples. Assorted with these fruits looks good in a jar. You can also find grapes or apricots in the bazaar at this time.
Product selection and preparation
For compote, you need to choose only ripe fruits with intact skin. If the skin is punctured, it is best used for jam. In a drink, he can ferment, and the can will shoot.
The drink can be prepared from large or small fruits.
The second fits more in the jar. They must be sorted out, washed well and allowed to drain. It is not necessary to dry, they are still filled with water.
It is important to properly prepare the jars. If compote is prepared without sterilization, then the jars and lids must be sterilized.
How to make nectarine compote at home
Compote from this culture is easy to prepare. Cooking recipes differ little from recipes for drinks from other fruit crops.
A simple recipe for a 3-liter can
To cook compote from nectarines for the winter, you need the following ingredients for a 3-liter jar:
- Nectarine fruits - 600 g.
- Granulated sugar - 1 glass.
- Water - 2 liters.
If you wish, you can put more fruits - some housewives fill the jar with them completely. In this case, less water will go - about 1.5 liters, and you need to put a little more sugar - 1.5 glasses. Fold the fruits into 3-liter containers, add granulated sugar, add water, cover with lids and place the jars in a sterilization container.
After the water boils, sterilize for another 15 minutes, no more, otherwise the fruits will boil and lose their appearance. Remove the cans from the sterilizer, roll up and place them under a blanket for a day. After that, remove to the basement or closet.
Without sterilization
Compote can be easily made without sterilization. To do this, take the following ingredients:
- Nectarines - 500 g.
- Sugar -1 tbsp.
- Water - 2 liters.
Fold the prepared fruits in sterilized jars and pour boiling water over them to the top. Cover and leave for 15 minutes.
To prevent the jar from bursting from boiling water, it must be wrapped in a towel. Or pour boiling water gradually so that the jar has time to slowly warm up.
After 15 minutes, drain the water from the jar into a saucepan and put on fire. Add sugar to the water, boil and pour back into the jar. Roll up and place under a blanket to cool slowly.
If the fruits are very large or they fill a full jar, it is better for reliability to pour boiling water over them twice and then prepare the syrup.
Seedless
Some housewives prefer to cook compote from pitted halves of fruit. This keeps it longer, but the taste is slightly different. Cut the fruit in half and take out the pit. If a full jar is prepared, fold the fruits with a cut down. If they put 500-600 g per jar, then they just carefully throw in the halves.
The amount of ingredients depends on the concentration:
- Halves of nectarines - 600 g or more.
- Granulated sugar - 1-1.5 cups.
- Water - 1.5-2 liters.
Further, the same actions are performed as in one of the previous recipes, depending on whether the drink is being prepared with or without sterilization.
With citric acid
In order for the drink not to lose color, some housewives add citric acid to it. A three-liter jar requires:
- Nectarines - not less than 500 g.
- Sugar - 1-1.5 cups.
- Water -1.5-2 liters.
- Citric acid - 0.5 tsp.
You can cook compote in a jar, mixing all the ingredients, or brew and infuse the fruit with boiling water, and then pour over the marinade.
With apples and plums
It is convenient to make a platter with apples and plums. It turns out to be delicious, healthy and looks beautiful in jars.
Ingredients:
- Apples - 250 g.
- Nectarines - 250 g.
- Plums - 250 g.
- Sugar - 400 g.
- Water - 2.5 liters.
If you wish, you can take some fruits more or less. It all depends on the taste and possibilities of the garden plot. Before cooking, all the fruits are peeled, the middle is removed from the apples and cut into slices.
It is not worth filling the assorted can to the top, as the drink will turn out to be too concentrated.Then close the compote using one of the methods presented above, with or without sterilization.
With grapes
The ripening time of grapes and nectarines differs, the grapes ripen later. Therefore, it is not always possible to combine these fruits in compote. But the drink turns out to be very tasty and you should try to close it for the winter.
Ingredients:
- Nectarines - 600 g.
- Grapes - 200 g.
- Sugar - 300 g.
- Water - 2 liters.
The fruits are pitted and cut into slices or cubes. Large grapes are also cut and pitted. Further actions do not differ from those presented in the first recipes.
With apricots
Apricot ripens earlier than nectarines. But if you get late apricot and early nectarine, you can combine them, you get a very tasty and aromatic drink. They make compote with a bone or with peeled fruits. It is more fragrant with a bone, but it can be stored for no more than a year, then it becomes dangerous to use, since the bone emits harmful substances.
Ingredients for a three-liter can:
- Nectarines - 500 g.
- Apricots - 500 g.
- Water - 2 liters.
- Sugar - 400 g.
You can fill the jar to the top with whole apricots and nectarines, pour in water as much as it will enter, and add sugar at the rate of 200 g per 1 liter.
How to store compote
Canned compote is kept in the basement or closet. If there is a bone in it, it must be consumed within a year. If the seeds are removed, it will last 2-3 years without changing the taste. The nectarine drink is very healthy. In the closet, it always has a bright sunny color and gives a piece of summer all year round.
