How to make strawberry compote for the winter?

Summer has the smell of strawberries. June and July are associated with its aroma in many Russians. But to eat this berry in its natural form for a long time is impossible.To preserve your favorite taste and aroma, you can prepare it in the form of compote. There is a huge variety of recipes, thanks to which, even after the end of the warm season, you can enjoy the pleasures presented to them.

Starting the preparation of compote, you need to take care that the works did not go to ashes as a result of the fact that banks exploded due to improper preparation for clogging for long-term storage.

• For rolling cans better to use metal lids.
• Rinse the jars thoroughly with soda, and then place them in a bowl of boiling water and hold it for ten to twenty minutes.
• In the same way to prepare the cover.

• For sterilization, you can use the oven. Set the washed jars on a baking sheet and put in a cold oven, and only then turn on the heating. The temperature should reach one hundred and fifty degrees. After that, the oven should be turned off, and the banks should be removed from there after they are completely cooled.
• Prepared containers need to be turned over so that they are covered with water. They should be kept upside down until the compote is poured.
• To work with the berries themselves and to sterilize the container with compote, you will need suitable utensils - pots and wide pots.

• For recipes involving sterilization, it is better to take a small volume banks. If this procedure is not needed, you can take a three-five-liter.
• The most suitable garden strawberry for cooking compote is the one that has an average size, rich color and greater density. After cooking, it should not lose its shape and become too pale.
• Do not postpone the preparation of blanks for later. Strawberry is a perishable product.
• Berries need to sort, remove the sepals and rinse so that they are not creased. Place in small hands in a colander and place in cold clean water. Also for washing you can use a weak pressure of running water.

Each recipe compote provides a certain amount of sugar. Sometimes these are one-to-one proportions, sometimes less. It must be borne in mind that sugar is a natural preservative. To reduce its quantity during cooking is not necessary arbitrarily. If it is planned to dilute the drink with water, it is possible to add more sugar during cooking than stated in the recipe.

To make strawberry compote for the winter, you can use the classic recipe. It provides for the use of:

• three cans of one liter;
• one and a half kilograms of garden strawberries;
• six grams of sugar per liter of water.

Step by step implementation of the recipe is as follows. Banks wash and sterilize. Prepare the berries for compote preparation, lay out for drying on a clean towel, and then distribute them in banks. In each container with the berry pour boiled, but already just warm water. Pour the liquid into the cooking container.

Boil the syrup, pour sugar into the saucepan, pour berries into it and close the jars with sterilized lids. Banks need to be placed in a deep pan, to the "podgolovogo bend" pour water. To container with compote not burst from contact with the bottom of the pan, it is better to pre-cover it with a napkin. Next, turn on the burner, wait for the water to boil, and hold on low heat for about twenty minutes.

Banks seal, put upside down, close with a warm cloth (suitable and old unwanted clothes or plaid, folded several times). Such a sweet concentrated strawberry compote can be stored right in the kitchen all winter and, if necessary, removed in the pantry.

For a simple compote made without sterilization, you will need:

• eight hundred grams of strawberries;
• water;
• four hundred grams of sugar.

Sterilize the jars and place an equal amount of berries in them. Pour boiling water on the fifteen - twenty minutes, then pour the water into the pan and add sugar there. Stir, heat.When it boils, let it boil for about three minutes.

Sweet solution pour into a jar of berries, close the lid, roll up. After cooling in an inverted form under a blanket to remove storage.

If you add mint to the compote with strawberries, it will give the drink a special refreshing effect. To boil such a drink, you need to take:

• a pound of garden or field strawberries;
• three hundred grams of sugar;
• ten grams of citric acid;
• five to six mint leaves;
• a three-liter can.

Strawberry busting, rinse, put in a jar. Make a syrup. When it boils, pour the contents of the compote tank into it, throw mint into it. Let it stand for about thirty minutes. After that, remove the mint and return the sweet liquid to the pan. Bring to a boil and hold on the fire for two minutes - three. Then again pour the berry. Roll up the jar, turn it over and put it in heat.

