Many modern housewives with all thoroughness and scrupulousness prepare for the onset of cold weather. At the end of summer and almost all fall, an active season of harvesting takes place. Stocked up not only canned vegetables, salads and preserves, but also various drinks. One of such tasty, healthy, aromatic and quick to prepare drinks is stewed oranges.
As you know, citrus fruits occupy a special and very important place among the entire fruit and berry variety. This is such a delicacy that will not leave indifferent either fastidious adults or capricious gourmet babies. There are a lot of options for preparing various drinks with citrus fruits. However, not all recipes are suitable for winter harvesting.
Today we will offer several popular, completely simple, not expensive in terms of money and time and absolutely not complicated recipes for stewed oranges. We want to note right away that oranges are such a universal product that you can combine it with both fruits and various berries or aromatic herbs (for example, mint).
Classic recipe
To begin with, perhaps, we will not resort to culinary experiments and prepare the simplest and most often used housewife recipe for orange compote. To taste, it will very much resemble citrus juice and absolutely will not lose in the amount of vitamins during heat treatment. This is a great addition to winter desserts.
Essential Ingredients:
- 2 l of water;
- 600 g of sugar;
- five oranges.
Description of the cooking process
This recipe for orange compote will require a significant amount of patience from the hostess. Fruits must be washed, peeled and removed the white part, that is, those partitions that are between the orange slices. Bones and films are also removed. For the preparation of the drink, we only need slices of a triangular shape, smooth and neat.
In pre-prepared glass containers, which also will not be superfluous to sterilize, we lay oranges. Pour the required amount of water into the pan, add sugar, bring the liquid to a boil. Pour the orange slices with the resulting syrup. We leave banks in this state for 20-30 minutes. Then the syrup must be drained into the pan, bring it to a boil again. After the second filling, the cans are closed with metal lids and rolled up with a key.
We advise you not to rush to remove the container for storage. Stewed oranges must cool. Only chilled drinks can be sent to the refrigerator, cellar or pantry. If long-term storage (longer than 6 months) is planned, we recommend adding half a teaspoon of citric acid before screwing the lid.
Oranges and apples
Favorite treat, which we often indulged in, coming to the grandmother in the village, also goes well with overseas fruits. Sour notes can always be smoothed out with a couple of extra spoons of sugar. Apple taste, mixed with the aroma of orange, gives an unusual “bouquet”. Stewed oranges and apples will not turn out to be fresh, as some housewives think, the taste, on the contrary, will be very rich and interesting.
What is required:
- 420 g of sugar;
- 6 apples
- 3 oranges;
- 1.5 liters of water.
How to cook
First you need to properly prepare the glass containers. Banks are advised to wash not just under running water, but in warm water with the addition of baking soda. Thus, microbes will be removed, and the glass will become crystal clear. After this treatment, the container should be rinsed with boiling water or sent to sterilize for 2-3 minutes. We simply fill the lids with very hot water and leave for a few minutes.
Since these ingredients contain a sufficient amount of their own acid, the use of additional products is not required. Typically, citric acid is placed in compotes of pears, sweet plums, and so on. Oranges and apples are quite acidic foods in and of themselves.
If you look at some recipe with a photo of stewed oranges, you can see that citrus fruits float in a jar without skin. Therefore, we spend a little time, remove the peel, partitions, seeds. To make a drink, you need only juicy and bright slices. The peel with seeds will have to be removed from apples. We cut them into 6-8 parts. We lay the fruits in prepared glass containers.
Pour water into the pan, pour sugar. There we send the peel from oranges. Cook the syrup for 5 minutes, add heat, let the liquid boil and immediately remove from the stove. Pour the syrup into jars and roll them with a lid. Turning the container over is not necessary. The main thing is that the compote should be removed for storage only after it has completely cooled down.
How to cook stewed oranges in a slow cooker
We all know that a kitchen helper allows you to quickly cook soup, cook porridge, pilaf or “raise” yeast dough. But few housewives use a slow cooker to prepare winter preparations. In vain. She copes with the task. Let's try to make a delicious stewed oranges (photo attached). It takes a minimum of time, and we get the maximum benefit.
What products will be required:
- 2 l of water;
- 2 stack Sahara;
- 3 oranges;
- 4 apples
- 2 tangerines.
Cooking
Wash the apples well, carefully removing the external dust. Even if they were bought at the nearest supermarket, and not assembled in the garden, you should pay maximum attention to the process of washing fruits. After the bathing procedure, the apples are divided into four parts, the core is removed, the partitions and seeds are removed. Similarly, oranges must be prepared. Do not forget to remove the white parts that are between the slices. They contain a lot of bitterness, so they have no place in a sweet and tasty compote. As for tangerines, they are simply peeled, divided into slices. Mandarin seeds can not be removed.
We put all the prepared fruits in a bowl, pour sugar, pour water. Turn on the "frying" for 15 minutes. Do not close the lid. Ready compote is poured into sterilized clean glass jars, rolled up with metal lids using a special key. We put it in storage in the cellar or refrigerator.
Stewed pumpkin and oranges
Incredible and quite unexpected combination, agree? However, do not be afraid of culinary experiments, so that many of them give incredibly tasty results. This type of compote is no exception. Orange stewed fruit, in which pumpkin seeds are added, acquires an incredible color and taste.
To prepare a dessert drink you will need:
- 4 oranges;
- 360 g pumpkin;
- 180 g of sugar;
- 2 liters of water.
How to cook compote
First, you need to do pumpkin. It is peeled, seeds removed and cut into small portioned cubes. Pour water into a small pan, put pumpkin cubes there and pour sugar. In syrup, the pumpkin should simmer for about 25 minutes. Remove the zest from the oranges, squeeze the juice out of one. Mix it with chopped zest and a couple of spoons of sugar. The remaining slices of oranges are sent to the pumpkin, cook for 5 minutes.
At the final stage, we introduce orange juice with pumpkin into the drink and boil for another three minutes. Grind the compote with a blender. Pour the drink into prepared glass jars. Roll up metal covers. Such stewed fruit is stored for about six months. But experienced housewives say that this tasty, thick, aromatic and healthy treat will not go unnoticed for so long.
Options and variations
If it suddenly happens that you are tired of the classic orange compote, then the drink can always be varied with other fruits or berries.
- Orange, flower honey, apple.
- Orange, pear, apple.
- Orange, lemon zest, cinnamon stick.
- Orange, cranberries, several star anise star.
- Orange, black currant.
- Orange, cherry, honey.
- Orange, lemon, lime.
- Orange, mint, tangerine, pear.
- Orange, lemon peel, cinnamon, apples.
- Orange, apple, cherry.
- Orange, dried fruits.