Frozen cranberry compote

Cranberries are a great way to boost your immune system during the cold season. According to the content of vitamin C, this product is considered one of the leaders. Cranberry compote has a pleasant taste and a huge range of useful properties. If you freeze the product for the winter, then at any time you can make a drink that is healthy.

Cranberry preparation

For freezing it is necessary to use a strong, whole berry. After coming home, the collected or purchased berry must be sorted out. Immediately weed out specimens that are sick, wrinkled and spoiled. After that, the fruits are washed in running water and dried naturally. You can blot with paper towels.

Then distribute into small plastic bags. In one package there should be such a portion of the marsh berry that is enough for one use, since defrosting and freezing several times negatively affect both the appearance and the content of useful properties.

It is recommended to release the air from the bag, give the package the shape of a pancake so that the berries lie in one layer.

Some housewives, when freezing cranberries, sprinkle them with sugar, but this is already an amateur. For patients with diabetes, this is an unnecessary procedure. Sugar does not affect the quality of storage, frozen cranberries are perfectly preserved for 1-2 years, sometimes more.

If you do not freeze it yourself, then you can buy an already frozen berry in the store. It should be loose. If cranberries look like a block of ice in a store package, they have been defrosted several times, which indicates a violation of storage technology.

The benefits of cranberry compote

Cranberry compote is useful not only as a source of vitamin C and group B. It is a complete natural antibiotic that helps with colds, various inflammations and fever. Cranberry compote will not only quench your thirst, but will strengthen the immune system, help fight infections and respiratory diseases.

With pyelonephritis, cranberry compote is recommended to be used as an antibacterial and at the same time a diuretic. Cranberry compote has a pronounced analgesic property, and also prevents the emergence and development of cancer cells.

Cranberries are among the products that strengthen blood vessels and remove bad cholesterol from the body.

And also cranberry compote can improve digestion and increase appetite. This is important, because with colds and various infectious diseases, a person often does not want to eat, and food is necessary to give strength and strengthen the body. In this case, compote will help precisely as an appetite-enhancing agent.

All useful substances during heat treatment come out of the berry into the water. Moreover, in liquid form, they are much better absorbed by the body.

But the product also has its contraindications. It should be carefully used for a year even in compotes for those who have complex gastritis with high acidity, as well as problems with the duodenum. The use of the berry itself in unlimited quantities leads to damage to tooth enamel.

How to cook cranberry compote – a recipe for the winter

For the winter, it is possible to prepare a recipe directly from fresh berries without any freezing. Such a blank will perfectly forgive all winter and will always be at hand. The ingredients are:

• 1 kg of cranberries.
• 1 liter of water.
• sugar 1 kg.

You need to prepare compote like this:

1. Sort and wash the berries, separate all diseased and damaged specimens.
2. Arrange in jars, which are pre-washed with soda and sterilized.
3. Boil water and add sugar to it.
4. Boil the syrup until the sugar is completely dissolved, while stirring be sure to stir.
5. Cool down to 80°C.
6. Pour the berries with the resulting syrup, put boiled lids on the jars.
7. Place the jars in a large saucepan with a wooden circle or towel at the bottom. Pour water so that it reaches the jars with compote to the shoulders.
8. Sterilize jars depending on the capacity for 10-40 minutes. The larger the container, the longer it will take to sterilize.
9. Pull out the compote and roll it up with airtight lids. You can use boiled nylon lids.
10. Turn over and wrap with a blanket to cool slowly.

How to cook frozen cranberry compote

For a frozen berry drink, you will need the following ingredients:

• 1 cup frozen cranberries;
• 2 liters of pure water;
• 150 d Sahara.

The recipe is simple:

1. Boil water, add sugar and wait until it boils again.
2. The amount of sugar may vary depending on taste.
3. Add raw materials (no need to defrost).
4. Wait for the boil and reduce the heat.
5. Cook on low heat for 35 minutes.

The drink is served chilled, and therefore after preparation it must be put on the windowsill for 20 minutes.

Cranberry and strawberry compote

A drink with the addition of strawberries has a sweeter taste, as well as a pleasant aroma. You can use both fresh and frozen berries. For compote you will need: 25 grams of each berry and 300 grams of granulated sugar.

Algorithm cooking:

1. Boil 4,5 liters of water.
2. Add berries, if they are frozen, then defrosting is not required.
3. Bring to a boil and add sugar to taste.
4. Remove from heat and cool the drink.
5. The drink is infused under the lid to preserve the aroma.

You can use this compote both hot and cold.

How to cook cranberry compote with lingonberries

Lingonberries are another northern berry with a wide range of vitamins and beneficial properties. In combination with cranberries, an excellent anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and strengthening agent is obtained. For compote you will need 2 types of frozen berries, sugar, water, and 1 lemon. Lingonberries can be taken 650 g, and cranberries are enough 100 g.

Recipe:

1. Squeeze juice from lemon.
2. Pour water into a saucepan and boil it, throw the peel from the lemon there.
3. Add sugar and wait until the syrup boils again and the sugar dissolves.
4. Pour in frozen cranberries and lingonberries.
5. Remove from heat after 5 minutes.

The drink must be insisted under the lid and then poured into a decanter. Excellent taste and aroma will allow you to serve a drink not only for everyday lunch, but also for the festive table. During illness, this is a complete medicine and a substitute for pharmacy vitamins. The drink quenches thirst, strengthens the immune system, and also gives strength to fight infection.

Cranberry compote from cranberries and apples

For a drink with cranberries and apples, you will need the following components:

• frozen berry – 300 g;
• two fresh medium-sized apples;
• sugar to taste;
• orange peel.

The sequence for preparing compote with apples does not differ from previous recipes:

1. Put a pot of water on the stove.
2. Pour in sugar.
3. Cut apples with skin into small pieces.
4. As the water boils, add apples, cranberries, and orange peels to the pan.
5. Cook compote over low heat for 15 minutes.

It is also important to remember that cranberries in compote do not need to be mashed, otherwise the drink will have to be filtered. Some housewives do this so that the berry gives out its beneficial properties better. But cranberries under the influence of temperature and so will give all the vitamins to the compote, there is no need to crush it.

Conclusion

Cranberry compote is considered a classic homemade antipyretic drink. At the end of summer and autumn, this berry is harvested, but I want to have a healthy drink on the table all year round. Therefore, it is advisable to freeze the berries in portioned packages and then cook delicious and fragrant compotes all winter. It can be drinks not only from cranberries, but also with the addition of lingonberries, apples, blueberries and other healthy products. The preparation time is 15 minutes, and the benefits are invaluable. It is important to remember that frozen cranberries should not be thawed more than once.