Quick compote of grapes. Processing before cooking

Grape fruits of all varieties in the process of heat treatment willingly and quickly give up their juice, so compotes from them are prepared quickly. This allows the drink to maximally absorb and preserve the taste and aroma inherent in grapes, useful substances.

What varieties to choose?

There are so many varieties of grapes that it is difficult to describe everything separately, but according to his palatability, it is customary to distinguish 4 groups:

1. fruits with an ordinary taste (dark and light) combine sweetness and acidity in various proportions. Their taste notes are gentle and neutral. In compotes, they are good with berries and fruits of a rich flavor range: quince, strawberries, strawberries, black currants.
2. in grapes with a muscat taste, playful, piquant shades are pronounced, which are formed due to essential oils contained in Muscat grape varieties. In compote, such fruits are pleasant in splendid isolation. But if desired, it is quite appropriate to supplement a fragrant bouquet with citrus fruits;
3. grape berries with a nightshade taste smell of freshness, a little grassy, ​​sour. Such fruits, in combination with apples and the minimum amount sugar is an excellent basis for creating drinks approved by adherents healthy lifestyle life.
4. grapes with an isabella taste attracts a little harsh, but still pleasant aromas, combining the smells of strawberries, pineapple, blackcurrant. The fruits of isabelle varieties do not need company. Many consider them the best choice to create sweet drinks.

Processing before cooking

The best grape compotes are obtained from freshly picked and immediately processed berries. The purchased bunches also need to be prepared as soon as possible and start preparing the drink.

When processing fruits for compote long-term storage it is necessary to discard the crushed, cracked specimens, otherwise it will become moldy. If you brew a drink “for today”, you can close your eyes to slightly crushed fruits.

Recipes

Compote of white and blue grapes

A drink made from grapes of different varieties presents a completely unexpected taste. Green grapes saturates with acid, and blue - with a more tart taste.

Recipe Information

• Dish type: blanks, drinks
• Cooking method: boiling
• Servings: 3 l
• 40 min

Ingredients:

• green grapes - 200 g
• blue grapes - 200 g
• sugar - 200 g.

Cooking method:

Sort out bunches of grapes - throw away rotten and dry berries. Wash the berries, remove from the branches and put in a clean container to drain the water.


Then send the grapes to the prepared jar.


Boil 1 liter of water in a saucepan and pour the contents of the jar with it. Cover and leave for 10-15 minutes.


Drain the water from the jar back into the pan and add the remaining water and granulated sugar. Dissolve the sugar, stirring, and cook from the moment of boiling for 5 minutes. Pour the grapes in the jar with the resulting syrup and roll up the lid with the conservation key.


Turn the jar over - check for the presence of air in the jar and, if not, leave it wrapped until it cools completely. Subject to all rules and regulations, a canned drink can be stored for up to 2 years.

Note to the owner:

The jar, if it is heavily soiled, soak for 1 hour in soapy water. Clean thoroughly with a washcloth or brush with soap and water, then rinse cold water. Sterilize the jar for 5 minutes for a couple or 2-3 minutes for microwave oven. Shoot and post glass containers upside down on a clean towel. Boil about a liter of water in a saucepan and put a lid in it - 10 minutes is enough for heat treatment. Carefully remove the lid from the pan and place it next to the jar.

Any variety of grapes is suitable for canning. The fruits should be firm, fully ripe, with no signs of any disease.


For cooking canned drink spring water is ideal for winter, not chlorinated or filtered - no chemical additives will give the grape compote a more natural taste.

Before use, dilute the compote if necessary boiled water taste.

Drink from the variety "Isabella"

For this preparation, the fruits of isabelle varieties of any size are suitable. It is desirable that they are ripe and juicy.

To prepare 3 liters of compote you will need:

• 700-800 g grapes
• 2 liters of water
• a glass of sugar (if the berries are sour, this amount can be increased).

How to preserve:

1. First, boil the syrup: boil water, add sugar and stir it until the crystals are completely dissolved.
2. Rinse grapes under running water.
3. Remove elastic whole fruit from twigs, put in a deep container, fill with cold water. Inspect again carefully and clean if necessary.
4. Place the approved specimens in a sterilized three-liter jar, filling it to a third of the volume.
5. Fill the berries with syrup to the very top of the container. Leave for a few minutes.
6. In the meantime, put the cap into the boiling water.
7. Cover the jar with a lid, place the container in a saucepan of simmering water and sterilize for about half an hour.
8. Roll up the jar (or screw it on if the lid is screwed), turn it upside down, put it in a “fur coat” from a folded large towel. Refrigerate at room temperature until completely cool.

