You can stock up on vitamins in advance. Pumpkin contains useful vitamins and microelements. The usefulness of the product remains for a long time. It is stored fresh, frozen. Resourceful housewives prepare garden pumpkin compote for the winter, like pineapple. To do this, use various additives such as fruits and spices. The amazing property of pumpkin is that it absorbs and releases the aroma of additives.
Features of preparing pumpkin compote for the winter
Pumpkin is a storehouse of vitamins. It's not surprising that healthy food lovers add vegetables to many dishes. The beneficial properties are preserved when making compote for the winter, but there are some features that differ from fruits.
The main thing to do is to choose a dessert variety. For example: Marble, Kroshka, Winter sweet, Atlant. Their flesh is sweet, with a bright orange color. The fruits chosen are ripe, with elastic pulp.
Compote is prepared without sterilization. To add flavor, add fruits and spices.
Preparatory work
The pumpkin is washed and freed from peel, seeds, and fibers. Cut into cubes. In order for the vegetables to cook evenly, the ingredients are made into one fraction - with sides of 1.5 centimeters. Identical pieces will look beautiful in compote.
The second cutting option is into strips 5 centimeters long. The third option is rings. Jars and lids are pre-sterilized. The simplest method of processing containers is in the microwave.
Pour 2 centimeters of water into clean jars and place in the unit for 5 minutes. The containers can be placed in the oven. These two methods are good because several containers are heated at once. Prepare a large pan where the compote will be cooked.
Cooking recipes
The pumpkin will take on the aroma of the fruit and the spices that will be used. The following are used as additives in the drink: peaches, lemons, apples, dried apricots. And also sea buckthorn, cloves, cinnamon.
Pumpkin compote, like pineapple
The juice of this product with step-by-step instructions will help bring the taste of pumpkin drink closer to natural pineapple compote.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin pulp – 3 kilograms;
- water – 3 liters;
- sugar – 1.5 kilograms;
- pineapple juice – 1.5 liters.
Step 1. Use a cookie cutter to cut the vegetable into rings, thereby imitating a real fruit.
Step 2. The rings are poured with boiling pineapple juice and left to steep for several hours.
Step 3. As soon as the juice with rings has cooled, put the pan on the fire, add sugar, and bring to a boil. During the heating process, stir the sugar to avoid burning. Boil the slices until they become soft.
Step 4. Place the rings in pasteurized jars and fill them with boiling syrup. Screw the lid on top.
Step 5. The containers are turned upside down with the lids and covered with a blanket until completely cooled.
With orange and peach
A mixture of two fruits – peach and orange – gives the compote an extraordinary aroma.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 2 kilograms;
- water – 2 liters;
- orange - 2 pieces;
- sugar – 750 grams;
- peach – 2 pieces.
Preparation
Combine water and sugar, place on the stove and boil for 15 minutes. Throw in vegetables cut into pieces, strips or rings. Blanch the product for 10 minutes. Next, add orange juice and peach slices. As soon as the vegetable becomes soft, take it out and put it in pasteurized jars and fill it with syrup. Cover the sealed containers with a warm blanket. Leave until completely cool.
The orange, if desired, can be thrown in pieces, having first been freed from the white partitions.
With lemons
A refreshing and healthy compote will be obtained with the addition of lemon.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 1 kilogram;
- water – 4 liters;
- sugar – 1 kilogram.
- lemon – 1 kilogram.
Preparation: Blanch the prepared vegetable pieces in boiling water until soft. Transfer to prepared jars. Place lemon slices on top. The syrup is prepared at the same time.After boiling for 5 minutes, pour vegetables and citrus fruits into it. The jars are sealed and covered with a blanket until they cool completely.
With apples
An original compote with a delicate, soft aroma is obtained with the addition of apples.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 0.4 kilograms;
- sugar – 250 grams;
- water – 2 liters;
- apples – 0.6 kilograms.
Preparation: Vegetables and fruits are cut into cubes with the same side - 1.5 centimeters. Apples are not peeled to improve their taste and aroma. Vegetables and fruits are blanched separately in water until soft and placed in pasteurized jars. Their preparation time may vary.
Sugar is added to the water and boiled. 5 minutes after boiling, fill the jars with the ingredients with syrup. Cover the sealed jars with a blanket until they cool.
Summer varieties of apples are not blanched, but filled with boiling water and left for 20 minutes. Then the water is drained and the syrup is boiled.
With orange, cinnamon and cloves
Spices in the drink not only improve the aroma, but also act as a preservative.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 0.45 kilograms;
- water – 2 liters;
- cloves – 7 inflorescences;
- cinnamon – 2 sticks;
- orange – 3 pieces;
- sugar 500 grams.
Preparation: pour sugar into boiling water. After 5 minutes, add pieces of vegetables, cloves, and cinnamon. Boil until the pumpkin is soft. Then add orange juice and cook for another 5 minutes.
Vegetables are placed in prepared jars and filled with syrup. Banks are sealed. Cover all containers with a blanket until completely cooled.
With sea buckthorn
Sea buckthorn juice is used as an additive.
Ingredients:
- pumpkin – 1 kilogram;
- sugar – 1 kilogram;
- sea buckthorn juice – 2 liters.
Preparation: add sugar and pumpkin cubes to sea buckthorn juice. Cook until the vegetable is soft. Transfer the cubes into containers and fill with syrup.
With dried apricots
To prepare compote with dried apricots, take 2 liters of water, add 100 grams of dried apricots, the same amount of sugar and boil for 10 minutes. Add 1 kilogram of pumpkin, cut into pieces. Cook until the vegetable is soft. Place in containers and seal.
How to store it correctly and for how long?
A pumpkin drink without adding cinnamon, lemon, or apples is stored in a cool, dark place for 6 months. If such additives are present, it is stored at room temperature for a long time.
