Alexander Gushchin

I can’t vouch for the taste, but it will be hot :)

7 Mar 2017

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Drinking dried fruits, as in the photo, will help recharge your body with vitamins during the cold season. In addition to the famous dried apricots and prunes, it is worth paying attention to apples. When dried, they retain all the vitamins, so they will be an excellent basis for a tasty, healthy drink. The fruits also combine harmoniously with other berries and fruits.

Dried apple compote - benefits and harms

During the drying process, fruits do not lose their vitamins, but only lose water. If the preparation is done correctly, the fruits will be stored for a long time. To understand the benefits and harms of dried apple compote, you should pay attention to the composition of the product. It is not a leader in the content of any useful substances, but it harmoniously combines the following components:

vitamins A, C, E and B;

• niacin;
• iron;
• phosphorus;
• magnesium;
• calcium.

The benefits of dried apple compote are obvious for people who suffer from problems with the cardiac system. The drink thins the blood, helps maintain normal blood pressure, and reduces cholesterol levels. With regular use, the functioning of the nervous system and brain is stabilized, and the occurrence of various diseases is prevented. In addition, with the help of fresh fruits or drinks based on them, it will be possible to cleanse the gastrointestinal tract of toxins.

For a child, dry fruits can be an excellent alternative to sweets and lollipops. Even when dried, they retain their sweetness, but do not lose their vitamins. The baby will be able to increase immunity without receiving an extra share of sugar, which in childhood has a detrimental effect on the condition of the teeth. Regular consumption of dried fruits and compotes based on them can improve the general condition of the child’s body.

How to cook compote

There are several ways to brew a delicious drink from dried fruits: in a slow cooker or over a fire using a saucepan. The last one is considered the simplest. This dried apple compote can be served warm or cooled. A glass of a vitamin drink can improve a person’s general condition and lift his spirits. If you don’t know how to cook compote from dried apples, then a simple step-by-step recipe will help you do everything correctly.

Dried apple compote recipe

You can prepare uzvar based on one fruit or with the addition of other fruits. In addition to the dry mixture, you will need citric acid, sugar, and a sufficient amount of water. After the brewing process is completed, the drink needs to infuse, then its taste will be more intense. In addition, if it is hot, you will not be able to enjoy all the delights of drinking it. This recipe for dried apple compote will help you recharge with vitamins and keep you warm during the cold season.

From dry apples

• Number of servings: 5 persons.
• Cuisine: Russian.

A simple compote of dried apples has a light fruity taste and pleasant aroma. Adults and children can drink it. It improves metabolism, removes toxins, and is an excellent replacement for sweet carbonated waters. The shelf life of the resulting uzvar is very long: just pour it into a glass jug and store it in the refrigerator.

Ingredients:

Dried fruits – 300 g;

• Sugar – 1 glass;
• Citric acid – 1 g;
• Water – 2 liters.

Cooking method:

Sort the fruits, rinse, soak for an hour in clean water.

1. Add the required amount of water to the pan and turn on the heat.
2. After 10 minutes, add drying and sugar.
3. Cook for another 35 minutes.
4. Cool the drink, add lemon and mix thoroughly.

For babies

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

• Number of servings: 1 person.
• Calorie content of the dish: 30 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

If you want to prepare a healthy drink for your baby, you must follow all the rules. It is better to prepare the fruit yourself: remove the seeds, cut into slices and dry well. Then you will be sure that the apple compote for babies is made entirely on a natural basis and will not harm your baby. If you buy ready-made drying, then monitor its quality. It is allowed to use a mixture of different fruits.

Ingredients:

Drying – 100 g;

• Water – 500 g.

Cooking method:

Sort through drying, fill with water for 3 hours.

1. Place the fruit slices in a saucepan and fill again with clean water.
2. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and leave for another couple of minutes.
3. Remove from the stove, let cool.

Cinnamon

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

• Number of servings: 5 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 80 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

The piquant spice will add a divine aroma and special taste to the drink. Just one stick of cinnamon per whole pan can completely transform your drink. If you don’t have such a spice, you can use cloves. Follow the presented plan step by step, and you will get a delicious, healthy compote of apples with cinnamon, which has a long shelf life.

Ingredients:

Drying - 350 g;

• Water – 2 l;
• Cinnamon – 1 stick;
• Raisins – 1 handful;
• Sugar – 100 g.

Cooking method:

Prepare the fruit: wash, peel, pour boiling water to soften.