Grape compote for the winter without sterilization

Sterilization of compote is a troublesome business, and berries during prolonged heat treatment can boil soft, spoiling the attractiveness of the drink. Many try to do without it. It's not difficult: you just need to duplicate the process of pouring boiling syrup over the fruits 2 or 3 times.

Components:

• 800 g dark grape berries with a rich aroma
• 2 liters of water
• a glass of sugar.

Step by step cooking scheme:

1. Make syrup by boiling water and dissolving sugar in it.
2. Rinse bunches of grapes under running water.
3. Pick off whole, undeformed fruits and peel again.
4. Place the grapes in a sterilized three-liter jar and pour boiling syrup over.
5. Cover the container with a sterilized lid and leave for half an hour.
6. Drain the syrup into a saucepan, boil it and pour over the berries again.
7. Roll up the jar with a lid, turn over, cover with a towel. Let cool at natural temperature.

Compote of grapes and apples

Compotes from apples alone cannot be called favorites among sweet drinking preparations. They do not differ in outstanding tastes and aromas. And the color of their appetite does not cause. But in the company of grapes, apples create a wonderful bouquet.

The structure and consistency of these fruits is different, and therefore Preliminary processing requires a separate approach.

Ingredients:

• 500 g blue or pink grapes with neutral or nutmeg taste
• 4 medium apples
• 2 liters of water
• 200 g + 100 g sugar
• two cloves, a couple of lemon slices (to taste and possibility).

How to cook:

1. First prepare the apples: wash them and cut them into 8 pieces, removing the seed part.
2. Put in a deep container and pour 100 g of sugar. Leave for an hour - let the juice go.
3. Boil water and dissolve 200 g of sugar in it.
4. Rinse grapes, discard deformed berries.
5. Place apples on the bottom of a sterilized jar, adding the juice that has separated from them and not completely dissolved sugar.
6. Place the berries in the second layer. Add spices if desired: cloves, lemon. A couple of mint or lemon balm leaves will add fresh shades to the drink.
7. Pour in boiling syrup and let the product brew for half an hour.
8. Shake the liquid and pour it into a saucepan. Boil again and pour over the fruit again.
9. Seal the jar with a lid. Turn over, wrap with a large towel, cool at room temperature.

Quince and grape compote

Quince is not so often used for harvesting, but in vain. Its taste and aroma are simply amazing. Quince compote in combination with ordinary grapes is excellent.

Attention! Quince is capricious in processing, the juice is reluctant to give, so she will have to pay Special attention. Choose larger fruits, it is difficult to clean small ones.

To prepare 3 liters you will need:

• 500 g white, pink, dark pink grapes (not very fragrant)
• 4 large quinces
• 2 liters of water
• 200 g + 200 g sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Wash the quince. Cut it into 4 pieces. Remove the skin with a knife and remove the seed part. Cut the slices into a few more pieces.
2. Place the cut in a deep container, pour 200 g of sugar. Leave for an hour. Juice, which will gradually stand out, periodically mix with fruits and sugar so that its crystals dissolve as best as possible.
3. Boil water, add 200 g of sugar, mix.
4. Place quince on the bottom of a sterilized jar sugar syrup. Cover it with grapes.
5. Pour in the boiling syrup, cover and leave for half an hour.
6. Shake the drink and pour the liquid into a saucepan. Boil.
7. Pour fruit over syrup. Cover and let stand for another half hour.
8. Boil the syrup again and finally pour over the quince and grape berries.
9. Roll up the jar with a lid, turn it over, wrap it in a towel and cool.

Recipe with oranges

A drink made from oranges and grapes (muscat varieties are better) has an exquisite, refreshing taste. It can even be used as an original component of alcoholic cocktails.

Oranges, as well as grapes, easily give juice, so the time for preliminary training fruits are not required. For harvesting with citrus fruits rich in citric acid (and it is a strong preservative), one filling with syrup will be enough.

