Many people like strawberry compote, especially if it is cooked with apples, which give it mild sourness and successfully set off the flavor of strawberries. It is possible to make such a drink for the winter. It is enough to find a suitable recipe and study the technology of making compote from strawberries and apples for long storage.
Cooking Features
Compote from strawberries and apples to close for the winter is not difficult, it is enough to know and take into account a few points, as well as follow the recommendations accompanying a specific recipe.
- Strawberries will be sweeter if you pick them in sunny weather. Harvested during or after the rain, the berries are watery and tasteless.
- For the compote should be selected dense and even berries of medium maturity, only then it will look appetizing. Over-grown berries will lose their shape, green will not give the drink a rich color and taste.
- Sepals from strawberries are cut or cut off after the berries have been washed and dried. Otherwise moisture gets inside, it will negatively affect the taste of the berries.
- Apples for compote should be chosen unspoiled. Before adding to the drink, you need to cut the core out of them, you do not need to peel the fruit. Cut apples as indicated in the recipe: slices or cubes.
- Compote from apples and strawberries will be tastier and more fragrant if you add fragrant herbs, spices and spices to it. It is only important to make a bouquet. You can navigate to proven recipes. Well combined apples and strawberries with mint, basil, cinnamon, vanilla.
- Other berries and fruits can be added to apples and strawberries. Usually choose those that are available in June - it is this month that the harvest of garden strawberries falls.
- Banks in which you plan to put the compote, you must sterilize. Covers are also sterilized.
- To prevent the jar from cracking while hot compote or syrup is poured into it, a knife blade is placed under its bottom.
The technology of cooking compote from strawberries and apples can be different. Products can boil in syrup or pour them. Some recipes suggest sterilization of compote, others can do without it. The easiest way: pour boiling water over the berries, after a while pour the berry infusion into the pan, add sugar to it, cook the syrup, pour it into the jar and roll it up. The following recipes are based on this technology.
A simple recipe for strawberry and apple compote for the winter
Composition (3 liters):
- strawberries - 0, 3 kg;
- apples - 0, 3 kg;
- sugar - 0, 35 kg;
- water - 2, 5 l.
Method of preparation:
- Arrange the strawberries. Pour water into a saucepan or bowl, sprinkle with strawberries. Rinse well. Drop in a colander. Put it under the shower. Let the water flow out. This method of washing strawberries allows you to keep the berries whole.
- Spread strawberries on a towel. The fabric will absorb water, and the berry will dry faster.
- Remove sepals from strawberries.
- Wash the apples, blot them with a napkin. Cut seed boxes from fruit. Pulp cut into slices.
- Sterilize the jar. When it dries, put the pieces of apples on the bottom, top it with strawberries.
- Boil water, pour boiling water over apple-strawberry mixture. Cover the jar with a clean lid, leave for 15-20 minutes.
- Pour the liquid from the jar into the pan, add sugar to it.
- Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, boil for 5-10 minutes. Sugar during this time should be completely dissolved.
- Roll up the jar, turn it over, cover with a blanket. Leave to cool in a steam bath for additional preservation.
After cooling, a can of compote can be put away in a closet or other place where you usually store your blanks for the winter.
Compote from strawberries and apples with mint
Composition (3 liters):
- strawberries - 0, 2 kg;
- apples - 0, 2 kg;
- sugar - 0, 3 kg;
- mint leaves - 8 g;
- citric acid - 2 g;
- water - 2, 5 l.
Method of preparation:
- Wash strawberries, let them dry, cut the sepals.
- Wash the apple, blot it with a paper napkin, remove the core. Pulp cut into small cubes.
- Pour apples into a sterilized jar, put strawberries on them.
- Place the sugar in a saucepan, cover with water. Boil the syrup by boiling it for 5 minutes.
- Fill apples and strawberries with hot syrup, cover the jar with a lid, wrap.
- After an hour, pour the syrup into the pan, boil it again for 5 minutes.
- In a jar of apples and strawberries, put the washed and dried mint leaves, add citric acid.
- Fill with syrup, roll up.
Cool down compote should be left upside down, covered with a blanket. It can be stored at room temperature, but preferably served chilled. It has a refined and refreshing taste, well quenches thirst and gives a good mood.
Compote from strawberries, apples and pears for the winter (concentrated)
Composition (3 liters):
- apples - 0, 3 kg;
- pear - 0, 3 kg;
- strawberries - 0, 3 kg;
- water - how much will enter;
- sugar - 0, 25 kg per 1 liter of water.
Method of preparation:
- Wash apples, pears and strawberries.
- In strawberries, unscrew the sepals, cut fruit in seed boxes, cut the flesh into slices.
- Fold the fruit slices and strawberries into a sterilized jar.
- Boil water, fill the fruit and berry mix. Leave for 20 minutes.
- Drain the water from the jar into the pan, measure its volume.
- Measure out the right amount of sugar.
- Add sugar to the liquid drained from the pan, mix.
- Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Pour syrup into a jar of fruit and strawberries.
- Roll up the can.
- Turn the jar upside down, cover it with something warm.
After the jar has cooled, you can move it to the pantry. Compote for this recipe is obtained concentrated, before use it does not hurt to dilute with cool water at least half.
Strawberry compote with apples has a pleasant shade, it smells seductively, has a balanced sweet-sour taste. Many housewives prepare this liquid dessert for the winter. The drink is well worth it at room temperature, but before serving it is put in the fridge for a while. Cooled compote is very refreshing, recalling summer.
