Apricot compote for the winter

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

Moderately sweet, with a pleasant fruit aroma and very tasty apricot compote, prepared for the winter, will surely be appreciated by your loved ones. The presented recipes with photos will tell you in detail how to properly prepare a healthy drink at home.

Classic apricot compote

This apricot compote turns out to be very colorful and tasty. Due to the fact that preservation does not lend itself to prolonged heat treatment, the apricot halves retain their aroma, color and dense structure. They can be served with thin pancakes, added to baked goods or fruit salads.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of apricots;
• 250 grams of granulated sugar.

Preparation:

1. Rinse the fruits under the tap, put them in a clean three-liter jar.
2. Pour water into a saucepan, bring to a boil. Pour the apricots in a jar with boiling liquid, cover with a towel and leave for 10 minutes.
3. Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan.
4. After the specified time, drain all the water from the jar. Place a saucepan with water and sugar over medium heat and bring to a boil.
5. Pour the resulting syrup over the fruits in a jar. Seal with a metal lid, wait for complete cooling and place in the pantry.

For the preparation of preservation according to this recipe, it is advisable to use not overripe and not wrinkled fruits. So during pouring with syrup, they will retain their structure.

Apricot compote with seeds

The main advantages of making apricot compote according to this recipe with a photo are speed and simplicity. You no longer need to waste time processing fruits. The finished homemade drink turns out to be very tasty and healthy, and it is prepared in a matter of minutes.

Ingredients:

• 700 grams of apricots;
• 300 grams of granulated sugar;
• 2.5 liters of water.

Preparation:

To prepare a drink according to this recipe, you need to very carefully sort out all the fruits - there should be no rotten spots and dark spots on the skin. The washed fruit must be transferred to a pre-sterilized glass container

• Bring to a boil 2, 5 liters of water, pour into a jar to the fruit. Cover with a metal lid on top and wait about 15 minutes. Then cover the jar with a special lid with holes and pour all the liquid into the prepared saucepan.
• Pour the required amount of granulated sugar into the drained water. Stir until the sugar crystals dissolve and place the saucepan over medium heat. Simmer the syrup over medium heat for 5 minutes.
• Pour the boiling syrup over the apricots in the jar.

Boil the metal lid in advance and seal the jar. Turn the finished preservation upside down. Wrap up with a warm blanket and wait until it cools completely

To make the finished compote have a pleasant aroma and refreshing taste, you can add several sprigs of mint to the jar.

Apricot compote with lemon wedges

Apricot compote remains one of the most demanded and desired drinks in many families. And in order to prepare this homemade drink according to all the rules, you need to take a proven recipe with a photo, for example, this one with an interesting taste.

Ingredients:

• 500 grams of ripe apricots;
• 2 lemon wedges;
• 250 grams of granulated sugar;
• water for making syrup.

Preparation:

• Prepare fruit in advance for preparing a drink, discard crumpled and spoiled fruits. It is advisable to use only firm and whole apricots.
• Cut the lemon into thin slices, remove the seeds.
• Pre-sterilize glass jars with a volume of 3 liters over steam. Dip the metal lids in water and boil for about 5 minutes.
• Fill sterilized containers with prepared fruits. Also arrange two lemon wedges in jars.

• Place a pot of water over medium heat and bring to a boil. Pour jars of apricots with boiling liquid, cover with a towel or a lid on top and wait 20 minutes.
• During this time, the scalded fruits will give their aroma to the liquid.
• Gently pour the cooled water into a prepared container, add the required amount of granulated sugar. Bring the syrup to a boil again, turn off the heating after 15 seconds.

Pour the syrup immediately into glass containers. Close the top with metal lids, roll up with a special machine. Wait for the finished conservation to cool completely, and then place it in the cellar

You can prepare compote with the addition of apricot kernels. To do this, the extracted seeds must be broken, the "nuts" taken out and placed in the halves of the fruit, then put in a jar and the compote must be prepared in the described way.

Apricot and orange

Apricot compote with orange is an excellent homemade drink with an unusual citrus aroma. You can simply prepare it at home, but it turns out to be very tasty and healthy.

Ingredients for a 3 liter can:

• ripe apricots;
• 300 grams of granulated sugar;
• 2 orange circles.

Preparation:

1. Prepare ripe apricots, rinse under the tap, remove seeds. Cut the orange into thin slices.
2. Transfer all prepared fruits to a pre-sterilized glass container, add a few thin slices of chopped orange. Pour 300 grams of granulated sugar into the fruit.
3. Boil about 2.5 liters of water over medium heat, pour the fruit into a jar.
4. Put on a sterilized metal lid on top and roll it up with a special key. Wrap the preservation with something warm and wait until it cools completely.

There is another recipe for making the so-called "home Fanta". Apricots and orange are pre-ground in a meat grinder and then poured with boiling syrup. So the taste and aroma of the finished drink are richer.

From apricots and cherries

In order to enjoy delicious preparations in winter, you have to work a little in summer. Be sure to prepare the apricot and cherry compote for the winter. Even on the coldest winter day, this healthy drink, prepared according to the presented recipe with a photo, will give you pleasant memories of the past hot summer.

Ingredients:

• 600 grams of apricots;
• 270 grams of granulated sugar;
• 200 grams of cherries;
• 2, 7 liters of water;
• 1 teaspoon of citric acid.

Preparation:

• For the preparation of preservation, only whole apricots should be used without any hint of rot. Cherries should be plucked directly from the stalks so that the juice does not flow out ahead of time.
• Rinse fruits and berries under running water.

• Place whole apricots with seeds in a sterilized container.
• Peel the cherries, put them in a jar with the apricots.
• Pour in a teaspoon of citric acid.

Pour the boiling liquid over the fruits, cover with a sterile iron lid. Make sure that all cherries and apricots are submerged in boiling water. Warming up lasts for 20 minutes

Pour the specified amount of granulated sugar into a saucepan, add the water drained from the can, and add a little more water so that the volume is 2.7 liters

• Bring the syrup to a boil, then boil for a couple of minutes. Pour over the cherries and apricots with boiling syrup. Make sure that the amount of liquid is on the line of the "shoulders".
• Roll up the glass container, cover with a towel and immediately turn it upside down. Insulate on top with a thick blanket, preserve for 10 hours, then store.

Such simple recipes with photos will help you prepare the most delicious apricot compote for the winter. For a richer taste, you can add other fruits to the drink: cherries, peaches, raspberries, gooseberries.

The amount of water and fruit can be adjusted according to your preference. For a sweeter and more concentrated drink, the cans must be completely filled with apricots.