Diy vitamins - apple and cherry compote
Homemade apple and cherry compote is much better than store-bought packaged juice. Firstly, it is 100% natural, and secondly, it quenches thirst better. The store juice colored with dyes and stuffed with flavors looks beautiful and tasty (if you believe the advertisements), but it does not bring any benefit. Whether it's a juice or a compote made with your own hands! Children are delighted with such a treat. After all, the combined apple-cherry compote tastes not as sour as cherry. Cherries give this compote a slight sourness and add a beautiful color.
Read also the article: Cherry compote for the winter!
Simple apple and cherry compote
Rinse the cherries, and cut the apples into pieces, pour into a saucepan and add water.
As soon as the water starts to boil, add sugar (about 1 cup per 3 liter saucepan) and let it boil again.
It is not necessary to boil the compote for a long time, otherwise the fruit may boil.
After boiling, it is enough to turn off the burner and leave the compote until it cools completely. During this time, he will have time to brew.
You can complicate the recipe a little and play with taste - try making an apple-cherry compote with the addition of cinnamon or mint. Nothing complicated either, and it cooks quickly - 20 minutes.
Apple-cherry compote with cinnamon
Ingredients:
- apples - 350 g;
- cherries - 350 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- water - 2.5 liters.
Wash the apples and cherries, peel the apples from the inner core and cut into slices. Pour sugar into boiled water, and when it dissolves - fruits and cinnamon. Boil the compote for a maximum of 4 minutes and let it brew under the lid until it cools completely. It is better to drink cold.
Apple and cherry compote with mint
Ingredients:
- apples - 5 pieces;
- cherries - 300 g;
- sugar - 4 tablespoons;
- mint - a couple of twigs;
- water - 3 l.
Cut the apples into small wedges and put in boiled water along with the cherries. Cook for 10 minutes, and if the fruit starts to fall apart, reduce the cooking time.
Add sugar and mint before turning off the compote and let it brew.
You can put honey instead of sugar, but not in a hot compote, but in a glass before drinking, since, as you know, honey loses its qualities in hot water.
Apple and cherry compote for the winter without sterilization
But with the preparation of compote for the winter you need to tinker a little, although there is nothing complicated here either. Cherries for rolling compote should be well-ripe, but not soft, but apples, on the contrary, are a little greenish. They will add the necessary sour accent and will not fall apart during the cooking process.
Cherries wash, dry (do not remove the bone), and cut out the part with seeds from apples. The peel is not removed from apples, because everyone knows that it is a storehouse of vitamins.
Pre-sterilize the jars, and boil the lids. Put apples and cherries in jars, filling slightly more than half of the container.
Pour boiling water over the jars, cover and leave for 20 minutes. After the specified time has elapsed, drain the water back into the pan. By the way, for this technique it is convenient to use a lid with holes - and the water will drain, and the berries will not fall out, and the hostess will not scald with hot water.
Add sugar to a pot of water, add a little water in reserve and put it on the fire again. The amount of sugar is equal to 1 glass for every liter of water that is drained from the can.
After the syrup boils and all the sugar is completely dissolved, immediately pour it into jars and roll it up.
Check the jars for leaks, turn them over, wrap them on top with something warm and leave to cool for a day.
Transfer the finished chilled compote to the cellar or basement for storage.
When opening jars of apple and cherry compote in winter, add water to it at a rate of 1: 1 before use. In order not to dilute the compote, when rolling, you can try to put less fruit in the jar.
Apple and cherry compote for the winter in a slow cooker
During the preparation of stocks for the winter near the stove, you have to spend a lot of time. Modern technology in the form of a multicooker helps to make easier not only daily cooking. You can even cook compotes with it. The only thing is that cooking compote in a multicooker for the winter will require a little extra time, since it will need to be additionally sterilized.
So, for compote you need the following components:
- small apples - 1 kg;
- cherries - 500 g;
- sugar - 300 g;
- water - 2 l.
Before tackling compote, you need to prepare containers, or rather sterilize the jars and dry them. For compotes, 2-liter containers are more suitable, but if you wish, you can take liter jars.
Step-by-step preparation of compote in a multicooker:
- Wash the cherries, drain off excess water, and pour into prepared jars.
- Prepare apples - wash, peel and cut, cut into slices. Do not throw away the peel - it will be useful for making syrup!
- To prepare the syrup, fold the apple peel into the multicooker bowl and add hot water. Select the "Multipovar" program (temperature - 160 degrees) or "Stew" and set the timer for 15 minutes. After boiling water, pour sugar into a slow cooker and add another 5 minutes on the timer.
- Put chopped apples in jars, where cherries are already lying, pour over the prepared syrup and leave for a while so that the compote is infused.
- After the liquid has cooled down, it must be drained from the jar, placed again in the multicooker and allowed to boil in the mode that was used in the previous step.
- Pour the boiling syrup into the jars without adding 2 centimeters to the top.
- Cover the cans and sterilize.
- To sterilize, put cheesecloth (several layers) on the bottom of the multicooker bowl, pour warm water and lower a jar of hot compote into it.
- Select the "Frying" or "Baking" program - until the water boils, and after boiling, go to "Stewing" and set the timer for 20 minutes.
- After the specified time, roll up the jar with compote and let it cool completely at room temperature.
Compote is ready. Bon appetit and warm winter evenings to everyone!