You will need:

• 400 g of yellow and green grapes with an ordinary or nutmeg flavor;
• 2 oranges;
• 2 liters of water;
• a glass of sugar.

Cooking steps:

1. Prepare syrup by stirring sugar in boiling water.
2. Rinse the bunches of grapes and select the largest and most beautiful berries.
3. Peel the oranges, remove the white fibers and seeds, trying to do this carefully so that the juice does not leak. Use tweezers.
4. Mix grapes and oranges in a sterilized jar.
5. Pour the contents with boiling syrup.
6. Turn the closed container over, cover with a towel and cool.

Compote of grapes with strawberries and strawberries

This gentle drink would be very handy to open in winter holidays. Both children and adults will be satisfied. The latter can complement them with dry wine cocktails or ennoble, for example, banal vodka.

To out tender berries strawberries and strawberries did not turn out porridge, do not fill the fruits with syrup more than once.

Products:

• 500 g light grapes
• 500 g strawberries and strawberries (only one type of berries is allowed)
• 2 liters of water
• a glass of sugar.

How to do:

1. Boil the syrup and do not let it cool.
2. Remove whole, undeformed berries from the washed bunches.
3. Peel the strawberries and strawberries by removing the stems.
4. Put grape fruits on the bottom of a sterilized jar.
5. Place red berries on top.
6. Pour in boiling syrup. Immediately roll up the jar with a lid, turn over, cover with a towel and cool.

Canned with twigs

This drink will appeal to lovers of rich tart flavors. It is these qualities that grape twigs will give compote. At the same time, it is advisable to harvest with young, not yet completely stiffened bunches. Grapes on bunches during heat treatment retain their shape better.

When preparing, you need to pay special attention to the quality of the berries: it is easy for spoiled fruits to get lost on a twig.

For cooking you will need:

• 800 g black grapes or Lydia
• 2 liters of water
• a glass of sugar.

Process:

1. Put the syrup on the hot burner.
2. Meanwhile, thoroughly rinse the grapes under cold running water.
3. Remove any crushed berries with cracked skins.
4. Gently, without crushing, place the branches in a sterilized jar.
5. Pour in hot syrup and leave for 10-15 minutes.
6. Drain the liquid into a saucepan, bring to a boil and pour over the grapes again.
7. Seal with a lid, turn over and cool, covering with a towel.

Grape compote for dinner

Having spent a little time in the morning, for dessert for lunch or dinner, you can serve delicious, fragrant, infused sweet drink. Boil the compote and let it drink grape aroma directly in the pan, without pouring into jars. It is very convenient to cook it in a slow cooker.

Since the drink is likely to sell out quickly, you can experiment with spices. Having decided which ones you like, you will use them with the following blanks.

If desired, add other components - a handful of useful chokeberry, pears, plums, etc.

You will need:

• 600 g of any fresh or frozen grapes;
• 2-2.5 liters of water;
• 0.5 st. Sahara;
• a couple of cloves, a little cinnamon, a piece of zest (optional).

Preparation step by step:

1. Pour water into a large saucepan or multicooker bowl. Boil, add sugar, stir.
2. Wash the grapes well.
3. Immerse fruits and spices in boiling water.
4. Boil over high heat for 3 minutes. Reduce heat, remove foam. Let's cook some more.
5. Remove the saucepan from the stove or turn off the slow cooker, close the lid tightly and leave the sweet drink to infuse.

Cooking features

Compotes from grapes can be prepared in any concentration. By reducing the volume of water and increasing the amount of fruits and sugar, you will get a richer and more aromatic drink.

Concentrated compotes are best made in small jars (0.5 - 1 l). This is convenient: so they take up less space. The drink itself before serving can be diluted with warm boiled or mineral water without gas. By adding well-carbonated water and lemon, you can taste excellent natural lemonade. Give him ice, tubes.

The ratio of sugar and water is up to you. But it should depend not only on your taste preferences and love for rationality, but also from the state of health.

Attention! Sweet, concentrated compote not recommended for overweight people. All grape drinks are contraindicated for suffering diabetes, peptic ulcer stomach. A common occurrence is an allergy to grapes (often this is observed in childhood).

Blank storage

Prepared compote can be stored after it has completely cooled at room temperature. Until this time, the jars should be covered with a large towel or blanket.

