Tip 1: How to cook the right berry compote

Tip 1: How to cook the right berry compote



Good compote Is a drink in which the most conserveduseful properties of berries and fruits, vitamins and minerals. In a delicious compote, the natural sweetness of berries, sugar or honey and natural "sour" are balanced. In this case, the drink has a pleasant color, from golden yellow to rich wine-red.





How to brew the right berry compote

















Berries suitable for compote Ideal option -freshly picked berries of cherries, strawberries, raspberries, currants of red and black. Apples and apricots, gooseberries and plums. Cherry, peaches and pears are less suitable. Of course, you do not need all the berries at once. Choose combinations of sweet and sour berries, then the drink will taste better. Apples are combined with any berries in compote. They can be taken as the basis of a useful vitamin drink. In winter it is good to prepare compotes of fast-frozen berries, from berries, wiped with sugar or from home preparations in the form of berries in your own juice, cooked for no more than 5 minutes. It is good to vary the compote with additives such as a sprig of mint or lemon balm, a couple of sprigs of cloves or lemon peel. It is very useful for health to add cherry, raspberry or blackcurrant twigs to the compote. Preservation of vitamins and mineralsIf berries are bought, store them in the refrigerator. But not more than 2 days. Over time, vitamins slowly but steadily destroyed, berries lose juice and beneficial properties. For longer periods of storage, use a freezer. Ice-cream berries are perfect for compote. In addition to vitamin D, which is not found in berries and fruits, all other vitamins dissolve in different degrees to a different degree during cooking. How to save them? The process of preservation of valuable substances begins with the purchase or collection of berries. Go through them. Store in a dark and cool place. Wash berries immediately before making compote. If you want to cut apples, apricots or peaches - do it with a sharp stainless steel knife. Use only enamelled, stainless steel or glassware. The board is better wooden. And most importantly, boiling water has the property to neutralize the action of ascorbate oxidase, which in turn can destroy vitamin C. And if you give the drink to insist until complete cooling, a significant portion of vitamins and mineral salts will pass from the berries to compote, saturating it with nutrients. Correct preparation of compote Take a saucepan for 3-5 liters. Fill it with as much water as possible, leaving only space for sugar and berries. During the time when the water will boil, pick berries for compote, rinse them with cold water, if necessary, remove the bones. Large berries can be cut. Such berries as a large black currant or gooseberry, well pierced with a fork or toothpick. Then they will more fully "give" the compote their vitamins and minerals. If you decide to add cloves, cherry or raspberry branches - rinse and add to boiling water. Mint and lemon balm, zedra is best added to the compote after the berries. Add sugar to the boiling water, depending on the set of berries and on your tastes - this is a serving of 3 to 10 tablespoons of sugar. If possible, sugar can be replaced with honey. But it is added to the finished, cooled down to a temperature of not more than 40oC compote. Otherwise, all the useful properties of honey will be lost. Berries should be placed in boiling water quickly, in portions. Once you have laid out all the berries in boiling water, cover the pan with a lid and set it aside from the stove. Boil berries are not recommended to preserve their properties. Leave the compote insisted until completely cooled, without opening the lid. A compote that has reached room temperature is ready. It can be filtered from the berries and cooled in the refrigerator.

























Tip 2: How to cook berry jelly



Many remember kissel as a drink of his childhood. In kindergartens, children were given an enviable regularity for dinner, although not everyone liked it. But the household berry kissel - a really delicious drink, and it should please both children and adults. Also, kissel is good for health. It has a good effect on the digestive system. It is recommended to drink with gastritis and peptic ulcer diseases of the stomach and duodenum.





How to cook berry jelly








You will need




    • Berries (fresh or frozen) - a liter pot or less;
    • 1.5 liters and 0.5 liters of water for starch dilution;
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    Instructions





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    We take berries. Berries fit any. Kissel can be cooked from strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, viburnum. The most useful is considered to be cranberry kissel.





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    Mine fresh berries and put in a saucepan. If the berries are frozen, then we also put them in a pan without defrosting. Fill with water, bring to a boil. You can put berries immediately in boiling water, then more vitamins will remain.





    3


    If after the boiling formed foam (this depends on the type of berries), remove it and continue to cook the berries for 10 minutes.





    4


    Filter the berry compote obtained through a sieve,gauze or colander. In order for the berries to give all their juice, you can suppress them with a common nonsense. The resulting liquid is poured into a saucepan. Squeezed berries can be thrown away. But you can pour them with boiling water, insist for 2-3 hours and drink as a weakly saturated mors (This is for very economical housewives!).





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    The filtered liquid in a saucepan is brought toboiling. Add the sugar. In 0.5 liters of cold water, add starch, stir well. Slowly pour the starch into a boiling berry drink, stirring constantly. Bring it to the boil. Kissel is ready!












