TOP 4 recipes for making berry compote for the winter without sterilization
Summer residents have no time to rest especially. Instead of sunbathing on the banks of the river in the heat, swimming in the lake, you have to harvest. Before the strawberries run out, the cherries are poured with juice, raspberries and red currants ripen, and the women cook jams, close the compote of berries for the winter, which the children enjoy drinking. The most useful blanks are obtained by combining the fruits of different fruit trees and shrubs. Cherries are rich in copper and potassium, black currants are rich in pectin and ascorbic acid, strawberries are rich in phosphorus and vitamin B9.
Features of making berry compote
To make a fragrant and tasty drink, you need to choose the right ratio between water and sugar, and if an assortment is closed, you need ripe berries that go well with each other.
Compote is harvested for storage by pasteurization, in which the fruits are placed in glass containers, which are filled to the brim with boiling syrup. After 15–20 minutes, the liquid is sent to a saucepan, put on fire, boiled for 2-3 seconds.
If necessary, filter it through several layers of gauze and pour it into a jar with berries, which is sealed with a lid.
Compote is made in another way. The fruits are put in a washed container with sugar syrup. The container is placed in water at a temperature of 90 ° C and sterilized on the stove, depending on the volume of the can, from 10 to 20 minutes.
Selection and preparation of raw materials
Compote is made from ripe berries that need to be sorted out, rotten specimens removed. Peeled currants from leaves and twigs, strawberries - from stalks. If the drink is stored for a year or two, the seeds are removed from cherries and cherries, since over time they release hydrocyanic acid. It is better to rinse the berries not in a bowl, but under running water.
How to properly prepare containers
It is convenient to close the compote in glass jars with a volume of from a liter to three. When using different options, you first need to select the container without chips and cracks, then thoroughly wash it with water and mustard or soda. If the drink is prepared by pasteurization, the containers are disinfected by placing:
- in the oven;
- into boiling water;
- in a double boiler;
- microwave.
Three-liter jars are disinfected for half an hour, a container of 1 liter - 10 minutes, dried on a towel, turning the neck down. The lids are sterilized in a pot filled with water.
How to cook compote from berries for the winter?
To make a fragrant drink from garden or forest blackberries, the fruits are sorted out and washed under the tap.For preparation in a three-liter container, you need to take:
- 0.5-0.6 kg of berries;
- a glass of sugar;
- water from a well or spring.
To obtain a concentrated compote, take a little more blackberries and pour them into sterilized dishes. The jar is filled with boiling water and left for 30 minutes. Sugar is poured into the drained liquid, syrup is boiled, filled with a container with berries, hermetically sealed, kept under a blanket or blanket for 24 hours.
Before preparing the compote, the cherries are soaked in water for half an hour, since caterpillars often settle in them, washed and put in a sterile 2-liter container, add 150 g of sugar, and fill with boiling water.
Berry platter with mint in a 3-liter jar
You can prepare an illuminating and beautiful drink for the winter from black and red currants. The fruits of these shrubs ripen at almost the same time. To close a container with a capacity of 3 liters, take:
- 0.5 kg of berries;
- 280 g sugar;
- water;
- 3 sprigs of mint.
Rinse the currants, peel them of leaves, put them in a jar along with aromatic herbs, add boiling water. After 7 or 8 minutes, pour the liquid into a saucepan, combine with sugar and boil. A jar is filled with syrup, the container is corked and sent to the cellar.
Without sterilization
Compotes are made for the winter from different fruits, and they differ in taste and aroma. In the heat, no one wants to turn on the stove for a long time, many women close drinks from berries without sterilization. Using a simple recipe, you can prepare a concentrated compote, and you will need:
- 1 kg of garden strawberries;
- 10 glasses of water;
- 300 g of sugar.
Strawberries are washed under the tap, the stalks are removed. The disinfected container is placed in some kind of container. Syrup is boiled in a saucepan. When the sugar dissolves, pour in the strawberries. After boiling, the strawberry drink is poured into a sterile three-liter container, tightened with disinfected tin lids.
Fresh berry compote with citric acid
So that the drink from garden strawberries or cherries does not lose its rich color, does not deteriorate when stored at home, citric acid is placed in the prepared container along with sugar, clean and sorted berries. You don't need to cook the syrup separately, just fill the jar with boiling water. For 2 containers of 3 liters each is enough:
- 1 kg of fruit;
- 400 g sugar;
- 3 tsp citric acid
The drink can be made from currants, apricots. Assorted foods are prepared using this technology.
Unusual berry compote recipes
A healing agent that improves vision, strengthens the immune system, contains a lot of vitamins, can be closed from chokeberry.
To prepare a drink of 1500 g of berries:
- They are washed, cleaned of debris and dried.
- Boil for a couple of minutes in boiling water.
- Transfer to a sterile container.
Sugar (150 g) is combined with 2 liters of water and syrup is boiled. A container with a rowan tree is filled with a hot liquid and tightened with a disinfected lid.
Some women know how to make delicious sea buckthorn compote for the winter. To prepare it, use:
- 400 g of berries;
- 2-3 apples;
- 150 g of sugar.
The fruits are washed, the core is cut out of them, divided into parts and, together with the sea buckthorn, are put into a disinfected container. Mix 2 liters of water with sugar and put on fire. Half the jar is filled with syrup, the remaining liquid is poured out after a quarter of an hour.
How and how much can you store?
Canned compote of cherries, blueberries, currants, dark grape varieties becomes purple over time. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended to tighten the container with the drink with lids treated with varnish. Banks should not leak.
It is necessary to store compotes from berries and fruits in a room where it is not higher than 15 ° C, otherwise the preservation will lose its aroma.
Drinks made from cherries, apricots with seeds must be consumed within 12 months, the rest of the preparations do not deteriorate until 2 years.
