Cooking Peach Compote

Peach is a delicious, fragrant fruit. It often becomes the main or secondary ingredient of many dishes. Including drinks.

Peach compote is an excellent tonic, especially in the heat, and gives a delicious taste and divine aroma.

Peach, indeed, is a real gift of nature. In addition to the pleasant taste, it enriches our body with nutrients. The fruit contains organic acids and essential oils, which are very useful for the motility of the stomach. Trace elements such as potassium, copper, iron, are involved in the work of the heart and prevent anemia. And in the peach pulp a lot of vitamins and sugars.

In this way, Peach drinks should be drunk not only to quench their thirst, but also to maintain the health of the whole body.

Before you make a peach compote, you need to pick the right fruits, guided by certain selection criteria.

• Aroma - it should be pronounced. Otherwise, the taste of the drink will turn out to be unsaturated.
• Mainly used for compotes mature fruit. Although there are some recipes that involve the use of immature fruits.
• Choose elastic peaches so that they do not boil soft in water. Otherwise you will get a drink with pulp.
• Use fruits with a pinkish tinge, with a sweet or sour-sweet taste. Such qualities are endowed with varieties such as "Julia", "Juicy", "Fluffy Early" and "Big Han".
• Preferably, the bone is well separated from the pulp.

There is also an option when the skin is removed from the fruit. For this they are blanched. First placed in boiling water for a few minutes, and then in the cold. After that, the skin of the fruit is removed very easily.

As a rule, peaches are cut in half before being submerged in water and stones are extracted from them. If the fruits are too large, they can be cut into quarters.

And also prepare compotes from whole fruits with a bone. But this method is more often used for conservation.

Peach compote is cooked according to different recipes. And even at home, you can make different variations of it.

Take 3-4 medium peach. Rinse well, separate the bone and cut into several pieces.

Put them in a saucepan and add sugar to taste. Stir gently the resulting mass to make it juice.

Top up with water, bring the mixture to a boil and boil for another 10 minutes.

Cool it down. The drink is ready to use. It is recommended to cook compote 10 hours before its absorption. At this point, the fruit gives the water all the healthy and aromatic ingredients.

A pound of peaches free from the peel, cut into 2 parts, remove the stone.

Then ¾ cup of sugar, pour into the pan, pour 4 cups of boiling water. Stir well and add peaches. Boil the mixture, set aside and add vanillin. It will give the drink a special flavor and make the taste more pronounced.

Spices give a peculiar taste to compote.

Carefully wash 300 g peaches, remove the bone. Add a liter of water, put on the fire and boil. Add sugar to taste. To simmer on the fire for another 10 minutes. Almost at the end of cooking put a quarter of a teaspoon of cinnamon. And a little more to boil and turn off.

Take a pound of peaches and remove from their skin. Cut in half and remove the bone. Dissolve a glass of sugar in a liter of water, wait for boiling. Then put peaches in the pan. Wait until boiling again, and remove the pan from the heat.

Add saffron on the tip of the knife. Allow to cool and cool in the refrigerator for several hours. Saffron can be replaced by citric acid.

If you want to remove the sugary sweetness from the compote, you should dilute it with a little sourness. The most reliable means for this is lemon.

Rinse the lemon well, preferably with a brush. Cut off the zest and squeeze the juice.

Take 1 kg of peaches, remove from them a bone. Cut into quarters and send to the pan. Add lemon zest to it. Pour the resulting mixture into 1.5 cups of sugar. Let sit for 20 minutes.

After that, fill the pan with cool water in the amount of two liters. Boil and remove from heat. Enter lemon juice. Allow the drink to cool. And cool before serving.

Peach fits perfectly into the children's menu. It is less allergen than many other berries and fruits. Babies are allowed to enter it into the diet already from 7 months of age.

Kids love peach compote very much. After all, it has a soft, sweet and pleasant taste. Remember that a child should be given only freshly prepared drink. Thus, it will receive a maximum of the useful ingredients which are contained in pulp.

Prepare a peach compote for your baby as follows. First make a syrup. To do this, 1/2 kg of sugar is poured into 2 liters of water and brought to a boil.

Then prepare the fruit. Be sure to peel them. The main thing - remove the bone. The child can choke with it. And in the nucleus is amygdalin, which when cooked is transformed into prussic acid.

Prepared fruit is dipped in syrup, again brought to a boil. Clean from the stove and insist 30 minutes.

And if you need to prepare compote for your crumbs for 1 serving, use this proportion of ingredients:

• peach - 2 pcs .;
• granulated sugar - 4 tsp;
• water - 1 cup.

Peach compote is in itself a very tasty drink. But if you want to play with taste, you should choose an assorted drink.

You can combine peach with any fruit and berries.

For the preparation of such a drink, plums of different varieties will be suitable: “Ugorka”, “Hungarian”, “Renklod”, “Memory of Timiryazev”, that is, a variety with easily separated stone.

Large fruits can be cut, and small ones can be cooked whole. Use ripe fruits, but they should remain firm, not too soft.

1. Prepare the syrup. Boil 1 liter of water in a saucepan, add sugar to taste. Again, bring the mixture to a boil, and boil for a couple of minutes.
2. Peaches wash and peel off the skin and bones. Cut into several pieces.
3. Rinse the plums, cut them into 2 pieces, and also remove the stones from them.
4. Add the fruit to the syrup, boil and boil for another 10 minutes.
5. Cool and enjoy your drink.

You can cook peach compote with the addition of grapes, pears and, of course, apples. Combining these fruits, you get a variety of taste. After all, each fruit has its own unique aroma, which it gives the drink.

Compote cooking algorithm does not change no matter what ingredients you choose. But it is worth considering some of their subtleties.

If you decide to combine peach with grapes, then choose the classic varieties of blue or white. White varieties will give the taste a little sourness, and dark ones, on the contrary, sweetness. Their taste is soft and soft, so they are easily combined with any fruit.

A variety that has a nutmeg taste, and grapes such as "Isabella" is better to use alone, so as not to spoil their extraordinary taste.

Fruits are removed from the branch, washed well and dried slightly.

As for pears, in principle, all its varieties are suitable for compotes. Use should be ripe fruit, but not overripe. To their pulp retains density and elasticity. If the skin of the fetus is too hard, it must be cut off.

Apples are the perfect raw material for a drink. It is a versatile fruit that combines with many of its fellows. When choosing, also be guided by the ripeness of the fruit. In immature apples a lot of acid.

Choose apples that are not too soft. In those little juice. Pick up the elastic, moderately dense fruit, preferring sweet and sour varieties.A little acid will dilute the sweetness of the peach, and the drink will become more refreshing.

In the peach compote, you can add berries. Strawberries, strawberries, cherries, raspberries will complement the bouquet with an exquisite aroma and give the drink a beautiful color.

When choosing fruits for making a drink, remember that they must be free from damage and putrefactive spots. Regarding the variety of fruit, adjust the amount of sugar. Its excess, as well as an insufficient amount, noticeably distort the taste.

Peach compote is a very tasty dish. Thanks to him, you can quench your thirst, recharge your batteries and just enjoy the pleasant taste. It is very easy to boil it, which makes it possible to prepare a drink in any given case, and the combination of peach with many other ingredients provides a field for the experiment.

To learn how to make a peach compote for the winter, see the next video.