A big harvest of apricots is a great opportunity to please the household with delicious dishes, desserts and compotes. Orange velvety apricot goes well with the delicate freshness of citruses. Compote from it in color resembles “Phantom”, and if you add a little orange, you get a real homemade fantasy of apricots and oranges. She is very popular not only with children, but also with adults.
Unlike the purchased product, such a drink turns out to be completely safe, but to the taste it really resembles the products of a promoted brand. It is very simple to prepare it: each housewife will surely have his own recipe for fragrant beautiful compote.
Fanta of apricots and oranges - general principles of preparation
There are two options for preparing a drink: with and without sterilization. In the first case, the bank will have to keep in boiling water to get rid of bacteria and prevent souring. In the second case, the compote is not sterilized, but is rolled immediately after the first pour.
To prepare apricots for use, they need to be washed with running water. Fruit can be used whole, with seeds, divided into halves or crushed to a state of mashed potatoes. It all depends on individual preferences.
Oranges need to be thoroughly washed, cleaned from the skin of the wax and chemical reagents. The peel is not removed: it gives the drink the very taste of “real” forfeits.
Banks necessarily wash with soda. To sterilize them over the steam depends on the housewife and the specific recipe. Covers should be doused with boiling water or boiled in boiling water for a few minutes.
Fanta from apricots and oranges “Home”
A delicious drink can be made from apricots, oranges and lemons. Apricot stones will need to be removed. The result is a rich homemade fan of apricots and oranges with a subtle lemon shade. The number of ingredients indicated for one three-liter jars. Ingredients:
• half-liter jar of ripe apricots;
• whole orange;
• half a lemon;
• a glass of sugar.
Cooking Method:
Rinse apricots and divide into halves. Bones throw away.
Wash citruses thoroughly, brush the rind with a brush, put in a deep cup and pour boiling water.
After a minute, pour the water, wipe the orange and lemon with a clean cloth to remove the wax, and cut into slices approximately 1/2 cm thick.
Put orange and lemon circles, apricot halves in a sterilized jar.
Pour sugar.
Boil the water and pour boiling water over the jar.
Roll up immediately.
Shake the contents of the jar to sugar.
Put the jars under a warm old blanket and cool for at least 24 hours.
Store in a cool place.
Fanta of Apricots and Oranges “Simple”
The simplest version of forfeits from apricots and oranges differs more soft taste, as is done without lemon and orange peel. Compote is ideal for preparing their overripe garden fruits. The number of ingredients is given on a standard three-liter jar, if necessary it should be proportionally increased.
Ingredients:
• 14 overripe apricots;
• half an orange;
• a glass of white sugar;
• boiling water.
Cooking Method:
Wash and sterilize the jars, dry, turning down the neck.
Pour boiling water over the orange, peel, separate half of the fruit and cut it into slices.
Rinse apricots, divide into halves, remove the bones.
Put the apricot halves and orange circles on the bottom of the jar, cover with sugar.
Boil water in a large kettle and pour fruit with sugar and boiling water.
Roll up metal lids, turn them upside down and put them under a thick blanket.
Cooled banks should be stored in a cool dark room.
Fanta of Apricots and Oranges “Winter”
The magic drink made according to this recipe is especially tasty in winter. It is very similar to the popular "Fantu" from the store, but much more useful. The peculiarity is that for this option, forfeits of apricots and oranges need to be boiled sugar syrup, and the compote itself is sterilized. The number of ingredients indicated on one liter jar. Ingredients:
• 250 grams of ripe apricots;
• 130 grams of granulated sugar;
• 750 grams of water;
• one orange circle.
Cooking Method:
Wash apricots thoroughly, but do not remove the bones.
Orange scald with boiling water and cut into ringlets. Each ring is divided into four parts.
Banks can be sterilized over steam or in a hot oven.
Immediately arrange apricots and orange slices in jars.
Boil sir of water and sugar. To do this, boil water, pour the sugar there, stir. While stirring, wait for the new boiling and complete dissolution of sugar. Boil the syrup for two or three minutes.
Pour hot jars of syrup.
Cover the jars with lids and sterilize.
To do this, pour water into a wide saucepan and put it on fire.
