Currant Compote - General Cooking Principles
What is currant? Sweet and sour round berries of black, red or white color depending on the variety. And besides, it is a set of vitamins necessary for an adult and a child! Currant contains vitamins A, B, C, pectin and tannins, phosphorus, iron and potassium. It is very useful to use fresh currants in the summer, in the winter in the form of jam or jam, as well as cook currant compote.
Currant Compote - Preparing Food and Dishes
For compote fit any varieties of currants. The main thing - to clean the berries from the leaves and hard green stems, and wash them well. First, put the currants in a container of warm water for five minutes, and then rinse under cold running water.
In addition, you will need sugar or honey, water for a drink, other berries and fruits.
Is it possible to cook frozen currant compote? Of course, if it fell dry freezing, it remained as useful as fresh.
Currant Compote Recipes:
Recipe 1: Currant Compote
If you take black currant for compote, the drink will turn out to be a dark shade, and if it is red, then light pink. It is not recommended to cook compote from one white currant, as it will turn out to be acidic and odorless. Better use it with red or black currants.
Ingredients Required:
- Currants 500 grams
- Sugar to taste
- Water for compote purified 3 liters
Preparation Method:
- Wash currants, chop them in mashed potatoes with a blender, add a couple of tablespoons of sugar, stir.
- Heat the water in a saucepan, add sugar. As soon as the water boils, put currant puree there, cook for about two minutes. Then turn off the heat and let the drink stand under the lid closed for 5 minutes.
- Strain the compote through cheesecloth, cool and drink.
Recipe 2: Currant Compote with Raisins and Cinnamon
Sweet and spicy drink will turn out if you add raisins and cinnamon to currant compote.
Ingredients Required:
- Black currant 400 grams
- Raisins (dark variety) 100 grams
- Sugar to taste
- Purified water 3 liters
- Cinnamon
Preparation Method:
- Prepare the raisins. To do this, fill it with hot water for ten minutes, and then rinse several times under running water.
- Pour the washed currants with a tablespoon of sugar.
- Pour water for compote into the pot, add raisins and sugar there, put it on the fire.
- Once the water has boiled, put the currants in the pan. Let the compote boil for five minutes, then turn it off and hold it under the lid for five to six minutes. Immediately after removing the pan from the heat, add the cinnamon.
Recipe 3: Currant Compote with Prunes
In order to cook currant compote with prunes, you will need red currants. Prepare the prunes before cooking - soak it in hot water for 10 minutes, then rinse it under running water and cut it in half.
Ingredients Required:
- Red currant 400 grams
- Prunes 100 grams
- Water for compote purified 3 liters
- Sugar to taste
- Vanilla
Preparation Method:
- Washed red currants, pour a tablespoon of sugar.
- Put the prunes in the pan, where you will be cooking the compote, cover with purified water, add sugar, put on the fire.
- As soon as the water boils, add currants and vanilla to the pan, cover and simmer the drink for about 3-4 minutes. When you remove the pan from the stove, do not remove the lid for about 5 minutes.
Recipe 4: Currant Compote with Raspberries and Gooseberries
This drink can be called "July", since it is at this time on the garden you can collect all the components for compote. Currants can be used in any variety.
Ingredients Required:
- Currants 200 grams
- Raspberries 200 grams
- Gooseberry 200 grams
- Water for compote purified 3 liters
- Sugar
Preparation Method:
- Wash currants and pour them with a tablespoon of sugar. Raspberries mash with a spoon.
- Prepare the gooseberries. Clean it from hard tails and wash it well. Put it in a saucepan, add sugar, cover with water and put on fire.
- As soon as the water boils, lower the raspberries and currants into the pan. Boil the compote for five minutes, then remove it from the heat and let it brew for five minutes with the lid closed.
Recipe 5: Currant Compote with Apple and Cranberries
In order to boil such a drink, you need a fresh apple and currants of any kind. But the cranberries can take, both fresh and mashed with sugar.
Ingredients Required:
- Currants 300 grams
- Apple 1 medium size
- Cranberries 200 grams
- Sugar to taste
- Water for compote purified 3 liters
Preparation Method:
- Wash the apple, peel it and cut it into small pieces.
- Wash cranberries and currants thoroughly, pour in two spoons of sugar.
- Pour compote water into a saucepan, put apples and sugar in it, put it on fire.
- When the water boils in the pan, put the currants and cranberries in it and cook for five minutes. After this period of time, remove the pan from the stove and cover with a lid for five minutes.
Currant Compote - secrets and useful tips from the best chefs
- Redcurrant is more acidic than black currant. It is less often used to make jams or jams from it, but more often to make compote.
- You can use vanilla and cinnamon to give the drink more flavor.
- Currant compote will be tastier if you add a couple of tablespoons of honey to it. You can replace sugar in general with honey, but you need to add it to the cooled compote.
- Do not boil compote with currants for more than five minutes, otherwise it will lose its usefulness. This rule applies to all fruits and berries that contain a “loading dose” of vitamin C.
- You can also add sea buckthorn, honeysuckle, sliced dried apricots, dried fruits, any wild berries to the drink.
