Strawberry compote for the winter

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Making strawberry compote for the winter is as easy as shelling pears, for this you do not need to pre-sterilize 3-liter jars. The berries are poured with boiling water only twice, and this will be quite enough. With the onset of winter, such a bright, tasty and aromatic drink, prepared according to a simple recipe with a photo, will remind you of the past summer.

Strawberry compote, the most delicious

It is very easy to cook a fragrant strawberry compote. A little sugar is added to the drink, since ripe berries themselves are very sweet. The finished drink is even more beneficial than the classic strawberry jam.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of ripe strawberries;
• 200 grams of granulated sugar;
• water.

Preparation:

• Prepare the can for preservation in advance, clean it with baking soda and wash under the tap.
• Pour water into a saucepan and simmer over medium heat. Boil water in a separate container to sterilize the preservation.
• Rinse ripe berries under running water, remove all the stalks, then put them in a colander and dry a little. Fill the jar with fruits about 1/3, cover with granulated sugar on top.

Pour boiled water into a jar of strawberries. Put a towel on the bottom of the sterilization container, and place a jar with compote on top

• Cover with a metal lid, press down with something on top. Sterilize the workpieces for about 30 minutes.
• At the very end of the sterilization process, the berries should float to the surface of the liquid. Carefully take out the jars and seal with iron lids. Turn all the blanks upside down, cover with a warm blanket and wait until they cool completely.

For the preparation of compote, it is advisable to select ripe and sufficiently elastic berries. Do not take rotten fruits under any circumstances.

Strawberry compote without sterilization

Another simple recipe with a photo of making strawberry compote for the winter without sterilization. A can of 3 liters will need about 600 grams of ripe berries. The strawberries are heated in syrup right in the saucepan, after which the compote can be rolled up immediately.

Ingredients:

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

Preparation:

• Rinse ripe berries under the tap, remove all sepals.
• Pour 2.5 liters of water into a deep saucepan, place over medium heat. Continue heating to a boil.
• Put the prepared strawberries in a colander, gently lower them into a container with boiling water for 2-3 minutes.

• Remove the berries and wait for all the syrup to drain into the pan. Place the strawberries in a clean jar.
• Pour granulated sugar into a saucepan with water and wait until it boils again.

• In the meantime, the syrup is boiling, you need to sterilize the iron lids. To do this, fill them with hot water and boil for 5 minutes.
• After boiling, remove the resulting foam from the syrup using a slotted spoon.
• Pour the syrup into glass containers with berries. If there is not enough syrup, you can add water from the kettle to the top of the jar.

• Cover the jars with boiled lids and roll up immediately.
• Turn the containers upside down, wrap them in a towel or blanket and leave them at room temperature overnight.

Ready-made strawberry compote is well stored at room temperature for 2-3 years.

Strawberry compote with citric acid

The addition of citric acid to a sweet strawberry compote for the winter gives a pleasant sourness to the finished drink. In addition, this ingredient is an additional preservative. Citric acid in this recipe with a photo can be replaced with zest or slices of fresh citrus.

Ingredients (per can of 3 liters):

• 350 grams of strawberries;
• 1 teaspoon citric acid
• 300 grams of granulated sugar;
• 2, 6 liters of water.

Preparation:

Rinse thoroughly all prepared berries, remove sepals

Pre-sterilize the jars, then fill them with strawberries

• To prepare the syrup, you need to mix water, granulated sugar and citric acid in a deep saucepan. Place the container over medium heat, boil the liquid.
• Gently pour jars of fruits with boiled syrup so as not to burn your hands.
• Cover with iron lids on top and seal immediately. Turn glass containers, cover with something warm on top. Wait for the conservation to cool completely, and then transfer it to the storage room.

In winter, you can get berries from compote and make delicious jam from them. To do this, they need to be covered with sugar and boiled a little.

Strawberry compote with mint

Ripe strawberry compote is a tasty and healthy preparation, opening which in winter you will fill your house with pleasant aromas of the past summer. To emphasize the taste of strawberries, when boiling the compote, you can add a few sprigs of fresh mint, and remove them before the seaming process.

Ingredients:

• 400 grams of berries;
• 230 grams of granulated sugar;
• 500 ml of water;
• citric acid - to taste;
• 4 stalks of fresh mint.

Preparation:

• Peel each ripe berry from sepals, rinse under the tap, put in a deep saucepan.
• Sprinkle with citric acid and granulated sugar on top. If desired, you can vary the amount of sugar in the preparation.

Rinse fresh mint stalks under the tap, put in a saucepan on top of the fruits

• Pour the berries with warm water, leave a little free space in the pan for further boiling. When the liquid boils, the strawberries will float to the surface and the water will splash onto the stove.
• Place saucepan over medium heat, continue cooking for 20 minutes. In the meantime, the liquid with the berries will boil, you can sterilize the iron lids and cans in any way.

After boiling for a long time, you can gently remove the mint stems from the liquid

Pour the boiling drink along with the berries into prepared glass containers, pouring to the very edges

Preservation should be immediately corked, turned upside down and wait until the compote has completely cooled down. Place the blanks in the cellar or pantry

Instead of mint, you can add a few sprigs of fresh lemon balm to the compote.

Strawberry and raspberry compote

Another variation of preparations for the winter is strawberry and raspberry compote. The taste of the finished drink is very rich, with a pleasant aroma of berries. You don't need to add too much sugar to the compote, since the berries themselves are quite sweet.

Ingredients:

• 1 kilogram of strawberries;
• 1 kilogram of raspberries;
• 230 grams of granulated sugar;
• drinking water.

Preparation:

• Go through all the prepared fruits, rinse under the tap.
• Sterilize the glass container in advance, spread the berries over them.
• Bring water to a boil, carefully pour into a jar, cover with an iron lid on top.

Drain all liquid into a saucepan. The berries must remain in the jar

• Add granulated sugar to the drained water. Bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Pour the boiling syrup over the berries and seal with iron lids.
• Put the jars on the floor, turning them upside down, wrap them up and wait for the final cooling. Store in the closet until next winter.

Before you start harvesting strawberry compote for the winter for a 3 liter can, you need to remember that the berries in conservation can lose their shape. To prevent this from happening, for the presented recipes with a photo, you need to use only hard and sufficiently ripe fruits.