In winter, our body is most susceptible to colds. During this period, because of a lack of vitamins, the immune system weakens, and severe frost, gusty wind and precipitation only contribute to worsening of the condition. Compote from strawberries can become one of the assistants to our immunity. The benefit of this berry is difficult to overestimate and in comparison with it there is no raspberries or strawberries, both in terms of the content of valuable substances and taste. And today we want to offer you a few recipes of strawberry compote, which can be harvested for future use.
As you know, the use of fresh strawberries has a positive effect on the functioning of the cardiovascular system, it improves work efficiency, gives vivacity and energizes. And what to do when the fresh berry becomes inaccessible? To drink compote.
Note! Products processed strawberries, which include compotes, jams, jams, etc., are considered as valuable as fresh berries. These fruits perfectly tolerate any heat treatment, including freezing, and retain almost all their qualities.
Recipes
A compote made from wild strawberries is easy to prepare. The main thing in this process is the cleanliness of the dishes and, of course, the product itself. Otherwise, the use and safety of the drink will be in jeopardy.
To start, the berries are washed under running water. Doing this must be extremely accurate, as the fresh fruit is very tender and easy to crush. And when the main ingredient is ready, you can proceed to the preparation of the compote.
Classic recipe
Prepare ingredients:
- 2 kg strawberries;
- 0.5 kg of sugar;
- 1 liter of water.
The cooking process.
- Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Sprinkle sugar, stir until it is completely dissolved and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add berries and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Banks sterilize and pour in them a drink, twist.
If you harvest compote from forest strawberries for the winter, then for its preparation try to choose large berries of dark color. So you get a particularly aromatic drink with a rich taste.
Strawberry compote with currant juice
For the winter you can prepare compote of strawberry with currant juice, thanks to the properties of which berries will not float to the surface, but evenly distributed in the tank.
Prepare ingredients:
- 3 kg strawberries;
- 1 l of currant juice;
- 400 g of sugar.
The cooking process.
- Pour the juice into a saucepan, dissolve the sugar in it, then warm it to a temperature of 80 ° C.
- Arrange the berries in jars, pour them with hot juice and cover with lids.
- Banks are heated in a water bath for 10-15 minutes.
Tip! If you use half-liter containers, then for warm-up it will be enough for 10 minutes, for liter, respectively, 15 minutes.
Fineness of preparation
- After heat treatment strawberries can give the drink some bitterness, and to avoid this, berries are recommended to be frozen beforehand.
- If you want strawberry to keep the maximum of useful substances, then it should be rubbed with sugar and freeze. And in winter to cook fresh compote from it, fill a small amount of candied strawberries with hot water.
Important! In this case, it is necessary to use hot water, but not boiling!
- The berries remain intact and attractive if you perform the following procedure: bring the sugar syrup to a boil and, without turning off the gas supply, put strawberries into it;After 5 minutes of cooking, the fruits are extracted from the syrup using noise and are added to prepared cans. The syrup is once again brought to a boil, after which it is poured into strawberries.
- If the collected strawberries lost their shape or most of the fruits turned out to be ripe, then save the compote as follows: separate the defective berries and squeeze out the juice from them, add it to the sugar syrup;the resulting juice should replace the same amount of water prepared for compote. Thus, the whole crop will be used, and the drink itself will turn out to be more saturated.
- Do you want the color of the drink to turn out to be bright? Add in it two tablespoons of lemon juice or a pinch of citric acid.
As you can see, it's quite easy to make a delicious compote made of wild strawberry. Follow the recommendations, enrich the drink with other juices and berries and please your loved ones with its incredible use, aroma and taste.