Turning the containers over, you can see that a substance similar to foam has formed under the lid. This does not threaten the product with anything - in about an hour there will be no trace of it.

In a cool dark place (up to + 15 °С) grape drink can be stored all winter. If the temperature is higher, then it is better to serve it to the table for the winter holidays.

Compote cannot be stored at sub-zero temperatures.

About the benefits

Grapes are a highly valuable product. First of all, this applies to berries, only taken from the vine. If you want to take from delicious healing berries all the best, prepare freshly squeezed grape juice. You need to cook it quickly: 15 minutes after parting with a live bunch of grapes, they will gradually lose their numerous life-giving vitamins.

Basic nutritional value grapes, responsible for its flavor range, are different fruit sugars represented by glucose, fructose and sucrose. But unlike beet sugar, which is familiar to us, grape analogues do not undergo significant transformations during digestion, but immediately enter the bloodstream. This property is indispensable for quick recovery and maintaining health.

Healing grape honey

Red grapes are considered healthier than white grapes. It is from it that grape honey is prepared. This wonderful product is valuable for its healing properties and hematopoietic capacity.

If you decide to make such a treat, prepare freshly picked dark grape berries. Sugar content should be at least 18%, since sugar is not added to it!

For 1 kg of honey you will need 5 kg of fruit.

Grind them in a meat grinder or knead by hand. Press out. Juice should drain no longer than 3 hours, otherwise fermentation may begin.

Pour the resulting juice into a container, boil at a moderate temperature until thickened. It should take on a dark brown color.

You need to store honey in small glass jars, hermetically sealed with lids. The temperature should not exceed +15 °C. Even a slight excess of the temperature indicator can lead to spoilage of the product.

If a precipitate forms in honey, the spoiled delicacy must be poured into a container, boiled and sealed again.

Compote is a fragrant vitamin fruit and berry drink. grape compote contains micro, macro elements and vitamins, therefore it is useful for the body. Compote happens fast food- "Five-minute" and canned - winter.

Compote is made from fresh grapes of different varieties. To obtain a rich compote with a bright shade, you need to use dark fragrant grape varieties along with light ones. To get original notes of taste, you can add other fruits and berries to the compote. Take the grapes, washing them with running water, separating them from the brush, put them in a saucepan, pour a liter of water, add sugar - 100 g, a cinnamon stick and one lemon. You need to cook the compote over medium heat so that the grapes have time to boil and release their aroma, then the drink will be saturated. It should boil for no more than 5 minutes, hence the name “Five Minute”. Let the broth brew, its taste depends on it.

Recipe canned compote from grapes. To seal a winter drink, you need to prepare: a sterilized jar and a tin lid, 1.5 kg of Isabella dark grapes, 5 liters of water, a grape leaf, citric acid and 1.5 kg of sugar. The grapes must be undamaged, clean, all spoiled berries must be removed. Then wash well and let dry in a bowl.

Tightly fill jars with grapes, put a leaf of grapes and pour hot syrup. After 15 minutes, put a special lid with holes on the jar and pour the syrup into a saucepan and put on fire to boil. Add a pinch of citric acid (1 teaspoon), pour boiled syrup and roll up tin lid. Cover the inverted jar with a towel until it cools completely.

Grape compote can be used as ready dessert, but it also serves as a component for making cocktails and jelly.

If you have harvested a rich harvest of grapes or are just looking for the opportunity to use juicy berries, you can cook compote from grapes. The drink turns out to be rich, aromatic and not much different from natural grape juice.

Also, the resulting compote can be preserved for the winter in order to enjoy a delicious vitamin drink on cold days.

Children will be especially happy with compote from grapes, because the taste and useful properties not a single grape juice from the store can be compared with it.

How to make grape compote

For 3 liters of water you will need 0.5-1 kg of grapes (the more berries there are, the richer the grape compote will turn out), 1 glass of sugar, 1/3 teaspoon of citric acid or 1-2 slices of fresh lemon.



For the preparation of compote, it is best to take dark blue sour grapes with dense skins and tart seeds. It is from this grape variety that the most delicious, rich and aromatic drinks are obtained.



Rinse the grapes well, remove the rotten berries. Fill a saucepan with water and bring the water to a boil, then add a glass of sugar to it. In received sweet syrup arrange the grapes carefully and citric acid or lemon wedges.