The strawberry compote with orange will have a festive taste. It will be pleasant to drink on New Year's days. To cook it, you will need:

• seven hundred grams of strawberries;
• three hundred grams of granulated sugar;
• one orange;
• water;
• three-liter capacity.

Pour boiling water into the jar for twenty minutes, drain into a saucepan, add sugar and make a syrup, boiling for five minutes. After that, pour into a jar and seal with a sterilized metal lid. Repeat the procedure with a blanket and remove before the holidays.

Delicious and healthy compote will turn out with a lemon. For cooking you need to take:

• kilogram of fresh strawberries;
• a pound of sugar;
• one lemon;
• slightly less than three liters of water;
• a three-liter can.

Boil water in a saucepan, put sugar in it and boil for a few minutes to completely dissolve the sweet sand. After that, you need to squeeze the juice from the lemon into the syrup and hold the contents of the cooking container on the fire for another two minutes.

Lemon-sugar liquid pour strawberries. Sterilize the jar in a large saucepan for about thirty minutes. Roll the compote under the lid, turn the jar over and hide it in the heat. When the drink has cooled, put it in the pantry.

An interesting taste is obtained from strawberry compote with the addition of cherry. In the preparation of canned drink from these berries there is only one problem. They ripen at different times. Therefore, in order to prepare such a compote, strawberries will have to be frozen and obtained for cooking when a cherry appears.

To make a cherry-strawberry compote, you should take:

• three hundred grams of strawberries;
• three hundred grams of cherry;
• as much sugar;
• peppermint (sprig);
• water

Wash berries and fill them up in a three-liter jar, send sugar there. Pour boiling water on top (steep). Put a metal cover on the neck of the jar for harvesting for the winter. Wait fifteen minutes and pour the sweet water into the pan. Throw mint there. Bring the liquid to a boil and cook for another five minutes. Remove the peppermint sprig, and pour the sweet, hot solution back into the jar of berries. Roll up the lid, put the jar on the neck, wrap, and later remove it for storage.

Similarly, you can prepare for the winter strawberry compote with cherry. Berries perfectly complement each other.

Have to take:

• three hundred grams of one and another berries;
• a couple of mint leaves;
• one and a half cup of sugar;
• water;
• citric acid (a teaspoon).

After that, pour the liquid into the cooking container and make a sugar syrup. They pour berries, mix, add citric acid, "wall up" and turn the banks. Close the rug and wait for it to cool.

An interesting drink can be obtained with the use of apricots.Need to sterilize three-liter jars. They need to be taken depending on how many blanks for the winter there is a desire to do. Rinse the strawberries well. Apricots split in half, remove the bones. Banks for a third fall asleep with strawberries, add five apricots to each container. Send sugar there. On a three-liter capacity, it is enough to take a glass of sweet sand.

Water is heated in a kettle or saucepan. When boils, pour into the container. It remains to roll, turn and let stand in a warm blanket until the morning. It is recommended to store on the balcony, but not in the refrigerator.

Homemade will appreciate the recipe compote of strawberries and raspberries. To implement it, you need to have at hand:

• sugar - one glass;
• strawberries - one kilogram;
• raspberries - one kilogram;
• can of three liters.

Berries to sort and peel. Place in a sterilized glass container. Pour very hot boiled water and put a lid on top. After that, drain the water into the pan so that the berries do not fall out. You can use the sieve from which the dropped raspberries and strawberries are sent to the original container.

Pour sweet sand into the cooking container with water. After boiling the sugar solution, send it back to the jar of berries and tighten for long-term storage. After handling the package, send to the pantry.

Many compote recipes with strawberries provide that by their consistency they will be too sweet or sour. There is nothing wrong with that. This drink is convenient to dilute to taste with boiled water or add sugar to a glass.

It is not bad to use when drinking ice pieces. They will give compote more freshness and emphasize its taste.

You can learn more about making strawberry compote for the winter in the next video.