How to cook pumpkin compote with apples 

Pumpkin compote is a healthy vitamin drink. People who constantly use pumpkin compote note that the skin becomes elastic and elastic, the hair stops falling out and becomes healthy. Metabolic processes in the body improve, the heart muscle begins to work better. You can list the advantages of pumpkin for a long time, but now we are not talking about them, but about products obtained from a vegetable.

But not every person likes compote from only one pumpkin because of the fresh taste. The addition of various fruits and berries helps to improve the product. Pumpkin compote with apples is a unique product that combines the advantages of both ingredients. The taste becomes inimitable and amazing. We will talk about how to cook pumpkin compote with apples.

Choosing a pumpkin

You should not think that you can take any pumpkin for a drink. After all, there are many varieties of this vegetable. There are dessert and fodder options among them. To prepare a pumpkin drink with apples, you need to choose the “right” vegetable. It is this question that most often interests young hostesses.

What should be taken into account:

1. For compotes, only dessert varieties with bright yellow or orange flesh are suitable. They have a lot of sugar. It is easy to make sure of this: just cut off a slice and taste it.
2. You should not choose a large vegetable. According to experienced gardeners, the smaller the pumpkin, the sweeter it is. In addition, it has a delicate, thin skin.
3. If you buy vegetables in the market, never buy cut copies: they may contain germs.
4. Before cutting, the vegetable is washed in several waters to wash away all the earth and grains of sand.
5. Cut the pumpkin into small, preferably equal-sized pieces, no thicker than 1,5 cm. In this case, they will boil evenly, and the look of the finished drink will be aesthetic.

Which apples are better

How to be with a pumpkin, we have decided. But we have another ingredient, the choice of which is no less important. It’s no secret that not all apples are suitable for making compotes. Some varieties simply fall apart, lose their integrity, from which the compote becomes unsightly in appearance. Although the taste is not lost.

So what are the best apples to use for making a vitamin pumpkin-apple drink? It does not make sense to name varieties, since only a few will be able to use this information.

So, how to choose a fruit for a vitamin drink:

1. As a rule, varieties of late ripening, which are left for winter storage, are considered the best. Many varieties of apples are suitable for long-term storage.
2. Overripe fruits will not work, as they will lose their shape. But slightly unripe apples – just right.
3. For a pumpkin drink, it is better to use sour fruits, as the best option is the Antonovka variety.
4. It is not necessary to take only green apples. Red fruits will add a rich color to the compote.

When cooking compote from a pumpkin-apple drink, it should be borne in mind that both ingredients will reach until the drink cools down. In addition, this process is delayed, since the banks are necessarily wrapped in a blanket or fur coat.

Recipes for pumpkin and apple compotes

Only pumpkin and apples

We bring to your attention recipes for a drink in which only apples and pumpkin are present. It will take half an hour to cook.

The recipe is the first

Stock up on:

• pumpkin – 0,4 kg;
• medium-sized apples – 4 pieces;
• granulated sugar – 100-150 grams;
• citric acid – a quarter of a teaspoon.

Ingredients are given for one liter of water.

Recipe for the second

Ingredients for 2 liters of water:

• pumpkin – 400 grams;
• apples – 600 grams;
• sugar – 300 grams;
• citric acid – ½ teaspoon.

Warning! The weight of each ingredient in the recipe is already given for peeled apples and pumpkins.

We gave an example of two options with different amounts of ingredients, but the compote is prepared in the same way.

Cooking rules:

1. Thoroughly wash the pumpkin and apples, dry them with a napkin.
2. We cut the pumpkin into pieces, remove the seed chamber along with the fibrous pulp. It is convenient to do this with a spoon. We cut off the peel. For successful cutting, slices with a thickness of no more than 1,5 cm are needed. Each of them is cut into equal pieces, no more than 1 cm.
3. Apples are peeled (you can not cut), divide into quarters and remove the petiole, seeds and plates. From apples you need to get neat cubes.

   

4. We put the prepared components in a bowl, add sugar and pour cold water. As soon as the water becomes a little warm, pour in citric acid, according to the recipe. This ingredient is necessary to maintain the integrity of the components.
5. You need to cook a vitamin drink for 25-30 minutes. During this time, the pumpkin slices will become transparent.

The contents of the pan are immediately laid out in hot jars and hermetically sealed. Turning the jars upside down, wrap for sterilization until the drink has cooled.

You can store such a blank in any cool place.

Yes, even tastier.

To prepare pumpkin compote with apples, many hostesses add various ingredients to make it even tastier and healthier.

Recipe No.1

We offer you a drink option with prunes.

For five glasses of water we need:

• granulated sugar – half a glass;
• pumpkin pulp – 300 grams;
• sour apples – 200 grams;
• prunes – 1 handful;
• citric acid (if for winter storage) – 0 teaspoon;
• cinnamon – to taste.

How to cook:

1. First, the pumpkin, apples and prunes are washed well and dried.
2. Then the pumpkin is cut into strips, and the rest of the ingredients into slices.
3. Pour prunes with pre-cooked syrup, add cinnamon. Boil on low heat for 10 minutes.
4. After that, fill in the pumpkin, after another 5 minutes – slices of apples.
5. Pumpkin compote is boiled until all components are ready.

The drink for storage is poured into cans, rolled up and cooled upside down in warmth.

Recipe No.2

For one and a half liters of water you need to prepare:

• pumpkin and sour apples – 0,3 kg each;
• dried apricots – 2 tablespoons;
• raisins – 1 tablespoon;
• cinnamon and sugar – half a teaspoon each.

Cooking features:

1. Cook pumpkin and apples in the usual way and cut into small pieces. Dried apricots and raisin slices.
2. In the prepared boiling syrup, first put dried apricots with raisins and cinnamon. After 10 minutes, add pumpkin pieces. After another 5 minutes – chopped apples.
3. When all the ingredients are ready, pour citric acid. But this is the case if the workpiece is intended for winter storage.
4. We seal the jars and send them under a fur coat.

You can cook like this:

Instead of a conclusion

We have brought to your attention several recipes for a pumpkin drink with apples. You can cook a little and decide which option is suitable for your household.

The quantity of ingredients for preparing a large or small volume of a nutritious and tasty drink can be changed. In addition, taking some recipe as a basis, it is possible to experiment by adding fruits and berries at your discretion.