Let the grape compote boil for 10-15 minutes, then turn off the heat. Cover the pan with a lid and let the resulting drink cool for half an hour. During this time, the grapes give up all their juice, the compote is infused, thickens and acquires a very beautiful color.

Compote from grapes for the winter

In the same way, you can make compote from grapes for the winter. To do this, sterilize the jars, put carefully washed grapes, sugar and citric acid on 2/3 of each jar. Fill with boiling water, roll up and wrap for a day.



The second way to prepare compote for the winter

Arrange grapes in jars and pour boiling water to the very top of the jar. cover metal lid and let it brew for 10-15 minutes.

Drain the water and boil it again. Add citric acid to jars and refill boiling water. Leave for 10 minutes, then again pour water into the pan, which has already turned red.

Pour sugar into each jar and fill with boiling compote. Close the lid and roll up immediately. Turn the jars upside down. Wrap and leave until completely cool. The result is a wonderful grape compote for the winter.

Step-by-step recipes for preserving grape compote for the winter: how to cook grape compote in a saucepan

2018-06-23 Oleg Mikhailov

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Option 1: Classic Grape Compote Recipe

The drink is prepared by double filling, there is nothing frighteningly complicated about this - the technology is extremely clear and where easier jam, with its repeated heating and cooling. Of course, it is better to cook compote and some kind of confiture or jam, but if you prefer to stock up on drinks, here is a simple and proven recipe for you.

Ingredients:

• eight hundred grams of ripe grapes;
• sugar, refined - a full glass.

Grape compote recipe step by step

Approximately two liters of water will be required for the indicated amount of grapes. Take it a little with a margin, pour it into the pan, turn on a quick fire under it. bunches of grapes disassemble, removing the berries from the branches, inspect them, removing the rumpled and spoiled ones.

Collect the grapes in a colander and place it under running water, then let it drain completely and pour the berries into a jar. They should take up about a third of the volume. If your grapes are very sweet varieties, it makes sense to add a couple of lemon slices.

Pour boiling water over a jar of berries to the very top, cover with an inverted lid, hold for ten minutes. Grape dark grade can noticeably color the water, don't worry, that's how it should be. Drain the water back into the pan, put on heat, let it boil again.

In jars, pour sugar directly on top of the grapes, before doing this, make sure that there are no lumps in the sugar. Under the jars of grapes, place a thick cloth or substitute an empty bowl, pour boiling water a second time. Seal using suitable sterilized caps. Turning upside down, leave the compote for a day under the covers.

Option 2: A quick recipe for grape compote without sterilization

The mass of grapes is indicated with the expectation of twigs and low-quality berries, it is very good if such problems do not arise. In addition to mint, or rather instead of it, you can use small slices of vanilla, dry cloves or pieces of cinnamon.

Ingredients:

• a little over two kilograms of grapes;
• four liters of water;
• five hundred grams of sugar;
• sprig of fresh mint.

How to cook fast fragrant compote from grapes

For twenty minutes, lower the bunches into a large bowl filled with cold water. Then remove and shake off the moisture, carefully remove the berries from the branches, rinse in a colander and inspect. Put aside all the grapes that cause you the slightest suspicion, it is better not to risk compote.

Carefully sterilize the jars, place washed and slightly dried berries in them about a third of the height. Throw a couple of mint leaves, pour sugar on top, dividing it in proportion to the number of jars and their volume.

Boil the water, typing it in advance with a small margin. We lower a long spoon into the jar, quickly pour boiling water over the berries. Do not try to do this with several banks at the same time. Pour boiling water over them and immediately clog one at a time. During the day, soak for cooling, covering the jars with compote with a thick cloth.

Option 3: Simple grape compote in a saucepan

Mixture different grapes- not a whim of the compilers of the recipe. By connecting different varieties you, firstly, will provide a beautiful color to the drink, and, secondly, improve its taste. Compote is very effective if any of the grape varieties in it are muscat.

Ingredients:

• purified water - two liters;
• ninety grams of refined sugar;
• four hundred and fifty grams of assorted grapes - light and dark berries.

How to cook

Put water for compote to boil in a saucepan with a small supply of volume. Rinse the grapes, first just with a stream of water, then separate from the bunches and put in a colander. Dip with it in a bowl of water for a few minutes, then rinse again.

