If a fresh berries freeze, in winter they will do an excellent job and make up for the deficiency of vitamins in the body. Besides, delicious compote, from which the aroma of summer blows, almost everyone will like it!
We choose a pan with a volume of 3 liters or more. It must be non-aluminum, otherwise most of the vitamins we have so carefully preserved will simply die. We fill the container with water. We proceed from the ratio of 2-2.5 liters of water per 500 grams of berries. Accordingly, the more berries are put, the richer the compote will come out. We are waiting for the boil. We get berries. A combination of 3-4 varieties is optimal, in which case the compote turns out to be quite multifaceted. The simplest and most successful combinations: cherry, raspberry, strawberry; cherry, blackcurrant, raspberry; apricot, blackberry, raspberry and red currant. But you should not get attached to specific recipes, the main thing is to make a variety and sufficient stocks of berries.
As you can see, compote from frozen berries is extremely simple to prepare, and its benefits are invaluable. Such a drink is appropriate both on weekdays and on holiday table. It should be a constant guest in the human diet.
In winter, our body is in dire need of vitamin supplementation. You can make up for the deficiency of vital elements, just drink a few glasses of compote made from frozen berries.
Modern freezing technologies make it possible to preserve most of the useful substances contained in them. Cooking compote from frozen berries is not a very difficult task, and if you use the recipes below, then the process will be easy and fast.
Compote of frozen berries in sugar syrup
You will need:
- favorite frozen berries - 0.5 kilograms,
- sugar - 2 cups,
- water - 2 liters.
Cooking method
- AT large saucepan pour out all the sugar.
- Add water.
- Put on fire and bring to a boil. It is advisable to stir constantly, as this way the sugar will dissolve faster.
- Place unfrozen berries in boiling syrup. Stir. Bring to a boil.
- Turn off the fire. Cover with a lid. Boil 10 minutes.
- Cool down. Strain.
Compote of frozen berries prepared according to this recipe will be very useful on the winter table.
Compote of frozen berries with lemon
You will need:
- frozen berries (raspberries, cherries, strawberries, currants) - 0.5 kilograms,
- sugar - 1 cup,
- water - 2.5 liters,
- lemon or orange - 1 piece.
Cooking method
- In a saucepan (to prepare compote, it is advisable to use enamelware) add water. Bring to a boil.
- Add freshly squeezed juice from half a lemon or orange to boiling water.
- Put in the amount of sugar indicated in the list of ingredients. Bring to a boil.
- Put frozen berries into boiling syrup (they should not be thawed before cooking compote, as they will lose a lot of juice).
- After boiling, cook the compote over moderate heat for no more than five minutes.
- Remove from heat, cover with a lid and leave for half an hour to infuse.
- Strain compote before serving. Happy composting!
Compote of frozen berries with mint and cinnamon
You will need:
- frozen berries (any) - 0.5 kilograms,
- dried mint - 150 grams,
- sugar - 1.5 cups,
- water - 2.5 liters,
- cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.
Cooking method
- Pour mint hot water(but not boiling water) in the amount indicated in the list of ingredients.
- Put the frozen berries in a bowl and leave for 10 minutes.
- Slightly thawed berries put in a mint infusion.
- Add sugar and cinnamon.
- Put on fire and cook for 10 minutes over moderate heat.
- Let the compote cool slightly, strain. After you can enjoy original taste compote of frozen berries.
compote recipe with photo
List of ingredients:
- 3 handfuls frozen strawberries
- 2 handfuls frozen cherries
- 2 handfuls frozen red currants
- 4 tbsp Sahara,
- 2.5 liters of water,
- 2 tbsp lemon juice.
Cooking method
1. Pour frozen strawberries into a saucepan. Since it is not necessary to defrost the berries before cooking, this significantly speeds up the process - take the ingredients out of the freezer and cook delicious drink. If strawberries with ponytails - it's okay.
2. Now add frozen cherries to the pan. If the berry is sour, as is often the case, then more sugar may be needed.
3. In the next step, put frozen red currants in a saucepan with berries. To save time, the berry was frozen along with the twigs, and therefore now we send it to the pan in its original form.
4. Add granulated sugar. Since strawberries are almost always very sweet and fragrant, cherries are often sour, but not always, and red currants almost always have pronounced sourness, the amount of sugar is indicated conditionally, that is, it can fluctuate up or down.
5. Fill the pot with water to the top and put on fire. When the water with berries boils, make slow fire and cook, loosely covered, for about 20 minutes. Stir the compote several times to make sure that the sugar has completely dissolved. Also add 10 minutes before the end of cooking lemon juice or 1/5 tsp. citric acid.
6. Let the finished compote brew under a tightly closed lid for about 15 minutes. Then cool it by placing the pan in a bowl with cold water or just somewhere cool. Before spilling useful berry drink in glasses or into a decanter, strain it from twigs and leaves.
According to the recipes proposed above, you can make compote from any berries and fruits. You can reduce or, on the contrary, increase the amount of sugar, add or remove ingredients from the list according to your own taste. However, it will not be superfluous to finally report a few useful tips, which will help make compote from frozen berries even more fragrant, even tastier, even healthier.
- Frozen berries before making compote should not be defrosted, otherwise they will lose a lot of juice, and with it a lot of vitamins. If for some reason the berries still thawed, then add berry juice to the pan a couple of minutes before the compote is finished cooking.
- It is necessary to cook compote from frozen berries over moderate heat, as this will allow you to save most of the nutrients in the drink, and the berries will not turn into puree.
- During cooking, foam will form, it should be removed, because it is of no use.
- Compote will turn out more fragrant, tastier and brighter if you cook it not from one type of berry, but combine several flavors.
- And of course, the more berries you put in the compote, the richer the taste will be at the finished drink.
