Grape compote recipes for the winter for every taste
Delicious aromatic grapes are loved by adults and children. To make vitamin reserves for the cold season, when the grape season has already ended, recipes for grape compote for the winter will help. After all, not everyone likes to drink grape juice because of its sugary taste. And not everyone likes wine (or can) either. There is a way out - to make compote from grapes. It vitaminizes the body and tastes milder.
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For the preparation of compotes for the winter, berries of any varieties are suitable - both blue and white, and you can roll up grapes even in whole bunches. There are many recipes for grape compote for the winter from grape berries alone, as well as adding other fruits and spices to the compote, which will give it a unique taste. Grape compote is not only tasty, but also has a positive effect on the body. Grapes contain iron, magnesium, potassium.
Grape compote is advised to use if you have problems with the gastrointestinal tract and cardiovascular system.
Grape compote for the winter
According to this recipe, you can roll up grape compote at home from any variety, and it will taste like grape juice. Ingredients are listed per 3 liter can.
Ingredients:
- grapes - to cover half of the container;
- water - 2.5 l;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- lemon acid.
Compote cooking technology:
- Rinse the grapes, cut off the bunches, as well as spoiled and overripe grapes. Allow excess water to drain. Apply to the jar up to half of its volume.
- Boil sugar syrup.
- Pour hot syrup over a jar of grapes and leave to infuse for 15 minutes.
- After the specified time, pour the syrup into a saucepan and boil for 2 minutes, at the end add citric acid.
- Pour the syrup over the jar, close it with a key, put it upside down, cover with a blanket and let it cool.
Grape compote without sterilization
For compote from grapes without sterilization, you can use grapes of both blue and white varieties. To make the compote rich, you need a little more sugar and the grapes themselves. You can add spices (cloves, mint or cinnamon) to the compote while rolling.
Compote rolled up for the winter without sterilization is stored for no more than one year.
Ingredients:
- grapes - 2 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg;
- water - 4 l.
Cooking technology:
- Rinse the bunches of grapes, or even better, leave them in water for 15 minutes. Pluck the berries and rinse again.
- Pre-sterilize the banks.
- Fill the jars with berries about a third. Cover them with sugar on top.
- Pour boiling water over the grapes in jars and immediately roll up, turn over and wrap.
- Leave the cans with compote for a day for self-sterilization.
Grape compote by double pouring
You can quickly roll up compote for the winter without sterilization using a double filling - the method used for canning tomatoes. This recipe for grape compote for the winter is also different in that you do not need to prepare sugar syrup. It is poured into the jar, and not immediately, but after the first pouring with boiling water.
Ingredients (based on 3 liter bottle):
- grapes - 700-800 g;
- sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- water - 2 l.
Cooking technology:
- Bring the water to a boil while the grapes are being cooked.
- Wash the grapes well, remove the bunches and pour into the jar at a third of the height. If desired, or if too sweet varieties are used for compote, you can put a couple of lemon slices.
- Pour boiling water over a jar of berries, cover and leave for 10 minutes.
- Drain the water and put on fire so that it boils again.
- Pour sugar into the jar on top of the grapes.
- Put the jar in a bowl and pour boiling water a second time, while a little water should overflow (this will require a bowl).
- Roll up and leave to cool for a day under a blanket.
Grape bunches compote with sugar
Without sterilization, you can also roll a compote from small varieties of blue grapes using whole bunches. The rolling process is slightly different from the previous recipe - sugar is not poured into a jar, but syrup is prepared from it. However, you should not put too much sugar, otherwise the taste of the compote will be too cloying, and not everyone likes it.
Bunches of grapes will slightly change the taste of the compote and give it a slight astringency.
Ingredients:
- water - 2 l;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- grapes - at the rate to fill the jars by a third.
Cooking technology:
- Rinse the bunches of grapes, pick off green and damaged berries. Place in jars at a third of their height.
- Make the syrup and pour it hot into a container with grapes.
- Roll up the cans, turn them over, wrap them up and leave for a day.
Sugar-free grape compote
To prepare a grape compote for the winter according to this recipe, it will take a little extra time, since the sugar-free compote needs additional sterilization. But it contains even more useful vitamins and is suitable for use by people suffering from chronic diseases in which sugar cannot be consumed.
Ingredients:
- grapes in bunches - in quantity to fill the jar to the brim;
- pouring water - in the amount required for the remaining volume of the can.
Cooking technology:
- Sort the bunches of grapes thoroughly, remove debris. In sterilized jars, gently put grapes on the hangers.
- Little by little, so as not to crack the container, pour boiling water over the jar.
- Sterilize a jar of compote for 10 minutes in a saucepan of water or fry in the oven.
- Roll up, leave to cool.
Kishmish grape compote
Light and tasty compote is obtained from white grapes, for example, from the Kishmish variety. You can use both small and large raisins - there is no fundamental difference, because the main thing is taste.
Ingredients:
- white grapes - 1 kg;
- sugar - 300 g;
- water - 0.7 l.
Cooking technology:
- Boil the syrup: Boil for 4 minutes and leave to cool.
- Wash the grapes. It is better to cut the berries, but if desired, they can be laid together with the bunches.
- Pour boiling water over the jar. Pour berries to the very top of the jar and pour warm syrup.
- Put jars with compote for sterilization. To do this, put several layers of cheesecloth in a high saucepan on the bottom, pour water and heat it. When the water heats up, put the jars of compote in the pot so that the water covers more than half of the jar. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan, turn the heat on and sterilize the compote for 20 minutes.
- Roll up the compote, turn the jars, wrap them up and let cool.
Isabella grape compote with spices
Even a novice housewife can close the healthy Isabella grape compote for the winter. It is good to use it in the cold winter time for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Ingredients (for 1 three-liter bottle):
- Isabella grapes - 1 large bunch;
- sugar - 0.5 tbsp.;
- water - about 2 liters (depending on the size of the grape bunch) to fill the jar to the brim;
- mint and lemon balm - 1 branch each;
- lemon or lime - 1 wedge.
Cooking technology:
- Rinse the bunch well, cut off the too long upper stalk and select damaged and dry berries.Let the water drain, and then put in a pre-sterilized jar. Add mint, lemon balm and lemon there.
- Boil sugar syrup and immediately pour over the grapes.
- Roll up the compote, turn over, cover with a blanket and leave to cool.
Green grape compote with honey
Green grape compote for the winter with the addition of honey instead of sugar. Green grapes are not often used for conservation, as they give compote a very weak color.
You can add red apples to give the compote a beautiful color.
If color isn't as important as taste, this recipe is worth trying out. So, how to make grape compote with honey?
Ingredients:
- green grapes - 3.5 kg;
- honey - 1 kg;
- water - 3 l;
- grape vinegar - 50 ml;
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- cloves - 5 pieces;
- lemon - 1 pc.
Cooking technology:
- Wash the grapes, let them dry. Place in jars one third of their height.
- Prepare syrup (honey, water, cloves, cinnamon, lemon juice, and vinegar).
- Pour hot honey syrup over jars of grapes and leave for 30 minutes.
- Strain the syrup back into the pot, boil it for 2 minutes and pour it back into the jars.
- Roll up the compote, wrap the jars and leave to cool.
A homemade grape compote made with your own hands will appeal to everyone, without exception, and will allow you to please loved ones on a festive, and not only, cold winter evening. Even if you do not have your own vineyard, you will need to purchase not so many berries to prepare a strategic reserve for the winter. But this drink is much tastier and healthier than store juices! Bon Appetit everyone!