Tip 3: How to cook compote of frozen berries



In winter, when the body already yearned for fresh berries, an excellent solution can be compote, made from frozen fruits. Thanks to the modern technology of fast freezing, berries, stored from summer, retain a maximum of their vitamins. That these vitamins are better preserved and in compote, cook it, observing the following rules.





How to cook compote of frozen berries








You will need




  • - frozen berries, better than different varieties - 0.5 kg;
  • - sugar - 0,5-1 cup;
  • - water - 2-2,5 l;
  • - peel of lemon or orange (optional);
  • - a pot with a capacity of at least 3 liters.




Instructions





1


Pour into the pan the right amount of water,add sugar and bring to a boil. Make sure that the sugar is completely dissolved, if not, then stir the water with a spoon or ladle. It is advisable not to use aluminum pots for making compotes. Acids, contained in large quantities in berries, react with aluminum, and the compote can switch its compounds. In addition, the compote cooked in such a pot loses a huge share of mineral substances and vitamin C.





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Take any frozen berries: strawberries, cherries, black currants, blackberries, etc. in the quantities indicated above. To prepare compote, the fruits do not need to be defrosted beforehand, so they will lose a lot of juice. Therefore, put the whole berry mixture in frozen form in boiling water. If you like citrus aroma, add a little freshly squeezed lemon peel or orange to the compote.





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Wait until the water boils again. Reduce heat and cook compote for no more than 5 minutes. Turn off the fire, cover the pan with a lid and set it aside on the edge of the plate. Let the compote last for another half an hour. So he will get maximum of fragrant substances and vitamins from berries. Now you can pour the compote into a container and cool it. If desired, the berries can not be strained through a colander. Serve the berry compote on a table in a tall decanter.











Tip 4: How to cook a delicious compote of berries



In the summer heat compote good for quenching thirst. In the winter weather, it reminds you of sunny days and helps fight avitaminosis. To children this delicacy imparts love to natural fruits berries. Unlike store carbonated drinks and factory juices, home compote not only tasty, but also very useful.





How to cook a delicious compote of berries








You will need




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    Instructions





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    Go through berries, free them from the pedicels. Spoil the spoiled fruit, rest the rest in a colander and rinse thoroughly under running cold water. Put the colander on a saucepan to let the water drain. You can also pour the berries on a clean towel, previously spread on the table.





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    Pour water into a clean pan, put it on a fire and bring it to a boil. As soon as the water boils, gently move the pot into the pot. Add sugar to taste, gently mix. Try it now compote. It should be a little sweeter than you like. The fact is that the berries after a while will give up their acid liquid, and taste compotebut it will become just the right way.





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    Wait until compote boil, and remove the pan from the fire, so that the berries in the compoteThey did not lose their form. Compote can be drunk immediately, pouring on glasses and pre-cooling. And you can cover the pan with a lid and wait until the berries give it all their taste. When the pan to the touch will become warm, compote will reveal its taste in its entirety.





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    The compote can also be cooked on the basis of sugarsyrup. To do this, pour the sugar into a saucepan with boiling water and wait until it completely dissolves. Add the berries to the resulting syrup, re-bring it to a boil and remove the pan from the fire.











Tip 5: How to cook compote to your baby



Currently, there is a lot of discussion about the need to milk a child who is breastfed, some liquid (compotes, water, juices). WHO recommends that this be done only in the case of extreme heat in the summer, since in normal conditions to kid there is enough fluid obtained with breast milk, which is absorbed by them better than anything. Some pediatricians still consider milk a meal and recommend giving children water or homemade compotes.





How to cook compote to a child








Instructions





1


If you want to cook compote for babies,it is best to use dried fruits - prunes and dried apricots. You can also take raisins, but, like grapes, it can negatively affect the work of the intestines, so introduce this product carefully.





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Dried fruits contain enough naturalsugar, so there is no need to add crystalline sugar to the compote for a small child. Most vitamins in the drink will be preserved, if you do not cook compote, and fill the dried fruit with boiling water? and he will infuse for several hours.





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When cooking compote should be put dried fruits (orfruits, berries) into boiling water, so you again save more vitamins. A long time to keep on fire compote is not necessary, it is enough 5-10 minutes. In this case, the compote loses more vitamins than with the usual infusion in boiling water, but fruit gives more liquids more sugar and taste, so the boiled compote becomes more saturated.





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On average, 200 grams of fruit or berries1 liter of water is required. However, the proportion is influenced by the choice of specific fruits, since they contain a different amount of sugar, and compote can turn out, for example, too acidic and concentrated. Dried fruits should be taken about 2 times less.