Replenishing missing vitamins with red currant compote

Red currant compote can serve as an excellent drink in the fight against vitamin deficiency in winter. This is because red currants are a treasure trove of nutrients. In addition to vitamins A, C, E, berries contain organic acids, iron, potassium, selenium, pectin substances and a lot of other necessary elements to improve the vital functions of the human body.

If you often drink currant juice or compote, you can get rid of unnecessary fluid in the body, from tissue edema and bags under the eyes. Also, forget about thirst, colds, nausea, and mild stomach diseases for a long time.

Red currant compote

A simple recipe for red currant compote without additives prepares very quickly. It will take 400 grams of berries, which is about 1.5 cups, if there is nothing to measure the grams with. The syrup will need 200 grams of sugar and 1.5 liters of water.

Preparation:

1. Ripe berries to get rid of the stalks and wash. Rinsing can be done under running water by placing the berries in a colander, or by simply dipping the currants into the liquid for a while in a large bowl of water.
2. Mix water with sugar, boil.
3. Put clean berries in boiling sweet water and boil for 2 minutes.
4. Wait for cooling and you can drink. To preserve red currant compote for the winter without sterilization, after boiling the berries in syrup, the entire boiling mass must be poured into sterile jars and tightened with lids. Delicious preparation for you!

If you are preparing compote from frozen berries, then in this case, it is immediately added to the bubbling syrup and cooked without defrosting.

Sterilized red currant compote

Red currant has many components that allow it to be stored for a long time in a canned form. But for more reliable preservation, after boiling it, it is better to use the procedure for sterilizing berries along with compote in a jar. For a red currant compote for the winter, you will need two 150-gram glasses of berries, two of the same glasses of sugar and 3 liters of water. A 3-liter jar should be prepared for these ingredients by cleaning it with baking soda and sterilizing it.

Preparation:

1. Remove stalks from good berries, rinse them.
2. Pour into a jar.
3. Boil the syrup (water + sugar) and pour over the red currants.
4. Covering the lids, put the jars in a pot of water so that it reaches its shoulders. Start the sterilization process for 20 minutes (time for a 3 liter container).
5. Remove the jar with tongs from the pan and tighten the lid tightly with a seamer. Wrap in warm for 24 hours, remove the canvas the next day and let stand for a week in a ventilated room. Then you can put it in the pantry until winter.

This compote can be prepared without sterilization with a double filling of components in a jar with boiling syrup.

Red currant compote with apples

Apple compote and red currant Is a sweet and sour drink made from minimums of ingredients. It will need 300 grams of currants and a pound of apples. From this number of components, 5 liters of compote should be obtained.

Preparation:

1. Separate the currants from the stalks and wash.
2. Apples cut into pieces or leave whole as desired.
3. Place the clean ingredients in a saucepan, cover it to the brim with water and place on the stove.
4. As soon as the mixture boils, add sugar, the amount of which will match your taste. Someone likes too sweet, and someone has a pleasant sour taste. After the next boil, pour the liquid with berries and fruits into sterile jars and twist.

Red currant compote with orange

Compotes with the addition of citrus fruits are quite popular now. Combining berries from our lands with a foreign curiosity is a great idea with an excellent taste. A pound of red berries, one large orange, 200 grams of sugar will go for red currant compote with orange. The ingredients provided are for a three liter jar.

Preparation:

1. Wash the currants without greens and put them in a sieve to drain the water.
2. Wash the orange. The shape you are going to give the orange will depend only on your preference. These can be cut pieces together with the peel, or just slices without a shell.
3. Place all components in the bank. The occupied space should be 1/3 of the volume. For those wishing to add some piquant taste to the provisions, you can add mint leaves. Red currant compote with orange and mint for the winter looks aesthetically beautiful and has a cold aftertaste.
4. Boil water and pour it over the jars. Covering with lids, let the tincture stay in this state for about 20 minutes.
5. Drain the aromatic water into a saucepan, add sugar and boil.
6. Pour jars with a currant-orange composition with a bubbling mixture and immediately close tightly with lids. Wrap in warm for a day.

Red and black currant compote

Red currant compote for the winter can be combined with seasonal fruits and get an unsurpassed taste. The drink will require one glass of red and black currantas well as gooseberries. All this will be stored in a syrup consisting of two glasses of water and three liters of water. It should be noted that the volume of glasses in this recipe is 150 grams.

Preparation:

1. All berries in the recipe must be freed from unnecessary foliage, twigs, cleaned of debris and rinsed thoroughly.
2. Sterilize jars and pour peeled berries into them.
3. Boil plain water without additives and pour it into the jar to the berries. Cover with a lid, let it brew for 10 minutes.
4. Put a nylon lid on the jar with holes for draining the liquid and pour the fragrant water saturated with berry juice into the pan. Put the required amount of sugar into this water (you can adjust the volume of bulk sugar to taste) and boil.
5. Pour the boiling mixture into the jars and seal immediately. Wrap in warm blanket for 12 hours. Remove the blanket after cooling down - done!

Gooseberries can be replaced with barberry, raspberries, yoshta.

Prepare 1-2 cans of compote for each recipe presented in the article and your pantry will become richer in several types of blanks. In winter, every time relatives will drink compote of a new unusual taste.