To summer dinner compote of fresh berries is perfect. How to make compote from fresh berries read and see further.
Fresh berry compote recipe with photo step by step
On a clear summer day, I want instead usual tea or coffee to drink something healthy and tasty at the same time. Prepare fragrant and rich drink from fresh garden or forest berries at home or at the cottage. Treat yourself and your loved ones healthy drink for the whole family.
So, recipes.
Fresh strawberry compote recipe
Ingredients:
- 2.5 liters of water
- 1 st. strawberries
- 0.5 st. sugar or to taste
Cooking method:
1. Sort strawberries, remove all sepals and rinse in running water.
2. Boil water in a saucepan.
3. Reduce the heat under the pot of water to medium.
4. Put the strawberries in boiling water.
5. Pour sugar into compote.
6. Bring the compote to a boil and, with a slight boil, cook the compote for 2-5 minutes.
7. Remove the compote from the fire and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.
8. Serve compote hot, warm or cold.
Recipe Compote from fresh currants or raspberries
Ingredients:
- 2 liters of water
- 1/3 st. sugar or to taste
- 2 tbsp. currant berries or 1.5 raspberries (you can take berries 1: 1)
Cooking method:
1. Sort the berries, remove all green parts and rinse.
2. Boil water in a saucepan.
3. Pour sugar into boiling water and reduce heat.
4. Transfer the berries to a low-boiling syrup.
5. Boil compote for about 5 minutes, then remove from heat.
6. Serve the compote warm.
Cooking Tips:
- strawberry compote can be filtered before serving so that the grains and pieces of berries do not interfere with children when drinking;
- raspberry compotes have the same properties as jam from this berry. It will be useful for those who are sick or are on diet food;
- blackcurrant compote is especially good in the heat if it is consumed chilled;
- gooseberry compotes will appeal to lovers of "fresh";
- blueberry compotes it is best to “dilute” with another berry, for example, strawberries;
- compote is stored in the refrigerator for no more than two days.
See the video recipe for more details.
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We offer you some simple recipes for making compotes.
Beverages60 minutes Easy Lunch
Ingredients
Cooking
Prepare a saucepan with a volume of about 5 liters (if desired, use a vessel of a smaller volume, however, consider the proportionality of the ingredients) fill 2/3 with water and bring to a boil. Next, take half a lemon and squeeze the juice out of it.
Pour into a saucepan required amount water, add sugar and bring to a boil.
Take frozen berries: strawberries, cherries, blackcurrants or blackberries in the quantities indicated above. To prepare compote, the fruits do not need to be thawed first, as they will lose a lot of juice. Therefore, put the whole berry mixture in a frozen form in boiling water. Wait for the water to boil again. Reduce the heat and cook the compote for no more than 5 minutes.
Turn off the heat, cover the pot with a lid and set it aside on the edge of the stove. Let the compote brew for another half hour. So it will become more saturated and fragrant. Now the compote can be filtered, poured into dishes and cooled.
20 minutes Easy Lunch
Ingredients
Cooking
First, prepare the syrup with the addition of sugar. To do this, take a large saucepan and pour all the sugar into it. Don't be confused by its relatively large amount, keep in mind that you are preparing a sweet sugar syrup. After that, fill with water and leave on fire until boiling. To make the sugar dissolve faster, adjust the heat to below medium and stir the liquid constantly.
As soon as the water boils, take the frozen berries and add to the syrup, stirring gently. After that, reduce the heat and cover the pan with a lid (but not tightly). Boil compote for about 10-12 minutes.
20 minutes Easy Dinner
Ingredients
Cooking
Brew mint boiled water(preferably not boiling water, but water, the temperature of which is 80-90 degrees), let it brew. At this time, put the frozen berries in a clean vessel, after partially thawing them (5-10 minutes), carefully pour them into the infused Mint tea. After adding sugar and cinnamon, cook the refreshing compote for 7-10 minutes over low heat (cooking time can be extended if necessary; be guided by the dissolution of the berries in mint water).
We hope these simple recipes will become delicious base for your experiments. I wish you a pleasant “compo-cooking” and health to your families. Cook with pleasure!
During the period of cold weather and early spring, many feel an acute shortage of vitamins. Great option replenishment of body reserves - frozen berry compote. In the process of freezing, they contain more useful substances than in dried fruits. It is important to preserve vitamins to the maximum when preparing a drink. Properly cooked compote will be no worse in its properties than an analogue from fresh ingredients. It’s good if fresh berries, bought or from your own garden, were frozen in the summer. Otherwise, they can be found in many stores. The only thing worth paying attention to appearance. Crumpled or stuck together should not be taken, as most likely they have been thawed. The content of vitamins in such fruits is low. There is a danger of running into a spoiled product. How to cook compote from frozen berries, giving it an exquisite, unusual taste? There are as many options as you can imagine. Mint will give freshness to the drink. It should be thrown into the saucepan at the same time as the berries. Spice will give cinnamon, vanilla. A pleasant bitterness and a warming effect will be given by ginger, cloves, cardamom, citrus peel. Unsurpassed flavor - nutmeg, juniper fruits, barberry. For a special flavor, someone adds a little wine. Some recipes recommend adding citric acid or Fresh Juice. It won't hurt if frozen berry compote too sweet. But when using the already sour cranberries, dogwood, this will be superfluous. In everything there should be a measure and following your taste preferences. How to cook compote from frozen berries, keeping the maximum amount of useful in it? Nothing complicated if you follow a few simple rules. There are other ways to cook compote from frozen berries. For example, use a slow cooker. Just set the temperature so (about 70 degrees) that the water does not boil. Simmer everything for 10-15 minutes. A delicious, aromatic, vitamin-rich drink is ready. Enjoy!For compote of frozen berries we need:
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