How to make blueberry compote?

Blueberry is a berry, known for its useful properties. It is the first aid for eyesight problems, it is necessary in large quantities for those who have diabetes, is a real storehouse of vitamins for those who love the gifts of nature. Be sure to store it for the winter in all types available to you. The easiest way to make berries is compotes.

Instant Drinks

This compote of blueberries does not require special preparations and laborious actions. Berries carefully go through, remove the spoiled, crumpled, immature. Wash well. Fill in about half the capacity. Pour boiling syrup (calculate the components - per liter of water in a compote of blueberry requires 750-800 g of sugar), cover with lids and put on the fire for 10 minutes. Then gently drain the liquid into a saucepan and boil. Again, without removing the saucepan from the syrup, fill the jars with them on the edge of the neck, immediately roll up the lids and turn the tare upside down. Cover, leave in this position for a day. After that, remove the compote from the blueberry in a pantry or cellar. This kind of heat treatment allows you to maximally preserve all the useful qualities of berries.

Compote sterilized

This drink is already prepared in a different way. Wash washed, transferred berries pour into an enamel pot and pour separately prepared syrup (for 4 kg of berries 1.5 kg of sugar and about 4 liters of water). Put it on the fire to make a billet-compote of blueberries to boil, cover and leave it until the morning (for 7-8 hours). Then take the berries, put them into jars. The syrup should be boiled and refilled in containers. Sterilized products should be as follows: liter cans for 20 minutes, two-liter - 30, and three-liter - 35 minutes. If you fill the syrup is not enough, you can add boiled water. Pour the liquid into the compote of blueberries should be 2 fingers below the top edge of the neck of the cans. After the lid is heated, roll up the lid and put the products to cool. By the way, the drink will turn out more fragrant, if you put in the jars, except for berries, the petals of a tea rose. It gives compotes a truly enchanting smell.

Fruit platter

An excellent variant of home-made preparations was always various assorted - vegetable and fruit-berry. The advantage of them, in comparison with other canned foods, is a more varied and rich taste, a pleasant mixture of aromas, a greater content of vitamins, etc. Therefore, you are offered a recipe for compote of blueberries with those fruits that are abundant. If it's apples of hard varieties, they need to be cut into slices or quarters and put into boiling water for a couple of minutes. Pears are also cut into slices. If plums, apricots, peaches - ossicles take out, divide the fruits into halves (quarters). Berries of gooseberry, especially greenish, prick. How to cook blueberry compote according to the "assorted" recipe? Banks to prepare, fall asleep products - either layer by layer, or interspersed. Fill them should be slightly less than half, otherwise the taste will turn out too harsh. Then you need to pour the boiling syrup to the very top and immediately roll the cans. In an inverted and wrapped form leave to cool completely. If in doubt, whether canned food will stand, sterilize the cans for 10-15 minutes. Only then pour the syrup so that there is room in the jar for air to escape.

Enjoy the wonderful summer flavors and flavors!