Apple and blackberry compote

Among the various winter preparations, compotes occupy a special place. These are not just sweet drinks, but a complete complex of many vitamins, which can give energy and strength. Apple and chokeberry compote is a very healthy drink in itself. In addition, it has a pleasant aroma and a special taste with a slight astringency. There are a huge number of recipes for making such a drink for the winter. Each housewife has her own additional ingredients and cooking secrets.

How to make apple and blackberry compote

This is a very healthy drink that will perfectly lower blood pressure and help strengthen the immune system. For cooking, you need to select the ingredients. Fruits are suitable both sour and sweet, it all depends on the preferences of the hostess. These must be fully mature fruits with no signs of disease or rot.

Chokeberry should be purchased or harvested when it is fully ripe and has a classic blue-black color. Even a slightly unripe berry will give the drink a too tart taste for the winter. The best option is to pick berries after the first frost hits.

The amount of sugar for each recipe is strictly individual. For better preservation, it is necessary to prepare three-liter jars in advance. They must be thoroughly washed with soda and then sterilized. This can be done in the oven or just over steam.

You can cook compote from apples and chokeberries according to one of the popular and proven recipes below.

The classic recipe for apple and chokeberry compote

To prepare a classic blackberry drink, you will need a very small amount of products:

• 10 L of water;
• 4 cup of granulated sugar;
• 2 kg of apples;
• 900g blackberries.

Cooking process:

1. Wash berries and fruits thoroughly.
2. Cut the fruits into 4 parts and cut into slices or cubes.
3. Mix fruits with berries, pour water and put on fire. Boil for 20 minutes.
4. Add sugar to boiling compote.
5. A sign of readiness is the bursting of the peel on the berries.
6. When hot, the drink must be distributed in glass containers and immediately rolled up.

To check the tightness of closed cans, they must be turned over and wrapped with a blanket. After cooling, after a day, you can store the canned drink in the basement.

Black ashberry and apple compote without sterilization

Delicious apple and blackberry compote can be made without sterilization. Ingredients for harvesting:

• chokeberry berries – 1,5 cups;
• 4 apple;
• 2 cup of sugar.

Easy to prepare, no need to sterilize:

1. Fruit cut into 8 pieces.
2. Rinse chokeberry and drain in a colander.
3. Place in a sterilized jar.
4. Boil 3 liters of water and pour over the top. Cover with a lid and let stand for 20 minutes.
5. After 20 minutes, drain the liquid from the jar and mix it with sugar.
6. Prepare syrup.
7. Pour back into the jar in a boiling state and immediately roll up.

A wonderful drink for the winter is ready and no sterilization.

How to cook blackberry compote with apples and pears

Drink ingredients:

• 500 g of sweet and sour apples;
• pears – half a kilo;
• chokeberry – 300 g;
• Xnumx g of granulated sugar.

Compote of apples and chokeberries for the winter with the addition of pears is done like this:

1. Wash the fruit, cut the middle, cut into 4 parts.
2. Berries pour boiling water for 5 minutes, fold in a colander.
3. Place everything in jars and pour boiling water over it.
4. Leave for 40 minutes.
5. Drain liquid into a saucepan and add sugar.
6. Boil for 5 minutes, then refill the jars and roll up.

Be sure to turn over and allow the jars to cool under a warm blanket for a day. Only then determine the permanent storage location.

Apple compote with chokeberry and cherry leaves

Compote of fresh apples and chokeberries will acquire a unique flavor if you add cherry leaves to it.

Ingredients for the drink:

• a glass of chokeberry;
• 300 grams of sugar;
• a pinch of citric acid;
• cherry leaves – 6 pcs.;
• Xnumx apples.

Cooking process:

1. Wash the leaves and dry on a towel.
2. Wash the berries.
3. Fruit cut into slices.
4. Put everything in a jar and pour boiling water over it.
5. After 20 minutes, drain the water and boil with sugar.
6. Pour the contents of the jars with boiling syrup and immediately seal tightly.

The aroma is magical, the taste is pleasant.

Compote from apples and chokeberries: a recipe with citric acid

The components of such a drink for the winter:

• half a kilo of apples;
• a quarter of a small spoon of citric acid;
• 300 g chokeberry;
• the same amount of sugar;
• 2,5 liters of water.

Compote from fresh apples and chokeberry can be prepared as follows:

1. Rinse the berries, and cut the fruits without a core into large slices.
2. Put everything in sterilized jars and pour boiling water over it.
3. Leave wrapped in a warm towel for 15 minutes.
4. Then drain the liquid, add sugar and citric acid, boil.
5. After boiling, cook for a couple of minutes and pour into jars.

Such a drink will delight all households in the cold season.

The easiest blackberry compote with apples

The simplest drink for the winter contains only the main products:

• 5 apples;
• 170 g of berries;
• 130 d Sahara.

For cooking, you will need the same simple algorithm: wash, cut fruits, rinse berries, put everything in sterilized hot jars. From above, under the very neck, pour everything with boiling water. Banks should stand for 10 minutes. The drink will infuse like this and acquire a beautiful color. Then, using a special lid, drain the liquid and make syrup with sugar from it. Pour the contents of the jars with boiling syrup and immediately seal tightly. Then turn the jars over and wrap them in a warm cloth. During the day, the drink will cool down, and you can check how tightly the cans are closed. Store, as well as all preservation, in a cool dark place.

