Some people mistakenly believe that there is no benefit to frozen fruits and berries.
However, there is a fact that frozen gifts of nature are practically not inferior to their fresh counterparts. Due to the fact that the summer season proceeds at lightning speed, housewives freeze the fruits so that in the autumn-winter period they could somehow compensate for the lack of vitamins. When the problem arises that there are not enough prepared compotes, frozen berries come to the rescue. At this moment, housewives are glad that they took care of winter in advance, because it is so wonderful to have tasty and healthy berries on hand. This allows you to cook aromatic compotes at any time, which remind us of the sunny summer months. This article will tell you how to prepare compote from frozen berries so that all the vitamins are preserved and the taste is incredibly rich and rich. The proposed recipes will delight you and your loved ones, help you cope with a bad mood and protect your body from viruses and infections.
- Frozen berry compote with raisins
- Frozen berry compote with ginger
- Frozen berry compote with apple
- Berry compote with mint
- Refreshing frozen berry compote
- Compote of frozen cherries and cranberries
- Frozen strawberry compote with ginger
Frozen berry compote with raisins
This drink has a pleasant sweet and spicy taste that absolutely everyone will like.
Ingredients:
- black currant – 0.5 cups
- water – 3 l
- raisins – 50 g
- red currant – 100 g
- cinnamon – 3 pinches
- sugar – 3 tbsp. spoons or to taste
Add sugar and washed raisins several times into clean water and bring to a boil. At this point, add the currants, boil for 3 minutes, remove from heat, immediately season with cinnamon, and leave covered for a while.
Cherry compote
Let's take my favorite cherry compote. The pits were not removed from the cherries for the compote, only the tails and leaves were torn off. We made syrup from half a pound of sugar and two glasses of water - cherries are sour in themselves. This is enough for a “full plate of cherries”, and a soup plate, mind you, is of the old type, with a slide, half a kilo will easily fit. The syrup could be simply boiled, or it could be flavored - cherry leaves, 2-3 clove buds, a glass of rum or cherry liqueur.
Cherries are placed in this syrup, allowed to boil and simmer a little over low heat until the berries begin to burst. Here the cherries are urgently caught on a large plate so that they cool faster. The same technique was used when making jam; especially delicate berries like strawberries were generally poured onto marble boards so that the mass cooled. The syrup had already become cherry, and not sugar, and it was slightly thickened with a spoon of starch - stirred in cold water, the starch water was poured into the syrup, the syrup was allowed to boil, and the already cooled cherries were returned to it.
Cherry
Frozen berry compote with ginger
This warming drink is ideal for rainy or frosty weather. It will lift your spirits and improve your immunity. If desired, you can add honey instead of sugar, which will make the drink even healthier. But remember that this valuable product cannot be added to boiling water, so as not to kill its healing properties.
Components:
- black currant – 5 tbsp. spoons
- gooseberries – 1 handful
- cherries – 1 handful
- fresh ginger – 3 cm
- sugar - to taste
- water - 2 l
Cover the berries with sugar and water, add grated ginger. After boiling, boil the compote for no more than 5 minutes. We don’t recommend adding too much sugar; you want the berry sourness to be felt.
Recipe 5: Frozen berry compote with fresh apples
This compote of frozen berries and apples can be cooked at any time of the year. In summer, the drink quenches thirst, and in winter it fills the body with vitamins and microelements.
Required ingredients:
- Apples – 3-4 pcs.;
- Mixture of frozen berries – 200 g;
- Half a glass of sugar;
- Lemon juice – 30 ml;
- Water – 3 liters.
Cooking method:
Wash the apples, peel and cut out the seeds. Cut the apples into slices. Fill the apples with water and put on fire. Bring to a boil, add sugar and cook for about 10 minutes. Then put the frozen berries in the pan and pour in lemon juice. Cook the compote for another 10 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave to cool. If desired, the compote can be strained.
Compote of frozen cherries and cranberries
This spicy compote has simply amazing taste and aroma.