1. Pour water into a saucepan and put on fire.
2. Without waiting for the water to boil, when steam begins to rise from the water, pour in the mixture of fruits and raisins.
3. When the contents boil, add sugar and cook for another 10 minutes.
4. Add a cinnamon stick to the brown liquid a couple of minutes before removing from heat.
5. Cool and serve in glasses.

In a slow cooker

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

• Number of servings: 5 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 62.9 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

This uzvar will be a pleasant addition to any meal. It goes well with main courses or desserts. Many people like the option made from dry fruits even more than a drink made from fresh green apples. If you use a moderate amount of sugar, it can be consumed even by small children. Compote made from dried apples in a slow cooker turns out tastier and lighter than when cooked on the stove.

Ingredients:

Dried fruits – 200 grams;

• Water – 2 liters;
• Sugar – 1 glass.

Cooking method:

Rinse the dryer and add water if the slices are too tight.

1. Pour fruit into the multicooker bowl, add sugar, pour water to the mark.
2. Set the “Quenching” mode for 2 hours.
3. Leave the finished drink to cool, then consume.

With pears

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

• Number of servings: 5 persons.
• Calorie content of the dish: 70 kcal.
• Purpose: for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
• Cuisine: Russian.
• Difficulty of preparation: easy.

If you want to make your usual drink even more rich and aromatic, then you can add pears to your usual recipe. A glass of such a cold drink will not only quench your thirst, but also charge your body with vitamins in winter. There are many options for preparing the drink, but the classic recipe for compote from dried apples and pears remains the most popular among our housewives. Its color can be either brown or golden. It all depends on the drying preparation process. Recipe:

Ingredients:

Dry apples – 150 g;

• Dry pears – 100 g;
• Water – 2 l;
• Sugar – 1 glass.

Cooking method:

Sort through the fruit slices and get rid of debris.

1. Pour water over dry fruits and put on fire.
2. When the contents come to a boil, simmer for a few more minutes and add sugar.
3. Leave the pan on the fire for another 10-15 minutes.
4. It is important to let the drink brew and saturate for about 5 hours, then it will be even tastier and more aromatic.

The advantage of this drink is that it can be prepared all year round. You can make compote from dried apples by purchasing preparations in a store or market, or by making them yourself. To make the drink tasty and rich, it is necessary to maintain the correct proportions and take into account the cooking time of different fruits. Follow these tips:

Compotes from dried pears and apples are boiled for at least 30 minutes.

• Do not exceed the cooking time: the fruit may boil, the beneficial substances will disappear, and the taste will change.
• If the drying is large in size, then the cooking time should be increased by 10 minutes.
• To prevent the drink from becoming cloying, you should use no more than 1 cup of sugar per 2-liter pan. If sweet fruits are added to the drink, then this amount can be reduced.
• If you want to add acid, you can use apricot or currant, strawberry or lemon, orange or strawberry.
• You should always let the drink brew, then the taste will be more pronounced.

Video: Apple compote

Fragrant, moderately sweet, with a pleasant delicate sourness, apple compote is good both hot and chilled. Moreover, the drink made from dried fruit has a richer taste.

If desired, you can add orange or lemon zest, cardamom, star anise, and cinnamon to the apple compote. Spices are added to the drink during the boiling process. Then it is infused, filtered and served.

Ingredients

• dried apples – 250 g;
• granulated sugar – 5 tbsp;
• water – 2 l.

Preparation

Before cooking, sort out the dried apples and sort out the spoiled slices. Then rinse the fruits in slightly warm water. Do this with special care, especially if the drying is not homemade, but purchased in a store or market. After all, it is unknown under what conditions the fruits were dried.

Then place the dried fruits in the pan in which you will cook the compote, and fill them with drinking cold water so that the liquid completely covers the fruit slices. Leave the apples to infuse for 4-6 hours (overnight is possible).

Typically, dry fruits take longer to cook than fresh ones. How long does it take to cook dried apple compote? As you know, prolonged heat treatment destroys almost all vitamins. Therefore, to get the most healthy drink possible, just bring the apple infusion to a boil over low heat, then add sugar, and hold for 10 minutes over low heat on the stove with the lid closed.

Before use, dried fruit compote must be left to steep for at least an hour, but in general, the longer, the better. Then they will give the broth as much flavor and aroma as possible.