How to cook blackberry and apple compote with vanilla

Compote of sweet berries and chokeberry can be prepared by adding a few pears and a bag of vanilla. The preparation is very tasty and fragrant. But the ingredients are very simple and affordable:

• aronia – 800 g;
• Xnumx Pears;
• 400 g of apples are enough;
• a small bag of vanilla;
• Xnumx g of granulated sugar;
• incomplete small spoonful of citric acid.

It takes very little time to prepare, the principle is no different from previous drink recipes. Cooking algorithm:

1. Cut the fruit in half and remove the core.
2. Rinse the chokeberries thoroughly and drain in a colander.
3. Place pears and apples in clean, steam-sterilized jars. Sprinkle aronia berries on top.
4. Boil 2 liters of clean, filtered water.
5. Fill the jar almost to the neck.
6. Let stand for 15 minutes with the lid on.
7. Drain the liquid from the jar using a special tool.
8. Dissolve sugar, citric acid and vanillin in a saucepan with drained liquid.
9. Bring to a boil, wait a couple of minutes, then pour the boiling solution into jars.

A drink for the winter must be immediately rolled up and put in a warm blanket for slow cooling.

Apple compote for the winter with chokeberry and lemon

Apple compote with chokeberry for the winter is excellently prepared with the addition of lemon. This citrus will replace the presence of citric acid and add additional vitamins to a healthy drink.

 Ingredients for this piece:

• half a lemon;
• 12 pieces of strong, but medium-sized apples;
• refined sugar – 300 g;
• one and a half glasses of chokeberry;
• 1,5 liters of water.

From these products you can make a delicious drink. Step-by-step algorithm for preparing a drink:

1. Sort and wash the berries.
2. Cut the fruit, remove the seed part from them and cut into large pieces.
3. Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire.
4. As soon as the water boils, throw in the apples so that they cook for 2 minutes.
5. Put the fruit out of the water into a jar.
6. Bring the broth from the pan back to a boil and throw in the berries.
7. After a minute, put the berries in jars with apples.
8. In boiling water, add the strained juice of half a lemon, sugar, stir.
9. Wait until the syrup boils.
10. Now pour the syrup into jars with berries and apples and roll up hermetically with sterilized lids.

All households will be happy to drink this masterpiece in the winter season.

Plum, apple and blackberry compote

Necessary products for compote from a whole range of fruits:

• 200 grams of apples, plums, and pears.
• aronia berries – 400 g;
• 250 g of white sugar;
• 900 ml water.

To prepare such a compote in large quantities, it is enough to increase all the ingredients by the same number of times in order to maintain the proportions.

Recipe with step by step instructions:

1. Rinse the berries and pour boiling water over them, then drain in a colander.
2. Slice all fruits. It is desirable to make slices approximately the same size.
3. Blanch all fruits for about 8 minutes until they are soft enough.
4. Place in jars, alternating with chokeberry in layers.
5. Make syrup from water and sugar.
6. Pour jars and put them on sterilization. Within 15 minutes, the jars should be sterilized, and then rolled up with a can key.

For storage, the workpiece can be removed only after checking its tightness.

Delicious blackberry, apple and rosehip compote

Ingredients for a delicious compote:

• apples – 300 g;
• 400 ml syrup;
• 150 g of wild rose and chokeberry.

The recipe is not difficult:

1. Seeds and hairs should be removed from the wild rose, the berries should be well treated in boiling water.
2. Cut apples into large pieces.
3. Pour boiling water over chokeberry.
4. Arrange everything neatly in jars.
5. Pour sugar syrup, which is made at the rate of 400 grams of sugar per half liter of water. The syrup should boil.
6. Sterilize jars for 10-20 minutes, depending on their volume.

Immediately after sterilization, close the finished preservation hermetically and wrap it in a warm blanket.

Very fragrant and tasty compote of apples and chokeberries with mint

This is a very tasty and aromatic drink that will smell good. The ingredients, in principle, are standard, but mint and tangerines are added. This seasoning will give a special taste to the workpiece and make it a family favorite drink. The products needed are the following:

• berries – 250 g;
• 3 tangerines;
• 2 liters of water;
• 10 mint leaves;
• Xnumx g of granulated sugar.

The recipe is simple, as is the cooking algorithm:

1. Peel tangerines, wash berries.
2. Put all the fruits and berries in a saucepan and cover with sugar.
3. Fill everything with water.
4. Put on fire and cook until the compote is ready.
5. A few minutes before cooking, add all the mint and a little citric acid.

Pour boiling compote into sterilized jars. For children, such a delicious drink is perfect as a refreshing addition to breakfast in the cold season. It is tasty and healthy, and also very fragrant. The smell of tangerines gives the feeling of the New Year.

Rules for storing blackberry and apple compote

Such a blank is stored, like any preservation. A dark and cool room is needed, in which the temperature will not rise above + 18 ° C. At the same time, it is impossible for the compote to freeze, and therefore the temperature below zero is unacceptable. This is true for balconies if they are not insulated. In the apartment, you can store the workpiece in the pantry, if it is not heated.

In any case, it should not be too damp and without traces of mold on the walls. Then the banks will remain throughout the winter period.

Conclusion

Compote of apples and chokeberries perfectly refreshes, gives tone and saturates with vitamins in the winter. But such a drink should not be consumed by people with low blood pressure, as dizziness and fainting may occur. And in terms of the presence of vitamin C, chokeberry can compete with many berries and fruits. Compote from apples and chokeberries can also be cooked in a saucepan for the summer for a one-time use.