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Irga is a small berry with a mild, sweet taste. To prepare it for the winter, many housewives cook compote. For a bright taste, you can add other fruits or citric acid. The order of preparing the ingredients does not differ depending on the selected recipe. Consider the best ways to make compote from irgi for the winter.
General recommendations for cooking
Regardless of which recipe is preferred, there are several basic features of making a drink. Let’s briefly list them:
- Due to its chemical composition, irga has a sweet, bland taste. To give the drink a sour note, you should add other fruits, citric acid or vinegar.
- Before starting the cooking process, the berries should be sorted out, thoroughly cleaned and washed.
- All jars and lids to be used must be sterilized.
- It is allowed to spin compote from irgi without prolonged boiling. In this case, the drink is made concentrated, and before direct use it should be diluted with water.
- Sterilized recipes take a little longer to cook.
Some methods are designed for a 1 liter jar, others for 3 liters. Below are a few recipes. Ingredients are calculated based on a volume of 3 liters.
Recipe for a drink with citric acid
Consider the first recipe for the workpiece, which provides for sterilization. To prepare it, you will need to take the following ingredients:
- Peeled irga – 500 g.
- Sugar – 600
- Water – 2,5 l.
- Citric acid – 8 g.
First you need to prepare the berries – sort them out and rinse. Then they are immediately laid out in clean containers.
The second stage of preparing compote from shadberry is cooking sugar syrup. To do this, pour 2,5 liters of water into the pan and pour 600 g of granulated sugar, which should dissolve completely during the cooking process. When the syrup is ready, the prepared volume of citric acid is added to it.
At the third stage, the prepared berries are poured with the resulting syrup. The next step is sterilization. By this time, the hostess should have prepared a large saucepan, at the bottom of which a piece of cloth is laid. The future compote is covered with lids and placed in a container.
Next, water is poured into the pan, not reaching about 5 cm to the necks. The finished container is placed on a low fire. As soon as the water boils, you need to sterilize the jars for no more than 10 minutes.
After this time, the jars are rolled up with lids and turned upside down. The finished product is left to cool completely. After opening, such a drink does not need to be diluted with water.
Sweet and sour currant compote
To add the missing acid to the compote from the shadberry, some housewives boil it with the addition of blackcurrant. A drink according to this recipe will have a brighter taste. The cooking procedure is almost the same as described above.
Based on a 3-liter volume, you will need to prepare:
- blackcurrant – 300 g;
- irga – 700 g;
- sugar – 350 g;
- water – 3 l;
- citric acid – 3 g.
The first stages are cleaning and washing of berries, sterilization of containers. Prepared fruits are immediately placed in jars, first blackcurrant, then shadberry.
Pour 3 liters of water into the pan, bring to a boil and prepare a syrup with the addition of citric acid and sugar. After the sugar has melted, the liquid must be boiled for another two minutes.
The stacked fruits are poured with syrup, covered with lids and sent for sterilization. As mentioned in the previous recipe, the time for a 3 liter jar is 7 to 10 minutes.
After boiling, the compote is rolled up with lids, turned over and left to cool. A drink with the addition of blackcurrant is considered one of the favorites of housewives. It has a pleasant sweet and sour taste. If desired, you can use red currants, in which case the amount of sugar should be increased by 50 g.
Recipe for citrus lovers
In order for compote from shadberry for the winter to have a pleasant sour note, you can add a few slices of lemon and orange. In this case, you do not need to add citric acid.
For the drink, the following ingredients are taken:
- irga – 750 g;
- orange – 100 g;
- lemon – 100 g;
- water – 3 l;
- sugar – 350
First prepare the fruits. Irgu is sorted out and washed. You should also rinse oranges and lemons. Then they are cut into thin slices. The bones are removed. Sterilize containers.
Berries are placed in clean jars first, and then fruit slices. The prepared volume of water is poured into a saucepan and boiled. After that, fill the containers and wait 10 minutes. Then the water is again poured into the pan and sugar is added. The syrup must be boiled and boiled until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Hot sweet liquid is poured back to the berries and rolled up with a clean lid. In order for the citrus flavor to be clearly felt, the compote needs to stand for two months.
Express compote type
If the hostess does not have much time for home-made preparations, you can make a quick compote of shadberry for the winter. This will require the most affordable ingredients:
- Irga – 750 g.
- Sugar – 300
- Water – 2,5 l.
At the first stage, jars and lids are sterilized. They pick the berries and wash them. Next, fruits for the drink are poured into the cleaned container.
Prepared berries are poured with boiling water, not reaching the neck about 3 cm. The water is left to infuse for about 15 minutes. The liquid that did not enter the jar is not required, it can be drained immediately.
After waiting 15 minutes, the water is again poured into the pan. Sugar is also poured there – about 300 g. The berry itself is quite sweet. Therefore, adding a lot of sugar to the product is impractical. The syrup should be brought to a boil and boiled until the sand is completely dissolved.
The finished liquid is poured into a jar. This recipe for compote from shadberry for the winter does not involve boiling. Banks can immediately be rolled up or twisted with threaded lids. Then they are turned over and left to cool.
Recipe for concentrated compote
Concentrated compote from irgi will be the solution to the problem in case of a lack of containers for blanks. As you might guess from the name, before drinking, such a drink must be diluted with water.
To prepare the concentrate, you will need the following ingredients:
- ripe berries of irgi – 1 kg;
- water – 1 l;
- sugar – 300
As with any compote, you first need to sort and wash the fruits, sterilize the jars and lids. Peeled berries are placed in prepared containers.
The next step is to boil the syrup. Pour the entire volume of water into the pan and add sugar. Boil until it is completely dissolved. It is not necessary to bring the syrup to a strong thickening. Pour the finished syrup into containers with berries.
Cover jars with future compote with a lid and send for sterilization. Three liters is enough for 10 minutes. It remains to roll up the containers with compote and, covering with a blanket, leave to cool.
How to sterilize
Before preparing compote from shadberry for the winter, you should sterilize the jars and lids necessary for its storage. There are several options for how this can be done.
In the microwave oven
Microwave sterilization is relevant for housewives who make blanks in small containers. First, they need to be thoroughly washed with soda, rinse and pour half a glass of cold water into them. Leave them in the microwave on the highest setting. For jars with a capacity of 1 liter, 5 minutes will be enough, 3-liter jars will sterilize for 10 minutes.
On a water bath
Pour water into a large saucepan with jars for blanks and boil it. Wait 3 to 10 minutes depending on the size of the jars.
A similar method should be used to sterilize caps. Pour water into the pan, lower the lids there so that they completely drown in the liquid, and leave to boil for 5 minutes.
Sterilization of containers with compote
If the recipe provides for sterilization, jars of compote are placed in a large saucepan, at the bottom of which a piece of fabric is laid out. Water is poured in such a way that about 3 cm remains to the necks. Next, the entire container is put on low heat and waiting for boiling. After that, sterilize from 3 to 10 minutes, depending on the volume. Half-liter jars need 3 minutes, while 3-liter jars will take 7 to 10.
How to use compote berries
In fact, irga from compote will also not be superfluous. You can use one of the following offers:
- Lay on top of baking as a decoration.
- Rub the pulp through a sieve and make a sweet puree.
- Prepare the filling for sweet pies or a layer for the cake.
The finished drink is rich red in color. It has an unusual taste and a pleasant, delicate aroma. Everyone who has a shadberry bush on the site should try one of these recipes:
