Apples, even when dried, contain a large amount of substances beneficial to the body. And this is not only vitamin C, which is so necessary for us in winter, during vitamin deficiency and epidemics of the common cold. Sweet dry wedges are rich in organic acids, mineral salts, pectin, tannins, fructose, glucose, sucrose, phosphorus, iron, iodine, molybdenum, potassium, calcium, etc.

Compote from drying is recommended for anemia, diseases of the thyroid gland, digestive organs, liver, blood. Its presence in the diet will help you lose weight and improve metabolic processes. You can continue talking about the benefits of this drink for children and adults for a long time, but you get the point. Therefore, we turn to the description of the recipes.

You will need:

Classic recipe

• Dried apples 300 g
• Water 2 l
• Sugar 100 g

Sort dry slices, removing spoiled or moldy ones aside. The rest must be rinsed in running water.

Put the water on the fire and bring it to a boil. Add dried apples. After that, let the future compote boil again and reduce the heat. Boil the compote for about 30 minutes. Add sugar to the saucepan a couple of minutes until tender and stir.

The finished product must be allowed to brew.

Compote with additives

Apples go well with other fruits. For example, prunes, cinnamon or raisins will perfectly complement the taste. Traditionally, dried pears are added to the broth, but no less useful and delicious drink it turns out with rose hips, chokeberry, red and black currants, dried apricots, cranberries.

With the addition of dried fruits and berries, the compote is cooked according to the classic recipe.

If you decide to add frozen or fresh ingredients to it, then they should be placed in water about 10 minutes before turning off.

Polish

Dishes of the world's cuisines are often very similar and differ only in small nuances. This rule has not been spared either by apple compote. In Poland it is also very popular and is cooked even for Christmas.

In addition to apples, Poles put other dried fruits and even spices.

You will need the following ingredients:

• Dry apples 1 tbsp.
• Water 4 l
• Raisins 0.5 tbsp
• Prunes 0.5 tbsp
• Pears 0.5 tbsp.
• Figs 0.5 tbsp.
• Cinnamon 2 sticks
• Carnation 6 buds
• Zest of half a lemon
• Sugar 1.5 tbsp.

At first glance, the recipe seems overly complicated, but it is actually very easy to cook. All ingredients, including spices, must be placed in a saucepan, filled with water and put on fire. After boiling, the gas can be reduced and simmer for another 40 minutes.

With lemon balm

• Dried apples 340 g
• Sugar 200 g
• Lemon (citric acid)
• Carnation
• Melissa
• Water 2 l

Boil water with sugar, add drying and boil for about 35 minutes over low heat. Give the cloves, lemon balm and simmer for another 10 minutes. Chilled compote acidify lemon juice.

In a multicooker

The simplest way preparation of a healing and aromatic drink. The number of apples depends only on your preferences - if you want to get a light refreshing drink, give some dried fruits, for a richer taste there should be more.

Sort and rinse the apples, transfer them to the multicooker bowl, adding 1-1.5 cups of sugar to 2 liters of water. You can also add some linden or mint blossoms (fresh or dried).

Set the "extinguishing" mode for 2 hours. You may feel that such a long cooking time will affect nutritional value compote, but in fact, it will not boil, but languish, while under a closed lid, which allows you to save most of the vitamins.

After preparation, the drink needs to be infused, it is good to give a few slices of lemon at the end.

Such a recipe will be a godsend in case of lack of time, because the compote can be put at any time, even at night, without worrying that it will boil away.

For babies

Young children can begin to give dried fruit compote from the first year of life. First, it is diluted with water; later, it is not necessary to change the concentration.

It is better to make new drinks for babies from one type of fruit, you can mix the ingredients after getting used to each of them separately and the absence of allergies or indigestion.

You do not need to add sugar, add a little fructose instead.

Rinse the apples thoroughly, put them in boiling water and boil for 20 minutes.

You can cook compote in a thermos. To do this, pour boiling water over a few dried slices and leave overnight. In the morning, pour the infusion into a saucepan, add another glass of water and simmer for about 10 minutes.

How to choose dried fruits

If dried incorrectly, all the beneficial properties of apples will be nullified. Therefore, it is very important to recognize quality product so to speak "by eye".

It is better to buy slices not packaged in bags, but by weight, so there are more chances to examine them more carefully. Give preference to dull, wrinkled slices - the richer the color, the more likely they are tinted for a beautiful presentation.

Wash and dry the whole fruit, remove the core, no need to trim the skin. Use a slicer or a regular knife to cut apples up to 5 mm thick. Soak them for 3-4 minutes in a saline solution (100 g of salt in 1 bucket of water). This will preserve the drying beautiful light color and protect against pests during storage.