1. To improve the taste, you can add lemon slices, a sprig of mint or lemon balm, a cinnamon stick or vanilla sugar to the compote.
2. For variety, dried apples can be mixed with frozen or fresh fruits and berries.
3. The drink will be even healthier if you add honey instead of sugar.
4. Be sure to provide dried fruits with the correct storage conditions - in a dry cabinet (with minimal air humidity).
5. In addition to the classic recipe discussed, you can cook compote from dried apples with various additives. Good combinations would be the following:

• prunes, raisins and cinnamon;
• dried pears;
• figs, dried apricots, cloves, lemon zest, cinnamon;
• rosehip and cinnamon;
• frozen raspberries or strawberries;
• dried cherries and plums.

Benefits of dried apple compote

Dried apples are of great benefit to the human body. Even doctors who rarely recognize traditional medicine treat this product with respect and strongly recommend including dried apples in the daily diet for people suffering from vitamin deficiency, those with low hemoglobin, pregnant women and nursing mothers.

As apple slices dry, their content of indigestible fiber and pectin increases. These two components provide the body with an invaluable service. They form a jelly-like mass inside us, which concentrates all the worst that is inside a person (toxins, waste, decay products) and brings it out.

Also, dried apples increase the amount of potassium; they are a good diuretic product. The compote of their dried apples will help remove excess fluid from the body and, accordingly, reduce swelling.

I would like to warn you! Since when drying apples, water leaves them, as they dry, the amount of all useful elements per unit of specific gravity increases sharply. This is, of course, wonderful. But in the same way, the number of calories in dried apples increases many times over. 100 g of product contains about 250 kcal. Therefore, for those who are planning to go on a diet or a fasting day, dried apples are in no way suitable, and it is better to cook compote from them without sugar.

In winter, people do not have the opportunity to prepare drinks from fresh fruits and berries, which contain many vitamins and useful minerals. The simplest solution in this situation would be a compote of dried apples. Very aromatic and incredibly tasty, it will be an excellent alternative to all sorts of carbonated and other unnatural soft drinks that fill all the shelves of modern grocery stores. To see this, you need to try repeating one of the seven recipes described below.

To begin with, you should try the most A simple version of dried apple compote. It is sometimes called "traditional" or "classical".

To prepare this drink you need just four main ingredients:

• 2 liters of drinking water;
• 350 grams of dried apples;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 gram lemon.

Method of preparing compote:

1. First of all, the dried fruits must be sorted and washed thoroughly. It is better to do this under running water.
2. Place clean apple pieces in a saucepan.
3. Cover them with sugar.
4. Separately, heat water in a kettle.
5. Pour boiling water into a saucepan and put it on fire.
6. Cook for approximately 35 minutes. In this case, it is necessary to maintain a low flame level.
7. When the time is up, turn off the heat and remove the pan from the stove.
8. Add citric acid to the cooled compote.
9. Mix everything again and let the drink brew.

After this, the compote can be poured into glasses and enjoy the magnificent aroma of a natural drink.

How to brew a drink in a slow cooker

Nowadays, when every housewife has many different modern appliances in her kitchen, cooking has become much easier. “Smart units” take on all the main work. All that remains is to load the necessary products into them and set the desired mode. So, cook compote from dried apples you can, for example, in a slow cooker.

To work you will need:

• 5 multi-glasses of drinking cold water;
• 200 grams of apples (dried);
• 50 grams of sugar.

Process technology:

1. Dried fruits must first be soaked in boiling water for 8-10 minutes, and then rinsed well with cold water.
2. Transfer the fruits to the multicooker bowl.
3. Add a measured amount of sugar there.
4. Pour cold water over the food.
5. Set the “quenching” program on the panel and set the timer to 60 seconds.
6. As soon as the signal notifies you that the drink is ready, turn on the “Warming” program and wait about one hour. This will be enough for it to brew well and absorb all the “precious” aromas.

In this case, it will take more time to prepare the compote. But the owner will be able to spend it at her own discretion without fear of consequences. While the compote is cooking, she can do other things.

Cooking with cranberries

Many scientists claim that cranberries are one of the healthiest berries in the world. Thanks to its unique chemical composition, it can help a person fight various, even very serious, diseases. Therefore, some housewives cook apple compote with the addition of cranberries.

This will not be difficult to do if you have the following basic components:

• 1 liter of drinking water;
• 150 grams of dried fruits (apples);
• 35-40 grams of sugar;
• 2 tablespoons cranberries (fresh or frozen).

