When winter comes, it is very pleasant to get delicious homemade berries from the cellar. Sweet compote is the most popular and easy cooking recipe among housewives. About the technology for preparing the best recipes for canned cherries, as well as the storage of preparations, read below.
Ingredient preparation
Before you cook the cherry compote, you need to prepare the ingredients and carry out the sterilization process of the cans. To begin with, you should carefully study the recipe according to which cooking will be made and collect the right amount of fruit that is part of the drink.
Sweet cherries for compote must have just been torn from the branches, without dents, rottenness or other defects. Cooking winter preparations is usually made from whole berries, so the stone is not taken out. Such berries are soaked in a bowl of water for 40 minutes to eliminate the worms that feed on its flesh. After washing, the fruits are placed in a colander and for 30 minutes they wait until the excess liquid drains.
Important! To improve the taste, strawberries, apples or other fruits are added to the drink. You need to make sure that the fruits that fall into the sewing jar meet the requirements: they do not have diaper rash, damage from shock, and there are no traces of insect activity on their surface.
In order for the drink to be stored for a long time, it is also necessary to ensure that each can under the roll is thoroughly sterilized. For washing containers, it is best to use baking soda, which is rubbed diligently with a jar, and then washed off with warm water.
So that the glass container does not burst during cooking, it is sterilized with hot steam. How long the process will take depends on the capacity of the cans. A liter can undergoes the sterilization process within 10 minutes, respectively, volumes of 2 and 3 liters are poured with steam for 20-30 minutes.
Step by step recipes for compote cherries for the winter
There are many recipes for sweet compote. The article below presents the simplest of them.
Simple recipe without sterilization
4 cans of 2 l15 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
In 2-liter jars, pour 400 g of berries.
Pour sugar on top of the fruit in an amount of 200 g per container.
Boil water and pour cans to the brim.
Seal containers with lids.
Banks must be turned over to make sure they are tightly closed.
In 2-liter jars, pour 400 g of berries.
Pour sugar on top of the fruit in an amount of 200 g per container.
Boil water and pour cans to the brim.
Seal containers with lids.
Banks must be turned over to make sure they are tightly closed.Making compote without sterilization is easy if you follow the recipe. For this method of seaming a drink, it is not necessary to boil the berries and add any spices.
Video recipe
Did you know? Compote in the modern interpretation began to be prepared only 200 years ago, before that the drink was made from herbs and was called uzvar.
With citric acid
1 can for 2 l30 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Boil the water.
- Put the fruits in a jar.
- Pour the berries with boiled water and leave the fruits to warm for 10 minutes.
- Pour water into a pan and boil with sugar and citric acid.
- Pour the cooked syrup into a jar of fruit and seal tightly with a lid.
- Turn the container over and leave to cool completely.
In order to give an unusual taste to the finished berry drink, citric acid is added to the syrup when prepared. She will eliminate sugaryness and add a lemon flavor to the compote.
With strawberries
1 can for 2 l20 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- To boil water.
- Pour berries into a container.
- Pour boiling water over the contents of the container, leave for 15 minutes.
- Drain and mix with sugar. Boil again.
- Pour the resulting syrup into a jar to the top and close the lid.
Did you know? Word «compote» borrowed from the French language, in the Slavic lexicon it appeared in the XVIII century.
With apples
1 can for 2 l30 minutes
Nutritional value per 100 g:
- Cut apples into slices and mix with cherries.
- Boil water and pour into a container with ingredients.
- Drain after 20 minutes.
- Prepare syrup from drained water and sugar.
- Pour the container to the brim with syrup and tighten the lid.
Home storage
Freezing fruits for the winter is a rather troublesome affair, which requires observing the temperature regime and optimal humidity conditions. The best way to preserve the beneficial properties of berries is canning. There is no need to create special conditions for the preservation of canned fruits. It is enough to store cans at a temperature not lower than + 5 ° С and not higher than + 25 ° С.
Important! Jars with compote should be stored in a cellar or closet so that they are not exposed to sunlight, otherwise the drink will cloud and deteriorate.
Shelf life of conservation is 12 months. Cooking compote from cherries is a simple process, which even a novice cook can do. The drink is in demand due to its taste and minimum cooking costs.