Drying is carried out in several ways:

• outdoors (only on sunny days, requires frequent turning);
• suspended (string the slices on threads and cover with gauze from flies);
• in the oven (spread the slices in one layer on a baking sheet, set the temperature to 75 degrees, then reduce to 50, open the door slightly, stir every 1.5 hours);
• in an electric dryer (the easiest way, it is enough to adhere to the recommendations written in the instructions).

Readiness is determined by the darkened skin, lack of stickiness on the pulp and firmness when pressed. The color depends on the variety, but make sure that the raw material does not become very dark - overdried fruits lose most of their vitamins.

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There is a time when tea, coffee, cocoa and other "usual" drinks get bored and you want something simple and homemade. On such days, you can cook compote. And if you have prepared fruits at hand, you can get an ideal compote from dried apples, pears or apricots. How to prepare such a miracle?

First, let's think about the best products to make our drink. Compote from dried apples is considered "traditional" in our latitudes. Of course, this is due to the availability of the apples themselves on the territory of almost the entire country at any time of the year. But for the manufacture of dried apples (or simply "dryers"), fruits grown by hand are best suited. If you have a dacha or relatives outside the city, getting a few kilograms of apples for making dryers will not be a problem. As a last resort, you can use apples of your favorite variety from the nearest store.

To get the perfect compote from "dry" apples, you need to know how to store these "dry" apples correctly. It is best to dry apples outdoors in the sun, in a ventilated place. Fresh apples must be thoroughly washed, cut into wedges and cored and pitted. Then we lay out the apple slices in a thin layer and cover with gauze. After a while, each apple slice you will need to turn it over with the other side. IN ideal conditions dried apples in this way will be ready for storage in a couple of days.

To make a drink from dried fruits, you should not take as a basis a recipe for making a compote from fresh apples or pears. To prepare a compote from, you will need about two hundred grams of apples themselves for one and a half liters of water, one hundred grams of sugar and a third of a teaspoon. Optionally, you can add a pinch of cloves or lemon balm. Just in case, we sort out the apples and rinse them thoroughly. First add citric acid and sugar to boiling water, and then washed apples. After the compote boils, boil it for another half hour over low heat. About ten minutes before removing the drink from the heat, add lemon balm and cloves to it. You can add lemon to the chilled compote to taste.

A little differently cooked compote from dried apples with the addition of other dried fruits. The proportions in such a drink will depend only on your taste. For two liters of water, you need to take a total of one glass of dried fruits. Due to the fact that all dried fruits have a different cooking speed, they must be added to the pan in a certain order.

First, apricots, pears and apples are put into boiling water - the hardest dried fruits. If home-dried apricots are used for cooking, they need to be boiled a little longer, since they are harder than purchased dried apricots. Allowing the first batch of fruits to boil for ten minutes, add prunes and rose hips to the pan. The raisins, which boil down the fastest, are added after another ten minutes. After the raisins are in the boiling water, we continue to boil the broth for another five minutes. Then we remove it from the stove, let it cool and brew a little and filter if desired. Compote from dried apples and other dried fruits is ready.

In order to get a sweeter compote, you can add more sugar or a little honey to it. For those who like compote with sourness, you can dilute the drink with lemon juice (no more than two lemons per two liters of water) or add a pinch to it citric acid.

This drink is ideal for the whole family - because it not only has great taste, but also good for the body. In combination with homemade cakes or a light dessert, it can become a real decoration of any family dinner.

Remember the hooligan Fedya from "The Adventures of Shurik", who bothered the policeman with a short phrase "Don't be late for lunch!" The first and the barbecue for the second were delivered to the construction site exactly at lunchtime, literally with flashing lights. Taking the menu for granted, Fyodor did not fail to ask - "Where is the compote?" Why are we worse, will we really give up a fragrant dessert drink? Moreover, even a young culinary specialist is able to cook it - it is enough to master a few simple operations.

What other dried fruits can you use?

IN classic recipe you can often find a combination of raisins and dried apricots. It is truly a win-win mix that gives a lush bouquet of flavors. Maybe you won't be able to find the perfect combination right away, without experimenting. Here are some popular compositions based on 3 liters of water:

• 150 g of apple dryers + 75 g of pears + 20 g of prunes + 20 g of dried apricots.
• 150 g of dried apricots + 75 g of quince + 75 g of bananas + 50 g of dryers.
• 150 g of prunes + 150 g of dried apricots + 100 g of dryers.
• 100 g rose hips + 250 g figs + 100 g dryers.

It is important to consider that each fruit gives the drink its own unique touch of individuality. For example, an uzvar using dates, figs and pears can do without sugar, as it turns out to be so sweet. But rose hips, dogwood, cherries and cranberries will add a pleasant sourness to the broth.

Before boiling dried apple compote in a saucepan, it is equally important to choose high-quality dried fruits.