In this case, the cooking method is very similar to the classic version:

1. Separately, boil water in a saucepan.
2. Rinse dried fruits thoroughly. This should be done slowly so that there is no dirt or foreign matter left in the fruits.
3. Add sugar to boiling water. Stir until it is completely dissolved.
4. Pour clean apples into the pan and cook them over low heat for about 15 minutes.
5. Add cranberries. If desired, it can be defrosted first.
6. Cover the pan with a lid and cook the fruit and berry mixture for another 10 minutes.
7. Turn off the heat and let the compote brew for half an hour.

The result is a surprisingly tasty and very healthy drink with a pleasant sourness. Many people use it for medicinal purposes as an excellent remedy for colds, as well as to boost immunity. In addition, this compote perfectly quenches thirst.

Healthy apple compote with rose hips

Compote from dried apples will be no less useful if add rose hips to it. Thanks to this addition, an ordinary soft drink turns into a unique tonic that improves the condition of the cardiovascular system, increases the body's resistance to various infections and improves overall metabolism.

To prepare this “super product”, you need:

• 1 liter of cold water;
• ½ cup each of dried apples and rose hips;
• a little sugar;
• 20 grams of lemon juice.

Cooking instructions:

1. Pour water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil.
2. Add dried apples and cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
3. Carefully sort and rinse the rose hips thoroughly. Add them to the pan and cook together with the apples for 5 minutes.
4. Add sugar and mix gently. Wait until the mixture boils again and then turn off the heat.
5. Infuse the compote covered for 35-40 minutes.
6. Strain the prepared mixture and add lemon juice.

You can safely pour the chilled compote into a cup and enjoy its excellent taste, without forgetting the benefits of the drink.

With dried fruits

Dried apple compote can also be cooked with the addition of other dried fruits (pears, raisins or prunes). The taste of the drink is more intense and rich. For example, you can consider how to cook compote from apples and raisins.

There is one very interesting recipe for which you need to take:

• 3 liters of drinking water;
• ½ cup raisins;
• 2 cups dried apples;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 1 cinnamon stick.

Step-by-step preparation of mixed compote:

1. Rinse apples and raisins thoroughly in cold water.
2. Place the prepared fruits in a saucepan, add water and put on fire.
3. As soon as the liquid boils, pour sugar into it. After this, you need to reduce the heat and cook for 15 minutes.
4. Finally, add cinnamon to the pan and immediately remove the pan from the stove.
5. In order for the components to fully reveal their taste and exchange aromas, the drink must be infused. This will take at least half an hour.

This compote will be equally tasty both hot and cold. There is no need to strain it. Many people really like the drink with berries and pieces of fruit.

No added sugar

People who are on a diet or cannot afford to eat sweets due to health problems will be interested in learning how to cook dried fruit compote sugarless. Moreover, this does not make the drink worse.

You will need a minimum set of components:

• water (1.5 liters);
• dried apples (400 grams);
• liquid honey (105 grams).

In this case, you will need technology that our grandmothers used:

1. Sort the apples thoroughly. This must be done very carefully so that no foreign matter gets into the drink.
2. Wash dried foods thoroughly.
3. Separately, boil water in a saucepan.
4. Place the apples in a saucepan.
5. Pour boiling water over them and cook for no more than two minutes. After this, the fire must be turned off and the contents of the pan left under the lid for 4 hours.
6. Strain the apple broth through a sieve or cheesecloth.
7. Add honey and stir until it is completely dissolved.

The drink prepared in this way is not only tasty, but also extremely healthy. In the old days, such a decoction was used as a remedy for many diseases. And it is not at all dangerous for the figure. Yes, diabetics can also use it, albeit in small quantities.

Cooking for babies

Children under one year old after consultation with a pediatrician you can Gradually begin to introduce dried apple compote into your diet. Moreover, in this case it also needs to be prepared no added sugar. The drink should contain only 2 main components (water and apples) in a ratio of 10:1.

To prepare one serving of baby compote you need to take:

• 200 milliliters of drinking water;
• 20 grams of dried apples.

How to cook this apple compote correctly:

1. First, dried fruits must be washed.
2. Then they should be soaked for 20 minutes in warm water. During this processing, the surface of the apple pieces is straightened. It becomes possible to remove possible dirt and dust from the folds.
3. Place the prepared apples in a saucepan and fill them with hot water. It needs to be heated in a kettle in advance.
4. As soon as the contents of the pan boil, you need to reduce the heat and cook for about 20 minutes.
5. Remove the pan from the stove and let the compote steep thoroughly under the lid.

Chilled unsweetened compote perfectly quenches thirst. By drinking this drink, you don’t have to be afraid of harming your baby.