Strawberries are perhaps the most delicious of all berries. In the midst of the summer season, many different dishes are prepared from it. Among them, refreshing summer and canned drinks for the winter occupy a special place. In this article you will find the necessary and useful tips and tricks on how to close the strawberry compote and how to cook it for fresh use. A healthy vitamin drink can be obtained in various ways, while combining other fruits with aromatic berries.
How to cook strawberry compote “Vanilla”: recipe
Boil 2 liters of water with a glass of sugar. Pour a bag of vanillin, pour the juice of half a lemon and remove from heat. Wash 1 kg of strawberries quickly under running water in a colander. Large berries can be cut into slices, use small ones whole. Transfer the fruits to a boiled syrup and cover tightly with a lid, stirring. After insisting for half an hour, the compote can be poured into cups for cooling and serving. All nutrients and vitamins are completely preserved, since the berries were not processed thermally.
How to close strawberry compote by sterilization?
Any berries for winter canning must be processed in a hot way. How to do it carefully so that as many vitamins as possible are preserved? Take liter jars and fill half with berries. Pour sugar in each container to taste (for example, ½ cup) and pour cold water over the shoulders. Place the glassware in a large pot and sterilize, gradually heating to a boil. After the appearance of bubbles, detect 10 minutes. Then immediately roll up the cans with lids. You also need to turn them upside down, placing them on a soft cloth, and wrap them. After two days, remove the preservation in a cold place (basement, cellar). Berries with this method of processing remain intact, and the syrup is transparent.
How to close strawberry compote by pouring?
Love pulp-rich drinks? Then you can use the following technology for how to close strawberry compote without sterilization. There are two options for this cooking method.
First way
Berries are thrown into boiling syrup. Then the solution with berries after 5 minutes of slow cooking is poured into jars and twisted with lids.
Second way
Put the strawberries in jars and pour boiling water over them. Immediately transfer the liquid back to the pan, putting on a special lid with holes to drain the solution onto the neck of the jars. Pour sugar into a saucepan with liquid and let it boil again. Pour steamed berries with syrup and twist the lids.
With both methods, it is necessary to wrap inverted banks with compote. This is done for additional heat treatment of berries.
How to close compote from different components?
A completely different way to act when combining several ingredients. After all, the products used can be completely different in their consistency (density, hardness) and degree of ripeness. Therefore, the technology of preparation of drinks "Assorted" will be significantly different. Since strawberries have a rather delicate structure, they are usually always added to the most recent boiling solution.