Compote of blueberries for the winter - photo-recipe, how to cook
Blueberry is well known in the northern latitudesthanks to its medicinal properties: it saves both scurvy and gastrointestinal diseases, and even in the early stages of diabetes, but the most widely used blueberry is used for eye diseases due to the carotene contained in it.
Do not be left without the magic properties of this berry and in winter help home preparation - compote of blueberries.
Recipe for compote for the winter of blueberries and apples
Before cooking compote of blueberries and apples,You need to decide whether it will be with sourness or not. For a more acidic compote, the recipe includes sour apples (an Antonovka is perfect), and add less sugar, if you are a sweet tooth, you should choose a more sweet sort of apples and do not skimp on sugar. Rinse and wash about 500 g of blueberries in cold water and pour it into a three-liter jar.
Apples choose medium size, firm, withoutdents and dark spots. If the apples from your garden, then you can not peel the skin, shop for better cleaning. Cut apples and blueberries into slices and pour boiling water and cover, the contents of the jar should steam for 10-15 minutes. Drain the water in a saucepan and put it on the fire.
After boiling, pour out the sugar (1.5 cups formore sweet compote, a glass - for more sour). Do not forget to stir the water so that the sugar dissolves. Finished syrup carefully pour back into the jar to the bilberries and apples, close the lid and turn the compote upside down. The bank should be left in this position for a day, pre-wrapped.
Ready stewed fruit in a cool dark placeand you can wait for the winter! Important! To the bank does not burst, before pouring boiling water into it, hold it for 10 minutes over the opening of the kettle with hot water, and the lids for the cans boil.
How to cook compote of blueberries and cranberries for the winter
For a real vitamin cocktail for the winter, you cancook the compote of blueberries and cranberries, using the following recipe. Take two kilograms of blueberries and one kilogram of cranberries, go and rinse the berries in cold water, pour into jars. Litre of water put on the fire and after boiling gradually pour 800 grams of sugar, stirring constantly the syrup.
After completely dissolving the sugar turn off the fireand let the syrup cool. Pour cold syrup over berries in a jar. If compote will not drink children, you can add a few tablespoons of rum. Put the jar in a high pot with water. Hold the jar for five minutes in boiling water for pasteurization, after which it can be closed, turned over and put away for a day in heat.
The next day it can be stored in thecool dark place. If you want to get a more acidic compote, take equal proportions of blueberries and cranberries, or reduce the amount of sugar. Do not be afraid to experiment and make changes to the recipe.
For this compote as a dish, you can takeand glass bottles. Choose a bottle with a flat bottom and a wide neck. Compote from the bottle will be convenient to pour, and you will surprise the guests with an unusual homemade piece. Important!
Pre-pasteurization of compote of blueberries and cranberriesPut on the bottom of the pan folded several times a towel or a wooden board with holes, so that the bank does not crack from the bottom. Home preparations from blueberries and other ingredients will help to prolong the short summer and be protected from colds and beriberi. Be sure to try our recipes.
Author: Katerina Sergeenko
