How to cook pumpkin compote with apples

Pumpkin compote is a healthy vitamin drink. People who constantly consume pumpkin compote note that the skin becomes elastic and elastic, the hair stops falling out and becomes healthy. Metabolic processes in the body improve, the heart muscle begins to work better. It is possible to list the advantages of pumpkin for a long time, but now we are not talking about them, but about the products obtained from the vegetable.

But not every person likes compote from only one pumpkin because of the freshish taste. The addition of various fruits and berries helps to improve the product. Pumpkin compote with apples is a unique product that combines the advantages of both ingredients. The taste becomes inimitable and amazing. We will talk about how to cook pumpkin compote with apples.

Choosing a pumpkin

You should not think that you can take any pumpkin for a drink. After all, there are many varieties of this vegetable. Among them there are dessert and food options. To make a pumpkin drink with apples, you need to choose the right vegetable. It is this question that most often interests young hostesses.

What you need to consider:

1. For compotes, only dessert varieties with bright yellow or orange flesh are suitable. They have a lot of sugar. It's easy to make sure of this: just cut off a slice and taste it.
2. You should not choose a large vegetable. According to experienced gardeners, the smaller the pumpkin, the sweeter it is. In addition, it has a delicate, thin skin.
3. If you buy vegetables from the market, never buy cut pieces: they may contain germs.
4. Before slicing, the vegetable is washed in several waters to wash off all the earth and grains of sand.
5. Cut the pumpkin into small, preferably equal-sized pieces, no thicker than 1.5 cm. In this case, they will boil evenly, and the look of the finished drink will be aesthetically pleasing.

Which apples are better

We have decided what to do with the pumpkin. But we also have another ingredient, the choice of which is no less important. It's no secret that not all apples are suitable for making compotes. Some varieties simply fall apart, lose their integrity, from which the compote becomes unsightly in appearance. Although the taste is not lost.

So what are the best apples to use to make the pumpkin-apple vitamin drink? It makes no sense to name the varieties, since only a few can use this information.

So, how to choose a fruit for a vitamin drink:

1. As a rule, the best varieties are considered late ripening, which are left for winter storage. Many varieties of apples are suitable for long-term storage.
2. Overripe fruits will not work, as they will lose their shape. But slightly unripe apples are just right.
3. For a pumpkin drink, it is better to use sour fruits, as the best option is a variety Antonovka.
4. You don't have to take only green apples. Red fruits will add a rich color to the compote.

When boiling a pumpkin-apple drink compote, it should be borne in mind that both ingredients will reach until the drink cools down. In addition, this process is delayed, since the banks must be wrapped in a blanket or fur coat.

Pumpkin-apple compotes recipes

Only pumpkin and apples

We bring to your attention recipes for a drink in which only apples and pumpkin are present. It will take half an hour to cook.

First recipe

Stock up on:

• pumpkin - 0.4 kg;
• medium-sized apples - 4 pieces;
• granulated sugar - 100-150 grams;
• citric acid - a quarter teaspoon.

The ingredients are given for one liter of water.

Second recipe

Ingredients are calculated for 2 liters of water:

• pumpkin - 400 grams;
• apples - 600 grams;
• sugar - 300 grams;
• citric acid - ½ teaspoon.

Warning! The weight of each ingredient in the recipe is given for the peeled apples and pumpkin.

We gave an example of two options with different amounts of ingredients, but the compote is prepared in the same way.

Cooking rules:

1. Thoroughly rinse the pumpkin and apples, dry them with a napkin.
2. Cut the pumpkin into pieces, remove the seed chamber along with the fibrous pulp. It is convenient to do this with a spoon. Cut off the peel. For successful cutting, slices no more than 1.5 cm thick are needed, each of them is cut into equal pieces, no more than 1 cm.
3. Peel the apples (you don't need to cut them off), divide them into quarters and remove the petiole, seeds and plates. You need to get neat cubes from apples.
   
4. We put the prepared ingredients in a bowl, add sugar and fill with cold water. As soon as the water becomes a little lukewarm, pour in citric acid, according to the recipe. This ingredient is essential to maintain the integrity of the ingredients.
5. It takes 25-30 minutes to cook a vitamin drink. During this time, the pumpkin pieces will become transparent.

We immediately put the contents of the pan into hot jars and seal it hermetically. Turning the cans upside down, wrap them for sterilization until the drink cools down.

You can store such a workpiece in any cool place.

So, even tastier

To make pumpkin compote with apples, many hostesses add various ingredients to make it even tastier and healthier.

Recipe number 1

We offer you a variant of a drink with prunes.

For five glasses of water we need:

• granulated sugar - half a glass;
• pumpkin pulp - 300 grams;
• sour apples - 200 grams;
• prunes - 1 handful;
• citric acid (if for winter storage) - 0.25 teaspoon;
• cinnamon to taste.

How to cook:

1. First, pumpkin, apples and prunes are well washed and dried.
2. Then the pumpkin is cut into strips and the rest of the ingredients are cut into slices.
3. Pour prunes with pre-cooked syrup, add cinnamon. Simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
4. After that, pour the pumpkin, after another 5 minutes - apple slices.
5. Boil pumpkin compote until all the ingredients are ready.

For storage, the drink is poured into cans, rolled up and cooled upside down in the heat.

Recipe number 2

For one and a half liters of water, you need to prepare:

• pumpkin and sour apples - 0.3 kg each;
• dried apricots - 2 tablespoons;
• raisins - 1 tablespoon;
• cinnamon and sugar - half a teaspoon each.

Cooking features:

1. Cook the pumpkin and apples in the usual way and cut into small pieces. Dried apricots and raisins in slices.
2. In the prepared boiling syrup, first put dried apricots with raisins and cinnamon. After 10 minutes add the pumpkin pieces. After another 5 minutes, sliced ​​apples.
3. When all the ingredients are ready, add citric acid. But this is in the event that the workpiece is intended for winter storage.
4. We seal the cans and send them under a fur coat.

You can cook like this:

Instead of a conclusion

We have brought to your attention several recipes for a pumpkin drink with apples. You can cook a little and decide which option is right for your household.

You can vary the amount of ingredients for making a larger or smaller volume of a nutritious and tasty beverage. In addition, taking some recipe as a basis, there is an opportunity to experiment by adding fruits and berries at your discretion.

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