Red currant contains a lot of vitamins and other very useful substances. Of course, currant is more useful in fresh form, but properly brewed compote of red currant is very tasty and quite useful. In order to preserve the beneficial properties of berries, it is necessary to heat them as little as possible during the preparation of compote.
Red currant compote: simple and useful
Ingredients (for preparation of 3 liters of compote):
- 2 liters of water
- from 800 grams to 1 kilogram of fresh currant berries
- from 100 to 400 grams of sugar.
Preparation:
Absolutely sugar-free compote can turn out too sour, but however, it's a matter of taste. Prepared sugar-free compote of red currant is useful to those who monitor blood sugar levels and those who do not want to get better. The berries of red currant for compote must be freshly picked, mature and undamaged. Berries need to be sorted, separate each from the peduncle, rinse well, put in a colander, let the water drain. Now you need to make sugar syrup. To do this, boil the water in an enamel saucepan and add the sugar. We mix carefully and when the sugar is dissolved completely, we send the prepared berries to the pan. Secondarily bring to a boil, cook for 1 minute (no more, otherwise the berries crack and wrinkle, and the vitamins will disintegrate), cover with a lid and turn off the fire. We will give compote for about 20 minutes, let cool and compote ready (then you can even cool it).
Exotic compote of currant
Cool compote with red currant perfectly quenches thirst on hot days, it has a pleasant sourish taste, and the beneficial substances in this drink are kept as much as possible. You can prepare compote from currant and orange - this combination is somewhat unusual, but it is quite refined and original. The taste of this compote turns out to be invigorating and refreshing.
Ingredients (per 3 liters of water):
- From 100 to 400 grams of granulated sugar
- from 0,5 to 0,8 kg of currant berries
- 1 orange.
Preparation:
First, we sort out the berries, remove the twigs, the pedicels, etc., and rinse. We clear the orange and cut it in half, then each halve - along and across, in small cubes. Prepare the sugar syrup, as usual, in an enamel saucepan. First, boil in syrup for 3-4 minutes, sliced orange, then add currant berries and boil another 1-2 minutes. Cover the pan with a lid and stop the flow of fire. Under the lid compote is used during cooling. To your guests and your home, such a compote will certainly enjoy, in any case, they will be pleasantly surprised.
If there are no fresh berries
You can prepare a compote of frozen currant - a product bought in a supermarket, it is convenient to use when the currant has not yet ripened or its season has already passed. By the way, in products of deep freezing vitamins and other useful substances are well preserved, so this compote is also quite useful. If in your region the currant ripens in amounts that are suitable for freezing - do not skimp and frost the red currant for future use. In winter, this source of vitamins will save you from colds and flu. It is not necessary to defrost berries to prepare compote. Cook the compote of frozen currant berries so: boil the water, add sugar, mix. We throw the berries in the pot, once again bring to a boil, cover the pan with a lid and stop the flow of fire. This is enough to preserve the greatest amount of vitamins. While it will cool down - infused. In the cold season, compote of frozen currant berries will not only warm, but will also raise immunity.
Compote for future use
A compote from a currant can be preserved by rolling in glass jars. How to roll a compote from a currant? Do it in a different way.