The preparation of dried fruits people have been doing for a long time. Our ancestors knew how useful, fragrant and unusually tasty the drink, prepared from them.
Compote of dried fruits is a delicious, sweet, soft drink based on dried fruits and berries boiled in sweet syrup.
There are many options for the correct preparation of compote from dried fruits. For maximum benefit, make it best from a mix of apples, pears, prunes and dried apricots . Adding a variety of berries, for example, cherry, dog rose, currant, etc., ennoble its taste and will certainly enhance its useful properties.
The housewife usually cares how to make a compote of dried fruits to preserve their taste and useful substances. Special complex technologies for this will not be required, you only need to know the time and order of heat treatment of dried fruits and berries and the necessary amount of sugar for syrup, as you will learn from our article below.
How to cook compote from dried fruits to a child?
It all depends on the age of the child, for which you will prepare a compote of dried fruits. For the youngest, we take only dried apples and pears, if there are no contraindications, since these fruits are the least likely to cause allergic reactions.
For the preparation of compote, we carefully wash 50 grams of dried fruit, add it to a small enamel saucepan, pour 500 milliliters of warm water, cover with a glass lid and leave it to swell for 6 hours, or better at night. Then put on the stove and bring to a boil. We follow the process through the glass cover, as soon as the compote is boiled, remove from heat and let it cool down. The lid is not opened until the compost is cooling down, thus, a maximum of vitamins is retained.
If a child is older than one year before cooking, compote can be sweetened with sugar, or add in the beginning also other dried fruits without contraindications at will and taste, thereby increasing the usefulness of drinking. For example, rose hips help fight avitaminosis, prunes have laxative effect, and dried blueberries help on intestinal disorders. Compote with the addition of dried raspberries will be very useful for colds.
Instead of sugar, you can use honey, in the absence of the child's allergies, but to introduce it into the already cooled to a warm state compote.
Compote of dried fruits in a multivark
Ideal conditions for the preparation of compote from dried fruits, in order to preserve the maximum of vitamins and nutrients, are created in a modern culinary device - multivarquet. With the lid closed, the compote is poured into it, and it does not boil as usual. The importance and usefulness of this preparation is obvious.
Ingredients:
- any dried fruit of your choice and taste - 500 g;
- granulated sugar - 1 glass;
- water - 3.2 liters.
Preparation
Dried fruits washed with running water, poured into a bowl multivarki, poured boiled warm water and leave for thirty minutes. Then add the sugar, mix, close the lid of the multivark and cook in the "Quenching" mode for an hour and a half. After the time has elapsed, we leave in the "Heating" mode for another 23 minutes. Delicious, aromatic compote of dried fruits is ready.
The amount of sugar in the preparation of compote can vary depending on your taste preferences. When serving, you can, if desired, add in the glass with compote slices of lemon and ice slices.