The summer will pass, and I want to leave another piece of it as a keepsake. Sweet and sour tart taste of cherries - is this not one of the wonderful flavors of summer? How nice to have a glass of summer berry drink in winter! A self-made cherry compote, the recipe of which we will discuss in this article, will help us with this. For cooking, we need: cherry, sugar and water. It seems: a recipe for cherry compote, which could be simpler and more understandable? Yes, of course, everything is really very simple, but different housewives have their own secrets for preparing each simple dish. These small differences make each recipe individual.
How to cook cherry compote
To begin, we will discuss the simplest recipes that allow you to prepare compote from cherries for the winter, for the future. The first step is to thoroughly rinse the berries and separate the stalk from each - so we will achieve greater preservation of the juiciness of cherries during cooking and preservation. You should decide in advance: will you cook the berries with or without seeds. Stewed cherry compote with a seed can be stored for no more than a year, after this time hydrocyanic acid will begin to be released , which will make the drink unsuitable for consumption. So, if your plans have a longer shelf life, the bones must be removed!
Do not forget to prepare the cans in advance, which we will fill with our summer drink. They should be sterilized the necessary amount of time in any convenient way: for a couple, in the oven or in the microwave - as you like. The sterilization time for cans depends on their volume: from 10-15 minutes for half-liter jars, up to 30 minutes for 3-liter jars. Now that everything is ready, choose the recipe for cherry compote.
Recipe One - Fast
To make a drink according to this recipe you will need a pound of cherries, about 300 grams of granulated sugar and about three liters of water. First, sugar syrup should be prepared from the indicated amount of sugar and water. We fill the prepared cherry in the finished syrup, bring to a boil and cook for no more than five minutes. That's all, the compote is ready! Pour into cans and roll up. For a brighter flavor, you can add a little lemon juice to the compote.
The second recipe is vitamin
The recipe for cherry compote with the preservation of more vitamins implies a shorter heat treatment of the berries, but a longer cooking time. The composition and quantity of the products are the same as in the previous recipe. Cherry should be put in jars, pour boiling water, cover the jars with lids and leave for 15 minutes. After this, drain the water from the jars, pour the prepared sugar into it and boil it. With sweet water prepared in this way, we fill the cherries again and roll up the jars with the compote now ready. The cans with the drink thus prepared are wrapped in a blanket to stretch the cooling process, allowing the berries to warm up properly.
The third recipe - from the freezer
We looked at ways to prepare stewed compote for the winter. Now we discuss the recipe for cherry compote to the table - boil it from cherries frozen from the summer. Berries do not require preliminary defrosting. In a pot of boiling water, lower the required number of berries. For a pungent taste, you can add a little citric acid (half a teaspoon to a large, three-liter, pan of water). Cook the cherry for about 15 minutes. After this time, pour sugar. The amount must be determined by taste - to get a sweet drink about 200 grams per liter of water. After the compote boils again, turn off the fire and give it some time to "reach". After some time, you will see a wonderful delicious drink with a wonderful rich cherry color, which has a wonderful sweet and sour taste. Stewed fruit can be poured into glasses and served. It has the property of improving appetite and perfectly quenches thirst. And the frequent use of cherry compote helps to improve metabolism.