When lowering into boiling water, be careful, you should use a colander for convenience, helping yourself also with a slotted spoon. After re-boiling, slightly remove the heat and cover the pan, cook for about eight minutes.

In order to quickly cool the pot with compote after half an hour of infusion, put in a wide basin, pour into it cold water. By replacing the coolant twice, you will quickly cool the compote. Drain it, separating the berries, divide it into jugs or jars, keep it in the refrigerator for about an hour.

Option 4: "Assorted" - compote of grapes with apples

The requirements for grapes are clearly indicated, but use any apples in a drink. Even a few unripe fruits will do, and it will be even better than putting soft fruits in the compote. Such apples are easily boiled soft and even just pouring boiling water can damage the slices and worsen appearance compote.

Ingredients:

• three hundred grams of grapes of any dark and fragrant variety;
• half-liter jar of white sugar;
• three liters of water;
• two large hard apples.

Step by step recipe

Using a solution baking soda thoroughly wash the jars with it, rinse with clean running water. Sterilize by turning upside down and setting over steam for ten minutes.

Wash the grapes and apples thoroughly, pick the berries from the brushes and carefully inspect, remove all spoiled ones. Break each apple into four slices, while removing the middle. Pour pieces of fruit together with berries interspersed into jars, cover with lids and temporarily set aside.

Specified quantity clean water pour into a saucepan, immediately pour sugar into it. Put on a quick heat and, stirring occasionally, let the sugar dissolve completely and the syrup boil. Without removing from the fire, with the help of a ladle in small portions pour syrup into jars.

Using a special seaming machine, seal the compote tightly with lids. Keep it until it cools completely, turning it upside down and covering it with a blanket.

Option 5: Compote of grapes for the winter with honey, cinnamon and cloves

Although the role of honey in a drink is solely to add sweetness to it, do not be casual in your choice of variety. It may be superfluous to specifically purchase and send rare and exquisite varieties to compote, but honey, in any case, should be natural. Use molasses that mimics artificial honey, is also possible, but it does not make sense - such a compote will not differ in taste from that cooked on sugar.

Ingredients:

• four dry cloves;
• a quarter of a spoon of cinnamon powder;
• near three liters water;
• three kilograms of grapes;
• a quarter cup of lemon juice;
• one and a half kilograms of natural liquid honey.

How to cook

Boil water in a saucepan. Rinse the grape brushes, remove only whole, unspoiled berries from them. Weigh, we need exactly three kilograms. Sterilize the jars and divide the grapes between them. The indicated quantity is calculated for two three-liter bottles.

Dip the cloves and chopped cinnamon into boiling water, after five minutes add and stir the honey, squeeze and pour in the lemon juice. Pour grapes in jars with boiling syrup, let stand for a quarter of an hour, drain and boil again.

After refilling, the jars are quickly rolled up and tightly wrapped in a warm blanket, allowed to cool slowly.

Recipe 6: Grape compote with whole bunches

The beauty of the recipe is not only in the elegant form. If your household or guests do not find it strange that the bottle is on the table, rinse it and wipe it dry, open it and put it on glass dish. You can disassemble the grapes before canning into small brushes, in this form it can be carefully removed from the container with compote and transferred entirely to a decanter. The presence of twigs in the drink makes the drink a little more sugary, so most often they canned whole, brushes of relatively unsweetened grapes.

Ingredients:

• four kilograms of grapes in bunches;
• two three-liter jars;
• two liters of water;
• seven hundred and fifty grams of sugar;
• lemon acid.

Step by step recipe

Rinse the grapes several times and inspect very carefully. Remove all spoiled berries and, if found, be sure to remove the cobwebs. We put the clusters one by one in a colander, scald with boiling water, then carefully transfer them to jars.

From water, lemon and sugar, boil the syrup, pour it equally into the jars. Cover tightly with sterilized lids. Pour a certain amount of heated water into a spacious basin or a low saucepan, lower a wet towel to the bottom. Place a jar filled with grapes and syrup on top, add water “up to the shoulders” of the bottles.

Turn on a moderate fire under the pan, as the water warms up, increase it. After boiling, lower the temperature a little, detect ten minutes, then remove the jars and roll up the lids tightly.

