Compote of honeysuckle: from classics to the most fragrant combinations

Honeysuckle - depending on the variety, this berry can be sweet, sweet and sour or a little bitty. Small in size, the fruits of blue color ripen early enough and resemble miniature plums. Appearing on the branches of the bush in the first half of June, this berry gives us the opportunity to make your menu more diverse and at the same time contributes to its not a small portion of vitamins.

The compote of honeysuckle will not only be a delicious addition to the daily diet, its refreshing properties will come in handy on a summer day, and useful qualities will help to strengthen immunity in the winter. It remains only to correctly make this workpiece.

Citrus fruits already tired for the winter? Honeysuckle will diversify your diet

A little bit about the use of the drink

The oblong honeysuckle fruits are distinguished by the high content of vitamins, minerals and nutrients that are necessary for the normal functioning of our body throughout the year. Organic acids and pectic substances, mono- and disaccharides, as well as silicon, iron, potassium, phosphorus, vitamins A, B1, B2 and C - all are contained in honeysuckle in large quantities and help us to maintain excellent health.

But of all the above substances in the composition of honeysuckle, vitamin C and silicon are distinguished in a special way, the share of each of which for 100 g of product is 33.3%.The former takes an active part in oxidation-reduction processes and is responsible for the normal functioning of the immune system, and the second is a stimulator of collagen synthesis. Plus, the dark blue fruits are hypoallergenic, and therefore not only adults, but also children, will be able to experience the useful properties of the compote from honeysuckle.

A fragrant compote of honeysuckle is sure to please your child

This drink will be especially useful when:

• frequent colds;
• anemia;
• hypertension;
• decreased immunity;
• bronchitis.

A compote made of honeysuckle, prepared for the winter, will become an additional portion of useful substances, and its taste will be appreciated by all members of your family.

The best recipes of

If the classic recipe for compote from honeysuckle for the winter there is only one, then interpretations on the topic "Assorted" can be as many as you like. You can combine these fruits with any other berries and fruits that will not only make the taste of the ready-made drink brighter, but will also give him additional benefits.

We suggest you to consider a simple version of its preparation, and several versions of "Assorted": with the addition of strawberries, rhubarb and apples.

Classic recipe

To prepare such compote for one kilogram of ripe fruit you need to take a little more than a pound of sugar and about 3 liters of water. When all the products are prepared, you can proceed directly to the fulfillment of the recipe.

1. Honeysuckle we sort out, twigs and trash discard, then gently wash my berries in running water, trying not to crush them. We shift the fruits on a towel and leave them to dry.
2. In a large sauté pan or pot, pour all the sugar and pour it with the specified amount of water. We put on the fire and wait until the first completely disperse, after which we reduce the intensity of the gas supply and continue to boil the syrup with slow boiling for 10 minutes.
3. Put the clean berries in pre-washed and dried jars and fill them with boiling syrup.
   

   Tip! The amount of honeysuckle you can vary according to your own taste: by ½, by 1/3 or by the full volume of the can. The saturation of the ready-made drink will depend on their quantity!

4. Filled jars are closed with pre-sterilized lids and sent to a large saucepan with warm water, the level of which should not reach the neck by a couple of centimeters. After the water boils, we sterilize the jars for 10 minutes.

The classic recipe is incredibly simple and fast to prepare

From a similar number of products, you can prepare a compote of honeysuckle in a multivark. To do this, just add all the ingredients to the bowl of the device and turn on the "Quenching" mode for an hour. After this time, the finished drink is poured over clean jars and sterilized by the method described above.

Recipe without sterilization

If pasteurization for you is a laborious and tedious task, then we suggest preparing the compote from honeysuckle for the winter without sterilization. At the same time for each liter of jar you should prepare 150 g of granulated sugar.

1. Fill pre-sterilized liter jars of pure fruit to the very "shoulders."
2. Fill them with steep boiling water, cover with lids and wait about 10 minutes, then drain the water back into the pan and add sugar there.
   

   Recommendation! The total amount of sugar you need to calculate in advance!

3. Bring the syrup to a boil, fill them with berries and immediately cork the jars.

Welded without sterilization compote, saves your strength and at the same time it turns out the same delicious

Fragrant compotes "Assorted"

To make a compote of honeysuckle and strawberries for the winter, you need to take 1 kg of each berry and 1.2-1.3 kg of granulated sugar.

Let's go to the cooking.

1. Berries carefully sorted and mine, remove strawberries from the stems, put everything on a paper towel and let it dry.
2. In pre-sterilized jars we lay fruits - they should occupy about 1/3 of the whole volume. To the very top we fill the tanks with boiling water and leave for a quarter of an hour.
3. Drain the water back into the pan, add the specified portion of sugar and cook the syrup. Fill with boiling syrup berries and immediately cork the jars.

According to many housewives, the combination of honeysuckle and strawberry is one of the most successful for compote

. Similarly, you can prepare a compote of honeysuckle and apples. The number of ingredients remains the same( for a kilo of honeysuckle, a kilo of apples).Apples are released from the skin and the core and placed with berries in cans. Fill with water, after 5 minutes return it to the pan, add sugar and cook syrup. Next, fill the jars with syrup, cover them with covers and leave it for a couple of hours. Again, drain the liquid, boil it, return it to the cans and immediately roll the compote.

No less tasty and easy to prepare will be compote of honeysuckle and rhubarb. For him you will need 1 kg of honeysuckle and chubby rhubarb, 15 tablespoons of sugar and lemon peel. Pink rhubarb stems clean with a sharp knife, removing a thin layer of peel, and cut them into a cube. My honeysuckle and dry. We put the prepared berries in jars and fill them with steep boiling water. After 5 minutes, drain the water into a saucepan, add sugar, rhubarb and cook for about 7-8 minutes. A minute before the syrup with rhubarb is removed from the fire, it should be put in a peel of one lemon. We pour everything into cans with honeysuckle and immediately roll up the lids.

Do not deprive yourself of pleasure and be sure to prepare compote of honeysuckle for the winter. Believe me, all your relatives will be delighted with its bright taste and incomparable aroma.