Ingredients:
- cranberries – 0.5 cups
- cherry – 0.5 cups
- tangerine zest – 5 g
- vanillin – 2 g
- water – 2 l
- lemon – 1 circle
- sugar – 3-5 table. spoons
Pour sugar into the water and put it on fire. As soon as the liquid boils, throw in cherries, cranberries and chopped lemon with peel. Boil the drink for 5 minutes, some time before it is ready, season with vanilla and tangerine zest.
Jam compote: recipes
A simple no-cook option
To prepare the “express” version of the compote, you only need cold water (250 milliliters) and 3 tablespoons of any jam. The products are combined together and mixed thoroughly. If the berries in the preparation were finely ground, then it is better to strain the product obtained during the cooking process. Jam made from large fruits results in a drink with sweet fruits and berries.
Foam may form on the surface of the compote; you can get rid of it by boiling the drink.
Watch the video prepared by Veselaya Zephyrka with instructions for preparing a quick compote
In a saucepan with citric acid
Citric acid is added to compotes to normalize the taste. To prevent the drink from seeming cloyingly sweet, it is slightly acidified.
Pour 3 liters of water into the pan and add 250 milliliters of jam. Mix the ingredients and take a sample. If you need to sweeten the drink, add sugar to taste. The bowl is sent to the fire. There is no need to boil the compote for a long time. Four to five minutes will be enough.
After this, the dessert is filtered. This step is optional, especially if plum or cherry jam was used to prepare the compote.
After purifying the liquid, add 0.5 teaspoon of citric acid to the compote and boil it over the fire for another 1 minute.
Tip: To make sure that the citric acid crystals are completely dispersed, the required amount of powder is first dissolved in 2 tablespoons of warm boiled water.
The finished compote can be served hot or chilled, with ice cubes added to the glass. Read about how to make beautiful transparent cocktail ice in our material.
With cranberries
Instead of citric acid, you can use cranberries. They will give the compote the necessary sourness. Saskatoon jam is ideal for this compote.
Boil water in a saucepan (2.5 liters) and add 2/3 of a glass of cranberries (fresh or frozen, it doesn’t matter), 100 grams of sugar and 1 glass of jam into the boiling liquid.
The products are boiled together for 10 minutes and then placed on a sieve. Press the cranberries with a spoon so that the juice flows through the grate back into the pan with the compote. Then clean the sieve mesh from cake and remaining jam, and pour the compote through it again.
Preparation for the winter
Jam compote can be preserved. To do this, combine 3 liters of water with 1.5 cups of sweet jam and add the zest of 1 lemon. Place the bowl on the stove and boil for 10 minutes. Then the hot compote is poured through a fine sieve or gauze cloth, trying to get rid of the remaining berries as much as possible.
The “cleaned” compote is put back on the fire and boiled for 5 minutes. If necessary, remove the foam with a spoon.
Pour the boiling drink into sterile hot and dry jars.
The top of the workpiece is covered with a lid, which is also treated with steam or boiling water. To be more sure, the compote can be sterilized in a water bath in jars, but if you follow the rules for sterilizing containers and lids, this procedure will be unnecessary.
It is important to slowly cool the workpiece; for this, the jar is insulated with a towel or blanket and left at room temperature for a day.
Frozen strawberry compote with ginger
Required Products:
- frozen strawberries – 1 cup
- brown sugar – 50 g
- mint – 2 sprigs
- black currants - 2 tablespoons. spoons
- lemon juice - 1 table. spoon
- ginger – 10 g
- lemon zest - on the tip of a knife
- water - 2 l
Add some sugar to the frozen berries and in the meantime prepare ginger syrup. To do this, cut the root into thin slices, add the remaining sugar and cook for several minutes. Half a minute before readiness, add mint. Mix the spicy syrup with berries, lemon juice and zest, cook for 5 minutes. The result is a very rich and harmonious taste.
How to make compote from frozen berries is a question that interests housewives who care about a varied and healthy diet for their family. Using the suggested recipes, you will prepare amazingly tasty and aromatic drinks that will delight both your taste buds and your body.
