Pumpkin is a fairly useful product that grows in our beds. Its flesh has many useful substances and vitamins, calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper and so on. It is very good for those people who have gastrointestinal diseases. Dishes from this vegetable are very popular all over the world. It is part of soups, mashed potatoes, various salads and casseroles. Often eat raw pulp along with carrots, herbs and apples. You can also make pumpkin compote. It will have a sweet taste and go well with many berries and fruits. It is not difficult to make such a drink, in addition, it can be prepared for the winter in order to receive vitamins during the cold season, which are so necessary for a person during this period of time. Today we’ll talk about how to cook pumpkin compote for the winter and beyond.
Pumpkin compote for the winter
Ingredients: one kilogram of pumpkin, four hundred grams of sugar, one liter of water, one spoon of vinegar.
Cooking
The pumpkin, previously peeled and cut into slices, is placed in a bowl, vinegar and sugar are added, poured with water and boiled for twenty minutes. Using an autoclave, you need to sterilize the jars, into which subsequently pour the pumpkin compote and roll up. Banks are left for one day at room temperature, and then they are sent to a cold place for storage.
Pumpkin compote with lemon
Ingredients: five hundred grams of pumpkin, one liter of water, two hundred and fifty grams of sugar, five cloves, one lemon, five grams of vanilla.
Cooking
The pumpkin, previously peeled, is cut into pieces, covered with sugar, juice from one lemon and water are added, boiled over medium heat for twenty minutes. During this time, the vegetable should become soft. Over time, the available spices are added to the dishes and cooked for another five minutes. Ready pumpkin compote with lemon is poured into clean sterile jars and rolled up. The containers are turned upside down and cool. Then preservation is transferred to a cold place. The resulting drink will have an unusual taste, contain many minerals, vitamins and nutrients that contribute to the normalization of the liver and gall bladder, water balance. Even after cooking, the pumpkin retains all these properties, so preparing compote for the winter is a good way to get a truly healthy drink.
Stewed pumpkin with apples
Ingredients: two hundred grams of pumpkin pulp, two hundred grams of sugar, one liter of water, three apples, spices to taste.
Cooking
The pulp of pumpkins and apples, previously peeled from seeds and peel, cut into pieces, pour boiling water and cool. Over time, the uzvar is drained and set to boil, adding sugar and spices to it. Such syrup is boiled until sugar is completely dissolved. Slices of vegetables and fruits are laid out in sterile jars, poured with boiling suzar to the top, rolled up and turned over. When the pumpkin compote , the recipe of which we just examined, cools down, it is removed for storage in a cold place.
Pumpkin compote
Ingredients: pumpkin to taste, fifty grams of vinegar essence, one liter of water. For syrup: one liter of water, four hundred grams of sugar, five grams of citric acid or a slice of lemon, two cloves, one slice of cinnamon.
Cooking
Before you cook stewed pumpkin for the winter, you need to peel and rinse the vegetables. Then they are cut into slices, pour a solution of vinegar and water for two hours. Pumpkin during this time will become somewhat sour and transparent. Over time, the vinegar solution is drained, the vegetables are poured with water and sugar and boiled for fifteen minutes. Then, pieces of pumpkin are laid out in jars and filled with syrup, after adding citric acid to it. Or they put lemon slices in a jar, as well as spices. Sterilize the drink for twenty-five minutes in half-liter jars.
Pumpkin Orange Compote
Ingredients: two kilograms of pumpkin, two liters of water, seven hundred and fifty grams of sugar, six cloves, two sticks of cinnamon, two oranges.
Cooking
Before you cook the compote from pumpkin, it must be prepared: peel and chop. Sugar is poured into the dishes, pour water and boil the syrup for ten minutes after boiling. In this syrup put vegetables and spices, zest and juice of oranges, cook for fifteen minutes. The finished drink is poured into clean cans and rolled up, turned over and cooled, and then cleaned in the cold.
Pumpkin compote with sea buckthorn
Ingredients: five hundred grams of pumpkin, two hundred and fifty grams of sea buckthorn, one and a half liters of water, four hundred scars of sugar.
Cooking
Stewed pumpkin, the recipe of which we will now consider, is prepared as follows: peeled and chopped vegetables, together with sea buckthorn, are placed in clean jars, poured with boiling water and left for ten minutes. Then the water is poured into the pan, sugar and spices are added, boiled for ten minutes and the jars of vegetables are poured with this syrup, rolled up and turned upside down. The container is cooled, the prepared pumpkin compote is transferred to a cold place for further storage.
Thus, pumpkin compote can be prepared with the addition of various berries and fruits. Often, various spices are added to it in order to emphasize the original taste and unusual aroma of the drink. For the preparation of compotes, dessert pumpkin varieties are best suited , which have a bright orange flesh. Then the drink will have a beautiful appearance. Whatever the case, a pumpkin drink will give not only a good mood, but also will bring great benefits to the body in the cold seasons.