How to choose premium dried fruits

In no case do not buy into bright and beautiful drying. In most cases, a shiny glossy surface indicates a chemical treatment. Therefore, take a nondescript product and listen to the recommendations of experienced hostesses:

• Prunes - a quality product has a matte black color, any shades of brown are unacceptable. If gloss is present, then, most likely, the berries were treated with glycerin and they will have to be thoroughly washed.
• Dried apricots - the surface should not be even and bright, let it be better matte and wrinkled - this indicates a natural drying process.
• Dates - choose fruits that are dark brown, without cracks. If there are any, then this indicates a quick drying in the oven, but we do not need this. Dates processed sugar syrup- they are too sweet, and their calorie content is high.
• Raisins - the bright golden color of the berries indicates the presence of chemicals, a good fruit has a dark matte surface. If you miss high-quality raisins on the table, then they will fall with a thud - this is such an extraordinary way.
• Figs - it is better to choose light beige fruits, you should not give up fruits with a whitish bloom: this is glucose, which means that figs are sweet.

Standing at trade counters, do not choose beautiful and bright drying - they will be of little use. Most of the fruits are fumigated with sulfur dioxide, after which they acquire a bright, attractive appearance. We do not need such happiness, it is better to buy nondescript, but clean products from all "chemistry".

How to cook a fragrant dried apple compote in a 5 liter saucepan

A delicious drink will come in handy when fresh or Napoleon. There is nothing difficult in its preparation, so we proceed to cooking without much preparation. I usually use a five-liter saucepan, and I take 3-4 liters of ingredients for the ingredients. Then everything is simple:

• I rinse all the dryers under the tap and soak them in cool water for 20-30 minutes. The fruits will pick up moisture, straighten, dust and dirt will get wet and you can rinse them thoroughly.
• While the fruits are soaking, I put a pot of water on the fire - let it boil.
• I drain the water from the soaked fruits and rinse them again, so no dirt will remain.

• I put the clean dryers in boiling water, reduce the heat and leave to cook for 20-30 minutes. I make the heating minimal - the ingredients should practically languish.
• 3-5 minutes before the end of cooking, I put sugar, add spices or citrus fruits according to my mood. The amount of sugar is strictly individual, for example, with lemon, the drink turns out to be sour, which means that there will be not enough sweets. But again, the taste and color ...
• I remove the finished compote from the heat, cover it with a terry towel and leave it to infuse for at least an hour. This will allow the fruit to fully give the infusion all the taste and aroma.

If you don't have raisins or prunes on hand, then you can easily make a vitamin drink only from apple drying. For three liters of water, take it 300-400 g. Put sugar to taste, one glass will not be enough, and 2-3 tablespoons will be enough for others.

How to cook homemade dried apple compote in a slow cooker

The process itself is similar to the above recipe, with the exception of some nuances. We also soak and rinse the drying, but then we proceed according to the scheme:

• Put clean fruits in a multicooker container, add granulated sugar, mix and pour water. For two liters of liquid, 200-220 g of sugar and 200 g of apples are enough.
• Close the lid of the device, turn it on and set the "Extinguishing" program. The drink will take about two hours to prepare.
• At the end of the process, strain the finished mixture and set aside for 1 hour.

Now you know how to cook a real compote from dried apples, not only in a saucepan, but also in a slow cooker. To give it a feeling of freshness, a sprig of mint or lemon balm is placed in the bowl 2-3 minutes before readiness. Especially aesthetic people at the end of cooking can put slices of banana and orange in a saucepan.

What are the benefits and harms of a fruit drink

Apple drying during its storage practically does not lose its valuable properties. A drink based on it, like , natural and does not contain any "chemistry":

• Improves digestion, normalizes bowel function and promotes the elimination of toxins. The pectin contained in the fruit is a natural sorbent, which is important for diarrhea or bloating.
• Potassium from Uzvar will support the cardiovascular system and increase the elasticity of blood vessels.
• Vitamin B has a beneficial effect on the nervous system.

If you cook compote from prunes, dried apricots and dried apples, then we will save ourselves from constipation and cleanse the intestines. In general, it is difficult to answer the question whether the fruit infusion strengthens or weakens, it all depends on the ingredients. Quince, raisins, chokeberry are fixed, and cherries, dried apricots and prunes are weakened.

Carefully

Along with the positive properties, you need to remember about the negative ones, for example, high calorie content drink can affect the slimness of your figure. There are a few more important points:

1. An excess of fiber is undesirable for people with gastrointestinal problems.
2. Natural compote lowers blood sugar levels, but diabetics shouldn't get too carried away with it.
3. The broth can cause allergies in people with sensitive immune systems, especially in children.
4. Some mothers cook compote for babies without sugar and raisins, this is justified, because the combination sometimes causes gaziki.

You should carefully consider the purchased drying - it can provoke an allergic reaction or even poisoning. It must be soaked and rinsed.

Despite all the fruit broth is very healthy, easy to prepare, you can enjoy its taste even every day. In winter, with the help of such a "preparation", we can easily increase our immunity. It's much better than the popular Pepsi and Colas anyway.