At the bottom of the pan lay a piece of cloth or put a wooden stand, an inverted plate. It is important not to allow the glass jar to come into contact with the iron bottom.
Banks with compote dipped into the water so that it reaches the coat hanger.
When the water boils, sterilize the jars with compote for 20 minutes.
Cork compote, turn and cool.
Fanta from apricots and oranges with citric acid
Instead of a natural lemon, citric acid can be added to the homemade fantasy of apricots and oranges. It will turn out not less tasty and moderately sweet. The number of ingredients indicated for the three-liter jars. The recipe involves sterilization.
Ingredients:
• liter jar of ripe apricots;
• two oranges;
• a glass of sugar;
• teaspoon of citric acid.
Cooking Method:
Washed apricots divided into halves and remove the bones.
Put apricots on the bottom of a clean, sterilized jar.
Wash the oranges thoroughly and cut into 5-6 circles.
Pour sugar and citric acid.
Boil water and pour the fruit on the neck.
Cover the cans with scalded metal lids.
In a wide saucepan, heat the water and sterilize the three-liter for half an hour in the same way as described above. Close the jars and cool them upside down under a warm coat or blanket.
After 1-2 days, rearrange them in a cool place to store.
Fanta from Apricots and Oranges “Twist”
An unusual version of an orange-apricot drink with the addition of lemon. Its feature is in the preparation of fruit pulp instead of using whole fruits. Very simple, fragrant drink with a taste of forfeits especially like kids.
Ingredients:
• three kilograms of apricots;
• a kilogram of oranges;
• one lemon;
• four kilograms of sugar.
Cooking Method:
For this variant of home-made fanta from apricots and oranges, the flesh of ripe apricots is best suited. Beauty is not necessary to preserve, and therefore you can take the fallen fruit, with darkened barrels or damage to the skin.
Fruit thoroughly washed.
Remove bones from apricots.
Citrus cut into medium-sized slices.
In a meat grinder, twist (in one cup) apricots, orange and lemon pieces with the peel.
Mix mass until smooth.
Three-liter jars to sterilize and put fruit puree into a hot container.
On a glass of apricot-citrus gruel to take a glass of sugar. This is the amount of ingredients for one three-liter jar.
Boil water and pour into the jar on the neck.
Immediately roll and cool as described above.
Store in a cool place.
Fanta of Apricots and Oranges “Fairy Tale”
Really fabulous taste is different from this variant forfeits of apricots and oranges. Prepares simply, without sterilization.
Ingredients:
• four hundred grams of apricots;
• half an orange;
• sugar to taste;
• 800 ml of water.
Cooking Method:
Rinse and dry apricot fruits first in a colander and then on a paper or woven towel.
Split dried apricots in halves and throw out the seeds.
Orange wash, wipe with a cloth.
Cut the orange into circles (bones must be thrown out).
Two-liter jars with lids, wash the soda and boil over the steam for 20 minutes. At the bottom of each can put fruit.
Cook the syrup of water and sugar to taste. You can take on the specified amount of water about half a glass of sand.
When the syrup boils, and the sugar is completely dissolved, pour the jars of apricots and immediately roll up.
To sue upside down, put in the basement or on the balcony.
Fanta from Apricots and Oranges - Tricks and Tips & Tricks
- It is important to choose apricots for the recipe in appearance and taste. Ideal for harvesting fully ripe fruits appetizing appearance. They are usually moderately soft and at the same time dense, the stone is easily separated from the pulp. These fruits do not fall apart under the influence of boiling water, retain their shape.
- If the appearance of the compote is important, you should select ripe or slightly unripe fruit. You cannot use completely green unripe apricots: they will give the drink a bitter taste. The rumpled, overripe fruits can make the drink cloudy, but forfeits made from apricots and oranges are perfect for the “Twisty” version.
- Banks with sterilized compote can be stored at room temperature. However, they must be protected from sunlight by placing them in a closet, storage room or covered with a thick cloth.
- The preserved apricot slices made from compote can be used to decorate baking.
- Serve home fanta better chilled. And if the house has a real siphon, then compote can be carbonated. In this case, it will be completely identical to the purchased product.
