How to make strawberry compote for the winter?

Summer smells like strawberries. It is with its aroma that many Russians associate June and July. But it is impossible to feast on this berry in its natural form for a long time. To preserve your favorite taste and aroma, you can prepare it in the form of compote. There are a huge number of various recipes, thanks to which, even after the end of the warm season, it is possible to enjoy the joys presented to them.

When starting to harvest compote, you need to make sure that the work does not go to waste as a result of the fact that the banks exploded due to their improper preparation for clogging for long-term storage.

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

• An oven can also be used for sterilization. Place 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 must be turned off, and the jars should be removed from there after they have completely cooled down.
• Prepared containers must be turned over so that water is drained from them. They should be kept upside down until the compote is poured.
• To work with the berries themselves and sterilize containers with compote, you will need suitable dishes - basins and wide pans.

• For recipes that require sterilization, it is better to take jars of small volume.If this procedure is not needed, you can take three to five liters.
• The most suitable garden strawberry for making compote is one that has a medium size, rich color and high density. After cooking, it should not lose shape and turn too pale.
• You should not postpone the preparation of blanks for later. Strawberries are a perishable product.
• The berries need to be sorted out, the sepals removed and washed so that they do not wrinkle. Put in a colander in small handfuls and place in cold clean water. You can also use low pressure running water for washing.

Each compote recipe provides for a certain amount of sugar. Sometimes these are proportions one to one, sometimes less. Keep in mind that sugar is a natural preservative. It is not necessary to reduce its quantity when cooking arbitrarily. If you plan to dilute the drink with water when drinking, you can add more sugar during cooking than stated in the recipe.

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

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

The step by step implementation of the recipe is as follows. Wash and sterilize jars. Prepare the berries for making compote, put them on a clean towel to dry, and then distribute them among the jars. Pour boiled, but already just warm water into each container with a berry. Pour the liquid into a container for cooking.

Boil the syrup by pouring sugar into the pan, pour the berries over it and close the jars with sterilized lids. Banks need to be placed in a deep pan, pour water up to the “pre-throat bend”.So that the container with compote does not burst from contact with the bottom of the pan, it is better to first cover it with a napkin. Next, turn on the burner, wait until the water boils, and hold on low heat for about twenty minutes.

Seal the jars, put them upside down, cover with a warm cloth (old unnecessary clothes or a blanket folded several times will do). Such a sweet concentrated strawberry compote can be stored right in the kitchen all winter, and if necessary, removed to the pantry.

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

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

Sterilize the jars and place in them an equal number of berries by weight. Pour boiling water for fifteen to twenty minutes, then pour water into a saucepan and pour sugar into it. Stir, heat up. When it boils, let it boil for three minutes.

Pour the sweet solution into a jar with berries, close the lid, roll up. After cooling, upside down under a blanket, store.

If you add mint to compote with strawberries, it will give the drink a special refreshing effect. To brew 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 - six mint leaves;
• three liter jar.

Sort strawberries, wash, place in a jar. Make syrup. When it boils, pour the contents of the compote container with it, throw mint into it. Let it brew for thirty minutes. After that, remove the mint, and return the sweet liquid to the pan. Bring to a boil and simmer for two to three minutes. Then pour the berry again. Roll up the jar, turn over and place in a warm place.

Strawberry compote with orange will have a festive taste.It will be nice to drink it on New Year's days. To prepare it, you will need:

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

Pour boiling water into a jar for twenty minutes, drain into a saucepan, add sugar and make syrup by 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 lemon. For cooking you need to take:

• kilogram of fresh strawberries;
• half a kilo of granulated sugar;
• one lemon;
• a little less than three liters of water;
• three liter jar.

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

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

An interesting taste is obtained from strawberry compote with the addition of cherries. There is only one problem in preparing a canned drink from these berries. They mature at different times. Therefore, in order to prepare such a compote, strawberries will have to be frozen and taken out for cooking when cherries appear.

To prepare cherry-strawberry compote, you should take:

• three hundred grams of strawberries;
• three hundred grams of cherries;
• the same amount of sugar;
• peppermint (sprig);
• water.

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

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

Have to take:

• three hundred grams of one and the other berry;
• a couple of mint leaves;
• one and a half glass of sugar;
• water;
• citric acid (teaspoon).

After that, pour the liquid into a cooking container and make sugar syrup. Pour the berries over them, mix, add citric acid, “brick up” and turn the jars over. Close with a blanket and wait until it cools down.

An interesting drink can be obtained using apricots. It is necessary to sterilize three-liter jars. They need to be taken depending on how many blanks for the winter there is a desire to make. Wash strawberries well. Cut apricots in half, remove pits. Pour a third of the jars with strawberries, add five apricots to each container. Send sugar there. It is enough to take a glass of sweet sand for a three-liter container.

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

Homemade will appreciate the recipe for strawberry and raspberry compote. To implement it, you need to have at hand:

• granulated sugar - one glass;
• strawberries - one kilogram;
• raspberries - one kilogram;
• three liter jar.

Sort and clean the berries. Place in a sterilized glass container. Pour very hot boiled water and put a lid on top. After that, pour the water into the pan so that the berries do not fall out there. You can use a sieve, from which the fallen raspberries and strawberries should be sent to the original container.

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

Many recipes for compotes with strawberries provide that they will be too sweet or sour in their consistency. There is nothing wrong with this. It is convenient to dilute such a drink to taste with boiled water or add sugar to a glass.

It is good to use pieces of ice when eating. They will give the compote more freshness and emphasize its taste.

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