Pumpkin is one of the most healthy products, you can cook soups, porridges from it, make various desserts and other dishes. You can prepare it for future use. One of the most popular blanks - pumpkin compote for the winter. If you cook it in compliance with the necessary rules, it will appeal to many and at the same time it will be good to stand even at room temperature.
Cooking Features
Pumpkin compote is prepared quite differently from fruits and berries. For this reason, before embarking on conservation, it is worth exploring the features of the technology.
- For compote, choose pumpkin dessert varieties. They are characterized by bright orange pulp and sweetish taste.
- Pumpkin pulp should be cut into very small cubes, no more than 1, 5 cm, otherwise they will have to be cooked for too long. Try to keep the pieces about the same size - they look so much more tasty in the compote.
- Pumpkin compote is made without sterilization: first it is boiled in a saucepan, and then poured into cans. Banks need to be pre-sterilized.
- If you make a compote from just one pumpkin with water and sugar, it will seem to many not tasty and fragrant. Therefore, when cooking, add spices or fruits, giving a pleasant sourness and tempting flavor.
With the observance of the technology of preparation and compounding of pumpkin compote it will turn out tasty and appetizing, so almost everyone will like it.
A simple recipe for compote from pumpkin
Composition (3 liters):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 1 kg;
- sugar - 1, 5 st .;
- water - 2 l;
- citric acid - 1/3 tsp;
- vanillin - 1 g.
Method of preparation:
- Cut pumpkin pulp, peeled and cut into small cubes.
- Put pumpkin pieces in an enamel pan, cover with sugar and cover with clean cool water.
- Set on medium heat and wait for the water to boil.
- Reduce heat, add citric acid and cook for 25 minutes.
- Add vanillin, stir.
- Pour compote over sterilized cans, seal them tightly.
- Turn the jars upside down and let it cool.
- After the compote has cooled, remove to a dark place where the temperature is not too high (up to 20 degrees).
Pumpkin compote with warm vanilla notes will be pleasant to open in winter. This compote is very sweet, so before serving it should be diluted with clean water.
Recipe for fragrant pumpkin compote
Composition (3 liters):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 0, 75 kg;
- water - 2, 25 l;
- sugar - 0, 25 kg;
- cinnamon - 1 stick;
- carnation - 3 pcs.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the pumpkin pulp and cut it into small cubes.
- Boil a glass of water, dissolve a glass of sugar in it, put cinnamon stick and cloves, boil for 10 minutes.
- Remove the spices, put pumpkin pulp into the syrup and boil it for 5 minutes.
- Add the rest of the water and simmer the compote over low heat for 25 minutes.
- Pour compote over sterilized cans. Roll the cans with metal lids and turn them over.
- After the banks have cooled down, put them in the closet.
The spicy aroma of pumpkin compote prepared according to this recipe will not leave anyone indifferent. It is especially pleasant to drink such a drink on cold winter days.
Pumpkin Compote with Apples
Composition (3 liters):
- pumpkin pulp - 0, 4 kg;
- apples - 0, 6 kg;
- sugar - 0, 3 kg;
- water - 2 l.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the pumpkin, cut a piece of pulp of the desired size, cut into small cubes (no more than 1 cm).
- Wash the apples, cut the seed boxes out of them. Cut the flesh of the apple into approximately the same cubes as the pumpkin, or slices.
- Mix the pumpkin and apple pieces, put them in the pan.
- Boil water and pour pumpkin-apple mixture to it.
- When the water has cooled completely, put the pot on low heat, bring its contents to a boil.
- Sprinkle sugar, mix and boil for 10 minutes.
- Sterilize the jars and fill them with hot fruit compote.
- Hermetically close the jars with the prepared lids.
- Turning the jars, wrap them with a blanket and leave them for a day.
- After 24 hours, remove the blanket and remove the compote for the winter.
Pumpkin-apple compote is sweet and sour and has an attractive aroma.
Pumpkin Compote with Lemons
Composition (3 liters):
- pumpkin (pulp) - 0, 5 kg;
- lemons - 0, 5 kg;
- sugar - 0.5 kg;
- water - 2 l.
Method of preparation:
- Clean the pumpkin, cut its pulp into cubes, cover it with water so that it covers it completely, and cook over low heat until the pumpkin is soft.
- Spread pumpkin pulp in pre-sterilized cans.
- Carefully wash the lemons and cut into thin semi-circles, simultaneously removing the bones. Peeling lemons is not necessary - zest will give compote a tart taste with a barely perceptible bitterness.
- Put lemon slices on the pumpkin.
- Boil 2 liters of water (you can in the same pan, where the pumpkin was boiled).
- Add sugar and boil the syrup. Boil until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Pour boiling syrup over banks with pumpkin and lemon.
- Roll up the cans and place them upside down.
- Wrap cans with compote.
- A day later, remove the finished compote for the winter.
The tart sweet and sour taste of this compote, which has a pleasant citrus aroma, is popular with many. It is very refreshing, also very useful.
Pumpkin Compote with Orange and Peach
Composition (3 liters):
- pumpkin pulp - 0, 3 kg;
- oranges - 0, 4 kg;
- peaches - 0, 3 kg;
- sugar - 0, 25 kg;
- green tea (large leaf) - 5 g;
- grated ginger - 20 g;
- water - 2, 5 l.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the pumpkin pulp into small cubes.
- Boil syrup from a glass of water and the same amount of sugar, put pumpkin pieces into it and boil them in it for 10 minutes.
- Wash the orange, remove the zest from it, cut the flesh into cubes.
- Zestr, ginger and green tea pour a glass of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes, strain.
- Pour the infusion into a pot of syrup and pumpkin. Cook for another 5 minutes.
- Wash peaches, remove bones from them, cut the flesh into cubes.
- Put oranges and peaches on the pumpkin, add the remaining water.
- Boil after boiling for 10 minutes.
- Spill the compote over the prepared cans, seal them, turn them over and cover with a blanket.
- After the compote has cooled, you can put it in the closet.
Compote made from pumpkin according to this recipe has a bright color and a sunny aroma with hints of peach and oranges. In the frosty winter days it will warm, remind you of summer.
Pumpkin compote is bright, optimistic. He will energize and lift your spirits.
