Compote of cherries and strawberries for the winter

An excellent version of the summer drink - compote of cherries and strawberries, to prepare it for the winter is for a number of reasons. The first - this combination is optimally to taste: the cherry sour cherry perfectly complements the sweetness of the strawberry. Secondly, cherry contains vitamin C and iron, in strawberries there are more vitamins of group B and K, potassium, phosphorus and calcium - so that the vitamin composition of the drink will be optimal. Tell you how to brew compote of cherries and strawberries to preserve the maximum of useful substances.

How to cook compote of cherries and strawberries without sterilization?

Ingredients:

• cherry - 3 kg;
• sugar of domestic production - 3-3.5 cups;
• Strawberry - 3 kg;
• water - about 12 liters;
• mint lemon - 1 large bunch.

Preparation

An important point in the spinning of compotes: if we want to preserve as many vitamins as possible and do not subject the sterilization beverage, we must sterilize dishes as thoroughly as possible. Only in this case we will avoid getting unnecessary microorganisms in canned food. So first of all we will prepare the container: we will fill the jars with warm water and soda (1 teaspoon of soda for 5 liters of warm water) and leave for about half an hour, then rinse and rinse thoroughly, leave to drain, turning over.

While the dishes are draining, we cook the syrup: in the boiling water we dissolve the sugar and let it simmer for 3 minutes, then we lower the well-washed lemon mint and cook in the syrup for 3 minutes, remove the twigs. Instead of lemon mint, you can use lemon balm. However, both ordinary and peppermint are also not bad combined with our compote.

We cook berries: cherry and strawberries separately under running water (strawberries should be soaked for half an hour beforehand), we remove the petioles and sepals - they are not needed in the compote, we carefully watch that the spoiled and crushed berries do not fall into our drink. We throw on the sieve or colander berries, so that the glass water.

Since the cherry contains a bone, we spread it on the cans first, pour the syrup and cover with a lid. We steal the berry for 5 minutes, drain the syrup back into the pot and boil it, and in the meantime we spread the strawberries over the jars. Fill our berries with syrup and immediately roll. It is stored such a compote of strawberries and cherries throughout the winter, the recipe contains sugar, but it is possible to weld the drink without it, and add directly before consumption - the tastes are different for everyone.

Well, on a hot summer day, you can make a compote of strawberries and cherries in a multivariate. To do this, we put the berries in the multivark, fill the water and set the cooking mode to 15 minutes. Proportions of berries are regulated arbitrarily - this is a wide field for experiments.