Prune compote: cooking recipes for the winter with photos and videos

Fresh plum compote is one of those drinks that will appeal to you both on a hot day and on a frosty winter evening. For those who don't know, prunes are dried plums. The dried fruit itself, as well as dishes from it, is a storehouse of useful substances. It can be bought inexpensively in winter, summer, and autumn, which means that you can pamper your body with useful all year round. And most importantly - cooking will not take much time and money.

Cooking Features

To make compote, whatever recipe you choose, it is important to find out three nuances:

1. How much to cook?
2. How long to cook?
3. How to properly prepare prunes for cooking?

The most suitable amount for a one-time cooking for a family is 8-10 servings of 200 milliliters. It makes no sense to cook more: the drink does not last long. How much time to cook? At home, 15-20 minutes will be enough. With further cooking, the prunes will get very wet and fall apart - the drink will have to be filtered from large pieces.

And most importantly - the selection and preparation of prunes for cooking. Both the impression of the resulting drink and the ease of its preparation depend on this.

If you are a fan of subtle notes of taste, compote can be diluted with other dried fruits to taste: dried apricots, pears, raisins.

Selection and preparation of prunes

When buying prunes in a store or on the market, it is worth studying several properties of a quality dried fruit:

• choose black and blue fruits;
• keeps shape but feels soft;
• perfect prunes have a matte color;
• tastes sweet and sour, without bitter notes;
• a quality dried product develops a white coating during soaking;
• good product does not leave black marks on hands.

Having chosen and brought home prunes, it is necessary to prepare it for further use. There are two most practical ways:

• wash under cold water pressure;
• soak in cold water and wait 25-30 minutes.

After that, the prunes will be ready for cooking.

How to make prune compote at home

The technology of making compote at home is simple and does not take much time.First - the fruits should be prepared and washed in warm water 2-3 times. Next - pour boiled water and cook for 8-10 minutes over medium heat. Pour sugar, reduce heat and cook for another 8-10 minutes. Remove the finished compote from the heat and cool to 15-20 °. Before pouring into portions, mix the drink in a container.

Easy winter recipe

There are several simple ways, the recipes of which include additional ingredients, or the cooking method itself differs in its characteristics. All of them are designed for a 3-liter jar.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 kilogram of fresh prunes;
• 200-250 grams of sugar;
• 3 liters of filtered water.

First, boil all the water in a saucepan.As soon as the water boils, add sugar and mix. Boil for 3-4 minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Put prunes in pre-sterilized jars. Pour into containers up to the neck. Then you need to close the sterilized lid and roll up. Put upside down and cover with a thick blanket. After 3-5 days, the blanket can be removed and the jars can be stored.

No sterilization

For convenience and speeding up the cooking process, sterilization of containers can be neglected. Make compote with similar ingredients in similar proportions.

1. Fill jars exactly half way with dried fruit.
2. Bring water to a boil and pour over the prunes. Wait 10 minutes.
3. Pour the water from the jar back into the boiling container.
4. Add sugar and boil for the 2nd time until completely dissolved.
5. Pour the prunes with the resulting syrup to the brim.
6. Turn the jar over, cover and leave for 5-7 days.

Sugar free

This recipe is suitable for consumption of the drink only in the first 24 hours.

Per liter of drink will require:

• 0.2 kilograms of dried plums;
• 1 liter of water.

Bring water to a boil, add prunes, cover and cook over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Then remove from heat and, without opening the lid, leave for another 1 hour. Properly aged compote will have a slight laxative effect and will be especially useful for children under 1 year old.

Stoneless

If you come across prunes with a stone inside, but you want to use not only the drink, but also the fruits themselves, you will have to take out the seeds. To do this is quite simple. Boiling, scalding and making other unnecessary movements is not necessary.

As soon as the bones are removed, cook compote according to any recipe you like.

In a slow cooker with dried apricots

If you have a slow cooker at hand, compote can be cooked in it.

1. Sugar - 150 grams.
2. Water - 4 liters.
3. Dried apricots - 150 grams.
4. Prunes - 150 grams.

Pour boiling water over two types of dried fruits for 10-15 minutes. As soon as the ingredients are softened, put them in a slow cooker and pour cold water, stepping back from the top of the multicooker 6-7 centimeters. Add 150-170 grams of sugar to 4 liters of water. Set the "soup" or "stew" mode for 1 hour. After the device is finished, leave the compote for another 1.5-2 hours.

With raisins and fresh apples

1. Apple 1 piece.
2. Raisins - 65 grams.
3. Dried plum - 110 grams.
4. Water - 3 liters.

If in the future there is a desire to strain the compote, the apple can not be peeled, just cut into 10 equal pieces. Throw all the ingredients in boiled water and cook for 15-20 minutes in a closed container. Infuse the drink for 2-3 hours.

With honey and cranberries

For cooking, you can take both fresh and frozen cranberries:

• dried plum - 300 grams;
• cranberries - 150 grams;
• honey - 30-40 grams;
• water - 3 liters

Put dried fruit into boiling water and cook for 10-15 minutes. Then add cranberries and cook for another 5 minutes. Add honey to the already cooled drink and stir well.

With zucchini

1. Prunes - 0.5 kilograms.
2. Water - 3 liters.
3. Zucchini - 0.5 kilograms.
4. Sugar - 0.5 kilo.

You only need the flesh of the zucchini for cooking, so you need to remove all the seeds and skin.

Pour prunes and zucchini with boiling water for 10 minutes, then drain the water into another container. Add sugar to the broth and boil the syrup for 2-3 minutes. Separate prunes from zucchini and add only it to the drink. Leave for 2-3 hours.

With lemon

Great for a hot day:

• prunes - 200 grams;
• sugar - 150 grams;
• water - 1 liter;
• lemon - 1 piece.

Scald lemon with boiling water and cut in half. Cut into thin slices. Add prunes to the boiled sugar syrup and cook for 15 minutes. Then cook with lemon for another 10 minutes. Cool, add ice and some fresh lemon.

With wine berries

1. Dried plum - 0.2 kilograms.
2. Wine berries - 0.05 kilograms.
3. Lemon juice - 0.01 milliliters.

Boil the grapes for 20 minutes over low heat. Boil prunes separately also for 20 minutes. Cool, mix two decoctions and dilute with lemon juice to taste.

With pear

You will need:

1. Dried plum - 150 grams.
2. Dried pear - 150 grams.
3. Water - 1.5 liters.
4. Sugar - 150-170 grams.

Cook all dried fruits in sugar syrup for half an hour, then refrigerate.

Terms and methods of storage of compote

Fresh compote will stay in your home for no more than 36 hours at a temperature of 2-15 °.

Canned, subject to storage rules, can be consumed in 2-3 years.

1. Keep in temperature up to 18°.
2. Check for swelling and foam from time to time.

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