Grape compote for the winter

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-15 15:29

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• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• water
• grape
• sugar
• lemon acid

Grape compote is a delicious, aromatic, and most importantly, natural drink for the winter. The proposed recipes for a 3-liter jar are very simple, not requiring a long time and cost.

How much sugar and berries should you put in a 3 liter jar?

You can cook a delicious compote for the winter from different grape varieties. But many housewives are interested in the question of how much sugar and berries to put in a 3-liter jar.

The amount of sugar depends on the sweetness of the berries, and the more sour they are, the more granulated sugar you will need. But it is better to regulate the taste during the preparation of the drink. Compote should not be sour, but if you overdo it with sugar, you can get a too cloying drink.

Therefore, it is better to add half, taste the compote and continue to build on your taste preferences. On average, a 3-liter jar takes from 250 to 400 g of granulated sugar.

If we talk about how much to put grapes, then here it is like with sugar. If you put few berries, then the drink will turn out to be bland, and if a lot, then too concentrated. As a rule, the jar is filled with berries by one third, but if you want to get a drink that tastes more saturated, then half.

Isabella grape compote

Isabella is the most popular grape variety in our latitudes, from which homemade wine and other drinks are made, including compote for the winter. The recipe for a drink for a 3-liter can is very simple, because it is prepared without sterilization. But it's worth noting that the grapes of this variety are quite sweet, so it is better to add citric acid to adjust the flavor.

Ingredients:

• 700 g of grapes;
• 2, 6 liters of water;
• 220 g sugar;
• 1 tsp citric acid.

Preparation:

We separate the berries from the branches, rinse, pour into a sterile jar, add citric acid.

Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan with boiled water and cook the syrup. As soon as the sugar grains are completely dissolved, pour it over the berries

Roll up the jar of compote and leave it to cool completely under a warm blanket

After cooling down, the color of the drink will become more intense. In winter, such a compote can not only be drunk, but also used to make jellies and mousses.

Isabella grape compote for the winter with sterilization

For many housewives, it is the Isabella variety that is the ideal choice to preserve grape compote saturated with bright taste, color and aroma for the winter. It is very simple to prepare a natural drink with a volume of a 3-liter jar, but first we tear the berries from the branches, sort them out so that damaged fruits do not get into the compote.

Ingredients:

• 500-600 g of grapes;
• 250 g sugar;
• 2 liters of water.

Preparation:

We sort out the berries and rinse them under running water. You can make it easier: pour water over the grapes and leave for an hour. After a while, all the small debris, leaves, already rotten fruits and even worms will float to the surface

• We send the berries to a jar already treated with steam. You can put more grapes than indicated in the list of ingredients, so the drink will turn out to be more saturated.
• We fall asleep granulated sugar to the berries and pour in the already boiled water, cover with lids and put in a saucepan.

• Pour water to the middle of the container and sterilize the drink for 10-20 minutes, counting down the time from the moment of boiling.
• After sterilization, we roll up everything, as usual, wrap it up and leave it to cool completely.

You can put just berries or whole bunches in jars, but the twigs give the drink a tart taste, and with them dirt and even insects can get into the compote. Therefore, it is better not to be lazy and cut off the berries.

How to cook white grape compote for the winter

In baby food, only white grape varieties are used for making juices. This is due to the fact that white grapes are much healthier than dark grapes, do not cause allergies and taste mild, and not tart like red berries. Therefore, it is from white grapes that compote should be cooked for the winter if there are children in the house. The recipe for a 3-liter jar is just as simple, without sterilization, the most important thing is to remove yeast from the berries, which are needed for wine, but not for compote.

Ingredients:

• grape;
• sugar.

Preparation:

We put the twigs with berries in a bowl, if desired, they can be cut off, fill with cold water and leave for 15-20 minutes. Be sure to wash the berries, because this is how we get rid of the fungal yeast that accumulates on their surface

• At this time, we prepare the jars, they need to be rinsed and must be sterilized in any convenient way. We sort out the berries so that they do not get rotten, lay them out on a towel and give them time to dry out a little.
• Then we fill glass containers with grapes. If berries peeled from branches are used, then we fill one third, if the bunches, then half.

• Fill the jars with the contents of boiling water, cover with lids and after 15 minutes pour the water into a saucepan and add sugar. We take the amount at the rate of 500 g of granulated sugar per 3-liter jar, but if the berries are very sweet, then it is better to reduce the amount of sugar so that the drink does not turn out sugary.
• Cook the syrup for about 3-5 minutes from the moment of boiling, the sweet crystals should completely dissolve.

Pour the berries with hot syrup, and you can roll up the jars of the drink. Then we wrap it up for additional pasteurization

We store grape compote only in a cool place inaccessible to sunlight, the temperature should not exceed + 17 ° C. If the room is hot, the compote will quickly turn into wine.

Grape compote with citric acid

If the grapes are very sweet, then it is better to cook compote from such berries with citric acid for the winter. The drink turns out to be very tasty, it even resembles grape juice. The number of ingredients in the recipe is for a 3 liter jar.

Ingredients:

• grape;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 2.5 liters of water;
• 0.5 tsp citric acid.

Preparation:

We take the amount of grapes to fill the jar halfway. We sort out the berries, be sure to wash them and put them in a clean container.

• Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan with water and put on the fire, cook the syrup.
• Now we put any metal object in a jar of berries, you can use a scoop or a knife. We pour in hot syrup and do not worry that the jar will crack.

Cover with a lid and infuse the grapes in the syrup for 15-20 minutes, then pour the sweet water back into the saucepan and send it to the fire

Boil for 2 minutes, add citric acid and pour it back into a jar of berries. Roll up the jar with the drink, insulate and cool

Instead of citric acid, you can put a slice of lemon, citrus will not only give sourness, but also make the color of the drink richer and brighter.

Compote for the winter from grapes and plums

Grape and plum compote is a delicious and incredibly aromatic drink for the winter, which can be quickly and easily preserved without sterilization. The amount of ingredients indicated in the recipe is calculated for a 3-liter jar, but everything will depend on the grape variety and plums.

Many housewives advise using the Hungarian plum variety - they are sour and keep their shape well when steamed. It is better to use dark grapes, and the main thing is that the berries are sweet.

Ingredients:

• 400 g dark grapes;
• 300 g plums;
• 250 g sugar;
• 3 pinches of citric acid;
• 2.5 liters of water.

Preparation:

We wash the plums well under water, divide them into halves and take out the seeds

We tear off the berries from the bunches of grapes and also rinse them to get rid of the white bloom

Pour dark berries into a clean jar and put the halves of the plums

Boil water and pour it into a jar. Here it is not necessary to fill the jar completely with water, it is enough for the liquid to cover its contents

Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan together with citric acid, and after the berries and fruits are steamed for 10-15 minutes, drain the water to the bulk ingredients. If necessary, add water and boil the syrup

Pour already steamed grapes and plums with hot syrup, roll up and leave for a day under a warm blanket

Some housewives prefer to cook compote from only one grape, and to give the drink a spicy taste, they add cardamom, vanillin, cloves or cinnamon.

It's so easy and quick to cook grape compote for the winter in an ordinary 3-liter jar. Of course, you can make juice from berries, but such a drink is a directly squeezed product and can cause allergies.

But compote is already a heat-treated product, so it turns out to be softer and more balanced in taste. Therefore, many housewives choose exactly recipes for grape compote.