Cooking compote for the winter from blackberry with apples
An appetizing culinary masterpiece of every hostess must be a black chokeberry compote with apples for the winter. How good it is to get homemade blackberry compote with apples on the festive table and in winter to please guests with the deliciousness of your own cooking. Useful and accessible ingredients will delight you in the cooking process.
Chokeberry is a fairly common berry in cooking. It is boiled for compote, jam, jam, jam, added to baked goods filling and simply eaten fresh. Sour-sweet taste saturates the dishes with unusual piquancy and goes well with other fruits and berries. Therefore, the list of sweet dishes cannot be counted with it.
The benefits of compote from chokeberry berries and apples
The abundant composition of fiber in apples gives a feeling of fullness after eating them, so this choice is perfect for vegetarians or those who want to lose a couple of kilograms.
Those suffering from high blood pressure should drink apple and chokeberry compote. This combination will also prevent the signs of atherosclerosis, will act as the prevention of the body by natural means. Strengthening the cardiovascular system, healthy people will also benefit from this mixture. Blackberry has the ability to lower blood cholesterol. The large composition of iodine in this berry will have a positive effect on the thyroid gland, who has problems with it.
Blackberry berries are long-term products, so they can be kept in the refrigerator almost all winter in their usual form and boiled compote at any time.
Below is a recipe for apple and chokeberry compote. Preservation is quick and easy. It does not require sterilization of cans with contents and other similar difficulties. You will not only enjoy the process, but also a delicious result in the end. Even an inexperienced or novice home preserver will appreciate these easy preservation steps. You will be presented with 2 methods, which one is closer to your liking, and this is the option for preparing blackberry compote with apples for the winter. The nuance of the first description is to cook all the ingredients at once like a compote for quick consumption, while the second method will slightly stretch the procedure into the stages of draining and pouring syrup through the cans.
For those who like to experiment, you can add any fruit or berry to your taste and desire to the proposed recipe. It can be lemon, orange slices, plum, raspberriesif kept frozen until September; the mountain ash in question ripens at the end of September with a transition to October.
Two ways to preserve compote
Ingredients for 10 liters of water - 4 pieces of three-liter cans:
- chokeberry - 6 cups (1 cup = 150 grams);
- apples - 1.5 - 2 kg;
- sugar - 4 cups (more for sour apples, but in general this ingredient is taken to taste).
Stages of preserving compote according to method No. 1
The constituent components are thoroughly washed in running water.
The peduncles are separated from the black chokeberry.
The apples are cored and cut into four parts. Depending on the size and variety of apples, they can be covered whole or cut into cubes. It all depends on preference.
It is not recommended to remove the peel from apples, as it contains substances that remove cholesterol from the body.
Mix the ingredients.
Fill a saucepan with water and cook until tender: 15-20 minutes. Add sugar to boiling water. The state of the mountain ash when the peel began to burst on it is considered to be a ready syrup.
The cooked compote is poured into pre-sterilized glass containers, rolled up with a tin lid, turned over and wrapped in a warm cloth. In this state, jars with apple and blackberry compote should stand for about a day until they cool completely and in order to check whether the lid is firmly rolled up, whether there are leaks.
You can use cans with a screwed metal lid; in this version, you should not turn the cans over.
The finished apple-chokeberry compote can be turned over to its normal position the next day, left to stand in a ventilated room for another two weeks, then put in a pantry or cellar and wait for a harsh winter to consume this yummy.
Enjoy your meal!
To add a refreshing flavor to the drink, add mint leaves to it.
Stages of preserving compote according to method No. 2
Sterilize the jars, pour boiling water over the lids or also sterilize them.
Put vegetables and berries in jars. Fill the container 1/2 or 1/3 with apples, and 1.5 cups per jar with chokeberry.
Boil water and pour in a jar of ingredients, cover with a lid and let stand for 5 - 10 minutes.
Drain the water back into the pan, boil, add sugar, let it completely dissolve in boiling water. From the moment the water boils, it is necessary that 5-7 minutes have passed.
Pour the prepared syrup into jars and roll up a tin lid.
Delicious blanks for you!
The saturation and concentration of the compote depends on the amount of fruits and berries in the container. Taste depends on the proportions of mountain ash - apple.
Blackberry compote with apples for the winter is an excellent source of vitamins during the fierce season, when they are so lacking. Every family will appreciate this pleasant surprise stored in the closet since warm times.