Fragrant compote from grapes is important to cook from homemade fruits or in the season when berries are offered on the market at the most attractive prices. A properly prepared drink is perfectly stored all winter and pleases guests and family members. bright taste. You can roll it into jars even without sterilization.

Classic grape compote with sterilization

Product composition: half three-liter jar dark grapes, 2 liters of water, 720-740 g granulated sugar.

1. The proportions of products can be slightly changed to your liking. For example, by increasing or decreasing the amount of berries and / or sand. The more grapes in the composition, the brighter and richer the drink will turn out.
2. The fruits are well washed and get rid of the stalks. This must be done carefully so as not to crush the berries.
3. A 3 liter glass jar is sterilized in advance. Grapes fall into it.
4. From above, the fruits are poured with water boiled with granulated sugar.
5. A jar of grapes and syrup is placed in a saucepan with liquid heated to 60 degrees. In this case, the water in the container should only reach the shoulders of a three-liter jar.
6. Under the lid, the compote is sterilized for 20-25 minutes.

How to cook without sterilization?

Ingredients: half a three-liter jar of dark grapes, 2 liters of water, 720-740 g of granulated sugar, a pinch of citric acid.

1. The first step is to prepare the berry clusters. They are moved, spoiled or overripe parts are removed. The grapes are laid out in a colander and washed very thoroughly with ice-cold running water.
2. The fruits are not left for some time to drain excess liquid from them, then they are separated from the branches and laid out on the bottom of a pre-washed and sterilized jar (3 l).
3. Syrup is boiled from the amount of water and sand indicated in the recipe. Prepared berries are poured into them, after which the container is tightly closed with a sterile lid and left for 20-25 minutes.
4. Then the syrup (without grapes) is returned to the pan, brought to a boil and boiled for 2-3 minutes. At the very end, a pinch of "lemon" is poured.
5. Berries are poured again.

1. Apples get rid of everything superfluous and cut into large pieces. The grapes are washed, stripped from the branches.
2. Syrup is boiled from water and sugar, after 4-5 minutes prepared fruits fall into it.
3. After boiling, the mass is left on the stove for another 3-4 minutes under the lid.

Ready compote from grapes and apples should be infused and cooled, after which you can take the first sample from the drink.

With the addition of oranges

Ingredients: 220 g of dark grapes, half a large orange, 170 g of granulated sugar, 720 ml of purified water, 2 sprigs of fresh mint, cinnamon stick.

1. Grapes are removed from the branches, moved and washed.
2. Orange pulp without zest and white layers is cut into arbitrary slices.
3. Prepared fruits are laid out in a clean sterilized jar.
4. Water is brought to a boil, grapes with an orange are poured with it. After 5-6 minutes of infusion of the contents of the jar, the liquid is again drained into the pan and brought to a boil. Then the remaining components are added to it, which should boil for 2-3 minutes.
5. The hot drink is returned to the jar (no cinnamon!).

The container is hermetically sealed with a lid, turned over, wrapped in a blanket and left for a day.

Compote from grapes - recipe "drink immediately"

Ingredients: 720 ml of purified water, 330 g of grapes of any color, 160 g of granulated sugar, a pinch of "lemon".

1. The grapes are taken off the branches and washed.
2. Syrup is boiled from water and sand for 7-8 minutes. Berries are immersed in it.
3. After the next boil, the mass is cooked for 6-7 minutes on minimum heat.

The drink cools to a comfortable temperature for drinking and is served at the table.

With strawberry

Ingredients: 3 liters of purified water, 4 tbsp. l. with a slide of sugar, 170 g fresh strawberries, 220 g white grapes. How to cook compote from grapes with strawberries, we will consider in more detail.

1. Washed grapes and sugar are placed in boiling water. The mass is cooked for 5-6 minutes at a medium boil.
2. Next, prepared strawberries without sepals are poured. Together, the components are cooked for only a couple of minutes, otherwise the berries will soften excessively.
3. Ready compote should be infused for 15-17 minutes.

The drink is served with ice and fresh mint leaves.

With cloves and cinnamon

Ingredients: 260 g dark grapes, ½ tsp. ground cinnamon, cardamom and cloves, 4-5 tbsp. l. with a slide of granulated sugar, 2 liters of water.