Rules for preparing compote
This vitamin drink can be brewed at any time of the year. It is brewed from a variety of berries , for example, cherries, sweet cherries, strawberries, raspberries, black and red currants, blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries, sea buckthorn and others. Compote is not kept on fire for a long time, as this leads to the destruction of beneficial substances.
Classic recipes for preparing the drink are based on technology when the berries are laid out in ready-made sugar syrup. Sometimes they are poured into cold water and boiled after boiling for 5 minutes, after which sugar is added.
Fructose can act as a sweetener. For aroma and special taste, add lemon or orange juice to the drink, and zest is also good. The compote will have a very original taste if its ingredients are: vanilla, cinnamon, mint, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg and others.
Sometimes frozen berry compote includes fresh apples. A little liqueur or cognac is added to the finished vitamin drink for a special taste. This option is suitable for a party.
How to cook compote from frozen berries: cherries and apricots
It’s so good in the summer - everything around is green, color and smell, markets abound with all kinds of gifts of nature, cherries and apricots, plums and apples ripen in the gardens. You could eat all this to your heart's content and hibernate like a bear. Until the next harvest. Well, no, nature has a different order for us people - we must worry about winter, and stock up on fruits and vegetables for use, so that in winter, by the warm stove, we can remember summer, drinking compote from prepared fruits, or eating pie with fragrant jam.
Freezing fruit is considered the most useful - after all, with this method of storage, almost all the useful substances remain in the berries and fruits - and there are many of them in each berry. Therefore, the most useful thing to do in the summer is to collect the fruits, wash them, dry them, remove the seeds, put them in bags and put them in the freezer for a long time. There they can wait until the next harvest.
If you decide to get berries in winter and make a fragrant and tasty compote from them, listen to some tips:
– it is better not to defrost fruits before cooking - when they defrost, they release juice, and along with it, beneficial vitamins leave;
– do not cook compote over high heat - fruits and berries will turn into porridge;
– the foam that has formed on top needs to be removed, there is nothing useful there;
– it is better to cook compote from several types of berries and fruits – it will be tastier and more aromatic, and its color will be more beautiful and pleasing to the eye;
– you can add cinnamon or lemon juice to the compote – the taste will become brighter and the benefits will increase;
– the more berries you throw in, the richer the taste will be.
So, today we will make compote from cherries and apricots, they will complement each other and we will get a wonderful, rich and aromatic drink that your children will drink with pleasure. The benefits of such a compote are obvious, and its taste and healthy qualities cannot be compared with the children’s favorite Pepsi or Coke. So, let's begin.
Ingredients for frozen berry and fruit compote:
- frozen cherries and apricots;
– water;- sugar;
– cinnamon.
We won’t add lemon juice to this compote, since cherries already have their own sourness, and apricots, even the sweetest ones, also have this flavor component.
The quantity is determined by your taste preference, so today I won’t name any proportions, we’ll just try it ourselves and go by taste.
How to cook compote from frozen berries and fruits:
So, pour water into the pan. Let's take, for example, 5 liters of water. We throw sugar in there (I put 1.5 cups for this amount, you decide what you like best).
When the water boils, remove the bags of fruit from the freezer and place them in the pan.
Place the fruit so that it completely covers the bottom, and the larger the layer of fruit, the naturally richer and brighter the taste. But - not everyone likes the drink to be too rich, so proceed from your preferences.
Next, wait until the compote boils, skim off the foam, add a little cinnamon (if you like it, of course), if not, skip this step. Let it simmer for just a couple of minutes to reveal the brightness of the fruit and turn it off. That's it, cover with a lid and let the compote brew under the lid for half an hour so that all the bright components of the berries go into the yushka. And that’s all – you can pour it into glasses and enjoy the divine taste.
And remember - your frozen fruits will be much healthier than imported ones purchased from the supermarket. And finally, a few tips:
– when buying berries in a store, be sure to pay attention that they are not stuck together in a lump, but roll freely around the bag;
– use defrosted berries immediately so that they do not turn into mush and do not pick up germs.
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